{"id":16368,"date":"2015-09-30T08:56:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16368"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:56:43","slug":"ben-carsons-follies-7-of-the-most-stupefying-statements-by-the-gops-favorite-neurosurgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/ben-carsons-follies-7-of-the-most-stupefying-statements-by-the-gops-favorite-neurosurgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson’s Follies: 7 of the Most Stupefying Statements by the GOP’s Favorite Neurosurgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is hard to believe that Ben Carson is a serious contender for the Republican nomination for POTUS.  To have a Republican candidate for president "guilty of being president while being black" is truly mind boggling since that has been the Republican attitude towards Mr Obama.  Perhaps there is some nefarious purpose that even Carson does not know about.<\/span><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now we know for sure that education is no hedge against mindblowing irrational thinking. Our proof? None other than Dr. Ben Carson, highly trained pediatric neurosurgeon, man of science, leading GOP presidential contender and batsh*t crazy Bible-thumper in the first degree.<\/p>\n

Last week, the soft-spoken former doctor, continuing a surge begun in late summer, closed the gap with longstanding frontrunner Donald Trump. Carson accomplished this feat after weeks (nay, months, years!) of spewing what can only be regarded as stupefying nonsense, including last week’s argument at the Values Voter Summit that a blatantly unconstitutional religious test be administered to Muslims seeking office in order to protect the Constitution. …<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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1. Gayness must be a choice, because prisoners who are raped come out gay.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like any generic homophobe, Carson has no problem repeating tired falsehoods about how legalized gay marriage will lead to bestiality and pedophila. But he got some points for originality when he told Chris Cuomo in an interview that homosexuality was absolutely a choice "[b]ecause a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight— and when they come out, they're gay."<\/p>\n

Cuomo’s jaw dropped long enough for Carson to add: "So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question."<\/p>\n

This could absolutely take the cake for comedic idiocy, if only homophobic violence and prison rape were not horrific real-life problems.<\/p>\n

What it proves is that Carson will say anything. And that, even when it comes to medical science—the preponderance of which indicates that homosexuality is not a choice—the doctor is out.<\/p>\n

Read the other six follies brought to you by Ben Carson, Republican presidential candidate.  OMG!!!  The thoughts of Carson as POTUS is absolutely sickening.  Please someone, tell me I'm having a nightmare!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is hard to believe that Ben Carson is a serious contender for the Republican nomination for POTUS.  To have a Republican candidate for president "guilty of being president while being black" is truly mind boggling since that has been the Republican attitude towards Mr Obama.  Perhaps there is some nefarious purpose that even Carson does […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}