Star Parker doesn’t realize what she’s saying. Honesty and truth aren’t allowed in polite society today. Ben Carson telling the truth about Obama having no clothes was sacrilege to the liberal minded ruling class. How dare he speak what he believes. How dare he contradict the lies of Obama and his minions. How dare he invoke God’s name at a prayer breakfast. Doctor Carson clearly has ambitions to become a more prominent spokesman for rational dialogue and possibly higher office. I can guarantee you there has been a task force formed within the White House to dig up any dirt on Ben Carson. The corporate titans that run CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the liberal media have assigned their dimwitted journalists to write derogatory articles about him. If any of his patients have died, stories will be written about his malpractice. Count on it.
Truth is treason in an empire of lies.
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Ben Carson owes no apology for honest talk
Monday, February 18,2013
According to Cal Thomas, well-known nationally syndicated columnist, Dr. Benjamin Carson owes President Obama an apology.
Carson spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., a bipartisan annual event held since 1953, attended by members of Congress and usually the president.
The president and Michelle Obama were present at the Feb. 7 event, and Thomas wrote that Carson was out of line for including in his remarks comments about public policy issues: our national debt, our tax system, our publics schools and health care.
According to Thomas, “Our politics have become so polarized and corrupted that a president of the United States cannot even attend an event devoted to drawing people closer to God and bridge partisan and cultural divides without being lectured about his policies.”
Carson is an African-American physician, director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore; he rose out of poverty in a ghetto in Detroit. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2008 and is a role model for every American of every background.
I’m proud that he serves on the national advisory board of my organization, CURE — the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.
Although Carson did mention these various aspects of how we manage — or mismanage — our national affairs, he never once referred to the president or associated his comments on these issues with any political party.
To the extent to which Obama might have taken Carson’s remarks as personal criticism, it would only be in the sense of “if the shoe fits, wear it.”
To the contrary, Carson began his remarks with citations from Proverbs and Chronicles, tying the issues he spoke about to his broader theme of our nation’s moral crisis today. He talked about the moral decay of ancient Romans and how “they destroyed themselves from within.”
He then expressed optimism that Americans would be able to solve our problems because “we are smart” and that “we have some of the most intellectually gifted people leading our nation.”
No, if Obama was offended by Carson’s penetrating remarks, it was because the president had to be the one losing perspective on the event’s moral tone and Carson’s observations.
What seems to offend Thomas is that Carson has not fallen victim to the Washington disease that Thomas himself seems to have contracted as a result of too many years in our nation’s capital.
Carson noted the vital importance of freedom of expression in America and how “political correctness keeps people from talking about important issues while the fabric of the society is being changed.” He warned that, “We can’t fall for this trick.”
What, after all, is the point of a National Prayer Breakfast, “devoted to drawing people closer to God,” if the core issue now dividing us is whether we are indeed a “nation under God” and whether this means that His Word, as revealed in Scripture, is even relevant to our national life and how we conduct our affairs?
This Word has already been banished from our public schools and increasingly from all our public spaces. Now, apparently, it’s even off limits at the National Prayer Breakfast.
If anything, Carson was forgiving to not mention our president’s support of the moral disaster of abortion, legal under any circumstances and responsible for a reported 55 million murdered unborn children since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Nor did he mention our president’s endorsement of same-sex marriage and today’s collapse of the American family.
The prophet Isaiah admonished, “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the Lord. …Even when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood…. Cease to do evil, learn to do good. “
Religious ritual devoid of content is pointless and destructive. This was Isaiah’s message 2,800 years ago.
This is Dr. Ben Carson’s critical message for America today. It’s certainly nothing to apologize about.
Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Contact her at www.urbancure.org.
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“When half the things you are told are a lie; nothing will surprise you more than the truth.”
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19th February 2013 at 10:49 am
ThePessimisticChemist says:
“If anything, Carson was forgiving to not mention our president’s support of the moral disaster of abortion, legal under any circumstances and responsible for a reported 55 million murdered unborn children since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Nor did he mention our president’s endorsement of same-sex marriage and today’s collapse of the American family.”
He did’t mention those because he’s not an idiot. Touch either of those two issues and all of the truth he had spouted before would be immediately ignored in favor of those two favored arguments.
By avoiding the hot-buttons, he was able to make his point without immediately polarizing his audience. The government only wins by dividing our attention.
Dr. Carson knew this, and so he delivered a masterful speech, one that did not tread on familiar territory but instead led his audience on a journey through the dream of a sane man in an insane world.
The good doctor is not the Prophet of this turning, but I think he will turn out to be very important in the end.
PS: Normally I think quite well of Star Parker, but she’s an idealist and unfortunately given over to some fairly theocratic ideas.
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19th February 2013 at 10:58 am
Stucky says:
In the interest of fairness (lol), here is a view from the other side, the dark side.
I am posting it for a reason. Without googling it, would you care to guess which major news organization and/or which extremely well known political hack wrote this?
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Dr. Ben Carson should apologize to President Obama
Our politics have become so polarized and corrupted that a president of the United States cannot even attend an event devoted to drawing people closer to God and bridge partisan and cultural divides without being lectured about his policies.
Last Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Dr. Ben Carson, director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and a 2008 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, broke with a 61-year-old tradition and publicly disagreed with some of the president’s policies, such as “ObamaCare,” taxation and the national debt. Disclosure: I have attended this event since 1971 and host a dinner the night before for members of the media.
Several in the audience of 3,000 applauded Carson’s remarks, which must have made the president feel even more uncomfortable.
The National Prayer Breakfast is supposed to bring together people from different political viewpoints and cultures. It is supposed to bridge divides, not widen them
Carson, who spoke at the same event several years ago, has a compelling and inspirational personal story. He and his brother grew up in Detroit. His parents divorced when he was three. His mother kept an eye on her children and made them turn off the TV and read books. Carson said he did poorly in school and was mocked by classmates until he later caught the learning bug. He retold part of that story, but it was overwhelmed by his criticism of the president’s policies.
Carson is a great example of what perseverance can accomplish and his success is a rebuke to the entitlement-envy-greed mentality. By lowering himself to mention policies with which he disagrees, he diluted the power of a superior message.
His remarks were inappropriate for the occasion. It would have been just as inappropriate had he praised the president’s policies. The president had a right to expect a different message about another Kingdom. I’m wondering if the president felt drawn closer to God, or bludgeoned by the Republican Party and the applauding conservatives in the audience (there were many liberals there, too, as well as people from what organizers said were more than 100 nations and all 50 states).
In 1996, radio personality Don Imus was the main speaker at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association annual banquet in Washington where he made sexually suggestive comments in front of President Clinton and the first lady. I asked White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers at the time if I was being too puritanical or did she also think Imus’ remarks were inappropriate. She agreed they were. Whatever happened to propriety?
If Carson wanted to voice his opinion about the president’s policies, he could have done so backstage. Even better, he might have asked for a private meeting with the man. As a fellow African American who faced personal challenges and overcame them, the president might have welcomed Dr. Carson to the White House. Instead, Carson ambushed him.
Carson should publicly apologize and stop going on TV doing “victory laps” and proclaiming that reaction to his speech was overwhelmingly positive. That’s not the point. While many might agree with his positions (and many others don’t as shown by the November election results), voicing them at the National Prayer Breakfast in front of the president was the wrong venue.
Organizers for this event tell speakers ahead of time to steer clear of politics, but Carson apparently “went rogue” on them. I’m told organizers were astonished and disapproving of the critical parts of Carson’s keynote address. The breakfast is supposed to bring together people from different political viewpoints and cultures. It is supposed to bridge divides, not widen them.
If this and future presidents think their policies will be prey for political opponents at the prayer breakfast, they might decide not to come. That would be too bad for them and too bad for the country.
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19th February 2013 at 11:00 am
AWD says:
Utter bullshit. Obama needs to apologize and resign, not Dr. Carson.
Fuck Obama, democrats, progressives and the liberal shithead main stream media.
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19th February 2013 at 11:08 am
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FIRST HIT PIECE ON BEN CARSON FROM THE LIBERAL ATLANTIC. EVEN THOUGH HE IS AN INDEPENDENT, THEY ATTEMPT TO CONNECT HIM TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THEN THEY ATTEMPT TO REDUCE HIS STATURE BY SAYING HE’S JUST ANOTHER HERMAN CAIN. THIS IS HOW THEY DO IT IN THE MSM. NO FACTS. JUST INSINUATIONS AND DRIVEL. PAR FOR THE COURSE. MORE TO COME.
Meet Dr. Ben Carson, the New Conservative Folk Hero
By David A. Graham
After confronting President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast, the accomplished doctor became an instant star. Is he destined for political success?
There are two ways you might have heard of Dr. Ben Carson. If you’re a doctor or follow medicine, you might know of his great success — the youngest head of a major division at Johns Hopkins, one of America’s medical meccas; the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins, back in 1987; a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner late in George W. Bush’s term. He was also mentioned on The Wire.
Or if you’ve tuned in to Fox News or clicked onto National Review Online in the last week, you’ve probably heard his praises announced in loud voice. Carson, who is head of pediatric neurosurgery at Hopkins, also made a brief appearance on ABC’s This Week Sunday. Carson’s big break came when he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on February 7.
Things don’t get interesting for a while, so you might want to skip to about halfway through. Carson delivered an opening shot against “political correctness,” and then — after namechecking Tocqueville, recapping his own inspirational life story, and calling for a better education system — voiced concern about the national debt and argued the case for a flat tax, using the Bible’s injunction to tithe a set percentage, and for health-savings accounts, a medical option that has gained currency among conservatives. Crucially, he delivered this speech from a podium just feet from President Obama, who of course oversaw the passage of a very different health-care plan and has been a major proponent of progressive taxation. Obama, as he often does, remained somewhere between impassive and bored-looking. It’s fair to say he didn’t seem to be enjoying himself.
This act of courage (or chutzpah, depending on your perspective) has earned him instant fame among conservatives. National Review’s John Fund, Daniel Foster, and Jonah Goldberg have all extolled him; Goldberg even tweeted this last Tuesday as Obama was finishing his speech to a joint session of a Congress:
The trio’s boss, National Review Editor Rich Lowry, used his weekly Politico column to recap the speech. There were the many Fox News appearances, and the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled, “Ben Carson for President.”
Not all the attention has been quite so positive, especially since the breakfast is usually treated as a nonpartisan, nonpolitical occasion. The speech earned Carson a sharp rebuke from the widely syndicated conservative columnist Cal Thomas, who called on the doctor to apologize publicly.
“His remarks were inappropriate for the occasion,” Thomas wrote. “It would have been just as inappropriate had he praised the president’s policies. The president had a right to expect a different message about another Kingdom. I’m wondering if the president felt drawn closer to God, or bludgeoned by the Republican Party and the applauding conservatives in the audience.”
Liberal and mainstream outlets have been slower to pick up on Carson. When he appeared on This Week, interviewer Jon Karl seemed a bit bemused, shying away from probing questions about policy and favoring the formulation, “What do you make of …?”
As for the rest of us, what should we make of Carson’s sudden rise to popularity? As Lowry pointed out, Obama and most liberals would agree with the basic principles at stake: personal responsibility, the importance of education, the benefits of intact families. Obama has on occasion talked the talk about the national debt, though many on the right feel he hasn’t walked the walk. Only the flat tax is seriously divisive. Carson has spoken publicly on controversial topics in the past, but has never received so much attention. He is a longstanding critic of Obama’s health-care overhaul. He has also stated that he does not believe in evolution.
Though many commentaries have tried tiptoe around it, it’s impossible to pretend there’s no racial dimension involved in a successful black conservative castigating the liberal black president. Black conservatives remain fascinating to Americans of all political persuasions and ethnicities; look no further than Herman Cain’s presidential campaign. And in the age of Obama — when many on the right feel that any criticism of the president is liable to draw undeserved claims of racism — a champion for the cause who can sidestep that retort is sure to be welcomed. Jonah Goldberg came closest to addressing this question, likening Carson to Booker T. Washington.
Carson has remarkable parallels with Cain, it’s true — but they’re much deeper and more interesting than skin color. Both men rose from hardscrabble backgrounds, Carson in Detroit as the son of an illiterate single mother who had wed at 13, Cain as son of a chauffeur in Atlanta. Both found academic success, then went on to impressive careers. Both are cancer survivors. And both burst onto the political scene as professionally successful political unknowns confronting unsuspecting Democratic presidents. Compare Carson’s speech with Cain’s first great moment in the public spotlight. That was in 1994, when Cain, then the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, got into a debate with President Clinton at a town hall meeting on his health-care overhaul and quickly gained national acclaim. (Of course, there’s no reason to believe that Carson has anything like the personal skeletons in the closet that forced Cain to abandon his presidential run.)
While Carson doesn’t have the powerful, pulpit-honed oratorical skills Cain does, both approach political speaking with the same style that as brought them success in their side gigs as motivational speakers. They’re affable, humorous, self-deprecating, and can easily mix lite religion with simplistic talking points on policy (trying to reconcile Carson’s desire to pay down the deficit urgently while also implementing a flat tax is only slightly less challenging that making 9-9-9 coherent as a taxation system). The idiom allows speaker to flip smoothly between motivation and self-promotion: Carson’s prayer-breakfast speech casually plugged his recent book America the Beautiful as well as a scholarship fund he and his wife established.
Setting aside the Wall Street Journal’s hyperbolic call for a President Carson, does the doctor have a future in politics? He left the door open this weekend, saying, “That’s not my intention, but I always say, ‘I’ll leave that up to God.’” In 2010, former Maryland Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich approached Carson about running with him in an attempt to reclaim the governor’s mansion, but Carson declined, Fund reports. Carson says he’s an independent, but assuming his views would push him toward the GOP, Maryland is generally tough going for Republicans. There’s only one in the Congressional delegation. Senator Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat, won’t be up for reelection until 2016, and her fellow Democrat Ben Cardin has a term that ends in 2018. But Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley will have to step down in 2014 due to term limits. If Carson wants to make a run for it, it’s clear he’s got some fans in the conservative media to help him get started.
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Bostonbob says:
AWD,
What do you really think, come on don’t hold back. I like how the person looking for Dr. Carson to apologize has to point out that he is an African American. Like the some how bolsters his bullshit argument. I still find it astonishing that in this day and age there are many supposedly well educated people that can be so blind to the truth. I received a handmade birthday card from my 16 year old daughter and in it stated how she appreciated how I would work to show her the otherside of the liberal arguments that she was fed at her shool. It was the best present I could have received.
Thank you,
Bob.
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19th February 2013 at 11:35 am
Stucky says:
The article I posted was from Fox News. By Cal Thomas.
Yeah, the very article that Admin’s post references.
Yeah, Fox News and Cal Thomas .. yeah, those cocksuckers who call hemselves “conservatives”. Yeah, that putrid cesspool of liars and hypocrites. Yeah, all those sacks of shit who deserve to be hung from the gallows. Low life 2-faced pieces of vile donkey shit.
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19th February 2013 at 11:36 am
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
Told you guys so – that the liberals would start their hit pieces on Carson.
Woe to the black folks that stray off the fed.gov plantation and repudiate liberal progressive ideologies.
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19th February 2013 at 11:48 am
Randa says:
Ben Carson is a really smart guy (unlike Obama) which irks the progressive liberals so bad because they can’t abuse him. It all started with a simple speech at the National Press Club and it has evolved into his becoming president, which he is just watching (amused by, I reckon) play out. This guy can do anything in the world he wants to right now because his work as a neurosurgeon is coming to an end. He’s retiring! The last thing he wants to do is become president of a zombie nation that is so illiterate and dumbstruck that they elected a jerkwad like Obama.
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19th February 2013 at 12:16 pm
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BTW Ben Carson has a wonderful sense of humour. His beloved brother became an engineer of some kind and I’ve heard him say that in spite of growing up in such abject poverty his brother became a rocket scientist and he became a brain surgeon.
“Go figure!” he asks.
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19th February 2013 at 12:18 pm
IndenturedServant says:
I have one question. How or why is it relevant to identify Dr. Carson or anyone else as black or white or whatever in a piece of written *journalism*? Liberals are fond of saying they don’t see color……just people so I’m confused.
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19th February 2013 at 2:30 pm
backwardsevolution says:
AWD – “Fuck Obama, democrats, progressives and the liberal shithead main stream media.”
Yes, and ditto for the republicans. Do not forget who both sides represent. Hint: it’s not us.
From the article that Stucky posted – “The National Prayer Breakfast is supposed to bring together people from different political viewpoints and cultures. It is supposed to bridge divides, not widen them.”
In other words, paint with a very broad brush so that nothing ever gets talked about and no issues are highlighted. If Dr. Carson had gotten up there and only talked about “doing unto others,” we wouldn’t ever have heard about him. It is precisely because he spoke of the huge divides that we are all having a healthy conversation.
We can thank Dr. Carson for raising a little hell.
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19th February 2013 at 2:45 pm
Llpoh says:
No surprise, is it.
BTW, glad to see Admin’s spelling has improved.
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19th February 2013 at 2:47 pm
howard in nyc says:
the castigation of ben carson by the usual suspects on the left is disgusting. equally disgusting is the flocking of such non-thinking ideologues as john fund, rick lowry and jonah fucking goldberg (i hate idiots; i love jews, don’t misunderstand) to claim him for their own crass purposes.
all because of his skin tone.
one side is chagrined because he didn’t act as a good black is supposed to. another is overjoyed–i have no doubt the national review would not give a fuck were it a white neurosurgeon called to make a speech at a photo-op. and said some pretty non-partisan cliches about taxation, health care and education.
what a fucking joke. carson has as much chance of becoming president as i do. (although i would vote for him based on what i have seen and heard.) neurosurgeons do not do as they are told, which is the first prerequisite of reaching that office.
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19th February 2013 at 4:17 pm
Cahuitabeachbound says:
Dr. Carson seems to talk in vague platitudes. He reminds me of Chauncy Gardner
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19th February 2013 at 4:46 pm
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President “Bobby”: Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?
[Long pause]
Chance the Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.
President “Bobby”: In the garden.
Chance the Gardener: Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.
President “Bobby”: Spring and summer.
Chance the Gardener: Yes.
President “Bobby”: Then fall and winter.
Chance the Gardener: Yes.
Benjamin Rand: I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we’re upset by the seasons of our economy.
Chance the Gardener: Yes! There will be growth in the spring!
Benjamin Rand: Hmm!
Chance the Gardener: Hmm!
President “Bobby”: Hm. Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I’ve heard in a very, very long time.
[Benjamin Rand applauds]
President “Bobby”: I admire your good, solid sense. That’s precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.
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19th February 2013 at 4:52 pm
llpoh says:
Dammit howard, you REALLY need to post more. I know we occassionally give you the shits, but your viewpoints are valuable as hell around here. We need folks to call horseshit when they smell it, and you are amongst the best at that. So get off your fat ass, take your hands off the nurses, quit watching the pre-game show, put down the watermelon (culdn’t help myelf by throwing that in
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19th February 2013 at 5:09 pm
howard in nyc says:
you ignorant so-and-so. everybody with a brain knows watermelon is out of season. fried chicken, man.
(thanks)
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19th February 2013 at 5:39 pm
SSS says:
Emperor.
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19th February 2013 at 6:51 pm
llpoh says:
SSS – I already made fun of that above. Admin has remained silent, and has not yet creeped in under cover of darkness to correct his error and deny it ever happened, as is his wont.
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19th February 2013 at 6:53 pm
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19th February 2013 at 7:26 pm
Llpoh says:
Thar she blows!
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