Ben Carson: The Harold Hill Of 2016

Posted by | November 9, 2015 12:40 | Filed under: Contributors News Behaving Badly Opinion Politics Tengrain

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We’ve long maintained that amateur Egyptologist Ben Carson has been grifting us all along. He’s Harold Hill trying to sell us something and then skip town.

Anyway, we think that the plan was. His campaign was supposed to be an extended book tour posing as a campaign, a grift borrowed from master-grifter, Newt Gingrich from the 2012 campaign.

An then something weird happened. He became the front-runner.

Carson was never supposed to be the front runner, he was just supposed to pack the Barnes and Nobles stores and sell through his back list, and skip-outta town… READ MORE

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By: Tengrain

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7 responses to Ben Carson: The Harold Hill Of 2016

  1. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker November 9th, 2015 at 13:11

    Trouble with a capital T and rhymes with G and that stands for grifter….right here in River City!

  2. Larry Schmitt November 9th, 2015 at 13:22

    Professor Hill was a lot more entertaining.

    • Kick Frenzy November 9th, 2015 at 16:59

      I was thinking along the same lines when I saw the headline of this article.

      “Hey, Prof. Hill was charming, entertaining and has more rhythm in his little toe than Ben Carson could even lie about having in his whole body!

      • KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker November 9th, 2015 at 20:24

        Prof. Hill could keep his eyes open.

  3. robert November 9th, 2015 at 15:57

    no internet in the 1800s that’s the problem

  4. amersham46 November 9th, 2015 at 21:07

    Carson is as relative as Benny Hill

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