Tag Archives: Ben Carson

Last night in Staten Island. ABC News reports: As Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson shook hands after a New York town hall meeting Monday night, one attendee among a small crowd asked, “Do you think I chose to be gay?” and cursed at the neurosurgeon after his response. “I have a quick question,” said the attendee, who was wearing a …

CNN reports: Ben Carson’s new campaign chairman, retired Major Gen. Robert F. Dees, says it’s time for the U.S. to reevaluate military policies like letting women serve in combat positions and allowing openly gay troops to serve. Carson is debuting his “reinvigorated” campaign after a holiday shakeup that included the departure of a handful of top advisers and new leadership, …

Via Talking Points Memo: Two top aides to Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson resigned from the campaign and predicted a wave of departures to come Thursday, casting the troubled campaign into uncertainty with just a month until the Iowa caucuses. Campaign manager Barry Bennett and communications director Doug Watts resigned over conflict with Armstrong Williams, a Carson adviser the campaign …

Via Mediaite: Ben Carson last night connected Bill Clinton‘s sex scandal to the corruption of America’s youth. On The O’Reilly Factor last night, Jesse Watters asked Carson if he thinks Donald Trump going after the former president is fair game. Carson said of course it is. “My main problem with it,” he explained, “is I saw innocent little kids… becoming …

Ben Carson’s latest money beg declares him to be the GOP’s only hope against Hillary Clinton. And if you send him at least $25, you’ll get a Carson 2016 camouflage trucker hat. Because reasons. From the email: Pamela, It’s been a tremendous year. For a campaign that all the “experts” routinely dismissed, we’ve built a real movement. We’ve received over …

An interesting interview with the Associated Press today: Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Wednesday he is moving toward a major shake-up of his struggling campaign, with just six weeks to go until early voting begins to select party nominees. In an interview with the Associated Press at his Maryland home — conducted without the knowledge of his own campaign …

As I’ve mentioned here before, top Ben Carson advisor Armstrong Williams once settled a sexual harassment suit filed by a male trainer at his gym. Today porn magnate Larry Flynt has published an open letter which denounces Carson for being anti-gay while working closely with a man whom he likely knows is gay himself. Flynt is offering a reward of up …

Ben Carson is very upset with reports that the GOP is anticipating a brokered convention and might work to position an establishment candidate against Donald Trump. Via Politico: “If the leaders of the Republican Party want to destroy the party, they should continue to hold meetings like the one described in the Washington Post this morning,” Carson said in a …

Speaking yesterday at an Iowa town hall event, Ben Carson pined for the good old days of DADT and denounced soldiers who “have to go around flouting their sexuality.” Carson’s statement was triggered by a question about military service for transgender Americans. “You know, we have too many important things to do,” Carson said at a “Veterans and Military Town …

File this one next to the pyramids story. Via ABC News: Addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition today, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson told a story about how the Star of David came to be on the U.S. dollar bill. Only one problem: There’s no Star of David on the dollar bill. Carson was telling the story of wealthy Jewish …

CBS News reports: Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson denounced “hateful rhetoric” across the political spectrum in the wake of a shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility that left three people dead. Abortion rights supporters have said that such rhetoric has motivated violence against Planned Parenthood clinics around the country. “There is no question that you know hateful rhetoric no …

The Hill reports: Among the many duties of the president, the pardoning of a turkey on Thanksgiving stands as perhaps the most important. It is for that reason that conservative online publication IJ.com invited a few Republican presidential candidates to practice their turkey-pardoning skills, thereby making the case to the American people that they are truly Oval Office material. Retired …

Earlier today we got Dr. Stabby ON VIDEO saying that he totally saw the same film of cheering Arabs in New Jersey that Trump continues to bray about. Now, in classic Ben Carson style, the story changes. NBC News reports: Hours after Ben Carson told reporters he remembers seeing American Muslims celebrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, his campaign said …

You guys, Dr. Stabby TOTALLY saw the same nonexistent news story that Donald Trump saw! CNN reports: Trump did get back up from his primary opponent Ben Carson, who told reporters gathered in Nevada that he did see celebrations of American Muslims in New Jersey after 9/11. “I saw the film of it, yes,” he said. Asked what kind of …

Mediaite recaps: In this week’s Saturday Night Live cold open, the SNL gang took vicious aim at some familiar targets, namely Fox & Friends and Dr. Ben Carson, with a side order of Kate McKinnon‘s Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Jay Pharoah nailed Carson’s low-key delivery and quirky eye movements, while the usual cast members lampooned the F&F hosts, the Fox Nation’s …

Twitter’s mean girls are having a field day with the anti-immigration map sent out last night by the Carson campaign. Via Mediaite: The color-coded map of the United States, which was published on Facebook and Twitter, championed the chorus of mostly Republican governors who spent much of the weekend, Monday and Tuesday issuing press releases and making televised statements calling …

During his now-famous 95-minute rant against Ben Carson, on Friday Donald Trump said that Carson is an “enigma.” According to RedState, that word was a racist “rhetorical trick” to plant the N-word in the minds of the audience. They write: TRUMP: Now Carson’s an enigma to me. CROWD: [Unintelligible] TRUMP: I didn’t say it! [Laughter]. Why are they laughing? What …

According to the Washington Post, the GOP establishment is “paralyzed” at the thought Donald Trump or Ben Carson winning the nomination. They write: Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls …

CNN reports: Donald Trump on Thursday told Iowa’s voters that those who support Ben Carson are “stupid” to believe the “crap” that is his life story, part of a stunning 95-minute tirade that included his most aggressive attack yet on his closest competitor. Toward the end of his wide-ranging complaints about the country and competition, Trump mocked Carson’s narrative about …

After digging through “obscured” incorporation and property records, the Associated Press today reports that Ben Carson is making up to $2 million annually from real estate deals tied to a felon who has been convicted of health care fraud. Via Talking Points Memo: Republican presidential contender Ben Carson has maintained a business relationship with a close friend convicted of defrauding …