{"id":29983,"date":"2015-10-26T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29983"},"modified":"2015-11-05T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T04:54:09","slug":"ben-carson-takes-lead-in-polls-still-a-complete-lunatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29983","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson Takes Lead In Polls &#8211; Still A Complete Lunatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news from the Republican primary this week is that Ben Carson has been rising in the polls and has overtaken Donald Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire. While it is good news that Trump&#8217;s descent is beginning to build up steam, we must not forget that Carson has produced a steady stream of nonsense that is both idiotic and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/carson-jesus-dinosaur.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Carson\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29984\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1198794646801995\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-btn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ThinkProgress compiled a list of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2015\/10\/26\/3715969\/ben-carson-ridiculousness-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\">13 Ridiculous Things Ben Carson Actually Believes<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s a pretty definitive collection of the inanities that Carson has unleashed over the past few months. Here are the headings, but be sure to visit ThinkProgress for the details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women who get abortions are like slaveholders.<\/li>\n<li>Obamacare is the worst thing since slavery.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Hitler\u2019 could happen in the U.S. today.<\/li>\n<li>Jews could have prevented the Holocaust if they had guns.<\/li>\n<li>College campuses should be monitored for liberal political speech.<\/li>\n<li>Muslims should be disqualified from the presidency.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a war on \u2018what\u2019s inside of women.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Being gay is a choice because prison turns people gay.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s no such thing as a war crime.<\/li>\n<li>Obama is depressing the economy to keep people on welfare.<\/li>\n<li>Obama signed immigration reform to bring in government-dependent voters.<\/li>\n<li>Congress should be able to remove judges for voting for marriage equality.<\/li>\n<li>Anarchy could cancel the 2016 election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Surely ThinkProgress did not intend this list to be comprehensive, but there are a few omissions that really need to be added. So here is my addendum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Says evolution and the Big Bang theory are the work of the devil.<\/li>\n<li>Asked why victims of mass shootings don&#8217;t just attack the gunman.<\/li>\n<li>Thinks that atheism is a religion.<\/li>\n<li>Says it&#8217;s unconstitutional for courts to rule on the constitutionality of laws.<\/li>\n<li>Referred to President Obama as a psychopath because he looks great &#8220;like most psychopaths.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>Late addition:<\/em> Thinks the pyramids were for grain storage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are things that we need to remember should he continue to be a leader in the GOP primary. And we need to make sure that the nation is aware of what a full-fledged fruitcake Ben Carson is. He is not a just a soft-spoken former neurosurgeon. He is a radical Christianist who supports his own brand of Sharia law and has no knowledge of government, law, or public service. It would be as stupid to choose Carson for the presidency as it would be to choose George W. Bush as a brain surgeon.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news from the Republican primary this week is that Ben Carson has been rising in the polls and has overtaken Donald Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire. While it is good news that Trump&#8217;s descent is beginning to build up steam, we must not forget that Carson has produced a steady stream of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Ben Carson Takes Lead In Polls - Still A Complete Lunatic","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[1076,1124,301],"class_list":["post-29983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-ben-carson","tag-campaign-2016","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/carson-jesus-dinosaur.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-7NB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25702,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=25702","url_meta":{"origin":29983,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Ben &#8216;Strangelove&#8217; Carson Advocates Abandoning The Geneva Conventions","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/16\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"One of this year's official candidates in the Fox News Republican primary for president is former pediatric brain surgeon, Ben Carson. 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