You know you’ve crossed the line when Glenn Beck tells his audience that what you’ve said is “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” That, presumably, includes the voices in his head—not to impugn the voices in his head. GOP presidential contender Ben Carson did it. He broke it. He pushed it too far. In his fevered brain, it might have sounded good to him; it sounded right. It sounded like a rational argument. He used the universally deplored atrocity of prison rape as part of his case that homosexuality is a choice. “A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay,” Carson said on CNN Wednesday. “So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.” Stunned silence. “Oh god,” said Joe Biden and the rest of the world. Carson represents a particular kind of evil in the right-wing universe. His venality is cloaked in doctor’s scrubs and the intonations of a reasonable and well-educated man. His seemingly pleasant manner, twinkly eyes and soothing voice nevertheless has been the vehicle for some of the bat-sh*ttiest, and just plain sh*ttiest utterances of the past few years. Obamacare is worse than slavery. Same-sex marriage is like pedophilia. Black people are to blame for all their problems. People who believe in evolution are unethical. (Yes, a doctor, a supposed man of science said this.) The Fox News darling tried to blame CNN, of course. They twisted his words, he whined. How, exactly? They were his words. He said them. On TV. He later gave up, and apologized-not-really, on Facebook. “I realized that my choice of language does not reflect fully my heart on gay issues.” Later, he promised he’d stop talking about LGBT matters altogether. Sure he will. Not really a “choice of language” issue, Ben. And we don’t even want to venture to guess what might be in your heart.
Isn't that a classic case of the kettle calling the pot black? You have to stoop pretty low to allow Glenn Beck to tell you who a nutcase is. No matter how long he lives, I don't think Glenn Beck will ever understand why Obama doesn't want a statue of Winston Churchill in the Whitehouse.
Precisely. If moonbats think Beck is an idiot, and that the idiot thinks someone else is an idiot, doesn't that make Carson a smart guy? Kinda like a double negative?
Carson compounded his original gaffe with his attempt at groveling. He should have said he meant that people can go both ways. Clearly that makes it voluntary, not immutable. He never should have tried to justify his opposition to gay marriage. He could have just said it was a matter of his religious belief. I don't think it will hurt him that much. Anyne who was going to vote for him probably agreed with what he said. It's not like the NYT or MSNBC were going to endorse him before he said that.
That was a pretty odd way of stating his position, though it would have made a hell of a good line in a stand up comedy routine.
you got that right. 90% already have their mind made up, facts be damned. The question is what about people like me who could go both ways or stay home? (or how bout a threesome?)
If Beck is in fact an idiot, he's a reptard idiot. But if he's not an idiot, then at least one reptard thinks Carson is an idiot. The calculus is a bit different (not just simpler) if one takes it for granted that all reptards are idiots.