With Dr. Ben Carson in hot water over his comments suggesting homosexuality is a perversion, Fox Nation has joined up with Breitbart.com - those same people just caught in another lie this week - in order to defend their GOP savior. And, not surprisingly, they played the race card while they were at it.
As we've been reporting, Carson has gotten some harsh scrutiny for his comments on the Hannity show last week after he said:
"(N)o group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality - doesn't matter what they are - they don't get to change the definition."
Now, after a group of Johns Hopkins University medical school students have petitioned to have him removed, Carson seems ready to withdraw as commencement speaker.
But to Breitbart, those fine people who promoted the falsehood that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel received money from a fictitious group called "Friends of Hamas" (which was echoed by Fox), Carson is a racial victim for having "made the point that if we change the definition of marriage for homosexuals, what's to stop NAMBLA or those into bestiality from demanding the same."
Actually, while that may have been the point Carson was trying to make, what he actually said suggested that homosexuality is in the same league as pedophilia and bestiality.
But why bother with a little thing like the facts when you can bash NBC, hold up the Great Savior Carson and burnish up your very tarnished racial bona fides by playing the racial victim?
In its post, called, "NBC News Hysteria Over Dr. Ben Carson Comment," Fox Nation quotes Breitbart's whitewashed interpretation of Carson's comment and included its next paragraph:
The media, which is always ready to destroy any black man who dares think for himself, uniformly pounced today. In response to the manufactured uproar, the soft-spoken Carson (who was a hero to the left until he came out as a conservative), did the interview rounds on cable Friday, including Andrea Mitchell's show on MSNBC and Wolf Blitzer's on CNN.
The funny thing is, just a few days ago, on Fox's America Live, Megyn Kelly and Dr. Carson, were of one mind as they condemned a "culture of victimization." In fact, Kelly went on to lecture her viewers with the following:
On that front, I’m fond of quoting one of my mentors, Brit Hume, who has a saying, which I really believe in, which is ‘winners take responsibility, losers blame others.’ And if you live your life by that mantra, it only produces success, just to keep challenging yourself. Challenge yourself to do better. Look inside. And see if you can fix the problem.
Apparently, that little maxim only applies to certain (black) people. Because we all know that there are no bigger victims than Republicans and the rules for everyone else don't apply to them as a result.
So to soothe those sore feelings on Fox Nation and Breitbart, here's Jon Stewart again on those poor, victimized Republicans.
Or that he bit on his pen to keep from smirking, but still nodded.
So, “daring to think for himself” = “spewing the FoxNoise party line.” That’s what I get from it. Am I wrong?