Ben Carson. (photo: Scott Morgan/WP)
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Carson has asked for Secret Service protection. He believes secular
progressive hoards are coming to destroy him. Cenk Uygur, host of the
The Young Turks, breaks it down.
“When asked on Thursday about his campaign’s request
for Secret Service protection, Republican presidential candidate Ben
Carson said that he is in danger because progressives see him as an
“existential threat.”
During a radio interview on WABC, host Rita Cosby
noted that the Carson campaign hadrequested a Secret Service detail and
asked Carson about the threats he has received.
“I’d prefer not to talk about security issues but I
have recognized — and people have been telling me for many many months —
that I’m in great danger because I challenge the secular progressive
movement to the very core,” Carson said in response, according to audio
posted byBuzzfeed News.”
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+81
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2015-11-02 16:14
I think Trump has
also asked for secret service protection. This is just more delusional
thinking from the two reality show stars now leading the republican
pack. They think they are now important so the taxpayers must protect
them. this is ego run wild. No one would waste a perfectly good bullet
on these two clowns. TV reality has gone to thier heads.
+38
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2015-11-02 18:18
Where does he get this stuff?
Fox News, specifically Bill O'Reilly, of course!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_Warrior
"Culture Warrior is a book by Fox News Channel political commentator Bill O'Reilly, published in the fall of 2006. O'Reilly asserts that the United States is in the midst of a "culture war" between "traditionalist s" and "secular-progre ssives".
Fox News, specifically Bill O'Reilly, of course!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_Warrior
"Culture Warrior is a book by Fox News Channel political commentator Bill O'Reilly, published in the fall of 2006. O'Reilly asserts that the United States is in the midst of a "culture war" between "traditionalist s" and "secular-progre ssives".
+61
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2015-11-02 18:29
If you notice that he
talks with his eyes closed & is way too mellowed-out, he is
obviously on some kind of meds and they make him paranoid
+51
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2015-11-02 19:11
What's wrong with his
eyes? Looks like he is seeing something on the floor. Where's his
evidence for all these plots against him? Another republican candidate
over the deep end. Too f*cking bad. Go Bernie, go.
+62
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2015-11-02 19:17
If only he was armed, conceal-carry, then he would be able to "take care" of those secular-progres sives himself without burdening the taxpayers with Secret Service entitlements.
+50
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2015-11-02 23:15
Carson is an obvious psychopath. Carson is now leading in at least one national poll. The only possible conclusion is that the republican party is psychopathic. There should never again be any talk of 'bipartisan'.
+32
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2015-11-03 01:01
Carson did say that
he thought Obama was a psychopath - as he looked into his lunch. I
wonder if that's more right-wing projection or if he has something
totally different wrong with him. He's a very strange man.
+20
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2015-11-02 23:38
He is in as much
danger as Caribou Barbie was. Both of them are such total jerks that the
people that they have to fear are the ones who they unconsciously are
parodying, not the ones who benefit from their comic value.
+23
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2015-11-02 23:50
what? why would we
want to harm the goose that is about to lay the golden egg? with dr. ben
leading in the pachy polls...the idiot savant surgeon, brilliant about
the brain but bonkers about everything else...a progressive win for
president is a slam dunk. nobody in their right mind...and who in
redstateland resembles that reference...wou ld cast their vote for that kook? please, oh please...let him soft-gobbledego ok his way to a g.o.p. gigging that's 100% guaranteed.
+44
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2015-11-03 00:00
"Paranoia strikes
deep, into your life it will creep, it starts when you're always afraid,
step outta line, the man comes and takes you away. ...". Ben Carson
better take care lest those nice young men in their clean, white coats
come and carry him off for a Psychiatric evaluation! To me it's an
indication of just HOW unfit for public office he REALLY is. You can't
tell me he isn't Schizo-Affectiv e
or some other DSM-III Diagnosis. He has NO discernible affect or
emotion. He is TOTALLY flat and speaks in a monotone. Visit a Psych Ward
somewhere and you'll get my drift....BONKER S!
+23
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2015-11-03 00:52
I agree. Carson is totally mentally whack. I like the references to two of my fave songs.
+21
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2015-11-03 00:20
I'm hoping that we
will all get to witness Carson's extraordinary talent as a brain surgeon
and the great strides that have been made in the field of neuroscience
by operating on himself (behind Progressive-Pro of
Glass if necessary) during the next Clown Debate, so as to clearly
demonstrate that he is indeed a man of action while all the others just
stand around moving their lips, waving their hands and bulging their
eyes.
+43
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2015-11-03 00:59
Great. If this man
becomes president, guess what he thinks Putin and Xi Jinping want to do
to him. Or Jeremy Corbyn and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Or muslims and
atheists. Or The Joker and Mr. Freeze. Or bacteria and the fluoride
communists poured into our water supplies to harm our precious bodily
fluids.
And all that seperates him from the red button is the CIA, fearing the world hegemony plans of all of the above.
My dear Americans, could you please all vote for Bernie Sanders and make shure Mr. Carson get´s his proper medication?
And all that seperates him from the red button is the CIA, fearing the world hegemony plans of all of the above.
My dear Americans, could you please all vote for Bernie Sanders and make shure Mr. Carson get´s his proper medication?
+57
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2015-11-03 02:56
We can't take chances
on someone whose public views are obviously delusional. Some are
plummeting into the abyss and could take millions with them if they
gained power. They cry out for (a) satire, or (b) a diagnosis of serious
paranoia. Or both. Dr Carson, alas, is one of those. Trump is probably
more cynical and opportunistic than psycho, but Huckabee is even more of
a candidate for a shrink than Carson. None of the current GOP
candidates seems sane enough to elect even as dogcatcher. Too many
paranoids now sit on school boards--and look at the results!
There is no doubt that the mentally weird have produced many wonderful works of art and scholarship. I think of Vincent Van Gogh, Richard Dadd, Ezra Pound, and Dr William Minor, a physician but also a psychotic murderer who, from prison, almost singlehandedly created the etymologies in the massive Oxford English Dictionary. I admire all of them for their creations. But they worked in the humanities, which allows and even encourages eccentricity, and thank God only one of them, Pound, got mixed up in the egomaniac Fascist politics paranoids tend to embrace. We saw the results when a resentful failed artist, Hitler--who had dreamt of being a famous oil painter--gained political power! His delusions cost the world millions of lives. Add the paranoics Genghiz Khan, Tamerlane, Stalin, Idi Amin and Pol Pot, and we have very good reason to shun and denounce those asking for positions of political leadership who spout insanity.
There is no doubt that the mentally weird have produced many wonderful works of art and scholarship. I think of Vincent Van Gogh, Richard Dadd, Ezra Pound, and Dr William Minor, a physician but also a psychotic murderer who, from prison, almost singlehandedly created the etymologies in the massive Oxford English Dictionary. I admire all of them for their creations. But they worked in the humanities, which allows and even encourages eccentricity, and thank God only one of them, Pound, got mixed up in the egomaniac Fascist politics paranoids tend to embrace. We saw the results when a resentful failed artist, Hitler--who had dreamt of being a famous oil painter--gained political power! His delusions cost the world millions of lives. Add the paranoics Genghiz Khan, Tamerlane, Stalin, Idi Amin and Pol Pot, and we have very good reason to shun and denounce those asking for positions of political leadership who spout insanity.
+4
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2015-11-03 10:57
Do you find Uncle Ben Carson to be a credible candidate for anything other than president of the funny farm?
+21
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2015-11-03 01:18
Mr Carson would more correctly fear for his life due to the near-perfect vacuum that exists between his ears.
+19
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2015-11-03 04:16
Carson says he
challenges the secular progressive movement to the core, that's why we
are after him. The guy is delusional that's for sure. I think we could
find a place for him in DSM IV or the handbook that almost all
psychologists and psychiatrists use. Having this creep as President is
the stuff of all nightmares. And, he leads the Republican
candidates????? ????
+21
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2015-11-03 06:02
Oddly enough I cannot
recall a single life taken by a crazed liberal, ever....more publicity
circus and ego enhancement from the clown car crowd.
+14
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2015-11-03 07:09
Ben Carson is being
put on the parade of candidates for the Republican party simply because
they think that having a candidate with darker skin will gain support
for the Republicans by the black community. Do these Republicans really
think that the black community would be dumb enough to vote for a person
simply because of the color of their skin? This is an insult!
+12
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2015-11-03 07:39
Carson et al: A textbook example of paranoia and psychotic projection. I fear these nuts more than ISIS.
+17
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2015-11-03 07:41
One should not lose
one's sense of humour because REALLY this is the comedy of the year in
the making. I think they should throw Sarah Palin back in just to mix it
up a bit.
As for Carson what the hell is he on and can I have some.
As for Carson what the hell is he on and can I have some.
+9
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2015-11-03 08:23
Throwing Sarah Palin back in etc is a stroke of comic genius. Good job, Desiderata.
+7
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2015-11-03 09:21
Isn't that the lady who last week said the US should send Latin illegals 'overseas to Mexico'?
+12
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2015-11-03 08:20
I believe that what
Carson fears most is that he might be elected president. He knows that
he is totally unprepared to be president but he (and most of the other
candidates) are really running to be picked as the vice presidents
running mate. Most of these candidates wouldn't even make a decent vice
president either. This situation would be funny if the election was for a
less important office but the harm that could be done by one of these
clowns if elected president is cause for great concern. It is certainly
sad that a great candidate (Bernie sanders) doesn't have a better chance
of winning. One can only hope that the American people will wise up
before its too late and vote for Bernie all across this country.
+9
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2015-11-03 09:22
Conservative barking-mad paranoiac psychosis. Carson’s got more to fear from white cops….
+7
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2015-11-03 09:31
Let me tell you about
fear. It's in those of us who live on the north side of the U.S. north
border. If either Trump or Carson are elected (maybe any Republican for
that matter) then you'll have a Canadian-built fence on the border
faster than you can say "wingnut". Anyway, as a former Canadian
Immigration Minister has pointed out, most of the illegal traffic across
that border has been South to North. Americans tend to be ignorant of
reality. Did you hear the one (this is true) about the black guy from
Winnipeg (probably a pro football player in the Canadian league) who
drove down to Mississippi in his fancy sports car to visit family and
was stopped by a cop for "driving while black". He heard the cop on his
radio saying "I've got a n----r here driving a fancy car with
[hesitation] Man-I-tow-BA plates". The guy put it in the Winnipeg
newspaper when he got home.
+9
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2015-11-03 10:11
I suggest the good
doctor wrap his head in aluminum foil. That should quiet all those
disturbing voices and block off any further death threats from
"progressive secularists".
http://samuel-warde.com/2015/10/ben-carsons-deadly-lies-put-profits-over-people/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SamuelWarde+%28Samuel+Wynn+Warde%29