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Tone Policing Only Goes One Way
The thing about tone policing that is so galling to liberals particularly is it only goes one way. Even while the tone police cluck their tongues and accuse “both sides” of lowering the level of discourse, the only examples they ever give a crap about are the ones—often straw examples,…
Ben Carson walks away from Johns Hopkins speaking gig over anti-LGBT backlash
A week after the dean of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine expressed concern at his recent commentaries on LGBT people, neurosurgeon and rising conservative media star Dr. Ben Carson has walked away from a commencement speaking gig at the university. “Given all the national media surrounding my statements as to…
Ben Carson apologizes to Johns Hopkins community for ‘poorly chosen’ anti-LGBT remarks
Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon Ben Carson apologized on Friday for the nature of his infamous remarks likening the LGBT community to pedophiles, while refusing to change his position on the subject, New York Magazine reported. “There are many lessons to be learned when venturing into the political world and this…
Ben Carson: ‘Racist’ white liberals want me on ‘the plantation’
In an interview with arch-conservative radio host Mark Levin, rising African-American conservative avatar Dr. Ben Carson said on Monday that he believes that white liberals are “the most racist people there are,” and that they are critical of him solely because they want to keep him from leaving “the plantation.”…
Hannity defends homophobic guest: No ‘freedom’ for African-American conservatives
Fox News Republican talk show host Sean Hannity went on the defensive Monday night after one of his guests criticized him for elevating Dr. Ben Carson, who went on the show recently and compared being gay to having sex with animals and raping children. Reacting to the criticism, Hannity defended…
Limbaugh: Student petition against conservative commencement speaker means ‘we’ve lost the country’
Rush Limbaugh was apopleptic on Friday over Johns Hopkins University medical students petitioning against new conservative favorite Ben Carson. “Medical students! Not social workers, medical students,” Limbaugh said, in a clip posted by Media Matters. “To me that’s evidence that … I don’t know what it is. We’re losing the…
New GOP darling: Sorry if ‘anyone was offended’ by comparing ‘gays’ and NAMBLA
Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, who has become increasingly popular in conservative circles, offered an explanation, if not a real apology, for remarks earlier this week equating the LGBT community with pedophiles. “If anybody was offended, I apologize to you,” Carson told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Friday.…
National Prayer Breakfast speaker lectured Obama on flat tax to ‘please’ God
Dr. Ben Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon who shocked Washington when he used his speech at the non-partisan National Prayer Breakfast to lecture President Barack Obama on the flat tax earlier this month, is defending his rant by insisting that he was just trying to “please” God. As the president was…
Carson says 2016 run ‘up to God’ after pushing flat tax at National Prayer Breakfast
The pediatric neurosurgeon who shocked Washington by using his speech at the non-partisan National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month to suggest that the Bible calls for a flat tax now says that God might tell him to run for president in 2016. As President Barack Obama sat just a few…
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