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Unusually Animated Carson Rails Against ‘Unfair’ Media For Examining His Past
The Fox News audience eats this shit up--the whole 'liberal bias' b.s.
Now any conservative candidate who doesn't like being questioned just screams foul.
Leading Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson rejected “unfair” media scrutiny of his personal history in a contentious press conference in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on Friday night.
As the Associated Press reported, Carson defended his claim that he’d been offered a “full scholarship” to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, though the school doesn’t offer scholarships and has no record of him applying.
“It was an offer to me. It was specifically made,” Carson told reporters, hours after telling The New York Times that he received an “informal” recommendation to apply to the elite military academy.
Carson insisted that the story, as recounted in his 1996 autobiography “Gifted Hands,” was accurate.
“What about the West Point thing is false? What is false about it?” he asked, according to the AP. “I think it is perfectly clear. I think there are people who want to make it into a mistake. I'm not going to say it is a mistake, so forget about it."
The GOP frontrunner pointed to the passage of time to explain why he couldn’t recall who had offered him the scholarship.
"It's almost 50 years ago. I bet you don't remember all the people you talked to 50 years ago," the AP quoted him as saying.
The Fox News audience eats this shit up--the whole 'liberal bias' b.s.
Now any conservative candidate who doesn't like being questioned just screams foul.