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kpete

(72,005 posts)
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 09:59 PM Oct 2015

The 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 company’s “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 we’re 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
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VIDEO & MORE:
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396193/ben-carsons-troubling-connection-jim-geraghty
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The GOP debate audience booed CNBC for confronting Ben Carson about a controversial association (Original Post) kpete Oct 2015 OP
Tweety is discussing this now n/t malaise Oct 2015 #1
One thing I find to be a decline in our national conversation 2naSalit Oct 2015 #2
agreed Skittles Oct 2015 #6
And they halfway booed when Huckabee made is comment about still being alive after kelliekat44 Oct 2015 #3
They wanna believe he's not really a sleazy snake oil salesman procon Oct 2015 #4
Hell, the biggest applause lines came when {{insert bagger here}}} started whining, catbyte Oct 2015 #5
I'm surprised she was able to make an expression Skittles Oct 2015 #7
Lot of lying up there tonight. DirkGently Oct 2015 #8

2naSalit

(86,735 posts)
2. One thing I find to be a decline in our national conversation
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 10:03 PM
Oct 2015

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.

 

kelliekat44

(7,759 posts)
3. And they halfway booed when Huckabee made is comment about still being alive after
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 10:03 PM
Oct 2015

fighting against the Clintons for so long.

Wonder if anyone else thinks this was low, nasty comment?

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. They wanna believe he's not really a sleazy snake oil salesman
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 10:11 PM
Oct 2015

cuz he says he's a good god fearin' man... with a book to sell.

catbyte

(34,420 posts)
5. Hell, the biggest applause lines came when {{insert bagger here}}} started whining,
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 10:16 PM
Oct 2015

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.

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)
8. Lot of lying up there tonight.
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 10:33 PM
Oct 2015

Trump, Rubio, Carson (more?) kept insisting the facts presented to them didn't happen the fact checking should be interesting.
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