Ben Carson Fabricated Violent Juvenile Past, CNN Investigation Suggests

[Zaac]

Zaac - you don't want us to vote for Carson. I get that. I understand that. If we shouldn't vote for him, if we shouldn't vote for Trump, if we shouldn't vote for Hillary or Bernie - who should we vote for?

Don, I don't know at this point. You guys will vote for whomever you will just as you did last time. I just put forth my criteria for why someone won't get my vote.

I believe that the Body of Christ has to rise above holding their noses and supporting candidates who don't represent Christ just because they don't want to vote for the other major party candidate.

 

[Zaac]

http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/06/politico-admits-fabricating-a-hit-piece-on-ben-carson/


Politico Admits Fabricating A Hit Piece On Ben Carson

Politico's editorial staff on Friday conceded that entire basis of attack on Carson was invented out of whole cloth.

NOVEMBER 6, 2015 By Mollie Hemingway
Politico‘s Kyle Cheney admitted that he fabricated a negative story about Ben Carson. At least, according to his own standards, he admitted the grievous journalistic sin.

In a story published early on Friday, Politico’s Kyle Cheney authored a piece headlined “Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship” with a subhed “Carson’s campaign on Friday conceded that a central point in his inspirational personal story did not occur as he previously described.”

There were at least five major problems with the story:

The headline was completely false
The subhed was also completely false
The opening paragraph was false false false
The substance of the piece was missing key exonerating information
The article demonstrated confusion about service academy admissions and benefits
But other than that, A+++ work, Kyle Cheney and Politico.

You AGAIN have not provided a link where someone at POLITICO admitted that they fabricated anything. The Editor's Note that I quoted is all they have really said.

You're stretching things in the same manner as Carson looks to have done.

 

[carpro]

You AGAIN have not provided a link where someone at POLITICO admitted that they fabricated anything. The Editor's Note that I quoted is all they have really said.

"Politico stealthily edited the inflammatory headline and lede, after the damage was done. They made changes without adding a note about what was corrected. They didn’t update the piece or add an editor’s note. The new headline is very much toned down to “Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point ‘scholarship’ but never applied.” This is a claim not exclusive to Politico and not newsworthy in the least."



When you're forced to alter your headline and your story, you've admitted your first ones were false.

They now sound like Dan Rather trying to use a lie to make something the truth. Laughable.

And you're still on board. SMH