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Enrique

(27,461 posts) Wed Oct 14, 2015, 07:11 PM Oct 2015

Ben Carson on Popeye's: I'm god-fearing so I'm not lying, it was a long time ago, I got french fries

“I can tell you categorically as a God-fearing Christian, it’s something that happened," he said. "It’s not something I made up."

Carson journeyed to the restaurant for French fries, Armstrong Williams said.

But details about the incident remain thin, and Baltimore police said the story didn’t provide enough information to verify the incident or find a police report. Carson’s camp had earlier tried to kill questions about the incident, saying they would not discuss it further.

That changed on Wednesday, though. Asked about the incident during an interview on MSNBC, campaign spokeswoman Ying Ma said that implications the Republican presidential candidate lied about the incident were “completely outrageous.”

“A lot of the details are hazy because that incident did occur over 30 years ago,” Ma said. "I'm sure that a lot of even anchors here at MSNBC would have trouble remembering incidents from over 30 years ago."

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Ben Carson on Popeye's: I'm god-fearing so I'm not lying, it was a long time ago, I got french fries (Original Post) Enrique Oct 2015 OP

I would not brag about whining to a gunman that he should harm the OTHER guy randys1 Oct 2015 #1

Next he will say if Africans had guns the Europeans would not have been able to enslave them. SummerSnow Oct 2015 #5

Exactly. True or false, the minimum-wage fast-food worker is made into the enemy. arcane1 Oct 2015 #6

...... trusty elf Oct 2015 #9

He just keeps digging himself in deeper Warpy Oct 2015 #2

I would loudly proclaim the story to be true then. Kalidurga Oct 2015 #3

That's got to be a tough job: campaign spokesperson for Ben Carson. Old Crow Oct 2015 #4

Hazy? Bull. SwankyXomb Oct 2015 #7

I remember every time a gun is pointed at me. rickford66 Oct 2015 #8

BS stillrockin67 Oct 2015 #10

Did she reference UKGB? Darb Oct 2015 #11

randys1

(16,286 posts)

1. I would not brag about whining to a gunman that he should harm the OTHER guy

Reply to Enrique (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 07:12 PM

Oct 2015

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

5. Next he will say if Africans had guns the Europeans would not have been able to enslave them.

Reply to randys1 (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 07:45 PM

Oct 2015

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

6. Exactly. True or false, the minimum-wage fast-food worker is made into the enemy.

Reply to randys1 (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 08:52 PM

Oct 2015

So at least it's conservative

trusty elf

(7,402 posts)

9. ......

Reply to randys1 (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 05:33 AM

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Warpy

(111,359 posts)

2. He just keeps digging himself in deeper

Reply to Enrique (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 07:25 PM

Oct 2015

trying to defend a fairy story that saved his own precious ass and putting a hardworking, underpaid counter person at risk. It's not going to endear him to anyone who works for a living, especially anyone who confronts the public every day.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

3. I would loudly proclaim the story to be true then.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 07:32 PM

Oct 2015

You know like defend Carson's honor by saying he is a coward that tried to get someone else killed instead of him. Seriously, I don't know anyone who would do that.

Old Crow

(2,212 posts)

4. That's got to be a tough job: campaign spokesperson for Ben Carson.

Reply to Enrique (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 07:34 PM

Oct 2015

Every day you'd wake up thinking, "Okay, so what kind of bonehead statement am I going to have to explain away today?"

SwankyXomb

(2,030 posts)

7. Hazy? Bull.

Reply to Enrique (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 09:06 PM

Oct 2015

My father was held up at gunpoint 35 years ago and he remembers every moment crystal clear.

rickford66

(5,528 posts)

8. I remember every time a gun is pointed at me.

Reply to Enrique (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 09:50 PM

Oct 2015

Carson is proving that maybe Brain Surgery isn't Rocket Science.

stillrockin67

(29 posts)

10. BS

Reply to Enrique (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 07:54 AM

Oct 2015

I had a gun pulled on me over fifty years ago, and none of the details are "hazy." My brother-in-law had a gun pulled on him over forty years ago, and none of the details are "hazy." This lady's whimpering explanation is bs.

Darb

(2,807 posts)

11. Did she reference UKGB?

Reply to Enrique (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 09:44 AM

Oct 2015

The world renowned University of KGB?

I went there too. Except KGB to us was Killer Green Bud.

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