title: MEDIA ATTEMPTS HIT JOB ON BEN CARSON With West Point Fabrication Story… But Here’s The Truth
text: It s too bad the media didn t work as hard to expose the massive lies about Barack Hussein Obama and his background during his campaign. Many are calling this the end of Carson s political career. Compare this mostly innocuous fabrication to the fact that Hillary Clinton put our nation s security at risk with her personal email server. What about the incredible lie Hillary told about  the controversial video  to the families of the 4 brave Americans whose caskets were just unloaded off the plane from Benghazi? Compare this to the multiple lies that have been exposed about Hillary and Bill s corrupt money laundering for political favors  charity.  Does anyone remember how the media circled the wagons for Barack Hussein Obama when it was discovered he sat in the pews of a black liberation theology church for over 20 years listening to a close friend and mentor preach hate towards whites and the United States of America? What about the birth certificate, the fake social security numbers, the lies Obama told about his illegal relative he claimed he didn t know, but then later it was revealed that he actually lived with him? None of those things mattered. Obama was untouchable and if you criticized him or the lies he told about his past, the media and the left were quick to label you as an intolerant  racist. Compare and contrast the treatment of Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama and black conservative, Dr. Ben Carson by the media. But the feeding frenzy on Ben Carson by the progressive media will continue unabated and unchecked, because nobody in the GOP has the cajones to stand up to them. And that, my friends is why the non-establishment GOP candidates who are fighting back against the leftist media are polling at the top. America is ready for a fighter, and if we truly love our country, every one of us should be standing shoulder to shoulder behind Trump, Carson and Cruz who are being openly punished by the media for standing up to them Never underestimate the capacity of the media to propagandize against Republicans.That s the theme of this morning s overwrought news coverage on Dr. Ben Carson s supposed  lie  regarding a  scholarship  to West Point. The story began with Politico, which ran with the audacious headline,  Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship.  Even I was taken in by the headline   after all, that s a pretty bold claim!Politico began thusly:Ben Carson s campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.The key word here is  fabricated.  Did the Carson campaign admit any such thing? Absolutely not. The facts reported by Politico don t even support this interpretation of the Carson campaign s response. According to Politico, Carson said in his 1992 memoir Gifted Hands that he was offered a  full scholarship  to West Point after dining with General William Westmoreland in 1969. Here s the relevant passage from Carson s autobiography:At the end of my twelfth grade I marched at the head of the Memorial Day parade. I felt so proud, my chest bursting with ribbons and braids of every kind. To make it more wonderful, We had important visitors that day. Two soldiers who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Viet Nam were present. More exciting to me, General William Westmoreland (very prominent in the Viet Nam war) attended with an impressive entourage. Afterward, Sgt. Hunt introduced me to General Westmoreland, and I had dinner with him and the Congressional Medal winners. Later I was offered a full scholarship to West Point. I didn t refuse the scholarship outright, but I let them know that a military career wasn t where I saw myself going.That s the entire relevant portion of Carson s account. He reiterated that account last month in an interview with Charlie Rose, when he said,  I was offered a full scholarship at West Point, got to meet General Westmoreland and go to Congressional Medal of Honor dinners. But decided really my pathway would be medicine. Politico followed up on this story. They reported one additional pieces of information that seem to conflict with Carson s story: Carson never applied to West Point, and was never extended admission.But Carson never said he applied. He said he was extended a full scholarship offer. What s more, West Point doesn t offer scholarships: all admission is free contingent on serving in the military afterwards. It thus seems probable that Westmoreland or another military figure tried to recruit Carson, telling him that he wouldn t have to pay for his education   and that Carson read that as a  full scholarship,  and never applied.In fact, that s exactly what Carson s campaign manager said to Politico in an email:Dr. Carson was the top ROTC student in the City of Detroit. In that role he was invited to meet General Westmoreland. He believes it was at a banquet. He can t remember with specificity their brief conversation but it centered around Dr. Carson s performance as ROTC City Executive Officer. He was introduced to folks from West Point by his ROTC Supervisors. They told him they could help him get an appointment based on his grades and performance in ROTC. He considered it but in the end did not seek admission.But here s how Politico editorialized:  When presented with this evidence, Carson s campaign conceded the story was false. That s nonsense. They did no such thing. They provided details that corroborated Carson s story and explained his loose use of the language. If someone told you that you could go to college for free, you might reasonably conclude that you had been offered a full scholarship to attend that university. But Politico would call you a liar if you used such language to describe the exchange.Now, some on the right are saying that Carson should be held to a higher standard here than other candidates because he s running as an  outsider.  But this is a basic case of misinterpreting facts, not an outright lie. Carson served in ROTC. Prominent people wanted him to go to West Point. He wouldn t have had to pay. He didn t apply because he didn t want to go. Those facts are not in dispute. It s the specific wording over which media have decided to crucify him.This is a textbook example of a left-wing media hit. Politico would never editorialize about any Democrat who issued such a response to a factual inquiry in this manner. Politico won t even conclude that Hillary Clinton lied about her attribution of the Benghazi attacks to a YouTube video despite email evidence that she knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack entirely unrelated to a YouTube video.But for Ben Carson, they ll make an exception.Via: Ben Shapiro, Daily WireUPDATE: Dave Weigel of The Washington Post rightly points out this from Carson s Facebook page circa August:I was the highest student ROTC member in Detroit and was thrilled to get an offer from West Point. But 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.So Politico lied again   Carson never even claimed to have applied to West Point. 