GOP’s Carson admits West Point story isn’t true

“I didn’t refuse the scholarship outright, but I let them know that a military career wasn’t where I saw myself going”, the memoir states. As overjoyed as I felt to be offered such a scholarship, I wasn’t really tempted.

Bennett said he was introduced to people from the military academy by his ROTC supervisors, and they said they could help get him in based on his ROTC grades and performance.

Limbaugh said Carson is getting the same media treatment Clarence Thomas was forced to endure in 1991.

And there is no such thing as a “full scholarship” to West Point – in exchange for a military commitment, admission is free. In exchange, they serve for five years in the Army after graduation.

But spokeswoman Theresa Brinkerhoff added West Point has no records showing Carson began the application process. Reporter: Carson has said that’s when he rejected anger and started to give his life to god. “It was specifically made”.

“This is right up there with NBC’s editing of the 911 call”, Limbaugh said. “They have been talking to everybody I’ve ever known and everybody I’ve ever seen”, Carson said. So nearly 50 years ago, they may have been using that language as well.

“I never used the true names of people and books, you know, to protect the innocent”. In many cases, Carson only implied that he received a formal offer from West Point. “What is false about it?” “I think it is pathetic”. So next week it’ll be my kindergarten teacher who says that I peed in my trousers.

“WOW, one of many lies by Ben Carson! Can someone tell me why please?”

Trump now stands second in Iowa, so he might be a big beneficiary of Carson’s trouble, assuming he can keep his candidacy rolling. About half had experience as elected members of colonial assemblies, and Watts later admitted the error to The Washington Post. The bad news is that it’s only because the mediahas dug up a separate, seriously damaging fabrication from Carson’s past: that he was neither accepted nor offered a scholarship to West Point, as he’s claimed.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson held a fiery press conference Friday evening to respond to recent Politico and CNN investigations into his past. “I’m asking you will someone, will someone tell me why you have not investigated that?”

Carson, who has been trading off with rival presidential candidate Donald Trump for the lead of the Republican field in recent polling, sat in second place Friday with 22.3 percent support compared with Trump’s 28 percent, according to the HuffPost Pollster.

Carson has not addressed the newest allegations but became defensive when questioned about the authenticity of several stories in the book Gifted Hands, including a tale that Carson nearly killed his best friend, “Bob”, when he was 14.

At which point Carson recaptured control of the conversation.

Politico stealthily edited the inflammatory headline and lede, after the damage was done.