{"id":62669,"date":"2015-11-06T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62669"},"modified":"2015-11-06T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T21:43:17","slug":"that-whole-ben-carsonwest-point-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62669","title":{"rendered":"That whole Ben Carson\/West Point thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politico<\/a> published this story under this headline earlier today, calling Ben Carson a liar<\/p>\n

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The New York Times<\/a> joined in;<\/p>\n

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Politico changed their headline after the internet beat the living crap out of their story<\/p>\n

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What happened was Carson wrote in his autobiography that he met some Medal of Honor recipients and General William Westmoreland when Carson was with his Junior ROTC unit in Detroit and there was a big parade and a dinner afterward. He says that he was offered an appointment to West Point with a full scholarship. From the Times<\/p>\n

Mr. Carson has recounted the episode of being offered a scholarship at various points in telling his triumphant personal story. (Technically, West Point does not offer scholarships; it is free to attend.)<\/p>\n

In his recent book, \u201cYou Have a Brain,\u201d Mr. Carson described how he decided which college to attend: \u201cI still had the scholarship offer from West Point as a result of my R.O.T.C. achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n

More recently, in a Facebook post in August responding to a question, he wrote that he had been \u201cthrilled to get an offer from West Point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I knew medicine is what I wanted to do. So I applied to only one school. (it was all the money I had). I applied to Yale and thank God they accepted me. I often wonder what might have happened had they said no.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since Carson was one of the top students in the city-wide JROTC program, more than likely, folks at the parade and dinner tried to recruit Carson for West Point and in the mind of a high school student it was an “offer”, but, of course, since that’s all they have the media pounced on this, claiming that West Point doesn’t offer scholarships. Yeah, um actually they do – attendance at West Point doesn’t cost the students or their families anything, exactly like a scholarship. In their ads, they even call it a scholarship (thanks to Gabriel Malor for the below photo);<\/p>\n

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But the bottom line should be that Carson admits that he never applied to West Point, so he was never accepted, so what is the lie, exactly? A paragraph in a book? After all of the lies that we’ve been told in the last seven or eight years, this is the one the media wants to investigate? After the lies Bill Clinton told about dodging the draft when he was in college, they want to look into this story? <\/p>\n

If this story was about another candidate of color eight years ago, someone would be called racist for even bringing it up – which is why the media has hardly glanced at the background of the current President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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