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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:24 AM Dec 2015

Ben Carson: Kids don't like me when I open their skulls..."But later on, they love me."

Carson: "They're not happy about it, believe me. And they don't like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me."

Right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt, who for some reason CNN has allowed to ask questions at two presidential debates, asked Carson if being a nice guy who has cured children he could as commander and chief order bombings that could kill children by the thousands. (He didn't ask if it would be a good idea to order such bombings. It would not.)

Carson said kids didn't like it when he said he'd have to open up their skulls to pick out pieces of their tiny brains, but later they loved him. I'm not sure how that was relevant, because I don't think the children he rained fire down from the sky upon would love him for that.

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Ben Carson: Kids don't like me when I open their skulls..."But later on, they love me." (Original Post) Miles Archer Dec 2015 OP

Were They Awake When He Opened Their Skulls ProfessorGAC Dec 2015 #1

Usually yes they are... VanillaRhapsody Dec 2015 #2

"Okay .... just take that out ... OOPs! Buddy, can you still see? Can you smell this?" Buzz Clik Dec 2015 #4

Yeah that is pretty much it VanillaRhapsody Dec 2015 #5

Not My Mother In Law ProfessorGAC Dec 2015 #11

But its often the case....maybe your mother in law had a tumor that wasn't located VanillaRhapsody Dec 2015 #12

Or It Was Far Enough Back That They Didn't Do That Yet ProfessorGAC Dec 2015 #16

Well this might help VanillaRhapsody Dec 2015 #17

This guy has the gift of creepiness. Buzz Clik Dec 2015 #3

Sounds like something Mike Tyson would say n/t 951-Riverside Dec 2015 #6

So he thinks children with shredded limbs, their tiny bodies covered in burns will love him Solly Mack Dec 2015 #7

It's for their own good! "This is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you." DawgHouse Dec 2015 #9

Yep. That's part of the thinking. Sick. Sick. Solly Mack Dec 2015 #10

It totally sickened me as well, in the way he expressed it. bullwinkle428 Dec 2015 #13

And you know he said it with his usual oleaginous smile plastered across his face. Solly Mack Dec 2015 #15

I happened to be watching when he was asked this question. DawgHouse Dec 2015 #8

Hewitt is on Salem radio which, for some reason, cohosts debates underpants Dec 2015 #14

I can almost relate. Octafish Dec 2015 #18

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)

1. Were They Awake When He Opened Their Skulls

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:31 AM

Dec 2015

That seems barbaric. What an utterly detestable piece of work, is this guy!

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

2. Usually yes they are...

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:36 AM

Dec 2015

My friend who had brain surgery for Epilepsy over 10 times...was awake for each one. They need you awake so they can tell they are not effecting any of your senses while in there...

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)

4. "Okay .... just take that out ... OOPs! Buddy, can you still see? Can you smell this?"

Reply to VanillaRhapsody (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:39 AM

Dec 2015

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

5. Yeah that is pretty much it

Reply to Buzz Clik (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:40 AM

Dec 2015

He told me they ask him questions the entire time...to make sure. Your brain actually has no feeling....

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)

11. Not My Mother In Law

Reply to VanillaRhapsody (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:51 AM

Dec 2015

Admittedly that was a while ago, but she was completely out for her brain tumor surgery. We saw her in recovery and she was completely out for at least 6 more hours after the surgery was over.

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

12. But its often the case....maybe your mother in law had a tumor that wasn't located

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #11)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:00 AM

Dec 2015

in a spot that needed it.

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)

16. Or It Was Far Enough Back That They Didn't Do That Yet

Reply to VanillaRhapsody (Reply #12)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:52 AM

Dec 2015

Not doubting you. Just from very limited personal experience found it odd he would talk about something being alert and conscious during brain surgery.

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

17. Well this might help

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #16)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:53 AM

Dec 2015

http://time.com/awake-brain-surgery/

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)

3. This guy has the gift of creepiness.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:37 AM

Dec 2015

He should host Friday Night Scary Movies on some cable station.

951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)

6. Sounds like something Mike Tyson would say n/t

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:41 AM

Dec 2015

Solly Mack

(90,780 posts)

7. So he thinks children with shredded limbs, their tiny bodies covered in burns will love him

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:42 AM

Dec 2015

(after he drops a bomb on them) - because he's just trying to help them?

Children with something wrong with their brains come to him. He tells them he will be opening up their skulls - and they don't like him. But, after he has helped them, and they are better, they love him.

That's what he is saying....so applying that to his bombing of children...

That man is saying that bombing children is just another way of helping them. They may not like the bombings, or the death and mangled bodies, but they will love him after all is said and done.

That's sick.

DawgHouse

(4,019 posts)

9. It's for their own good! "This is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you."

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:47 AM

Dec 2015

Solly Mack

(90,780 posts)

10. Yep. That's part of the thinking. Sick. Sick.

Reply to DawgHouse (Reply #9)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:48 AM

Dec 2015

bullwinkle428

(20,630 posts)

13. It totally sickened me as well, in the way he expressed it.

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:02 AM

Dec 2015

Solly Mack

(90,780 posts)

15. And you know he said it with his usual oleaginous smile plastered across his face.

Reply to bullwinkle428 (Reply #13)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:22 AM

Dec 2015

DawgHouse

(4,019 posts)

8. I happened to be watching when he was asked this question.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:47 AM

Dec 2015

I just can't get over how matter of fact he was with his answer. I don't doubt that Dr Carson has patients who love him but the way he tried to wrap his patients into his answer made no sense at all. Scary if you ask me.

underpants

(182,870 posts)

14. Hewitt is on Salem radio which, for some reason, cohosts debates

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:14 AM

Dec 2015

He is C league at best and Salem radio is a funhouse of whacked RW fundies.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

18. I can almost relate.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 11:58 AM

Dec 2015

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