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Related: About this forumTYT: Pathological: Most Of Ben Carson’s Life Is A Lie
Ben Carson is a guy whos been getting a lot of media attention because hes currently polling first among GOP primary candidates. Also, he has a long history of lying that is now coming back to haunt him. His main defense appears to be whining about gotcha questions. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"The Wall Street Journal fact-checked another claim in the retired neurosurgeon's 1990 autobiography, "Gifted Hands," and found more evidence of a potentially fabricated story. The Journal's Reid Epstein reported:
"Mr. Carson writes of a Yale psychology professor who told Mr. Carson, then a junior, and the other students in the classidentified by Mr. Carson as Perceptions 301that their final exam papers had inadvertently burned, requiring all 150 students to retake it. The new exam, Mr. Carson recalled in the book, was much tougher. All the students but Mr. Carson walked out.
The professor came toward me. With her was a photographer for the Yale Daily News who paused and snapped my picture, Mr. Carson wrote. A hoax, the teacher said. We wanted to see who was the most honest student in the class. Mr. Carson wrote that the professor handed him a $10 bill."
However, The Journal spoke with Yale Librarian Claryn Spies, who said that there was never a class called Perceptions 301 at the school, and a search of YDN turned up no sign of such a picture.
It's another confounding instance of inaccuracies in anecdotes about the life and belief system of Carson.*
Read More: http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-journal-says-ben-carson-lied-about-being-most-honest-student-while-at-yale-2015-11
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TYT: Pathological: Most Of Ben Carson’s Life Is A Lie (Original Post)
WhoIsNumberNone
Nov 2015
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MisterP
(23,730 posts)1. and it turns out he's just a little old lady from Pasadena
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)2. Yeah, but you know what the song says:
"There's nobody meaner..."
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)3. Get this
In his book, he claims that he was in SURGERY, when he was called out to take a call from a lawyer for Johns Hopkins Medical Center. The lawyer wanted him (according to Bennie) to send a sample of his blood to Florida, where a woman was claiming he fathered her son. The great doctor (who supposedlt interrupted BRAIN surgery) replied that he would not do it, since he was not the father, plus his blood might be used to set him up as a murderer at a crime scene. Missed opportunity, Benny baby. Bristol Palin just had another illigitimate baby, who could be fathered by an African American. YOU could have been the father, if $carah had known about this.
bjobotts
(9,141 posts)4. He's delusional.A very sick man.Believes his own lies.