Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is as cool as a cucumber, so it naturally follows that he's a bit hazy about that time he found himself
in a pickle.
The details surrounding Ben Carson’s story of being held at gunpoint in a Baltimore fried chicken chain restaurant while on a French fry run remain “hazy” because it happened decades ago, a Carson spokeswoman said Wednesday.
This is in response to reporters pointing out that they haven't been able to verify that such a holdup happened, which is pretty rude of them—and I maintain my position that nobody would invent a heroic story of themselves in which they were held at gunpoint but calmly told the gunman to go rob the guy behind the register instead, because that is not very heroic at all. But now the campaign is bristling over implications that maybe it didn't happen.
“I can tell you categorically as a God-fearing Christian, it’s something that happened," he said. "It’s not something I made up." [...]
“A lot of the details are hazy because that incident did occur over 30 years ago,” [Campaign spokeswoman Ying Ma] said. "I'm sure that a lot of even anchors here at MSNBC would have trouble remembering incidents from over 30 years ago."
That said, I would think that having a gun jammed in your ribs would leave a lasting impression. Nobody's asking the campaign what Ben Carson had for lunch on a random Tuesday in 1982, they're asking him to recount the time he bravely fended off a gunman by pointing him toward the guy manning a cash register.
Look, can we just accept that this happened? I want it to have happened. You want it to have happened. We all want it to have happened, and if a million Americans can believe that Jade Helm was this close to overthrowing the proud state of Texas I think we can all come together and agree to believe this. Sometimes you fact checkers can be real spoilsports.