The media isnt of a lot of value when their focus is making money through advertising. They want to built people up and then tear them down to get people to watch their stuff. Doesnt work on me really- I ignore TV news pretty much totally, radio news mostly. I pass internet news through my personal "agenda filter" to try and get at the facts. Politicians I ignore completely, as they are infected with 100% agenda driven positions.

The black culture in this country has been infected with entitlement from the government. As a result, I pretty much stay away from black people as soon as I detect that entitlement. Its disgusting and doesnt endear them to other groups in the USA.

I think he is taking a page from Trump, in that people are tired of political correctness. Trump showed us that issue, and Carson is picking up on it. Good for him. Rand Paul should pick up on it too, as he is the best of the candidates. Probably un-electable (which is too bad actually). My vote goes for Rand Paul first if he makes it to the primary and then the election, and then either of Carson or Trump (whoever makes it to the primary and then the election). The rest of them are politicians, religious zealots or idiots, and I am DONE with all of them.

Geez, I'm reading your comment, CG, and I'm thinking: what the hell does Alcoholics Anonymous have to do with hiring? My laugh for the day-

Now that we have a black president, the victim thing seems like ancient history to me. Twenty years ago I heard we needed AA because people hire from within their own networks and dark-skinned people would not be welcome in those circles. That's completely false today.

Maybe people are saying this. I'm pretty uninformed. I catch news here and there. But I suspect the people doing the talking are the people with a political agenda, as you suggest.

If only: "I don’t want to be in office under false pretenses, just saying things people want to hear so I can get elected.”

And Carson has stated clearly and repeatedly that blacks in this country have allowed themselves to be manipulated and economically imprisoned in perpetuity by victim politics and the welfare state.

But the over all attack strategy on him IS all about race. How can progressives maintain a permanent underclass of blacks whose 'care and maintenance' provide them with both jobs and voters IF black Americans have an epiphany and discard, "victim politics"?

I agree with what you're saying but not the insinuation that it's about race. Our society is less comfortable than I would like with the "cowboy" notion of citizens stopping a bad guy in an emergency. I'm glad he's making us uncomfortable and pointing out that sometimes during a crime like that heroes appear and fight back. I don't think our discomfort is about race.

The media parses every word the man says in order to perform a high tech, verbal lynching of him. He was supposed to stay on the modern day progressive plantation created by LBJ's Great Society and, 'know his place.' I find him delightful. He is obviously very well read in many areas outside of medicine. He is also a quick study and someone who while mild mannered and kind will NOT be bullied They just can't nail the man down and put him in a box. Kudos to him.

"I would not just stand there and let him shoot me. I would say, Hey guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can't get us all"
I agree with this statement. If it were me, I'd admit if I were caught off guard or just freaked out, I might not do the right thing. But I completely agree that the good guys of the world should grab whatever weapon they have and stop people trying to commit atrocities.
I also agree with the stuff about it being okay to talk about Hitler aloud and admit that it's an extreme case that shows how we can fail to stand up to someone we know is wrong.

The stuff about not wanting a Muslim president, sounded like the garden variety bigotry that his Hitler example is supposed to illustrate-- stand up to that nonsense. It does say he later said he wouldn't want any extremist as president. No fake. If he's such a straight talker, he could have started with that truism and avoided appearing to exploit people's fears of one another.

I agree strongly with him on stopping a murderer. It's easy to say we should fight a gunman who unexpectedly starts shooting. It's hard to do. I admire anyone who does it.