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You need to keep up, old man, as in reading the links in this devastating thread.
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What's this? Wild Cobra trusting a black surgeon . . . .
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I wanted to know what your claim was, because so much of this BS has already been debunked.
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was his bear story posted?
Gentle Ben
http://www.imdb.com/ le/tt0061255/
Dr Benny C is America's very own St Francis of Assisi (or Ace Ventura)
Carson Hopes Debate Will Focus on Lost City of Atlantis
MILWAUKEE — Arguing that the voters have tired of “gotcha questions,” the Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson said that he hoped Tuesday night’s debate would “focus on the real issues facing this country, like finding the lost city of Atlantis.”
“The American people don’t want to hear personal attacks,” Carson told reporters. “They want to know which candidate has the best plan for locating Atlantis and recovering its storied treasures.”
Carson said that finding Atlantis was central to his plan for reviving the U.S. economy. “We could start paying down the national debt with one jewel-encrusted trident,” he said.
As part of his continuing campaign against the mainstream media, Carson said that he would resist all attempts by debate moderators to get him to disclose his actual name and occupation.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...ODAwOTgyMTc5S0
Ben Carson Made Money With the Help of a Felon Convicted of Health Care Fraud
"I would not advocate chopping off people's limbs, but there would be some very stiff penalties for this kind of fraud, such as loss of one's medical license for life, no less than ten years in prison, and loss of all of one's personal possessions," Carson wrote.
Yet several years earlier, Carson sent a letter to a federal judge in Pittsburgh pleading for leniency in the case of his best friend Alfonso Costa, a dentist in the Pittsburgh area who had pleaded guilty to federal charges of health care fraud. And at the time Carson was seeking mercy for Costa, he had close business ties with Costa's real estate firm, Costa Land Management—a fact he neglected to mention in his letter to the judge.
Carson and Costa have long been tight. They vacation together, and Carson holidays at an Italian resort villa owned by Costa's company. Costa is president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Ben Carson Scholars Fund, which awards $1,000 college scholarships to students who demonstrate good character and strong academics. And Costa's real estate development firm helps to oversee a lucrative investment for Carson and his wife, one that last year netted the Carsons between $200,000 and $2 million, according to the GOP candidate's financial disclosure forms.
Carson, who retired from medicine in 2013 and has spent recent years giving speeches and selling books, is worth at least $8 million. A significant portion of his wealth comes from companies tied to Costa's real estate firm that own a lucrative property in the Pittsburgh area. The Carson campaign did not respond to a request for comment about his business relationship with Costa. But Carson's spokesman Doug Watts told the Associated Press: "I will confirm they are best friends and that they do hold business investments together."
Carson and Costa met in the 1990s, becoming fast friends with the Pittsburgh-based oral surgeon who had developed a lucrative side business as a real estate investor and developer. In 2004, Costa created a Pittsburgh chapter of Carson's charity, joined the national board, and began working closely with Carson. Three years later, when Carson and his wife invested in commercial real estate in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Costa and his firm were closely associated with the en ies the Carsons used to purchase an office building.
That year, Carson created two limited liability corporations in Pennsylvania—BenCan LLC AND INBS LLC—that listed Costa's residence at that time as their address. (And they still do, though Costa sold that house in 2011.) Shortly after their formation, the companies were used to purchase an office building in Mount Lebanon, a Pittsburgh suburb. Real estate records list Carson as the owner of BenCan and his wife Candy as the owner of INBS; the couple jointly purchased the building for $3 million, $2.4 million of which they borrowed. On both the mortgage and the deed, Carson and his wife state their official addresses as Costa's office. Many of the publicly available do ents associated with this property, including lease agreements, are signed not by Carson or his wife, but by various executives from the Costa Land Company, including the outfit's chief operating officer, Sarah Piccione. Neither Costa nor Piccione responded to requests for comment.
Carson's personal financial disclosure, which he was required to file as a presidential candidate, notes that his investment in BenCan is worth between $1 million and $5 million and his wife's LLC is valued at $1 million or more. Though Carson has served on various corporate boards and earned millions through his books and speeches, the BenCan and INBS investments represent at least a quarter of the Carsons' net worth. According to Carson's disclosure, he and his wife earn between $200,000 and $2 million a year in income from their LLCs. (Candidates provide their income and the value of assets and liabilities in ranges). The Carsons' property investment has done well, with insurance company Allstate leasing office space the entire time the Carsons have owned it. More recently, the Carsons have added a drive-through ATM to the property.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...althcare-fraud
Ben Carson Helped His Business-Partner Friend Avoid Prison After Felony Conviction
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has business ties to a close friend convicted of defrauding insurance companies and testified on the friend’s behalf, helping him avoid prison time, even as Carson has since called for such crimes to be punished harshly.
AP reports exclusively:
Pittsburgh dentist Alfonso A. Costa pleaded guilty to a felony count of health care fraud after an FBI probe into his oral surgery practice found he had charged for procedures he never performed, according to court records.
Though the crime carries a potential sentence of up to 10 years in federal prison, Costa was able to avoid prison time after Carson helped pe ion a federal judge for leniency.
That’s different from the position Carson took in 2013 as he prepared to launch his presidential campaign, saying those convicted of health care fraud should go to prison for at least a decade and be forced to forfeit “all of one’s personal possessions.”
At Costa’s 2008 sentencing hearing, Carson described the dentist as “one [of] my closest, if not my very closest friend.”
Carson and his wife make between $200,000 and $2 million a year through investments in a multimillion-dollar commercial real estate enterprise controlled by Costa, according to financial records Carson was required to file when entering the race to the White House.
Costa has also served on the board of Carson’s charity, the Carson Scholars Fund, and continues to lead the charity’s fundraising efforts in the Pittsburgh area. The charity provides $1,000 college scholarships to students in need.
Federal prosecutors charged Costa with acts of fraud committed over a nearly five-year period. Investigators determined that his practice charged more than 50 patients for procedures that had not been performed, resulting in more than $40,000 in fraudulent billings to insurance companies.
After Costa pleaded guilty, 40 of his family members, friends and patients wrote letters to the judge as character witnesses. Joining Carson in testifying on Costa’s behalf was the beloved former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis.
AP continues:http://www.truthdig.com/eartothegrou...+the+Headlines
Carson’s appeal for leniency toward Costa contradicts the draconian criminal penalties he called for in his 2013 political treatise, “America the Beautiful.” In his book, Carson wrote that anyone found guilty of health care fraud should face what he called the “Saudi Arabian Solution.”
“Why don’t people steal very often in Saudi Arabia?” Carson asked. “Obviously because the punishment is the amputation of one or more fingers. I would not advocate chopping off people’s limbs, but there would be some very stiff penalties for this kind of fraud, such as loss of one’s medical license for life, no less than 10 years in prison, and loss of all of one’s personal possessions.”
Anybody need more proof that megalomaniac fantasist Carson is in it for the same reason as Trump? To pimp up his brand and money-grubbing.
Ben Carson: Medical Fraud is Bad, Unless One of My Friends Does It
Ben Carson really, really hates medical fraud. Seriously:
"There would be some very stiff penalties for this kind of fraud," he wrote a few years ago, "such as loss of one's medical license for life, no less than ten years in prison, and loss of all of one's personal possessions."
Unless, that is, the fraudster happens to be Carson's best and oldest friend. In that case, you write a letter to the judge saying, "there is no one on this planet that I trust more than Al Costa."
And it worked.
Costa was a dentist who pleaded guilty to billing insurance companies for procedures he didn't perform, but in the end the judge sentenced him only to a year of house arrest in his 8,300-square-foot mansion.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dru...riends-does-it
Trump bashing Carson - he crossed the line though - Carson's story is about redemption - changing when he accepted Christ. Trump saying Carson's pathologic violence can't be changed - like child molester. This is gonna damage Trump - Christians won't like this.
"Carson's story is about redemption - changing when he accepted Christ"
holy , that's funny!
Ben Carson Debunked: Inside His Made-Up West Point Story
In effect he was making up a story deliberately designed to show that not only could Ben Carson cut it in Detroit Junior ROTC as a military member; he could have been at West Point (a national ins ution) if he felt like it.
This has become part and parcel of his personal myth as evidenced by the multiple times the story has been repeated by him over the years (and especially in the past few months). It steals from the honor of those who actually get in to West Point, let alone those who graduate, to make up such a story. Right now the ghosts of more than two hundred years of USMA graduates should be rising from their graves and shaking in rage that someone would tell a story about how he could have been one of them if only he had wanted to, just to advance himself personally.
Ben Carson did not tell the truth about meeting General Westmoreland on Memorial Day. Perhaps he was confused. Today he is claiming that all of this was so long ago. Who can remember such details?
Are you kidding? Ben Carson wrote the book that started all of this in 1989 (it was published in 1990), just 20 years later. Carson could not remember where/when he met the most famous American general, the Chief of Staff of the entire US Army, just 20 years later? It appears unlikely in the extreme.
Because Carson welded the first and the second together when he wrote about it back in the '80s, he gave the impression that they were related. Was that intentional? I leave that for you to decide.
Does any of this matter? Yes. Actually, it does.
As I said, we often deal with issues of Stolen Valor such as Ben Carson perpetrated, but usually the stories are larger and more outrageous. Most of those stories, however, occur in bars and are merely designed to puff up the thief's reputation to the others drinking beside him, most of whom know nothing of the military and therefore can't check his story. Other times, Stolen Valor perps get caught because they screw up and go out, boasting of their actions in public, and get caught by those who know what they are hearing is bull .
This is one of those times. But this time a lot more than a little ego is on the line.
Carson did not use his story to cage a beer or sweet-talk a lady. No, he has used it to help launch his "brand" and then elevate that brand on to ever higher heights.
Remember that very first non-Carson retelling of the tale to a broad political audience, the one in National Review, the one which essentially helped launch him as a potential candidate? "Five Things You Didn't Know About Ben Carson," and that was number four, in February 2013. Since then he has repeated it again and again and again.
Ben Carson did, in fact, fabricate this story.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39579/ben-carson-debunked-west-point/
Ben Carson: I will ban Syrian refugees because I have ‘big frontal lobes as opposed to other animals’
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ben-...e+Raw+Story%29
wow, I'm impressed.
That grifter braniac certainly has neuroanatomy nailed. I learn something every day from him.
Ben Carson Completely Self Destructs And Goes Full Blown Nutter On Fox News
Carson was asked four times by host Chris Wallace what his response to the Paris attacks would be if he were president, and he couldn’t answer, but the real crazy was yet to come.In response to the question about whether the US should accept refugees from Syria, Carson went on a rant about the human brain:
WALLACE: The Obama administration has said before that it would accept up to 10,000 Syrian refugees as part of the humanitarian crisis. We now learn that one of these attackers had a Syrian passport that indicated he had been part of the refugee flood into Europe in October. Would you continue that policy?
CARSON: Well, you know, as I’ve said all along, you know, bringing people into this country from that area of the world I think is a huge mistake. Because why wouldn’t they infiltrate them with people who are ideologically opposed to us? It would be foolish for them not to do that. So, we need to be very compassionate to understand that these people have been displaced and we should use our expertise and resources to help get them resettle over there, and to support them over there, but to bring them here under these cir stances is a suspension of intellect.
You know, the reason that the human brain has these big frontal lobes as opposed to other animals, because we can engage in rational thought processing, we can, you know, extract information from the past, the present, process it and project it into a plan. Animals, on the other hand, have big brain stems and rudimentary things, because they react. We don’t have to just react, we can think.
Carson took crazy to another level when he suggested getting into a shooting war with Russia in Syria:
WALLACE: Dr. Carson what happens if the Russians respond to that by shooting down one of our planes?CARSON: I would do that in conjunction with the Turkish forces along the Syrian/Turkish border where a huge number of those refugees located. It’s a humanitarian thing to try to provide them a safe haven for now.
WALLACE: But sir, if I may press my …
CARSON: And I would make sure that the Russians understood that we are going to do that.
WALLACE: If I may press my point, what do you do if – after we shoot down a Russian plane, they shoot down one of ours?
CARSON: If they violate it, we will, in fact, enforce it. And, you know, we’ll see what happened. You know, too, for us to always be backing down because we are afraid of a conflict, that’s not how we became a great nation, Chris.
WALLACE: But you’re talking about getting potentially into a shooting war with Russia over Syria?
CARSON: Well, if we established a no-fly zone and we make clear the rules, if they violate it, that’s why you have a no-fly zone. That’s the very definition of a no-fly zone. You can’t fly there.
Ben Carson was asked policy question about the kind of unexpected crisis that all presidents must deal with, and he showed that he is completely unfit for office.
Rambling about the size of the human brain is not answer to a question about continuing the policy of accepting Syrian refugees.
The idea that the United States could get into a shooting war with Russia to protect a no-fly zone in Syria was flat out insane.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/...iticus+USA+%29
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Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say
Source: New York Times
Ben Carson’s remarks on foreign policy have repeatedly raised questions about his grasp of the subject, but never more seriously than in the past week, when he wrongly asserted that China had intervened militarily in Syria and then failed, on national television, to name the countries he would call on to form a coalition to fight the Islamic State.
Faced with increasing scrutiny about whether Mr. Carson — who leads in some Republican presidential polls — was capable of leading American foreign policy, two of his top advisers said in interviews with The New York Times that he had struggled to master the intricacies of the Middle East and national security and that intense tutoring was having little effect.
“Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East,” Duane R. Clarridge, a top adviser to Mr. Carson on terrorism and national security, said in an interview. He also said Mr. Carson needed weekly conference calls briefing him on foreign policy so “we can make him smart.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/us...isers-say.html
Wild Cobra was right...thanks quotas!
His grasp of taxes and economics seems equally bad.
Ben Carson walks back Terri Schiavo comments
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Wednesday sought to walk back a controversial comment he made last week about the ethical and legal battles surrounding Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman who died in 2005 amid a protracted family dispute over keeping her alive in a vegetative state.
The retired neurosurgeon, who sits at the top of national polls of the GOP field but has built a reputation for being gaffe-prone, faced a swift backlash last week for saying the case was "much ado about nothing" during a campaign event in Orlando.
"I am steadfastly opposed to euthanasia. I have spent my entire career protecting life, especially the life of children," Carson told LifeSiteNews in a story published Wednesday. "I regret that my recent comments about Teri Schiavo have been taken out of context and misinterpreted."
"When I used the term 'much ado about nothing,' my point was that the media tried to create the impression that the pro-life community was nutty and going way overboard with the support of the patient," he added.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...iavo-comments/
Trump and Carson!
Repug base!
Ben Carson Compares Some Syrian Refugees To 'Mad Dogs'
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Thursday compared the process of vetting Syrian refugees wishing to enter the U.S. to a parent protecting a child from a rabid dog.
"If there's a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog," Carson said during a press conference in Mobile, Ala.
"And you're probably going to put your children out of the way. That doesn't mean that you hate all dogs."
He said it was simply "putting your intellect into motion" to call for a strengthened screening process to weed out potential terrorists before letting more refugees into the country.
"We have to have in place screening mechanisms that allow us to determine who the mad dogs are," Carson said. "Quite frankly, who are the people who want to come in and hurt us and destroy us."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
yawn, just another Repug demagogue campaigning, with a brain dead, racisit analogy, on the Paris tragedy to sucker in you racist, xenophobe, white supremacist, nativist, low-wage, low-info assholes.
Carson, Trump, etc know you assholes so well.
his entire "intellect" seems to revolve around political correctness
Ben Carson Goes Off The Deep End By Claiming Not Torturing People Is Political Correctness
STEPHANOPOULOS: Number one, he said we should bring back those enhanced interrogation techniques, which President Obama discontinued like waterboarding. Do you agree?
CARSON: I agree that there’s no such thing as political correctness when you’re fighting an enemy who wants to destroy you and everything that you have anything to do with. And I’m not one who is real big on telling the enemy what we’re going to do and what we’re not going to do.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you would do that even though many consider waterboarding torture?
CARSON: As I said, I’m not real big on telling them what we would or would not do. I just don’t think that’s a — I don’t see where that accomplishes anything for us.Ben
Carson wants the American people to vote for him, but he isn’t going to tell voters what he is going to do if elected to be the next president.
One thing that is apparently clear to Carson though is that the Geneva Conventions and laws that prohibit torture are a form of political correctness.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/22/ben-carson-deep-claiming-torturing-people-political-correctness.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium= feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28P oliticus+USA+%29
“This is the reason that the media is the only business protected by our Cons ution
The United States Cons ution applies equally to all American citizens regardless of their employment status.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ben-...e+Raw+Story%29
Ben Carson tells anti-choice group: Abortion is like slavery, not ‘an issue of women’s rights’
upporting a woman’s right to choose was like supporting slavery.
Speaking at “The Gift of Life Banquet” fundraiser for First Choice Pregnancy Center in Las Vegas, Carson argued that the “culture of death” was accepted in America because of “peer pressure.”
“Someone has tried to make this into an issue of women’s rights,” the GOP hopeful told the crowd. “What about the baby? You know, it’s one of the most sacred relationships in the universe, a mother and that child inside of her. How have we become so distorted that we have managed to convince women that that baby inside of her is her enemy and that she has a right.”
Carson explained that he had lived in liberal cities like Baltimore and Detroit, which he called a “bastion of Democratic thought.”
“And I never actually liked the idea of abortion even though I was a liberal Democrat,” he said. “But I did believe in choice. I said, you know, I personally wouldn’t agree with it but anybody else can do what they want. I mean, why would I interfere with somebody else’s choice?”
The former neurosurgeon noted that he change his mind about abortion after realizing it was like “slavery.”
“I was thinking about slavery and I was thinking about the abolitionists, and I said, what if the abolitionists had said, ‘I don’t believe in slavery but anybody else can do whatever they want’?” Carson declared. “Where would we be today?”
“Slavery is a moral issue and so is abortion,” he insisted. “It’s a moral issue that we’re dealing with.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ben-...e+Raw+Story%29
NY TIMES: Ben Carson, Mispronouncing ‘Hamas,’ Fails to Impress Republican Jewish Group
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/firs...cle-click&_r=0Ben Carson, whose presidential campaign has been stymied with questions about his depth on foreign policy, addressed one of the most influential Republican Jewish organizations on Thursday but probably left few there with much confidence that his knowledge is growing.
He repeatedly mispronounced the name of the extremist group Hamas, saying something that sounded more like hummus.
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