Dr. Stabby, Motivational Speaker

Via the Des Moines Register:

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson at a campaign rally with 500 people in Cedar Rapids shouted out to a fifth-grade class: “Who’s the worst student?” Carson’s question, intended as a joke in an anecdote about how he felt in elementary school, prompted immediate hand pointing toward one student from more than half a dozen classmates before Carson could take it back.

The question was added to a frequent anecdote that appears in Carson speeches. He went on to share how his grade-school classmates in Detroit insisted he was the dumbest person in the world. Then he dedicated himself to reading and became a peer mentor later in his student life.

Carson lucked out because the kid that was pointed to was actually the class clown and not a bad student. The kid was initially embarrassed but later said he’d vote for Carson if he could.