Sick and tired of defending himself against the media, Ben Carson is turning the conversation back around on his attackers—and with the perfect amount of irony, he called out the dishonesty of the media at the National Press Club. Since that speech, Carson has taken further opportunities to address the partisanship of the press, a campaign that was largely provoked by the way the media sensationalized his comments after the October 1st shooting at Umpqua Community College. Looking back at this controversial interview in light of Carson’s new crusade against media bias, it is clear that this outsider presidential candidate is
Dr. Ben Carson is in deep trouble according to the media mavens. Did they discover his missing emails containing classified material? Was he caught trying to get the IRS to audit his political enemies? Did he threaten, if elected president, to use executive orders to ram through his agenda? No, Carson’s “scandal” is bigger than any of those. Asked on Fox News what he would have done if he was in a situation similar to what students faced at Umpqua Community College (UCC) in Oregon, Carson said, “I would not just stand there and let him shoot me. I would
While most people are talking about gun control in the wake of the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Oregon last week, Bobby Jindal is connecting the massacre to a culture “fill[ed] with garbage.” This op-ed from him in RedState will certainly get you thinking: I’m going to start today by venting, and I will warn you in advance that this is going to be a sermon, but someone needs to speak the truth for a change: Another week, another mass shooting, another press conference by the President lecturing us on the need for gun control, and now Hillary and Obama
In the wake of the Umpqua Community College shooting, which resulted in the injury and death of 19 people including the shooter, President Obama came before the media to condemn mass shootings on a national scale: Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We’ve become numb to this. He also spoke on the history of mass shootings in our country and gun laws and even made a call to politicize these shootings so that we might prevent them. Presidential candidate Mike
Seeking more information about the Oregon shooter, I googled “killing Christians” and came up with this book: Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where Its Not Safe to Believe. Neither the author of that book (which is about foreign persecutions) nor I ever imagined that would include a place like Roseburg, Oregon. The man who killed almost a dozen community college students was a self-described satanist, who hated organized religion, claimed to be “spiritual but not religious” on a dating website, and also, strangely enough, identified as a conservative Republican. At least two survivors have confirmed that the killer specifically asked