I think Ben Carson handled this press conference brilliantly. The media showed it's bias by hammering him over and over about an issue that has very little relevance and Carson called them on it. In the 19 minutes of video only 2 questions were not about the scholarship or his childhood (1 about keystone & 1 about black on black violence) and those covered maybe 2 minutes.
He asked them how come they never hammered Barrack Obama about Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeremiah Write and the big one, how come they never hammered Obama about his academic records being sealed. Of course none of them had an answer. My favorite moment however, was when he said to the media in effect, if you will sign an affidavit saying you will stop focusing on these trivial issues that he already addressed, then he would consider releasing the name of the person involved in the stabbing incident. He then looked across the sea of reporters and said "Will you do that... Yes... Yes, yes, yes" and the press corp went dead silent... you could hear a pin drop. His point was made and then some... The silence proved right then and there, that this isn't about that kid or about getting answers... it's about the press being able to relentlessly hammer a republican candidate, as they do with any candidate with an "R" behind his name.
The one other point I'd like to make is, that although Ben Carson is black, neither him or anyone affiliated with him dishonestly pulled the race card, as so many other black candidates in recent years have done when they are criticized or don't like the questions being asked.
Anyway, here's the press conference:
... and before someone calls me a Ben Carson shill, there are only 3 candidates in the Republican field that I would like to see win the republican nomination, and Ben Carson isn't one of them.
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