The story of his rise from a small home in detroit to world class pediatric neurosurgeon is the type that makes all of us proud of our country. But some of what he himself has written and said about his background is eyebrow raising. That he once punched a classmate with his face in his hand wrapped around a lock leaving a bloody threeinch gash in the boys forehead or that he attempted to attack his own mother with a hammer, that he tried to attack his young friend spared only by a belt buckle that snapped the blade. These stories are important to carsons narrative of personal redemption. After trying to kill his friend with a knife, he said he found the lord. When you rise in the polls, you get more scrutiny. But when cnn tried to learn more about the incidents that carson himself has described, he cried bias. He told Alisyn Camarota that cnns reporting on his past was a bunch of lies, garbage and an attempt at distraction. And just last night carson said, this is a witch hunt. All yo
you can t see it. eddy, first of all, i m reading your tweet. second of all, at the outset of the program i put on three conservatives, and the head of the rnc. the spokesman for the rnc. and i gave him the floor. to criticize cnn. that s media bias? peter kohan says, maybe it should be asked if carson is biased against cnn. interesting observation. look, it helps with the base, particularly the evangelical base, if his story of his religious epiphany is questioned and he fights back. so there is a political advantage in this for ben carson. and i like this one. jim kilby. liberal media? ever listen to a.m./fm radio? limbaugh. a lot of choice yet so few people exercise it. see you next week.