{"id":16516,"date":"2015-10-08T18:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T01:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16516"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T01:40:27","slug":"ben-carson-john-wayne-or-the-cowardly-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/ben-carson-john-wayne-or-the-cowardly-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson: John Wayne or The Cowardly Lion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The up-and-coming GOP star, <strong>Ben Carson<\/strong>, 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.&nbsp; His words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>CARSON: &ldquo;I would not just stand there and let him shoot me&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/10\/06\/ben-carson-says-he-would-have-been-more-aggressive-against-oregon-gunman\/\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/10\/06\/ben-carson-says-he-would-have-been-more-aggressive-against-oregon-gunman\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He even felt obliged to gratuitously add his &ldquo;staunch defense&rdquo; of the <strong><em>NRA<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>CARSON: &ldquo;I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/10\/06\/1428342\/-Ben-Carson-Never-saw-a-body-with-bullet-holes-more-devastating-than-loss-of-gun-rights\">http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/10\/06\/1428342\/-Ben-Carson-Never-saw-a-body-with-bullet-holes-more-devastating-than-loss-of-gun-rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[<strong>Well, of course!&nbsp; I mean who among us wouldn&#039;t prefer that the US look more like Afghanistan or Iraq than like Sweden, Norway or Denmark?]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, as the adage goes &#8211; talk is cheap.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Carson today tells the story how he was personally accosted by a gun-toting burglar.&nbsp; And his admitted response is priceless &ndash; and led to some great Twitter rejoinders.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>CARSON<\/strong>: &quot;I have had a gun held on me when I was in a Popeyes in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;[A] guy comes in, puts the gun in my ribs. &nbsp;And I just said,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#039;I believe you want the guy behind the counter.&#039;&quot;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/ben-carson-gunpoint-popeyes\">http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/ben-carson-gunpoint-popeyes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, now there&#039;s a model of heroic bravery&nbsp;&#8230; <strong><em>NOT!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like the Twitter universe, I&rsquo;m going with <strong><em>&ldquo;The Cowardly Lion!&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" height=\"401\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.chicagotribune.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b4ba69e201348755a2eb970c-pi\" width=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BEN CARSON AT THE OREGON SHOOTING: &quot;I believe you want the principal.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Drew Magary (@drewmagary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmagary\/status\/652119484682141700\">October 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewmagary\">@drewmagary<\/a> Ben Carson at Ford&#39;s Theater: &quot;HE&#39;S the President Mr. Booth&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steak Knives (@Josh1938) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Josh1938\/status\/652119689254977536\">October 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp; His words: CARSON: &ldquo;I would not just stand there and let him shoot me&rdquo; http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/10\/06\/ben-carson-says-he-would-have-been-more-aggressive-against-oregon-gunman\/ He even felt obliged to gratuitously add <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/ben-carson-john-wayne-or-the-cowardly-lion\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16516","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\/16516","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}