Politico Admits Fabricating A Hit Piece On Ben Carson

[nate]

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts. - Eli Roth

[Tank]

plagiarism is everywhere. here's something i found:

 

I wish they all could be California girls. - The Beach Boys

 

I wish they all could be California girls. - David Lee Roth

[Glen]

That's a cover, not plagiarism. Don't you dare cast aspersions on David Lee Roth.

[Adam]

I plagiarized once in college. Paper on Orwell. Got a B. Score!

[Glen]

In high school I plagiarized the Blue Oyster Cult song "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" for a poem and one of my classmates busted me.

****er.

[Blarg]

I plagiarized once in college. Paper on Orwell. Got a B. Score!

 

Had you quoted Zinn you would have gotten an A.

[juansavage1]

Had you quoted Zinn you would have gotten an A.

Risky move. Most professors have it memorized. 

 

Here's Salon's take: 

 

 

 

As Kevin Drum explains, one reason Carson tells “unnecessary lies” is that for his evangelical base, they’re anything but unnecessary, they’re essential:

Serious evangelicals really, really want to hear a story about sin and redemption. That requires two things. First, Carson needs to have been a bad kid. Second, redemption needs to have truly turned his life around.

Which is the purpose of anecdotes such as his story about a professor giving him $10 when he was flat broke for being “the most honest student in the class” of 150 students—a story that now appears was based on a humor magazine’s hoax. If such stories sound wildly implausible, well, they are—and that’s a feature, not a bug:

No one who’s not an evangelical Christian would believe it for a second. But evangelicals hear testimonies like this all the time. They 

expect

 testimonies like this, and the more improbable the better. So Carson gives them one. It’s clumsy because he’s not very good at inventing this kind of thing, but that doesn’t matter much.

Indeed, Carson’s clumsiness readily gets reinterpreted as “authenticity.”

But there’s another suspect aspect of the Carson candidacy that deserves much more scrutiny: his role as the “some of my best friends are black” candidate, to help cover for the GOP’s unrelenting racial hostility, as the nation grows more diverse, and the GOP grows increasingly antagonistic. Black commentators like Christopher Parker see this in terms of tokenism. Carson is “way too far out of his depth to be taken seriously as a political leader,” he writes, citing some of Carson’s wilder claims. “By serving as tokens, Carson and other black Republican candidates allow racist whites to continue to hide from their racism,” he argues, and in the end:

By continuing to represent the GOP as a black man who is patently unqualified, his candidacy does more to perpetuate racism than undo it. His political incompetence is on public display for all to see.

It’s very much akin to a show in which black performers were complicit in their own degradation. And since blacks are almost never afforded the opportunity to be seen as individuals, the humiliation is often extended to blacks as a group.

 

 

Edited November 16, 2015 by Juan Savage

[juansavage1]

The rest of the article is pretty interesting, although nobody here would like it because it contains generalizations of Evangelicals and Republicans. It also ties their opinions to a philosophy, which also pisses people off. 

Edited November 16, 2015 by Juan Savage

[Glen]

The rest of the article is pretty interesting, although nobody here would like it because it contains generalizations

 

 

Interesting.

[nate]

Risky move. Most professors have it memorized. 

 

Excellent example of a generalization.