Ben Carson

Lefty Professor: Racists ‘Control’ Ben Carson, Who’s ‘Steeped In Their Brand of Tea’
By Tom Johnson | October 20, 2015 | 9:54 PM EDT

Daily Kos writer Denise Oliver-Velez has two plans related to New York state’s primary election next April: vote for Democrats, and give Ben Carson the finger. Carson won’t see it, but that’s not the point -- it’s a therapeutic gesture.

In a Sunday screed, Oliver-Velez, an adjunct professor of anthropology and women’s studies at SUNY New Paltz, charged that Carson “has become the antithesis of the civil rights struggle, directly attacking the gains we have made and are fighting to hold onto…He is not the first black man or woman used by those whose foot is on our necks to co-sign their ideology and practices, and he won't be the last. Nor is he the first to profit from it.”

SNL Compares Mike Huckabee to Pedophile Jared Fogle
By Jeffrey Meyer | October 19, 2015 | 2:22 PM EDT

During Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update fake news segment, co-anchor Colin Jost compared Governor Mike Huckabee with pedophile Jared Fogle following the Republican’s criticism of the GOP debate. The SNL cast member proclaimed “Mike Huckabee was criticized during the debate when he tweeted that he trusts Bernie Sanders with his tax dollars like I trust my North Korean chef with my labrador. And I just want to say I trust Mike Huckabee with a joke like I trust Jared with my laptop.”  

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: ‘Next Step Down’ From Fox News Is ‘The Third Reich’
By Tom Johnson | October 16, 2015 | 12:25 PM EDT

Rupert Murdoch is in a pickle, and the famously abrasive lefty writer Taibbi is loving every minute of it. In a Tuesday article for Rolling Stone, Taibbi portrays Murdoch as “desperate… because he senses his beloved audience of idiots” abandoning Fox News in favor of Donald Trump, “a onetime Fox favorite who is fast becoming the network's archenemy.”

Taibbi argues that Fox News must routinely dumb itself down in order to stay popular; Murdoch and Roger Ailes, he writes, “know they've spent a generation building an audience of morons. Their business model depends on morons; morons are the raw materials of their industry, the way Budweiser is in the hops business…[But] you have to keep upping the ante to make it work. Trump is…going to places now that make even Rupert Murdoch nervous.”

Mike Barnicle: Ben Carson a ‘Political Nut-Boy’ Who’s ‘A Few Quarts Short of a Gallon’
By Tom Johnson | October 14, 2015 | 10:27 AM EDT

For nearly three decades, Ben Carson was the head of pediatric neurosurgery at one of the world’s best hospitals. To MSNBC panelist Barnicle, however, Carson is a “political nut-boy” who reminds him of a patient at a certain type of hospital.

In a Monday Daily Beast column, Barnicle opined that Carson is “out there on the fringe talking nonsense in a soft, nonthreatening manner that is quite similar to the voice level heard among so many sitting sadly by themselves today in Day Rooms of mental institutions, off in a corner, wearing paper slippers, slowly eating apple sauce, unaware that nobody is listening.”

Will CNN Treat the Democrats the Same Way They Treated GOP? No!
By Geoffrey Dickens | October 12, 2015 | 2:52 PM EDT

If CNN wants to be balanced in how it moderates the upcoming Democratic debate on Tuesday, it will ask questions that prompt the candidates on stage to fight with one another, because that’s exactly how they handled the GOP debate back on September 16. Of the 74 total questions asked by CNN’s debate moderators at the GOP debate, 55 of them (74 percent) were framed to get Republican candidates to criticize each other’s positions and even personal traits. 

Notable Quotables: NBC Helps Hillary with Softball Townhall
By Rich Noyes | October 12, 2015 | 9:05 AM EDT

This week, Hillary Clinton is treated to fawning tributes and softball quesions during her "town hall" forum on NBC's Today, while network reporters finger the "far right" as at fault in the surprise resignation of House Speaker John Boehner. Plus, CNN's Christiane Amanpour claims some in the GOP are part of a "war on Muslims," and ex-CBS newsman Dan Rather is sticking to his bogus story: "There is no doubt in any reasonable person's mind now, the story was true."

Ron Fournier: Ben Carson ‘Putting a Target On Government Officials’
By Jeffrey Meyer | October 11, 2015 | 12:24 PM EDT

On Sunday’s Face the Nation, National Journal reporter Ron Fournier accused Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson of “putting a target on government officials” after the retired neurosurgeon stressed the need for Americans to have the right to protect themselves from an oppressive government. 

ABC's Stephanopoulos Grills ‘Bizarre’ Carson; Candidate Fights Back: ‘Bunch of Crap’
By Scott Whitlock | October 9, 2015 | 4:27 PM EDT

George Stephanopoulos on Friday grilled Ben Carson about his comments on guns and how to fight back against a mass killing. An ABC graphic blared, “Ben Carson's Bizarre Comments on Guns: Backlash Grows on Holocaust Statements.” Stephanopoulos demanded, “Are more guns really the answer?” Carson fired back: “You know, one of the problems with people in the media is they pick one little thing and they say that that's your philosophy on this, which is a bunch of crap.” 

GQ Columnist: F*ck Ben Carson
By Tom Blumer | October 9, 2015 | 10:43 AM EDT

Drew Magary is a regular columnist at GQ.com.

Apparently Magary, his editors and the publication's management have forgotten or don't care about what the "G" in GQ is supposed to stand for. Both the headline and the content of the writer's latest column flunk the "gentlemen's" test.

Death Wish? Andrea Mitchell Asks Ben Carson Can Republican Party 'Survive?'
By Mark Finkelstein | October 9, 2015 | 10:34 AM EDT

Who is taking more glee from the current Republican turmoil over the selection of the next Speaker: Democrats or the MSM—or do I repeat myself?

Today's Morning Joe featured a clip from Andrea Mitchell's interview of Ben Carson in which she asked: "what does this just say about the Republican brand and the Republican party. Can it survive after this kind of chaos?" Wishful thinking, Andrea?

Daily Beast's Avlon on CNN: 'Responsible is A Net Negative' in GOP
By Matthew Balan | October 8, 2015 | 1:47 PM EDT

The Daily Beast's John Avlon, a supposed "No Labels" moderate, revealed his true liberal colors on Thursday's New Day on CNN during a discussion of Ben Carson's response to the mass shooting in Oregon. Alisyn Camerota pointed out how competitor Lindsey Graham rebuked Dr. Carson, and wondered why the "rational" senator wasn't getting more traction. Avlon replied, "Responsible is a net negative for Republicans right now. Instead of trying to be more responsible, you try to be more irresponsible, more inflammatory, get more attention, and play to the base, which already deeply polarized and inflamed."

Media Slam Carson For Suggesting You Do What Professionals Say You Should Do In School Shooting
By Steve Edwards | October 8, 2015 | 11:55 AM EDT

Ever since Ben Carson made comments in a recent interview where he said that if involved in an active shooter situation, he would actually make an attempt to defend himself instead of being a sitting duck for a shooter, he has been excoriated by the mainstream press for not being a victim. However, training provided by professionals for this exact scenario tell you to do exactly what Carson said he would do - defend yourself.