If you crybabies want to whine about something else, make a thread for it. This one is about Carson.
Ben Carson’s Past Faces Deeper Questions
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In his 1990 autobiography, “Gifted Hands,” Mr. Carson writes of a Yale psychology professor who told Mr. Carson, then a junior, and the other students in the class — identified by Mr. Carson as Perceptions 301 — that their final exam papers had “inadvertently burned,” requiring all 150 students to retake it. The new exam, Mr. Carson recalled in the book, was much tougher. All the students but Mr. Carson walked out.
“The professor came toward me. With her was a photographer for the Yale Daily News who paused and snapped my picture,” Mr. Carson wrote. “ ‘A hoax,’ the teacher said. ‘We wanted to see who was the most honest student in the class.’ ” Mr. Carson wrote that the professor handed him a $10 bill.
No photo identifying Mr. Carson as a student ever ran, according to the Yale Daily News archives, and no stories from that era mention a class called Perceptions 301. Yale Librarian Claryn Spies said Friday there was no psychology course by that name or class number during any of Mr. Carson’s years at Yale.
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If any human doesn't look at Carson's yarn there and roll their eyes, that person is profoundly stupid. Dang, that was some obvious bullshit. Ol' Ben just can't resist making up all the stories about how God made him the sole good and moral person at the dirty liberal college. And his base eats it up.
Oh, 150 students in a 300 level class at Harvard? Not a chance.
And like most of Carson's stories, this one makes him look like either a moron or a monster to normal people. In this one, none but the dullest would believe a story about how all the tests burned in a special magical fire. In his other stories, he talks about attempting homicide many times, or getting a gunman to leave him alone by pointing the gunman towards someone else to rob.
But again, if Carson fans didn't have busted BS detectors and moral compasses, they wouldn't be Carson fans.
