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RUSH: So here you have someone like Ben Carson with his life and his resume, and they\u2019re trying to destroy him. They\u2019re trying to destroy him the way they destroy everybody in politics. One of the ways they\u2019re doing it now, apparently in his book he talks about some of his experience as a young man where he says he was a young tough, a brute, he was mean, was a bully to people. And the media is running around saying, “You know what, he\u2019s just trying to make himself look tough \u2019cause he\u2019s so boring. We can\u2019t find any evidence that he was ever any of that.” <\/p>\n

They are running around trying to find people that Carson grew up with. “Do you ever remember him beating people up? Do you ever remember him being a bully? Do you ever remember him being a mean guy?” Supposedly they can\u2019t find anybody that remembers. So all of this came up on CNN today. And one of the ways of going after Carson, he\u2019s evangelical Seventh-day Adventist. Now, Carson does not champion Seventh-day Adventist. He just says he\u2019s a member, but he\u2019s basically just a run-of-the-mill Christian. He doesn\u2019t tout the specifics of Seventh-day Adventists. So on CNN this morning national political correspondent Maeve Reston reported on Carson\u2019s claim that he had a violent background.<\/p>\n

RESTON: They just found it very curious that they\u2019d never heard about these incidents at the time that they happened. So it really just raises a lot of questions about that piece of his life and the way that he\u2019s telling the story on the campaign trail as he connects with evangelical voters. What\u2019s so important about this part of his life is that God intervened, he says, at age 14. Right after that stabbing incident he prayed in the bathroom for three hours, and he says that after that moment he never had a violent outburst again. And so that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to confirm and figure out as we think about someone who wants to be president in the Oval Office, you know, at the nuclear controls.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: So you evangelical voters, you are so stupid, you need this woman Maeve Reston to run around backtracking and documenting Ben Carson\u2019s story to save you from the guy, \u2019cause you\u2019re too stupid, you\u2019re too religious, you\u2019re too big-hearted, you may not realize he\u2019s just a liar, Ben Carson. He believes in God. You wouldn\u2019t have and we have never seen this kind of investigation of any Democrat candidate. (interruption) Right. She\u2019s trying to confirm with God-d that Carson prayed for three hours. Which has gotta be strange for somebody working at CNN to try to reach God. I wonder if they know how. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Ben Carson himself this afternoon in Miami, campaign event. The reporter said, “The two incidents before your mother, were those classmates, were they friends, were they neighbors? How do you characterize because our investigation couldn\u2019t find these people that you supposedly beat up.”<\/p>\n

CARSON: Well, why would you be able to find \u2019em? What makes you think you would be able to find them unless I tell you who they are? If they come forward on their own because of your story, that\u2019s fine, but I\u2019m not gonna expose them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (imitating Carson) “Well, why would you be able to find \u2019em? What makes you think you\u2019d be able to find \u2019em unless I tell you who they are?” “Well, we can\u2019t find \u2019em, nobody will admit it.” “Well, then it\u2019s their the problem. I\u2019m not gonna tell you who they are.” And that\u2019s just gonna tick \u2019em off even more. “Well, if you beat people up, tell us who. I mean, just like Romney didn\u2019t care that some employee\u2019s wife died of cancer, we were able to find that guy and made an ad. We want to find these people so we can call you a liar.” He says, “Well, I\u2019m not gonna help you find \u2019em.” <\/p>\n

Trump appearing on Saturday Night Live. That\u2019s its own story. You\u2019ve got a bunch of Hispanics paying people to show up on Saturday Night Live to shout that Trump is a racist. You\u2019ve got a bunch of people trying to ban Trump\u2019s appearance, get NBC to rescind it. Trump\u2019s got some promos that he\u2019s out there using already for his appearance coming up on Saturday night. So in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday Ben Carson spoke with reporters, including NBC senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing about Trump\u2019s promo for Saturday night. Trump has a promo saying that he just thinks that Ben Carson is a big loser. And it\u2019s obviously a joke. It\u2019s Saturday Night Live. It\u2019s Trump parodying himself. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, NBC, look, there\u2019s a federal restriction that because of federal election rules that Trump can only talk for four seconds about other people on these campaigns without them legitimately claiming they deserve equal time to Saturday Night Live to respond. So in any promo Trump or anybody, any political guest is given four seconds to talk about Jeb, or in this case Ben Carson or whatever, and NBC is claiming just like they don\u2019t know what happened that 911 tape that got edited the George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin case, they don\u2019t know what happened here. But, anyway, Chris Jansing and Ben Carson have this exchange here about being made fun of on Saturday Night Live.<\/p>\n

CARSON: I would not want equal time to SNL.<\/p>\n

JANSING: Do you plan on watching?<\/p>\n

CARSON: No.<\/p>\n

JANSING: Would you do SNL if asked?<\/p>\n

CARSON: No.<\/p>\n

JANSING: Why? <\/p>\n

CARSON: Because I think the presidency is a very serious thing and I don\u2019t like making light of it like that.<\/p>\n