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Human Events
The Media’s
Latest Phony Attack on Ben Carson
David Limbaugh
Friday Oct 9, 2015
How about the next time the mainstream media decide to fabricate a
controversy against a conservative presidential candidate, they choose
something less laughable?
The media’s latest faux gasp concerns Dr. Ben Carson’s comments about
the Oregon school shooting. When I first watched news reports on it, I
didn’t immediately grasp the reason for the fuss, not having the
artificial sensibilities of the MSM.
Asked what he would do in a similar situation as the victims, Carson
said: “I would ask everybody to attack the gunman because he can only
shoot one of us at a time. That way, we don’t all wind up dead.” Not
only did he not answer the way the media wanted but also he chuckled
upon concluding his answer.
No one in his right mind would interpret Carson’s uncomfortable giggle
as a statement that he was laughing at the victims or is indifferent to
their fate. Do I have to mention that he dedicated four decades to
saving children’s lives? Yeah, I thought so.
At the suggestion that he appeared tone-deaf and seemed callous, Carson
said, “I’m laughing at them and their silliness,” meaning the reporters
asking him questions.
It rankles the media when candidates don’t immediately cower when
accused of this or that sin. Carson is particularly annoying to them,
not only because he refuses to back down but also because he has the
audacity, in their view, to espouse conservative views despite being
African-American. Surely, we can all understand their frustration when
blacks stray from the left’s prescribed way of thinking.
Carson was not judging the victims; that doesn’t even make sense.
Almost everyone seriously laments the tragedy, and Carson, as a strong
Christian, doubtlessly admires those courageous victims who identified
themselves as Christians while knowing it would seal their fate.
Rather, Carson said he wanted to “plant the seed in people’s minds so
that if this happens again, you know, they don’t all get killed.”
When pressed about his response, Carson used the opportunity once again
to criticize our stifling politically correct culture. He said: “We
live in a culture now where people decide that everything you say — ‘we
need to set up battle lines’ and ‘we need to get on this side of it or
that side of it’ rather than collectively trying to figure out how we
solve the problem. It’s sort of an immature attitude, but it seems to
be something that’s rampant in America today...
Read the rest of the article at Human Events
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