Nearly a week after he set off a firestorm by saying he would not “advocate” for a Muslim president, Ben Carson took aim at the media in his address to the Values Voter Summitt Friday in Washington, D.C.
During his address, Carson, who sits third in the Washington Examiner‘s latest power rankings, remarked facetiously that he is “tickled” with the media at the time being, before telling the crowd of conservative activists that the political media “just don’t get it.”
“I just am so tickled with the media. I mean, these guys, they’re like — they just don’t get it. You know?” Carson said. “And, you know, the interesting thing is the media is the only business in America protected by the United States Constitution, and there was a reason that they were protected. It was because they were supposed to be on the side of the people.
“They weren’t supposed to pick and choose which side they were on because that distorts the entire system, and we should hope and pray that one day they come to understand that if the nation goes off the cliff, they’re going off with it,” Carson told the crowd. “And maybe — maybe they will wake up, begin to understand what’s going on.”
The famed neurosurgeon went on to blast the media for not talking about the “real issues” Americans are facing, while continuing to decry political correctness, which he said is “ruining” the country.
“Political correctness is ruining our country and we need to stand up for what we actually believe. It’s ridiculous. The big problem with the media is they are always going off into these tangents because they don’t want to talk about the real issues.”
