Ben Carson Blames the Media for the Outrage Over His Holocaust Statements
If you’ve paid attention to right wing politics at all, you know that Republican politicians never, ever back down from a batshit crazy statement. This would make them look weak to the nuts they’re trying to appeal to, so they stick to their delusional guns no matter how many people express outrage and no matter how many times their craziness is debunked.
Ben Carson is staying true to this Republican axiom today, refusing to budge an inch from his ahistorical, counter-factual, highly offensive statements about the Holocaust.
And of course, blaming the media. For people who constantly tout the vital importance of self-responsibility, Republicans are remarkably unwilling to take responsibility for the consequences of their own actions.
Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Carson defended his assertion that if more people had been armed leading up to and during World War II, Adolf Hitler may not have been able to carry out the mass murder of Jews in Europe on such a large scale.
“It’s not hyperbole at all,” Carson said, appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face The Nation. “Whether it’s on our doorstep or whether it’s 50 years away, it’s still a concern and it’s something that we must guard against. That’s one of the real purposes of having a constitution. I think the founders were really quite insightful into looking at possibilities and understanding what has happened in other places and trying to put together something that would prevent that from happening here.”
“I’m telling you there is a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.”
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“There are a lot of people in the media who would take anything you say and try and make it into hyperbole and try to make it into controversy,” Carson said. “But the fact of the matter is when you talk to average American citizens, they know exactly what I’m talking about.”