A Good Read On The Iowa Frontrunner

[LoneLaugher]

Sometimes, a journalist/pundit finds the words. This is one of those times.

What Ben Carson’s Rise Says About America

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"But what doesn’t go on all the time is that a man who gets his ideas about the world from conspiracy-theory web sites is a leading presidential candidate—or that his idiot comments not only don’t hurt him but help him. I’d reckon some of you saw that poll last week asking Iowa Republicans whether X statement about Carson raised or lowered their esteem of him. His comparison of Obamacare to slavery was considered “attractive” by 81 percent of those polled, and gave just 16 percent the willies."

Which is why Carson won't be the GOP nominee in 2016.

At some point facts and the truth will be Carson's undoing, even among republican voters.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Lol, just another partisan hack piece by a bad journalist. I noticed he didn't say anything about the hillary when she compared gop to terrorists and spoke of the R's rounding people up in boxcars. No.....of course he didn't.

Hillary accused of Holocaust slur against Republicans

 

[Seawytch]

Ben Carson’s horrifying Iowa surge: Why his campaign’s rapid rise bodes ill for this election
The neurosurgeon-turned-candidate couldn't in any rational world be viewed as a serious contender. And yet

There’s another layer to this phenomenon, which is that Republicans might simply be more attracted to characters who blurt controversial things, even if it means blindly supporting ideas that’d otherwise be objectionable. We all know exactly why: GOP voters have been slowly conditioned by AM talk radio and Fox News to accept increasingly incoherent proclamations as long as they originate from within the bubble.

As we’ve observed with increasing frequency over the last 10 years, the modern news media and especially the internet rewards people of any station who market in rhetorical extremism and specifically what can only be defined as intellectual violence. The conservative entertainment complex is loaded with characters who are engaged in this exploitative gambit. Leaning on far-right shibboleths and hurling red meat is the new business model for success in the GOP. Often, as illustrated by Carson’s demonization of Planned Parenthood while simultaneously having used aborted fetuses for research, the process if both controversial and horrendously contradictory.​