Discussion: Ben Carson Defends 'Oreo' Gaffe: I Just Couldn't Hear Very Well!

His white noise generator was turned up to 11. Plus, she was intruding on his nap time(s).

The same goes for when he was asked about OMWI and he replied “Amway?”

I understand his confusion about that one, sort of. Amway is the clearly within the purview of the Department of Education.

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O/T. Just breathtaking assholery on display here.

Delayed meaning after Trump’s three consecutive terms.

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Bring her up to date? Is he serious? I would like to see a little bit of respect from these unelected secretaries towards our elected officials

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Porter has said in most of her subsequent interviews that it was quite the opposite: Dr. “Uncle Sleepy” Ben Carson had invited Porter to meet with Jeebus’ Brain Surgeon and his surgical liturgical staff to, essentially, tutor them.

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OK now…this is getting embarrassing. 3.5 hours? Really? OTHERS are in there MUCH longer and you had plenty of breaks. Sht. You tried to cede YOUR time…you don’t ‘understand’ squat.

Ben Carson:

WEAK!

SAD!

:-1: :-1: :-1: :-1:

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They just can’t ever admit to being wrong can they? A simple I’m embarrassed I didn’t know that. But no habitual spin good Christian lying

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“Couldn’t hear anything after 3-1/2 hours, so I just had to say something stupid.” Sure thing, doc. Reminds me of people who write something stupid and call it a “typo.” Problem exists between your ears.

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I’m surprised he didn’t go with “I was misinterpreted”, “I was taken out of context” or better yet “The Dog ate my Homework”

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Of course they’re not serious. It’s pure gaslighting. It wasn’t an out-of-context clip where he went “Oreo? Oh, REO! Yes, of course, let me tell you all about real estate owned properties…” He was having to guess what it the acronym even stood for as he was under questioning (“real estate…organization?”). This is for the Fox News crowd who won’t see what actually happened because Fox won’t show it.

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Anybody catch Brian Kilmeade, the ‘dumber’ part of the ‘Dumb and Dumber’ show that is ‘Fox and Friends’ whine that people on Twitter should go easy on Uncle Ruckus (no relation) cause he’s a brain surgeon and really smart? He just hasn’t gotten used to the HUD job yet.

Dude’s only been doing it for the last two years.

Once a serious primary presidential candidate, Ben Carson’s ability to lie for himself shows his obvious superiority to current occupant. He would IMHO have made a (relatively) better President since he seems to lack evil intent, and only intends to day dream and nap through his retirement while pulling down big bucks for nothing.

“Of course I’m very familiar with foreclosed properties, and with REOs,” Carson said. “I’ve read extensively about them.”

As we used to say in Puerto Rico, in the late 60s and throughout the 70’s

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You can’t make this shit up.

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Do you think he knows we can see him, and hear him, too?

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Porter asked, “Do you know what the interest-rate curtailment schedule is at FHA and how it’s different from the GSEs?”

Carter replied, “Explain.”

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Dunno, that might require him to multitask.

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I heard that exchange on one of the MSNBC shows last night

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Ooooooh, Mnoooooochie is holding a dead black woman hostage now.

Tough guy.

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Is the hearing happening right now?