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Which is, of course, a thinly-veiled political ad. An ad for the documentary aired on an ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., Thursday. The documentary is titled Ben Carson: A Breath of Fresh Air; A New Prescription for America and is produced by a company run by conservative media personality Armstrong Williams. Williams’ company is paying for the airtime. The ad …

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The wingnut Washington Times today reports that Tea Party hero Ben Carson has taken a “major step” towards officially announcing his run for the presidency. Emerging from two-days of meetings with supporters in Palm Beach, Fla., Dr. Carson told the Times on Friday morning he has selected Houston businessman Terry Giles to be his 2016 campaign chairman should he run …

Miranda Blue writes at Right Wing Watch: Conservative activist and potential GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson joined James Dobson on Family Talk Radio yesterday, where the two got to talking about LGBT-affirming pastors. Dobson, joining a long line of anti-LGBT activists who don’t quite understand what bisexuality is, asked what pastors who endorse marriage equality are going to do about …

Evan Gahr writes at Daily Beast: Dr. Ben Carson, the Republican right’s favorite African-American neurosurgeon, often says that President Obama’s health care law is the worst thing since slavery. But in my recent interview with the good doctor—who is riding high in the presidential preliminaries, having come in a close second to Sen. Ted Cruz this past weekend in the …

Tea Party darling Dr. Ben Carson is laying the groundwork for a 2016 presidential bid with a video posted yesterday. The last time someone with zero political experience was elected president was six decades ago. And Eisenhower was a five-star general who had been the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces during WWII. RELATED: Last month Carson declared that the …

“We are very much like Nazi Germany. And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe. And it’s because of the PC police, …

Tea Party hero Ben Carson took the CPAC stage this afternoon to wild applause and the waving of “Carson 2016” placards. In his twenty-minute speech (excerpted below by Right Wing Watch), Carson referenced last year’s flap in which he compared same-sex marriage to pedophilia and bestiality. According to Carson today, he never did that. Here’s the exact quote from his …

The Family Research Council today added four more names to next week’s cavalcade of crackpots in Washington, DC, where attendees can attend “breakout sessions that will answer the tough questions on marriage, religious liberty, Obamacare, and standing up for Israel.”

Ben Carson has canceled another speech just days after pulling out of his planned commencement address to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University. The LGBT caucus within the American Academy of Physicians Assistants, which had started a petition to protest Carson’s upcoming May keynote speech at the organization’s conference, said Carson had withdrawn his participation. Outcry was sparked in March …

Blaming the controversy on “political correctness,” Tea Party hero Ben Carson has canceled his commencement address at his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University. Last week Carson made a “sincere” apology after a Fox News appearance in which he compared gay people to pedophiles and animal-fuckers. “Given all the national media surrounding my statements as to my belief in traditional marriage, …

Last week Tea Party hero Dr. Ben Carson issued an insincere faux-pology after he’d appeared on national television to compare gay people to pedophiles and animal-fuckers.  Yesterday Carson was forced to make a more unequivocal apology to his employers at Johns Hopkins University.    “As you know, I have been in the national news quite a bit recently and my 36 …

Two days after his faux-pology for comparing gay people to pedophiles and animal-fuckers, we learn that Tea Party darling Ben Carson will keynote the coming convention of the Illinois Family Institute, an SPLC-certified hate group and the former home of Peter LaBarbera.  Hit the link for Jeremy Hooper’s lengthy rundown of the truly despicable history of the IFI, who makes …