If there’s one person running for president who just dumbfounds the media, it’s Dr. Ben Carson. He has stayed near the top of the political polls while taking positions and making statements that seem to shock the mainstream media.
The latest example is a CNN host’s outrage over Carson’s recent statement that the Holocaust could have been prevented if Jews had been armed.
On Monday’s New Day, co-host Alisyn Camerota demanded, “Does Dr. Carson have any sense of how hurtful this is to American Jews who may have lost grandparents or great grandparents in the holocaust?” and read a statement critical of Carson from the Anti-Defamation League.
Her guest, Carson advisor Armstrong Williams, countered: “Anybody who’s gotten to know Dr. Carson – not just during this presidential election cycle – knows that he is just not an offensive human being. That’s just not who he is.”
Camerota responded:
“Well, but at this point he has offended some American Muslims by suggesting that he could not support a Muslim president. He has offended at least one victim of the Oregon massacre who said that he does not — he felt hurt by what Dr. Carson said about how had he been in that room he would have rushed the gunman, even though one person in the room did rush the gunman and ended up being shot seven times. He’s now offended some American Jews and the Anti-Defamation League. Is it possible that Dr. Carson, while meaning well, is missing some sort of sensitivity chip?”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: “I’d suggest Camerota is missing some sort of journalistic integrity chip, trying to create controversy to discredit Carson by seeking out people who are supposedly offended instead of addressing the underlying policy points Carson was trying to raise. And how ‘sensitive’ are journalists usually to victims of tragedies?”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
