Obama Gets Free Pass On Many Lies, Yet Carson Is Grilled Over Minutia.

Nit-picking Carson’s past, but not Obama’s

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Personal Liberty News Desk

When they weren’t busy fretting over how Donald Trump’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live” would turn out, the mainstream media spent most of the weekend dissecting the nuances of Ben Carson’s personal story.

Did he really have an epiphany that helped steer him away from violence and poverty? Was he really even a “bad” kid? Was he really offered a scholarship to West Point? Did he really even say, in so many words, that Gen. William Westmoreland ever offered him one?

One thing’s for sure: If the answers to these not-so-burning questions are never known, it won’t be for a lack of probing. And that’s something that can’t be said for President Barack Obama, who has fabricated, embellished or given conflicting accounts of significant portions of his own personal narrative. Seven years into his presidency, there’s much about the man we don’t know — and that the media, so assiduous in parsing Carson’s past, has enthusiastically avoided finding out.

“What are cases in the past when President Obama misstated points about his biography, but the media did not cause a national firestorm or characterize him as a pathological liar?” Independent Journal’s Kyle Becker asked Sunday.

Becker surfed the Internet and came up with nine examples. He elaborates on each one at the link, but we’ll just bullet-point them and leave you with a question: How many more can you name?

The list:

1. “Obama’s Staff Corrects WWII Story” (New York Times)
2. Selma Birth Connection (Independent Journal)
3. “Obama Overstates Kennedys’ Role in Helping His Father” (Washington Post)
4. “Tale of British brutality toward Barack Obama’s grandfather probably untrue, book claims” (The Telegraph)
5. The heroic story of Obama’s step-grandfather dying while fighting the Dutch is untrue (New York Times)
6. “Obama Lied About Mother’s Health Insurance Problem” (Commentary)
7. Obama makes white Occidental College classmate “Regina” into African-American aka “composite girlfriend” (Washington Times)
8. President Obama’s “improbable love” narrative (Jack Cashill)
9. Obama and his mother not “abandoned” by father in 1963 (Buzzfeed)

Note Obama’s piece of damage control for item No. 6: the made-up story about his mother’s health insurance.

“In response to inquiries, ‘a White House spokesman chose not to dispute either Ms. Scott’s account or Mr. Obama’s memory, while arguing that Mr. Obama’s broader point remained salient.'”

But of course it did.

For the left, the end always justifies the means.