Dr. Benjamin Carson, touted as the perfect 2016 presidential candidate, joined his 'fans' on Twitter Friday. His account, @RealBenCarson (the same as his website) already has just under 25,000 followers. Dr. Carson made headlines recently for his common sense speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. on February 7th. Viewers hit the web with reports of President Obama pursing his lips, acting tired and looking angry. To the contrary, Carson said that Mr. Obama was very gracious to him after his speech. There have been some attacks from the leftist media, but they no doubt realize that attempting to make this man look bad makes them look spiteful. Certainly the more press the doctor gets, the worse the attacks will get.
Dr. Carson's first tweet said, "@RealBenCarson Today I've officially joined the twitterverse." Supporters were thrilled to interact with him judging by the 'retweets' at 1,295 and the 'favorites' at 545. Yesterday, he tweeted about his upcoming appearance on a live version of Sean Hannity's program on FOX News, 'Hannity'. He also chatted with fill-in host Dana Loesch on 'The Glenn Beck Program' on The Blaze. In both appearances, the doctor explained his ideas on bringing the nation together. On Hannity, he was asked if his detractors were trying to attack him. He said there was nothing they could do to delegitimize him, there were no skeletons in his closet but he knew they would keep trying, and they definitely are. They are ramping up cautiously, knowing the public has a positive view of Carson. You can bet there's some serious digging going on and it's disgusting.
One article, talking primarily about Carson's 'Saving America' special on 'Hannity' and his numerous interviews on FOX, described it as, "Fox's sudden beatification of Carson". Ridiculous, the man needs no beatification, his was probably preordained. Of course FOX is putting him on air because of his recent surge in popularity. Absolutely no different from CNN or MSNBC throwing Sandra Fluke into America's living rooms. The article jumped on the already worn-thin trend of saying Dr. Carson embarrassed President Obama. Dr. Carson spoke his mind. He was respectful, honest and likable, all things that throw the left into a fit. And, yes, they had to add, "Minority ethnicity probably helpful," as some type of implication. Does the left truly believes that conservatives are all racist or 'using' minorities, or is it just that comfortable for them to throw out the accusations?
Dr. Benjamin Carson is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1987, he was the first doctor to have separated 'Siamese twins' joined at the back of the head. He is dedicated to his job and used to work from 7:00AM to 8:00PM, six days a week! In 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush. Today, Dr. Carson and his wife Candy run the Carson Scholars Fund and he intends on retiring from his position at Johns Hopkins this summer. Hopefully, he will enter politics, his kind of common sense is much needed in Washington. He told Hannity, "I've always said the only way I would go into politics is if God grabbed me by the collar and stuck me there."
Photo credit: Twitter/Dr. Carson
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Comments: 47
By whom?
Viewers hit the web with reports of President Obama pursing his lips, acting tired and looking angry. To the contrary, Carson said that Mr. Obama was very gracious to him after his speech. There have been some attacks from the leftist media, but they no doubt realize that attempting to make this man look bad makes them look spiteful. Certainly the more press the doctor gets, the worse the attacks will get.
Posting pictures of Obama (preumaby) reacting ingraciously to Carson's speech is not an attack "from the leftist media" on Carson, but an attempt to cast Obama as petty and churlish. The attack fails because Carson himself acknowledged the opposite was true.
"They are ramping up cautiously, knowing the public has a positive view of Carson."
Who are "they"? I doubt that the public at large has either a positive or negative view of Carson, more likely most would say: "Who?"
"Does the left truly believes that conservatives are all racist or 'using' minorities, or is it just that comfortable for them to throw out the accusations?"
Does the right truly expect anyone rational to believe this is not generally the case? Will Carson's viability outlast Rubio's? When the bloom is off of his rose will you find a conservative Asian to try and prop up as your next "saviour"?
Are you taking lessons in journalism from Renee Nal? Poor choice if so.
(I see the conservative bloggers have already begun to throw Rubio under the bus after his own "water"gate.)
If you honestly believe half of what you have so poorly typed above, then you set the bar for honesty very low, you are easily fooled to think recycled talking points qualify as "ideas", and you must be delusional to attribute impressive accomplishments to two men who have almost no political resume whatsoever between them.
Matthew 5:19
"Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
If a republican says something wrong, I am more than willing to admit that I believe they are wrong, can you say the same about your side?
Can you call out your own side when they lie?
As it happens, your two alternatives both miss the mark by a wide margin.
lol, always wanted to do that, snort...
Your so called response is so ambiguous that its value is equal to NULL.
That's right the Republican Party menu needs some spicing up these days, it has been pretty bland for years and you get indigestion and heart-burn. Right now they are just having a big old food fight in their kitchen.
Sure there are always people that can be admired on both side of the aisle in politics.
I may disagree with you or we may agree, however, the bottom-line must always be, for the good of the country we should be able to work out a compromise.
If Dr. Carson wants to throw his hat into ring, all are welcome. However, he must be warned, politic is a blood sport and these times seem very ruthless; where scoring political points and exhibiting at times, disgraceful behavior. Which has become all to common place.
Therefore, maybe the civil and brilliant Dr. Carson can temper the dog pound barking extreme right-wing, which has become the Republican Party's cut-throat teapot insurgency take over.
You might just think Elvis has returned to the stage.
My sense is Dr Carson appears to be a reasonable and principle person with conservative leaning, and more power to him.
Rory, why must you show your racist tendencies that way!
The right has vetted more black candidates in recent history than the left(Keys, Cain). The left only has Obama...
If you support the lunacy that the American right represents today then I think you are crazy, stupid, amoral or some combination of all three, regardless of whether you are white, black, brown, red or yellow. If you speak English, Spanish, French, Russian or Chinese and support the Tea Party then I believe you to be whacked, probably racist, ignorant and not to be trusted with adult responsibilities. If you are of American (in the broad meaning of that word), European, Asian, African or Australasian descent and you think voting Republican is a good idea then I think you need some education, some therapy, and maybe some psychotropic drugs.
"Then he has zero chance of connecting with the Teabaggers. They don't do reasonable or principled, and certainly they don't do black candidates. "
"they don't do black candidates" That is a lie and racist.
1. "I never recall one that was racist in content." Probably says more about where you draw the line for racism than it does about the content of the signs you photographed.
2. " Is it not possible that anyone could create such a sign and walk through the group?" Many things are possible. You may actually be a poorly written computer program trying to simulate intelligence. But what is likely? You are infering a "vast leftwing conspiracy" to infiltrate Tea Party gatherings with signs meant to embarrass them (because there have been a lot of racist and embarrassing signs at those fruit loop conventions). Far more likely is that the apparently racist redneck gatherings are exactly what they seem to be.
3. "You belong to a party and have racist tendencies. Did you ever hold a monkey sign at a tea party event?" Wrong, wrong and wrong (don't you get tired of being wrong?). I belong to no party and haven't since I was a teenager, back before Carter came to office. And during the brief time when I did belong to a party, it was the Canadian NDP. As a Canuck, naturally I would not belong to any American party. I have no racist tendencies, as I see no racial distinctions amongst humans (and biologists agree with me that there is only one race of humans). Thankfully, we have no Tea Party events in Canada and I tend to avoid the USA.