As you all know, Ben Carson says a lot of weird, crazy shit, but just when you think he can't say anything weirder or crazier... well, nobody thinks that. But even by that measure, this argument in favor of Donald Trump is insane and hilarious: Yeah, get Dickens on the line ...read more
Once a brief contender for the Republican presidential primary lead, Dr. Ben Carson has settled into a glorified book tour/Fox News audition/consultant gravy train masquerading as a presidential campaign, but he's still a reliable source for premium shit-talking. On MSNBC today, ...read more
Ben Carson may be fading from the Republican presidential field, but he's still going strong at saying weird, dumb shit. While delivering a pep talk to students at a Christian school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Thursday, Carson asked the assembly who was the "worst student" in the ...read more
Tonight is the night! CNN is hosting the last Republican primary debate of the year, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, Dana Bash and Hugh Hewitt at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, we will have embeddable clips from the main debate, in near real-time. With Donald Trump ...read more
It is really hard to keep up with all the crazy, weird shit that Ben Carson says, but I'm doing my best. You can check out my epic video slideshow of Carson insanity at Mediaite, but here are the new ones I dug up while researching it. We get it, Ben Carson. You stabbed a guy ...read more
After CNN looked into Ben Carson's stabbing story and found nothing to back it up, Carson added a few new changes to the story. Previosly identified as an ROTC classmate named Bob, Carson now says it was a "close relative," and claims he used aliases in his books without telling ...read more
Retired neurosurgeon and erstwhile knife-fighter Ben Carson's ride atop the GOP presidential polls has brought with it a renewed scrutiny of the crazy, stupid, and just plain weird things he's been saying for years. This week, Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski surfaced a quote from a ...read more
One of the more strenuous pursuits of this presidential election has been cataloging the many crazy, weird things that Ben Carson says, but several liberal sites are now attacking Carson for saying that "many" Americans are "stupid." Mother Jones' David Corn dug up a clip from ...read more
It is a well established fact that Ben Carson says a lot of crazy, weird shit, but usually, he spaces it out a little. That wasn't always the case, as his first paid speech for quack supplement company Mannatech demonstrates. At Wednesday night's Republican debate, Carson was ...read more
It is a well established fact that Ben Carson says a lot of crazy, weird shit, and Wednesday night's Republican debate was no exception. Carson was quizzed about his relationship to quack supplement pyramid marketer Mannatech, and weirdly tried to distance himself from the ...read more
Presidential candidate and quasi-frontrunnerBen Carsonsays a lot of weird, crazy stuff, so it's easy to let something slip by. For example, when Carson talked about stabbing a classmate on Meet the Press this weekend, I was more amused by the image he painted of a teenage Ben ...read more
Former Florida Governor and Future Former Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush grossed out the entire extinct population of Krypton this week when he revealed his sweaty hots for Supergirl during a forum with the LIBRE Initiative, a Hispanic economic organization. Asked to ...read more
Ben Carson says so much weird, stupid shit that it sometimes takes awhile to catch up to it all. In all the hubbub of the last Republican debate, I completely missed the incredibly dumb thing Ben Carson said about Osama bin Laden, namely that if George W. Bush had simply ...read more
Retired brain surgeon and current Republican presidential runner-up Ben Carson has been making a whole lot of noise this week, mostly about his own Oregon shooting self-fanfic, but some of it regarding his run-in with a gunman at a Popeyes restaurant. While Carson insists that ...read more
Ben Carson is taking a lot of heat over comments he keeps making about the Oregon shooting, but it's starting to look like he's completely incapable of saying anything normal. By now, you've probably seen one of the many examples of Ben Carson explaining how if he was ever up ...read more
Retired brain surgeon Dr. Ben Carson loves to tell people how he would have rushed the Oregon mass shooter, instead of "cooperating" and just letting him shoot everyone like the real-life victims did (except they didn't). The guy literally cannot stop saying it, and laughing ...read more
Now that the Republicans' Sad Trombone Debate is over, it's time for the main event, this time with more Carly Fiorina! All of the candidates in the main debate have telegraphed their desire to take on frontrunner Donald Trump, which means we can expect to see lots of painfully ...read more
Another day, another thing that's definitely going to end Donald Trump! Or maybe even two things! In a newly-published Rolling Stone article, Trump went after Carly Fiorina over her looks, and is also now on the attack against his nearest GOP presidential rival, Ben Carson. ...read more
The political outrage of the day for Wednesday centers around remarks that brain surgeon and Republican presidential exploratorer Dr. Ben Carson made about homosexuality, or to put it another way, today is a day. On CNN's New Day, Dr. Carson patiently explained to Chris Cuomo ...read more
Conservative prayer-brawler and retired brain surgeon Dr. Ben Carson is locked in a weird meta-media Mortal Kombat with Daily Beast writer Evan Gahr, who published an interview in which Dr. Carson says that Obamacare is worse than 9/11 because "9/11 is an isolated incident." Dr. ...read more
