Ben Carson Friday lived out the adage that “truth is mighty and shall prevail” as he stood tall amid a liberal media-manufactured crisis. In the end, it was not the Republican presidential candidate who was forced to retreat, but the media source that spread distortions across the Internet.
The liberal lathering began when the website Politico claimed Carson admitted to having “fabricated” a story about being offered a scholarship to West Point. Internet truth hounds were soon nipping at Politico’s heels, and the site was forced to amend, with bad grace, its initial report.
Carson personally waded into the fray Friday when, during a news conference, a reporter asked him about it.
“I never said I received a full scholarship,” said Carson, whose 1992 book said former Gen. William Westmoreland suggested Carson could apply to West Point, only to be told by Carson that his calling was in medicine. “I never said — wait a minute, don’t lie! I never said I received a full scholarship. Nowhere did I say that.”
Neither did Carson ever say he applied to the U.S. Military Academy, despite innuendo to the contrary.
“Politico, as you know, told a bold-faced lie,” Carson said. “They have been called out on it by The Washington Post and The New York Times and I’m sure there will be several others who call them out on that. Because there are actually some people with integrity in your business.”
Carson on Friday repeated the same facts as recounted in his 1992 book, Gifted Hands.
“I had people who said, yes, that I could get a scholarship to West Point, and I told them I wasn’t interested and I was going to pursue medicine,” Carson said.
As Carson counterattacked to remove the slur against his name, he both said and showed he will not be a media patsy.
“What you are not going to find with me is somebody who is just going to sit back and let you be completely unfair without letting the American people know what’s going on. And the American people are waking up to your games,” Carson said.
As for the initial piece by Politico, it has been discredited.
“Politico more or less played fast and loose with the definition of ‘fabricated’ and twisted up Carson’s account, along with his campaign’s response to make it look like it’s saying something it’s not, which is a typical leftist media tactic,” wrote commentator Michael Cantrell.
“Isn’t it strange how quickly the media has started putting their sights on Carson since he’s risen to the top of several major polls?” he added. “Why are they so threatened by him?”
As Carson rose to the challenge and his supporters rallied behind the truth, Politico changed its tune, rewriting its inaccurate headline and changing the wording of its story.
“What this means is these idiots really stepped in a big, steaming pile of horse crap, made utter fools of themselves, and now that they’ve been called on it, they have no choice but to half-heartedly double down or issue an apology,” Cantrell wrote.
“Don’t you just love when super-biased journalists get nailed to the wall?” he added.
h/t: TheBlaze