Carson: "Joseph built the pyramids to store grain"

Safe to say when a good chunk of the local talk show hosts are uncomfortable with the guy it's a good indication of how not-so-good-a-choice he is. Beck compares Carson to Jimmy Carter, and Scnidtt (Florida talk show) is creeped out but some of his stuff. Limbaugh's the only folk who hasn't said this out of the trio I listen to. It's beyond cliche at this point to say that I don't think moderates and independent voters are attracted to him with the kind of loopy things he has said. His nomination IMO would be very bad for the party... worse than his remarks, is probably his inexperience and susceptibility to being pushed into crap in the oval office.
 
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Denver said:
The protestant bible doesn't even mention pyramids. (The first Book of Maccabees in the Catholic bible does, but not in connection with grain storage).

Just as interesting as Carson's belief in the pyramids I think is his being a Seventh Day AdventistWP, and all that belief implies. Such as the emphasis on the imminent second coming.
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And of course no one is wondering if putting nukes in the hands of someone who thinks the world is about to end is a good idea.
 
marplots said:
It's probably too close to a "religious test" for office. Streng verboten.
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No it wouldn't be. Because religious tests means that there is no law against someone with those belief who is elected gaining the office. Now causing people to question if someone is fit for the office who holds those beliefs is totally constitutional.
 
Bob001 said:
If 150 students walked out of a Yale class in rage at the professor, the professor (if he's still alive), his grad assistants and 150 students would be able to talk about now, and it probably would have been widely discussed at the time. But Carson seems to be only person who knows about it? Genuinely crazy.
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The problem he has is that he needed these kinds of stories to make a good selling to evangelicals. So he made them up, now they are part of his history and people who will actually fact check him are looking into this.
 
It is rather pathetic how conservatives are defending Carson by saying the "liberal media" doesn't vet Democrats........
 
thaiboxerken said:
It is rather pathetic how conservatives are defending Carson by saying the "liberal media" doesn't vet Democrats........
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If Hillary mentioned she had stabbed someone one time, I'm sure the media would just let that slide by without comment.
 
Cain said:
The liberal media has vowed to destroy him. If Hillary Clinton posited this theory, the MSM would call it "provocative" and "interesting." They would invite Harvard talking-heads to lend support to the idea.
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Unsupported.

However, is his claim daft or not?

Hans
 
Cain said:
The liberal media has vowed to destroy him. If Hillary Clinton posited this theory, the MSM would call it "provocative" and "interesting." They would invite Harvard talking-heads to lend support to the idea.
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Absurd hypothetical because Hillary Clinton would never say something nearly as absurd as Carson's "theory". :D
 
Bob001 said:
Very old joke:
Q: "What do you call the guy who graduated from medical school last in his class?"
A: "Doctor."
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I don't think he's a stupid person. I think he's either pandering to the far right to bolster a new career in conservative talk shows or he may actually be mentally ill. You don't get to where he was by being stupid.
 
Carson says he's convinced he's being singled out, no amount of examples of other Presidential candidate scrutiny convinces him that he isn't special. Because he's such a threat. :rolleyes:

On Morning Joe, Scarborough was flabbergasted by the Carson advocate on the show this morning who kept insisting no one was talking about Clinton because they were unfairly focused on Carson's minor discrepancies.

I suspect these two, Carson and his spokesperson, truly believe Carson is being scrutinized more than any other Presidential candidate in history.

The human brain is a curious thing.
 
Cain said:
The liberal media has vowed to destroy him. If Hillary Clinton posited this theory, the MSM would call it "provocative" and "interesting." They would invite Harvard talking-heads to lend support to the idea.
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Whew! I was worried for a minute there you were serious about Carson. But I see now you are just Cain being Cain. :D
 
Strikes me there's a parallel with the British political scene here. In the UK the Conservatives are getting away with all manner of crap because the media are heavily to the right, while new Labour leader Corbyn is under the media microscope daily and being vilified for the slightest perceived infringement. Most recently for "not bowing adequately" at the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph.

May the FSM save us all from our media.
 
MRC_Hans said:
Unsupported.

However, is his claim daft or not?

Hans
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Carson's one of those cases where media bias isn't the problem; rather what he says and does is. The media may be giving him extra attention like it has for Trump, but Carson has largely dug his own holes without the media's help.
 
Craig4 said:
I don't think he's a stupid person. I think he's either pandering to the far right to bolster a new career in conservative talk shows or he may actually be mentally ill. You don't get to where he was by being stupid.
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Depends on what "stupid" means. Obviously it takes substantial intelligence to get through medical school and do everything else it took to become a pioneering neurosurgeon. But when someone lets their basic information-processing ability -- the foundation of intelligence -- be overridden and overwritten by downright bizarre opinions and prejudices, he makes himself stupid. It is simply incomprehensible to me that someone could be a serious presidential candidate after saying that "Obamacare" is worse than slavery, and living in the U.S. today is like living in Nazi Germany. And some observers have expressed the opinion that he is displaying symptoms of dementia -- except he's been saying a lot of this stuff for decades.
 
Bob001 said:
Depends on what "stupid" means. Obviously it takes substantial intelligence to get through medical school and do everything else it took to become a pioneering neurosurgeon. But when someone lets their basic information-processing ability -- the foundation of intelligence -- be overridden and overwritten by downright bizarre opinions and prejudices, he makes himself stupid. It is simply incomprehensible to me that someone could be a serious presidential candidate after saying that "Obamacare" is worse than slavery, and living in the U.S. today is like living in Nazi Germany. And some observers have expressed the opinion that he is displaying symptoms of dementia -- except he's been saying a lot of this stuff for decades.
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Wisdom, intelligence. While often connected, they are really two different things. You can find highly intelligent people who are surprisingly stupid, and people with mediocre intelligence who are very wise.

Hans
 
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