Discussion:

I’m with you on how it would prove who is most honest? What would a hoax like that prove other than he was the only one who didn’t figure it out.

Because they’re just fundamentally dishonest, I guess.

Carson launched a counteroffensive Sunday on his Facebook page, where he posted a link to a syllabus for a psychology course called “Perception” that Yale offered in 2002 as evidence that the class he referred to did exist when he attended in the early 1970s.

Because that class was taught identically for 25 - 30 years? Do Carson’s people really think America is that stupid?

Don’t answer that.

Oh, plus the class they’ve linked seems to be mostly about actual visual perception, so what would the point of the “lesson” the imaginary professor was teaching?

Welcome! This course will provide you with an introduction to the study of perception, with a heavy emphasis on visual perception. In short, we will explore how we see.

LIBRUL MEDA!!! That damned liberal Wall Street Journal. Hoax indeed. Josh Marshall is correct: Carson’s campaign is a direct mail fundraising scam.

he donated it to Mother Theresa, of course…

Here’s your apology, Dr Carson. “I’m sorry you were offended by the news stories which provide evidence that you are a clumsy liar.”

So who was the professor? Is the professor dead or just not talking?

You’re being rational, trying to use logic. Big mistake.

Think Garden Gnome Economics; you and your fellow gnomes are attempting to link a real thing that happened to your gnome champion, to a story of conservative (or fundamentalist Christian, or idealized Leave It To Beaver / Father Knows Best 1950s era family, or possibly just garden gnomes) values, while working back from the predetermined result you want the audience to accept as the outcome of the ingredients.The difficulty is that at least one of the ingredients, or an entire process in the steps to the outcome, is totally opaque, hidden from view, in an impenetrable black box, a.k.a. magic, often depicted in the step-by-step detailing of the Garden Gnomes Economics concept as " … " or some variation of that.

The equivalent here would be something like:

1. Something Dr. Ben Carson says he remembers happening to him in his youth
2. …
3. Young Ben is judged the only honest or most honest or most promising or most gifted or most awesome or most awesomely awesome in the way that might include God, depending somewhat on the virture that’s being engaged.
4. …
5. A ten dollar bill!

That 10 dollar bill denotes two things:

1. that it’s a small thing with its reward mostly being itself, but at the same time it’s worth SOMETHING, because this is America, man, and
2. I’m not asking for much here, people, ten bucks, the cost of you and your missus going for coffees at Starbucks, each of you sends me ten bucks, I net enough out of this to maybe buy a nice mid-sized island, put up a decent mansion, and in Jesus’ name I swear, people, I’ll never bother you again.

And-- $10 in 1970 is akin to $62.28 today per an inflation calculator.
That’s alot to hand someone as a ‘reward’-- hoax or not.
The application of any sort of logic dispels the probability of truth.

jw1

Or until the start of the 2020 election cycle, whichever comes first.

It’s a matter of knowing that in Carson’s mind, things don’t have to be provable to be “true.” The pyramids were built by Joseph as grain silos, and as long as he believes it, it’s true. A professor said he was “the most honest”, and all it takes is for him to believe it to make it a fact.

If the other Republicans want to take him down, that’s their line of argument; Carson’s a nice guy (to Republicans), but he also has a level of disconnectnedness that makes him unelectable, and as such, isn’t worth any more consideration.

Look, guys, the story is TRUE! It’s just all the details that are false. Like the $10 that keeps showing up in Ben’s stories.

The supposed explanation by Carson was the replacement test was not the same as the one originally taken, covering subjects the students were unprepared for combined with be more difficult in nature. He says this caused anger among the test takers, a feeling they weren’t being treated fairly on the retake, and therefore agreed to walk out in disgust and protest.

But there always seems to be $10. And Ben can show you the bill.

Thanks. I followed the article links I had access to, but none of them clarified this. So basically, Carson was the “scab” in the test protest unified walkout. And this somehow makes him more honest.

Well, I guess it makes as much sense as anything else he’s said.

He still has it. He can show you. It proves what he said is true.

He probably had it framed and hung on his personal wall of fame…

Edit: Link added

This guy is a pathological liar and apparently is so impressed with himself he writes tons of books about himself.

He’ll be gone soon, especially if he can’t handle the piss poor media scrutiny

He’s a nut…pure and simple.

It doesn’t. It just shows he is the easiest to prank and that it takes him longer to realize the truth.