People are sick of the media’s “petty” attacks against Dr. Ben Carson, Charles Krauthammer said tonight on Fox News’s Special Report.
Citing anecdotes from others who’ve been offered admission to West Point, Krauthammer said attacking Carson for claiming he was offered a “full scholarship” is “ridiculous”:
This scholarship story is ridiculous. It is obvious that some in the military and the ROTC in Detroit, they said to him, ‘If you want to get into West Point, it’s a formality. You’ll get in, you’re distinguished, you’ve done extremely well academically in leadership’ and of course it comes with a full scholarship, meaning you don’t pay. That’s what he says. So he says I was offered a full scholarship. He was offered informally essentially and decided not to apply. But there are a lot of folks who have been to West Point who said that’s exactly was how they got in. They were told you were a perfect candidate, you apply, you get in. It’s a formality. They applied and got in. Carson didn’t. Big deal!
Krauthammer also mocked CNN for claiming to have debunked another Carson story:
CNN interviews nine people from Detroit. It’s a pretty big city. And decides nobody can remember that, as if any of them would have been in the room. And that this lack of people saying ‘I was there, I heard about this,’ is evidence that it didn’t happen is preposterous. So, you know, a lot of people tell stories of their histories when nobody can verify, it either happened the way it did or it didn’t and are you going to believe Carson or a negative story on CNN?