Professional Grifter Dr. Ben Carson

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Originally posted by: pjstroh

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Originally posted by: Boilerman
PJ, pick one of the topics that Ben Carson supposedly lied about, and we'll look at the facts.

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You mean like all the lies and crimes you accuse Hillary of but cant articulate after 2 years?
Hey, I live to serve! Even if it means holding myself to a much higher standard than you hold yourself to.

The hard part is only picking one....but here goes: Ben Carson says the Egyptian Pyramids were used to store grain. If Boilerman can show me a single archaeologist that will agree and not laugh at that, I'll apologize for calling Benny Tall-tale a liar.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ben-carson-pyramids-2015-11

So have it, Boilerman! Do some digging. Maybe that guy who told you Ebola was airborne can back up Benny on this doozy too!

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Originally posted by: pjstroh

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Originally posted by: Boilerman
PJ, pick one of the topics that Ben Carson supposedly lied about, and we'll look at the facts.

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You mean like all the lies and crimes you accuse Hillary of but cant articulate after 2 years?
Hey, I live to serve! Even if it means holding myself to a much higher standard than you hold yourself to.

The hard part is only picking one....but here goes: Ben Carson says the Egyptian Pyramids were used to store grain. If Boilerman can show me a single archaeologist that will agree and not laugh at that, I'll apologize for calling Benny Tall-tale a liar.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ben-carson-pyramids-2015-11

So have it, Boilerman! Do some digging. Maybe that guy who told you Ebola was airborne can back up Benny on this doozy too!

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Originally posted by: malibber2

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Originally posted by: forkushV

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Originally posted by: alanleroyII
One of the World's preeminent pediatric neurosurgeons is a now Grifter...Because...

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Actually I don't think that made him a grifter. It made him someone who made up shit for his autobiography - which is not that big a deal - except it's particularly hard to take from someone who claims to be holier than thou.

On the other hand, he IS a grifter for being a spokesmodel for the criminal Mannatech quack cure. Here is the Informercial for Mannatech. Oh, and then he out and out lied when he claimed no involvement.

As Rachel Maddow pointed out, "His declarations that 'I didn’t have an involvement with them' and 'absurd to say that I had any kind of relationship with them' are just bald-faced lies. Mannatech wanted to improve its image and happily paid Carson, one of the country’s greatest neurosurgeons, the man Cuba Gooding Jr. played in the HBO movie – to appear at their events and to appear in the company videos. They put his face all over their web site (sometime between my story and now, those images were taken down). Carson’s lack of due diligence before working with the company is forgivable. His blatant lying about it now is much harder to forgive."

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I’d go a bit further. Prior to running for President, a big part of Carson’s income was giving motivational speeches and writing motivational uplifting books. Apparently, Dr. Carson didn’t feel his young adult life where he got up at 5:00 AM to study, dressed in a suit and tie to attend class and donned a pocket protector was inspiring enough, so he made up a bunch of shit about wanting to hit is mom in the head with a hammer, stabbing a male relative, saving white people from black rioters, getting a scholarship to West Point, having a gun stuck in his back by a young black man at a fast food restaurant, and so on. Being a lifelong studious geek doesn’t sell books, so he reshaped his story into one that would appeal to the modern white conservative and became the black man from the mean streets of Detroit, that gave up the thug life once he found god, and even saved white kids from a gang of rampaging negros.

In other words, he recast himself as a white male conservative’s wet dream. I think the motivation was money and more specifically, to participate in the wingnut welfare circuit.

It is a shame. I find a story of someone that grows up in a bad neighborhood and goes on to have a lot of success because of hard work and dedication to be inspiring all on its own without embellishment. Alas, such a story doesn’t sell books though.



The Thugification of Ben Carson

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Originally posted by: hoops2
"You mean like all the lies and crimes you accuse Hillary of but cant articulate after 2 years"

Here are some easy ones. She blamed Benghazi on a video, but in private told her family and the Egyptian ambassador it was terrorism. One of those statements is a lie.

She did not send or receive classified emails, but she did

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Originally posted by: forkushV

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Originally posted by: hoops2
"You mean like all the lies and crimes you accuse Hillary of but cant articulate after 2 years"

Here are some easy ones. She blamed Benghazi on a video, but in private told her family and the Egyptian ambassador it was terrorism. One of those statements is a lie.

She did not send or receive classified emails, but she did

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Gee, maybe the GOPers on that House committee ought to have her testify about that!

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