Poor, poor Ben Carson. He’s such a victim. No candidate has ever been such a victim. But at least he can use his victim status to do what his campaign does best and raise money. Talking Points Memo has a priceless Carson fundraising email:
If you’ve been watching the news, you’ve seen that the media is in full attack mode. They’ve been tracking down and interviewing my childhood friends and even accusing me of fabricating parts of my personal history.
Tracking down and interviewing your childhood friends … who are unable to back up the parts of your personal history in question, which is where the feeling that maybe you fabricated some stuff comes into play. But let’s continue:
Funny, because this was the same media that time and again declared it off-limits to dig into then-candidate Barack Obama’s background.
Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers are like “Excuse me, now? For real?” Barack Obama’s birth certificate actually comes to sentient life and starts trying to track down Carson to have a conversation with him about just how loony that claim is.
The media’s double standard is incredible, but even worse is their viciousness and blatant disregard for the truth.
Where “the truth” is defined as “what Ben Carson chooses to say is true,” and not as, y’know, what’s supported by any other witness or documentation.
The thing is, a lot of Republican politicians would say all this but know in their heart of hearts that it was total bull. With Carson, though, you get the feeling that he really believes it, because in his mind, only things that happen to him matter, and only his point of view is reliable. He’s not just the center, but nearly the totality of the universe he’s able to perceive. Only things that happen to Ben Carson matter to Ben Carson. If he was just some incredibly self-absorbed individual, it would be comical. But a lot of Republican voters are nodding along with this email—and with the rest of Carson’s pronouncements. That’s scary.
.jpg?1446949950 "Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson answers questions from the media at the Alpha Gamma Rohfraternity at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa on October 24, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Kauzlarich - RTX1T1D7")
