{"id":12910,"date":"2013-03-20T17:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-20T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:15:24","slug":"dr_ben_carson_responds_to_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/20\/dr_ben_carson_responds_to_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ben Carson Responds to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: To the audio sound bites. Dr. Benjamin Carson was back on Fox News this morning, and they asked him to react to a couple things that I said about him on this program yesterday<\/a>. He was on with Steve Doocy and Alisyn Camerota. In the first bite, in fact, the whole interview was getting his reaction to things I said. Here\u2019s the first example of it.<\/p>\n

DOOCY: Rush Limbaugh said that right now, Dr. Carson, you\u2019ve got Democrats terrified. Here is a little of Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I think Dr. Benjamin Carson probably got everybody in the Democrat party scared to death. It\u2019s going to be really hard to demonize this guy, really, really hard, partially because of his race, but not just because he\u2019s African-American. It\u2019s because you can call this guy all kinds of demonic names, he just doesn\u2019t fit the bill.<\/p>\n

DOOCY: Well, Dr. Carson, is Rush right? <\/p>\n

RUSH: And here\u2019s what Dr. Carson said.<\/p>\n

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CARSON: Well, I certainly hope so. I\u2019ve tried to lead the right kind of life, a life that is inspired by my love of God and my love of my fellow man. And it is a very difficult to demonize someone under those circumstances. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just Democrats, you know. Republicans have been involved, too, in deceit and in trying to rule by fear. I think any politician who is doing that, I\u2019m very happy to expose them and to more importantly, I think we need to offer solutions for the problems, not just complain.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is the second time that Dr. Carson has explicitly distanced himself from the Republican Party. On CNN following CPAC, he said… if I\u2019m not mistaken — and I\u2019m not being critical here — nobody have a cow. He said he was an independent, not a Republican. Distancing himself. Now this sound bite: “But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s just Democrats that demonize people. Republicans have been involved, too, in deceit, in trying to rule by fear. And I think any politician is doing that…” This is very interesting to me, very interesting what Dr. Carson is doing here. Not a Republican, and pretty much out of the blue, I mean, up until the CNN interview post-CPAC, I don\u2019t think there was any doubt, was there? <\/p>\n