If you were told that you could go to college for free, would you call that a "full scholarship"? Dr. Ben Carson did just that and the mainstream media is busy calling that a scandal.
If you were running for president would you claim that as a young teen you had a violent temper and actually assaulted a few people? Dr. Ben Carson made that claim and the mainstream media has announced that they cannot find anyone to corroborate the claim so it must be false. Another scandal!
If you were told by the Chief of Staff of the US Army that you could get into West Point and should apply, would you call that "being offered admission"? Dr. Ben Carson said that and the media is in full frenzy to call that too a "scandal". For the media, they don't accept the idea that in 1969 (or today) a phone call from the Chief of Staff of the US Army could secure a place in West Point.
This is the essence of the swirling cloud of media BS that has descended on Dr. Carson. It's nothing about nothing with some more nothing thrown in. Some media outlets, like the ever-biased Politico, have had to retreat from obviously false statements that they made early yesterday.
The untrue and unfair media coverage, however, is instructive in one positive way. America has gotten to see how Dr. Carson responds to a very tense, very tough situation. After all, when the story first hit, the media and the politicians were all busy pronouncing Carson's campaign dead. While that was obviously an exaggeration, it did set off a firestorm within the media. There were reporters screaming questions at Dr. Carson in a very rude way. So how did Carson handle it?
The answer is that Carson showed that in a crisis he stays calm, stays logical, does not back down or run, and handles things well. All those years in the operating room with lives on the line have probably put Carson in many more situations like this than any of his competitors for the presidency.
Look at the comparison. When the story about Hillary Clinton's private unsecured email system broke, Hillary hid. She went for weeks without taking a question from the media. Then, when she finally went public at her UN press conference, she lied and lied. There was never any classified material sent or received on her system was her claim. (That was false.) She turned over all her work email to the State Department. (That too was false.) Then Hillary went into hiding again. So Hillary's response to a major problem was first not to confront it and then to try to lie her way out of it. Carson, on the other hand, stood firm and stayed calm. He answered all the questions honestly. He never went to dishonesty to try to evade the problem. Who would make a better president, the person who hides from problems and then lies about it, or the person who confronts the problems and deals with them calmly and honestly?
If you were running for president would you claim that as a young teen you had a violent temper and actually assaulted a few people? Dr. Ben Carson made that claim and the mainstream media has announced that they cannot find anyone to corroborate the claim so it must be false. Another scandal!
If you were told by the Chief of Staff of the US Army that you could get into West Point and should apply, would you call that "being offered admission"? Dr. Ben Carson said that and the media is in full frenzy to call that too a "scandal". For the media, they don't accept the idea that in 1969 (or today) a phone call from the Chief of Staff of the US Army could secure a place in West Point.
This is the essence of the swirling cloud of media BS that has descended on Dr. Carson. It's nothing about nothing with some more nothing thrown in. Some media outlets, like the ever-biased Politico, have had to retreat from obviously false statements that they made early yesterday.
The untrue and unfair media coverage, however, is instructive in one positive way. America has gotten to see how Dr. Carson responds to a very tense, very tough situation. After all, when the story first hit, the media and the politicians were all busy pronouncing Carson's campaign dead. While that was obviously an exaggeration, it did set off a firestorm within the media. There were reporters screaming questions at Dr. Carson in a very rude way. So how did Carson handle it?
The answer is that Carson showed that in a crisis he stays calm, stays logical, does not back down or run, and handles things well. All those years in the operating room with lives on the line have probably put Carson in many more situations like this than any of his competitors for the presidency.
Look at the comparison. When the story about Hillary Clinton's private unsecured email system broke, Hillary hid. She went for weeks without taking a question from the media. Then, when she finally went public at her UN press conference, she lied and lied. There was never any classified material sent or received on her system was her claim. (That was false.) She turned over all her work email to the State Department. (That too was false.) Then Hillary went into hiding again. So Hillary's response to a major problem was first not to confront it and then to try to lie her way out of it. Carson, on the other hand, stood firm and stayed calm. He answered all the questions honestly. He never went to dishonesty to try to evade the problem. Who would make a better president, the person who hides from problems and then lies about it, or the person who confronts the problems and deals with them calmly and honestly?
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