The up-and-coming GOP star, Ben Carson, got embroiled in a heap of self-inflicted umbrage when he heartlessly berated the dead victims of the recent Oregon killings for not defending themselves like HE would. His words:
CARSON: “I would not just stand there and let him shoot me”
He even felt obliged to gratuitously add his “staunch defense” of the NRA:
CARSON: “I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away”
[Well, of course! I mean who among us wouldn't prefer that the US look more like Afghanistan or Iraq than like Sweden, Norway or Denmark?]
Well, as the adage goes – talk is cheap.
Carson today tells the story how he was personally accosted by a gun-toting burglar. And his admitted response is priceless – and led to some great Twitter rejoinders.
CARSON: "I have had a gun held on me when I was in a Popeyes in Baltimore.
"[A] guy comes in, puts the gun in my ribs. And I just said,
'I believe you want the guy behind the counter.'"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-gunpoint-popeyes
Well, now there's a model of heroic bravery … NOT!
Like the Twitter universe, I’m going with “The Cowardly Lion!”
BEN CARSON AT THE OREGON SHOOTING: "I believe you want the principal."
— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) October 8, 2015
@drewmagary Ben Carson at Ford's Theater: "HE'S the President Mr. Booth"
— Steak Knives (@Josh1938) October 8, 2015
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I have to laugh or I'll cry–thanks for demonstrating the absurdity so well.
Thanks for cross-posting this on Care2, JL.
Bert Lahr is too good for him. Isn't there somewhere in literature a cowardly snake or weasel?
Or, he could have quoted his comrade with the same initials – "Feet, don't fail me now!"
Do they ever listen to themselves? Or does talking preclude listening?
BTW JL posted to Care2 at http://www.care2.com/news/member/663679641/3916225
Thanks for letting Nameless know where the cross-post is Joanne!
I know, late to the party, but this just came out:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/14/1431726/-Cartoon-Ben-Carson-stops-a-shooter
Love the tweets!
There is something Innately wrong with this man, Ben Carson…
This guy went out for lunch, and forgot to come back.!!!
He obviously needs to avail himself of SOME kind of help…..
Lobotomy?
Excellent overview of drivel spouted by Ben Carson on gun control the past few days, Nameless. The man is obviously on a roll and theres no stopping him. Have a look at Ben Carson suggests Jewish people could have stopped Nazis if they had gun rights, a post by Cal on Care2. The man is clearly loosing it.
No, JLa, it seems that he's aready had a lobotomy…tha would explain it all!
It is laughable, and, at the same time so sad that this is the kind of person who can be seen as a potential candidate to be our leader! And Paul Ryan is being urged to become Speaker of the House!
Oh, speaking of politics (as one just might do, here) check out the new book "Killing the Messenger, The Right-Wing Plot to Derail Hillary and Hijack your Government," by David Brock. He was one of the early smearers of the Clintons, and has recognized the egregius errors of his ways.
The "vast right-wing conspiracy," Hillary referred to, years ago, he was part of it, wrote abot it in "Blinded by the Right."