Rising conservative star Ben Carson
Oh gawd, just what the nation needs.
A Ben Carson Me-Flick.
Rising conservative star Ben Carson will be the subject of a documentary set to air over the weekend that with give people across the country greater insight into his life and likely spur more speculation about his presidential ambitions in a week when the midterm elections gave a boost to many of his potential rivals.
(Question: How long must we keep referring to "rising conservative star Ben Carson" as "rising conservative star Ben Carson"? He hasn't been rising anywhere for a while now. Is this going to be like "rising conservative star Bobby Jindal," where the prefix is attached as honorary title even long after it has ceased to be in any way descriptive?)
Mr. Carson will be featured in a documentary — called “A Breath of Fresh Air: A New Prescription for America” — that will air over the weekend in 22 states and the District of Columbia.
A production company run by conservative personality Armstrong Williams filmed the documentary and is paying for the airtime. Mr. Williams is also Mr. Carson’s business manager.
I would have called it
Ben Carson: The Ben Carson Story, Starring Ben Carson: How Ben Carson Got To Be Ben Carson, but I'm not Mr. Carson's business manager-slash-documentarian. I also imagine it won't be mentioning Carson's many on-air bloopers that have impeded what had been expected to be a quick rise to Republican superstardom.
All right, so the people behind Rising Conservative Star Ben Carson are cutting a 60-minute cable advertisement on Ben Carson, The Man, The Legend. He is the ShamWow of the new era, the vegetable slicer that will allow you to throw away all your other vegetable slicers, the Bass-o-Matic of New Republicanism. Can't wait.
And Newt Gingrich is probably green with envy.