Bernie Sanders: Media Scrutiny of Ben Carson Is Why People Hate Politics

I have contempt for the conservative “establishment” and have taken them on numerous times, so I can’t be accused of being their stooge.

Carson’s campaign vehemently denied those statements. A man whose entire argument is based on his wonderful (too incredible, really) biography has been revealed to have, at best, exaggerated and possibly fabricated important elements of that narrative.

And in a tweet late Saturday, Carson said the controversy has led to a fundraising bonanza for his campaign, saying he has received “10,000 donations each day this week, raising $3.5M this week alone”. Carson has said he was violent growing up, including telling a story in “Gifted Hands” in which he described once trying to stab a friend or relative.

That’s crucial at this stage of the nominating process since Carson, a retired neurosurgeon; Rubio, a freshman senator from Florida; and Cruz, a freshman senator from Texas, are still largely unknown to most voters. This is just not debatable, but those are the “rules” which the news media has created.

However, Carson can be treated very unfairly by the press and still also be a fraud. These two possibilities are hardly mutually exclusive.

“They were very impressed with my incredible rise to city executive officer faster than anyone had ever done that before, and said that, you know, ‘Well, we would be able to get you a full scholarship to West Point, ‘” Carson said.

Republicans voters by 67-20 percent say the more they hear about Carson, the more they like him rather than dislike him. His supporters have cheered his willingness to ignore what he calls political correctness, and have been more willing to blame the media.

In that account and others, Carson seems to rely on loose, broad definitions for the words “offer” and “scholarship”. First, neither one remotely passes the “smell test”.

“Trump’s South Carolina support has held fairly steady, which means that Carson’s bump has actually come at the expense of nearly everyone else in the field”, said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute in New Jersey. Well, they have very little space. “I had exactly ten dollars, so I could apply only to one”.

Ben Carson states it is time to move on from questions concerning the accuracy of his life story.

Ironically, this element will help strengthen a few of his support, even while slowly scaring away a few other, less religious, sects of conservatism. The new poll reflects a huge bump for Carson since August, when he was at 15% in the state, and Trump was at 30%.

If Carson is serious about the presidency, he needs to tighten up on message discipline; and, if Trump is serious about his candidacy for presidency, he needs to stop being a caricature and start being a candidate.

He said the reporters who have scrutinized his past would make minor mistakes when recalling the events of four or five decades before. It may even be why he weirdly made a decision to take time from the campaign trail to go on a book tour instead of focusing on a campaign he suspects is doomed.

What will happen from here? The Wall Street Journal said it could not confirm Carson anecdotes from his high school and college years. This “Brian Williams Virus” will not kill Carson’s campaign immediately and it may never destroy it completely.