Discussion: Ben Carson: I Love Harriet Tubman, But 'Find Another Way To Honor Her'

“I mean, she makes great syrup, but honestly, worth being on the currency?” he also asked.

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I loved this guy in Django Unchained. Samuel L Jackson played him.

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damn you

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Put Harriet Beecher Stowe on the $20 bill. After all, she created Ben Carson’s idol, Uncle Thomas.

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Haha. Beat you to it by >< that much.

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Very O.T., but I saw a 1990 rerun of “Law and Order” last night that had Samuel L. Jackson as a defense attorney and Philip Seymour Hoffman as an accused rapist. Hoffman looked like he was about 14.

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I’m sure, Fox News having “real journalists” he went ahead and asked Dr. McSleepy for examples of the way she should be honored, right?

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Carson, you are one sad little puppy, dude. Seriously, because Pres. Jackson had a balanced budget? Your priorities are so very fucked up.

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Hey, when you can get Eustace to throw you a bone because of your hilarious comment, you may as well think you won the Nobel Prize for Literature!

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Gotta be a mongoose to beat Eustace to the punch.

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I prefer to call him Dr. Ambien, but my personal fave - coined by a friend - is Ben Carcinogenic.

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Well, I was going with a play on “McDreamy” because I’m super clever.

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Dr Ben is leaving unsaid the idea that it should be his picture on the $20 being a modern representative of Harriet Tubman’s legacy…

Best & Brightest

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Beyonce IS money.

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Honest to God…I mean really.

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I still say we should follow the lead of other countries and periodically rotate the portraits on U.S. currency. It’s not like we don’t have enough to choose from.

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The derp. It burns.

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Yeah, let’s put her on a bill that almost literally no one has laid eyes on in the last 20 years unless you were 8 years old and got it as a gift from your uncle.

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Who?!

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