Bravo. Well done.
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Iām somehow simultaneously unsurprised, proud, and slightly horrified that I accurately predicted his response in snarking when it was first mentioned: Discussion: CNN: Ben Carson's Former Classmates Don't Recall His Violent Outbursts - #101 by midnight_rambler
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Not so much bad as fatal.
Well, for some anyway; comatose for many. And as for the rest, for the ānormalsā, well - 4 martinis, gin or vodka doesnāt matter which, is like a 911 call direct to the bladder: Weāre dying! Release the urine!
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In other words people are hearing the words he says.
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The WSJ News Department is excellent. Their Op-Ed page is a joke, and it has been long known that the News Dept and the Op-Ed Dept are as polarized as North and South Korea. But the News Department is in general excellent, just like the News Department at the NY Times (where the Op-Ed page can be pathetic at times too).
Here is some of Mr. Maremontās other work. A lot of excellent articles.
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The hell of it is that these Carson gaffes are coming out so fast & furious, at this rate his candidacy wonāt survive his book tour.
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His original statement is a bold faced LIE! His amended statement is sorta like saying that the first election for governor of the State of Hawaii after it was admitted to the Union involved people who had never held State Office before. Thatās technically true, but completely misleading and intentionally false. When do the American People start holding these clowns responsible for their lies? Do we really have to wait another full year?
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Yes, with the benefit of hindsight (and post-publication editing), he supposedly made the crucial observation that before the country was created, no Founding Father held elective office in that still non-existent country. What really happened of course is that this guy knows nothing and has no research skills or for that matter, even concern as to whether what he is saying might be right or, as almost always, wrong. So he followed his norm and raced into print without any notion.
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Indeed, the News Department at the WSJ is stellar. The Op-Ed Department is completely independent for content, and are a bunch of nuts.
Funny how liberal sites want you to be afraid to read the WSJ (and conservative sites try to make you afraid to read liberal sites). I prefer to check out all kinds of venues, though I stay from looney sites like Alex Jones, Breitbart, Raw Story, etc.
People who make fun of the WSJ News Department never actually read it, or they read some idiotic Op-Ed piece and assume itās the opinion of the News people.
Just above, I posted a link to some of the articles by the guy who wrote this article on Carson. Some excellent research and reporting.
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Peggy Noonan is laughed at by the News people at the WSJ. The guy who wrote this piece is in general an excellent writer.
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And further greatly embarrassing himself before us, while thrilling his imbecile supporters by checking the boxes: together heās a historian, a philosopher, and he even penned the talismanic buzzwords, āFounding Fathers.ā
As long as they nominate SOMEBODY whoās not Jebya!
Canāt wait for Breitbart to claim, without an ounce of irony, that pointing out Carson is factually deficient is racism on the part of the āmainstream mediaā, blissfully ignoring, well, their entire existence.
Also, Iām kind of surprised that Carsonās claim that all the signers āhad a deep belief that freedom is a gift from Godā has gone largely unremarked on.
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You think he sounds silly now, just wait till he starts answering questions by speaking in tongues.
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A spokesman for the Carson campaign, when asked about the error, told the paper that the retired neurosurgeon had since edited his post to clarify the signers has no experience in āfederalā office.
Not to mention Papal office!
MrComments -
I appreciate you are defending people you feel have integrity, which is a good thing. I donāt personally parse out news organizations that way - the opp/ed page IS the WSJ, and as such has supported everything Iāve been against since I attained political consciousness.
Iām not aware of any factual basis for this statement.
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Zealots think if you believe strongly enough in something it creates a reality warping field and it becomes true.
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Channeling la Noonan so well should cause you a little bit of concern. Brilliant here, but make sure you can kick out of that mold quickly when youāre finished.
Thatās a good fix.
In a normal reality Carson would have been laughed into obscurity long ago. But we are not in normal reality because at the moment he is the leading GOP candidate. And in a match up against HRC in a putative general election he wins. And to me that is freaking scary.
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