Dr. Carson throws his tin foil hat into the ring
by digby
It’s very tempting to think that Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential run will be a joke along the lines of Herman Cain or Michele Bachman. And maybe it will be. But this is bound to impress a lot of people at least in the beginning because it’s impressive as hell:
Following an ABC News report that Fox News contributor Ben Carson is set to air an hourlong ad/documentary* “introducing himself to the American people” as part of a 2016 Republican presidential bid, Fox News has cut ties with him, according to aFox spokeswoman. The video is titled “A Breath of Fresh Air: A New Prescription for America” and, according to ABC News, will be heavily biographical, addressing Carson’s “rise from being born to a single mother with a poor childhood in Detroit to director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins for almost 40 years, known for his work separating conjoined twins.”
I wrote about Carson at Salon a while back. He is a very accomplished person.
He is also political nut who makes Cain and Bachman look like Howard Baker and Everett Dirkson by comparison.
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