MELTDOWN: Ben Carson Demands That Host’s Mic Be Turned Off, Asks If Others Can “Plug” Her Mouth

[WillParkinson]

This was probably not the interview that former Republican candidate and current Trump pal Ben Carson had in mind. The famed neurosurgeon appeared Friday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and he got brutally raked over the coals by cohost Joe Scarborough and Katty Kay, who he immediately began fighting with from the opening minutes of his hit. The heat didn’t stop for several minutes, and Carson dug himself a deeper and deeper hole as it continued.

He sparred with Katty Kay as she pressed him on labeling Trump’s accusers as liars then following that up by asking Scarborough, “Can you turn her microphone off please?” Yes, really, that last one really happened. More remarkably, he shockingly continued a beat later, “Do you guys have a plug, please?” presumably to fill the mouth hole of a journalist who — god forbid — asks difficult questions of a presidential candidate’s surrogate weeks before the election.

http://www.joemygod.com/2016/10/14/ben-carson-demands-that-hosts-mic-be-turned-off-says-it-doesnt-matter-if-trumps/

(Video at link, because I'm apparently not bright enough to figure out how to get one for the video alone.)

[blogslut]

1. You're fine.

DU software will only embed YouTube videos. That video is from Twitter's player and can't be embedded here.

[bulloney]

2. I'll never understand how a brain surgeon can be so stupid.

It really leads me to question his competency as a surgeon, not just with this episode, but the other things he said as a presidential candidate during the past year. That, and his condescending preaching that the Egyptian pyramids were grain storage facilities, the Earth is only 6000 years old, and other things.

[OnDoutside]

5. I'll never understand how someone so stupid can be a brain surgeon.

[Dash Riprock]

7. Well just remember that

Jethro Bodine wanted to be a brain surgeon too.

[Walk away]

60. There you go!

[blm]

15. Idiot savant

.

[zipplewrath]

36. Dexterity

"All" it takes to be a brain surgeon is a physical skill, and the ability to follow directions. There was a guy that was both a brain surgeon AND a rocket scientist. They asked who was smarter. He pointed out that the rocket scientist had to figure out how to do things. The brain surgeon just had to know how to do something, through training.

[progressoid]

49. Mitchell and Webb did a great one about that.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

56. Trump eliminated the "rich people are smart" myth too.

[DK504]

30. BC

I think he is lying about being a surgeon. He certainly didn't pass history.

[TlalocW]

33. Carson was lucky in that

He found he had an aptitude - even a gift - for a very difficult profession that helps a lot of people. He was put into the position of handling life-and-death situations on the spur of the moment, and he was endlessly praised for it so he dedicated himself more to it to get the high from the power and the admiration. This inflated his ego to the point that everything except brain surgery was beneath his attention, and basically he could say anything about any other subject, and of course he would be right.

He's basically Donald Trump but on tranquilizers, and he actually does have skill in his chosen profession.

TlalocW

[LuvNewcastle]

47. You explain it better than anyone else I've seen.

That's the thing about a lot of professionals. They often dedicate themselves so much to their profession that common knowledge escapes their notice. We need a well-rounded person for President. It's very important that the person who holds that job is able to relate to the common people.

[TlalocW]

57. It's easy to slip into that mindframe. Dunning-Kruger Effect

The DK Effect is where people fail to adequately assess their competence in an area (or more accurately their incompetence). Sound like anyone we know that's running for president?

History is full of people who believe that being an expert in one thing makes them more qualified than others.
Famous chemist/biochemist Linus Pauling thought he knew the cure to the common cold because of his background - which while related to what I will "bigly" classify as medicine for convenience's sake, didn't qualify him to expound on that subject.
Less skeptical scientists who are more open to the supernatural don't believe, because of their training, that they can be fooled by simple magic tricks masquerading as true powers. They should take a hint from Einstein who humbly approached a magician after watching his show to ask if his (Einstein's) explanation for how the magician did something was right (it wasn't).

In college, my advisor was fond of saying, "Sociologists think they're psychologists; psychologists think they're biologists; biologists think they're chemists; chemists think they're physicists; physicists think they're mathematicians, and mathematicians think they're gods." And then he would say, "And mathematicians are right."

Then I would fool him with a card trick.

TlalocW

[GusBob]

3. Perhaps he meant "pull the plug"

??

The campaign should

[tclambert]

23. Well, he is a doctor. So when he says, "Pull the plug," that means . . .

[saltpoint]

4. You know Carson is

batshit crazy when Joe Scarborough sounds like the reasonable one in a conversation.

Under just one layer deep of analysis and questioning, Carson does his contortionist act to avoid confrontation.

Flim-flam Ben.

[underpants]

6. OP here's the 1:56 clip on YouTube. BTW Ben it's "take your eye off the ball" not "bat@

Thanks. Love the joemygod site.

You can copy the link and post here and/or in Multimedia- it will get a lot of responses I'm sure.

THAT was a meltdown.

[flygal]

14. He wants to focus on the country going back to it's Christian roots and ignores the tape from last

week. Hypocrite.

[TNNurse]

39. Yeah, hush that woman

so us guys can talk.

[underpants]

43. Yep. Exactly.

[gopiscrap]

44. That's the most awake I have ever seen Carson

[underpants]

45. He wanted to keep his eye on the bat

[progressoid]

50. Hahahaha.

[UTUSN]

8. Without praise for SCABS it's about time spoiled brat CARSON got a little tough treatment

But CARSON has gotten *something* out of his clueless participation in electioneering: He has had to break out of his complaisant, self-satisfied slumber/zombie mode and now looks like he's almost *awake* (despite continuing to be clueless).

[underpants]

11. Between Boris, Kellyanne, Rudy, Katrina, and Dr. ben

who the hell gets these people to speak for them?

I'm clearly not a billionaire but I think I could do better selling or preserving my "brand" than this.

[UTUSN]

22. He hires "the best" to do the grunge work!1 n/t

[bluesbassman]

24. I'm hip. Could you imagine what his cabinet would loke like?

Here's a visual.

[roscoeroscoe]

32. Right!

All except the cool one In the middle!

[Pakid]

51. Yes I can

It would make Ali Bab and his forty thieves seem like choir boys.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Carson, on the economy: "Let's throw the economists out."

Even before the stuff with Katty Kay, we have Carson trying to say this should be about the economy, and falling flat on his face:

Carson: The second point is fiscal responsibility. Pinnacle nations, before they fall, become fiscally irresponsible. We see that time after time....

Scarborough: But 'fiscally irresponsible' - Donald Trump's program actually leads to larger debts and deficits in the future than Hillary Clinton's, does it not?

Carson: It depends on which economists you look at, but let's throw economists out, and use common sense.

Scarborough: Well, let's use math.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

48. Weird. Scarb doesn't sound like a POS tool here.

From what I read from fellow duers, I wasn't expecting that.

[Gothmog]

10. Ben Carson is lightweight

Ben was not qualified to be POTUS

[WillParkinson]

13. Not of them were...

For the last twenty years or more.

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. Somehow I started getting Carson e-mails

and if I hit unsubscribe nothing happens. Just says that link isn't working. So I can't get rid of him.

[classykaren]

42. I am sorry that is abusive please hit Spam.

[nolabear]

17. Yeah, tell the woman to be quiet. He's right about one thing though.

That train is going right off a cliff.

[get the red out]

18. Well, she is a woman

And he is a religious extremist, so how dare she question him? Yet another Con whose wife I feel sorry for.

[Siwsan]

19. People like Trump and Carson are accustomed to speaking AT people, not WITH people

They dictate - they don't hold conversations. They most definitely are not capable of listening or accepting critiques or criticism.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

20. Hey, at least he said "please."

[underpants]

21. Quite the gentleman

[lame54]

25. One of the craziest Carson interviews yet...

He really lost his luggage - if you know what I mean

[Adrahil]

26. It was clear that he was saying....

that he does not CARE if these allegations are true. That's why he says it doesn't matter. In the end, his religious self-righteousness is bullshit.

They should have asked him that directly.

[Plucketeer]

27. Carson is in dire need of a brain surgeon!

[yallerdawg]

28. In the immortal words of Wendy O:

"A pig is a pig - and that's that!"

[NoMoreRepugs]

29. as I've said b4 - MSM has a bazillion bucks in the bank

from this nearly 2 year travesty of a campaign - now that we are down to the wire and the orange baboon has support amongst a decent % of the populace they, the media other than FAUX, are going to pile on RUMP like nothing we have ever seen to make sure we don't elect the biggest disaster to the planet since the dinosaurs got wiped out

[tavernier]

54. So that they don't take the blame.

Money first, then outrage.

A bit of a gamble, but as long as there was profit, it was worth it. And they can always point to videos of their solid journalism once the chips were down.

[appleannie1]

31. Every time one of them tries to defend Donald, they dig their own grave deeper.

And I have to wonder if Ben Carson sniffed too much ether in the O R and killed off almost all his brain cells.

[SamKnause]

34. Carson was easier to tolerate when he was asleep.

He is a real ass when he is awake.

The new and awake Carson seems to be modeling himself after Trump.

Carson can take his Theocracy and shove it where the sun don't shine.

I am so sick of religion and religious hypocrites.

Try being a decent human being.

It works, it really does.

You don't need to hide behind a deity to do what is right.

[Rex]

35. Poor Carson, he is too stupid to realize they are laughing at him and not with him.

Ben needs a brain plug, it seems his keeps leaking out of his head. Did someone fill his head with grain? Cause you know, pyramids and stuff.

[TonyPDX]

37. Surgeons in every field will celebrate when Carson returns to his private life.

Not the best professional representative for most of them.

[TlalocW]

38. That was the most animated I've ever seen Carson

Unfortunately, he only gets his ire up when a woman is calling him on his bullshit.

TlalocW

[elmac]

40. Why doesn't he go back to what he does best,

sleeping?

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[Oneironaut]

41. That's not even the worst part.

The worst part was Carson's statement that its okay to not be ethical in this election because it will allow his party to make the country more ethical after. That's some high level banana republic bull crap. It says all you really need to know about Carson.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

46. That's funny, since he brought up Bill Clinton's sex life in the past.

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/12/29/ben-carson-slams-bill-clintons-history-with-women-blames-him-for-coarsening-of-american-children/
"Ben Carson slams Bill Clinton’s history with women, blames him for coarsening of American children"

[keithbvadu2]

53. In Ben's house

Ben pays attention to the details

[niyad]

55. I knew that the sleeping zombie was obscene, but this. . . . .

carson, go back to your retirement and an obscurity you richly merit.

[spanone]

58. ben is onedumbfuck. trump must have promised him a cabinet position..or has pics of him with animals

[lupinella]

59. Seriously not helping

And to the BBC's own Katty Kay. She's not exactly a liberal firebrand!