Carson: "Joseph built the pyramids to store grain"

Bob001 said:
The thing is that if you tell a 17-year-old kid -- especially one from his background -- that he can go to college "free," it's not wildly implausible that he would hear "full scholarship," and since he never followed up, nobody ever said "Well, young man, that's not what we call it here." This just seems absolutely trivial in comparison with all his other baggage.
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But simply reading up on the school would clear that up.

I wonder if Hell Week put him off?
 
Regarding the stabbing story, there's another version in his recent book...


In 2014, Carson released One Nation, and the story becomes less specific.

“I had been minding my own business when a classmate came along and began to ridicule me. I had a large camping knife in my hand and, without thinking, I lunged at him, plunging the knife into his abdomen
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/27/carson-stabbing-story-full-of-holes.html

So it was a school bully? The problem with lying is that it's tough to remember what you've said.

Steve S
 
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As to the OP, I see it was 17 years ago he said that. I'd be more interested to hear what his response is now. If he said he saw his dumbidity years ago and changed his mind, fine.

But I think there will be more Carson moments, as mentioned earlier. Specifically, since he is being accused of being a bid sedated, I expected he is being pressured to animate himself. If he overdoes it, we'll have another Dean Scream.

Perhaps a Carson Tarzan.
 
Denver said:
As to the OP, I see it was 17 years ago he said that. I'd be more interested to hear what his response is now. If he said he saw his dumbidity years ago and changed his mind, fine.
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He was asked about it the other day and he stuck to his beliefs. He said (I'm paraphrasing) "Some of us believe in God and the bible." As though any of that had anything to do with believing that the pyramids were built to store grain.

Steve S
 
steve s said:
He was asked about it the other day and he stuck to his beliefs. He said (I'm paraphrasing) "Some of us believe in God and the bible." As though any of that had anything to do with believing that the pyramids were built to store grain.
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I see you are paraphrasing, but if that is what he said, it was a good way to turn his weird older statement into an answer that appeals to his voters. But if he specifically restated that he believed the pyramids were used to store grain, then I think he has more of a problem.
 
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Denver said:
I see you are paraphrasing, but if that is what he said, it was a good way to turn his weird older statement into an answer that appeals to his voters. But if he specifically restated that he believed the pyramids were used to store grain, then I think he has more of a problem.
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He said what steve s paraphrased and separately specifically restated his insane beliefs about the pyramids.

"Some people believe in the Bible, like I do, and don't find that to be silly at all, and believe that God created the Earth and don't find that to be silly at all." Carson told reporters in Miami during a stop on his book tour. "The secular progressives try to ridicule it any time it comes up and they're welcome to do that."

Carson also defended the idea Wednesday evening when asked by reporters about it.

"The pyramids were made in a way that they had hermetically sealed compartments. You wouldn’t need hermetically sealed compartments for a sepulcher. You would need that if you were trying to preserve grain for a long period of time,” he said, according to MSNBC.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-pyramid-secular-progressives
 
Trebuchet said:
There are four or five years of it, instead.
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One hellish, three mentally and physically tough but not necessarily tougher than someone working a full time job to put themselves through a normal university. The five year commitment afterward might appear daunting, but it is also five years of a guaranteed job with decent pay and excellent benefits.
 
Bob001 said:
The thing is that if you tell a 17-year-old kid -- especially one from his background -- that he can go to college "free," it's not wildly implausible that he would hear "full scholarship," and since he never followed up, nobody ever said "Well, young man, that's not what we call it here." This just seems absolutely trivial in comparison with all his other baggage.
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He was in JROTC all through high school. He became a cadet colonel.

It isn't like he was some street kid. Upperclassmen in JROTC of that era generally had a pretty good idea of what's involved in getting selected for a service academy appointment. (ETA: I know this because I was one.)

They also tended to know the difference between that and a scholarship because quite a few of them were actively trying to get actual scholarships from ROTC depts. at various colleges.

These were in particularly great demand because not only did they pay for college, but also if you had a low draft number they could postpone your all-expenses paid holiday in Southeast Asia for four years or so.

I'm sorry, but I can't let him off the hook for simple ignorance. He knew he was lying. And it was a particularly clumsy lie.

That's why he's backpedaling so hard now that he's been called on it. He isn't trying to claim he mislabeled an appointment, he's saying it didn't happen the way he said it did, but was something supposedly close instead. Only it wasn't even close.
 
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