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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP debate audience booed CNBC for confronting Ben Carson about a controversial association
which he denied:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/10/09/mannatech-ben-carsons-lack-of-critical-thinking-skills-extends-to-medicine-as-well/
For ten years, he interacted with a medical-supplement maker accused of false advertising. In March of last year, Dr. Ben Carson, the conservative star considered a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, appeared in a video for Mannatech, Inc., a Texas-based medical supplement maker. Smiling into the camera, he extolled the benefits of the companys glyconutrient products:
The wonderful thing about a company like Mannatech is that they recognize that when God made us, He gave us the right fuel. And that fuel was the right kind of healthy food. You know we live in a society that is very sophisticated, and sometimes were not able to achieve the original diet. And we have to alter our diet to fit our lifestyle. Many of the natural things are not included in our diet. Basically what the company is doing is trying to find a way to restore natural diet as a medicine or as a mechanism for maintaining health
VIDEO & MORE:
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396193/ben-carsons-troubling-connection-jim-geraghty
malaise
(269,123 posts)2naSalit
(86,735 posts)is that the audience is allowed to cheer or boo. When did that start? Is this something that just started this election cycle? There is no respect or formal behavior anymore and I don't have a good feeling about that.
it makes it even more tabloid-ish
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)fighting against the Clintons for so long.
Wonder if anyone else thinks this was low, nasty comment?
procon
(15,805 posts)cuz he says he's a good god fearin' man... with a book to sell.
catbyte
(34,420 posts)bitching, and moaning about the "evil" media. What a colossal load of bullshit. And note to Carly, please refrain from eating dill pickles prior to debating, or seek help to erase that sourpuss expression. Jesus H. Christ--how unpleasant that must be looking at that sour face all day. Yuck.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Trump, Rubio, Carson (more?) kept insisting the facts presented to them didn't happen the fact checking should be interesting.