Discussion: Carson Explains Debate Traffic Jam: 'I Didn't Hear My Name'

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One would think JeeBuss would have whispered a cue, they’re tight right?

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Trump must not have heard his name the first time either.

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Carson Explains Debate Traffic Jam: “I Didn’t Know My Name.”
There, IFIFY, Sara.

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he was sleeping and having a dream… not the same dream as MLK but a dream…

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BenCarson suffering from “Do you know who I am?” memory lapse.

Happens frequently at airports.

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Croz will be in Tucson in March. I have my tickets…

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That was awful. He looked like he was just loitering up there, like he didn’t belong; then he got up on stage and removed all doubt.

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I actually think Carson DID hear his name, or thought he did, from backstage around behind the runway entrance, but then for some reason experienced a flash of doubt. When Trump came into the runway, same thing, except his flash of doubt came when he saw Carson just standing there, and which suggested to him he might not have the protocol right. That doesn’t make Jeb any ‘smarter’ for striding past them, but NOTE: Carson and Trump are the ONLY candidates left standing with no experience having run for office before. I think the two of them were more used to ‘their own’ people greasing the way, but this wasn’t being run by ‘their own’ people.

My favorite part of the sequence is where one of the two sharpest most composed most experienced most media savvy candidates, Christie offered that he could introduce the other one - left behind - Kasich.

It really speaks more to ABC assuming a certain campaign experience and composure by all these candidates that 2 of them lack.

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Sleepy Ben: “I didn’t hear my name … and I might have dozed off for a little bit there.”

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Instead, JeBush strode by them, briefly tapping Trump and then flashing a facial shrug, as if to say, Screw these two newbies, it’s a free for all out there.

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Derp Of A Salesman

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Paging Dr. Oddball! Get your wifty ass out here on the stage stat! I mean seriously, he’s got a sheaf of bizarre, antiscientific and irrational beliefs to go along with his scientific training. He constantly tells anecdotes that strain your credulity and can’t be checked. He does bizarre stuff and offers implausible explanations. He more often than not talks in a strange, disjointed way, like a mystic delivering a cryptic message from a fog-shrouded interior mindscape in which he wanders alone. If this were the first weird thing he’d done, OK, but it’s far from that. He rarely says or does things that aren’t weird, it seems like. So I think whatever problem caused this goes beyond the audio system of a particular stage in New Hampshire.

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For all the good he did at the debate, he should have just stayed in that little hallway and the camera could cut to him once in a while for laughs.

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Both Trump and Carson mess up. Maybe it’s an age thing:
Rubio 44
Cruz 45
Christie 53
Bush 62
Kasich 63
Carson 64
Trump 69

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Okay, that explains why other candidates walked past Carson. Now explain why TPM published an article containing the line “Other candidates walked passed Carson”. The copyediting on this site has never been great, but lately it has achieved new depths.

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He has become the James Stockdale of this campaign.

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Merely the judicious application of a technique designed by this past candidate to lull his opponent into a false sense of optimism.

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They didn’t say Chauncey Gardner, he would have walk out if they said that.

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