February 15, 2016
Ben Blew It in The Saturday GOP Debate
About three-quarters of the way into the debate Saturday night, moderator John Dickerson threw Ben Carson a hanging curveball. He reminded Carson that he’s repeatedly spoken out against political correctness and, in effect, invited him to say something politically incorrect. The Baltimore neurosurgeon replied with a few not very coherent and completely unmemorable sentences. Ben’s response was not even mentioned in USA Today’s blow-by-blow recap.
It was the usual take-away from Carson’s debate performances -- that he’s a nice guy, he’s not a politician, he’s for smaller government, that he ought to have a tall espresso rather than a bottle of water under his lectern, and that he has some great plans on his website.
He could have hit Dickerson’s hanging curve out of the park.
Carson is the only guy on stage who can talk about African-Americans.
He might have mentioned several things, starting with the...(Read Full Article)