Obama Was Not Vetted The Way Carson Has Been And Josh Earnest's Statement About The Subject Is Laughable

The Obama Admin Just Came Out With A Statement About Ben Carson That Will Stun You

"The American people are waking up to these games."

Randy DeSoto November 9, 2015 at 3:03pm

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White House spokesman Josh Earnest believes Ben Carson is mistaken when he charges that Barack Obama did not receive the same level of media scrutiny when he was a candidate.

“I don’t agree with that statement,” Earnest told reporters on Monday. He added, given Carson’s rise to frontrunner status, he should not be surprised reporters are digging more deeply into his past. “It isn’t easy to run for president,” the spokesman said. “People who run for office are going to have their claims scrutinized.”

As reported by Western Journalism, Politico accused Carson of fabricating a story in his autobiography, Gifted Hands, about being offered a scholarship to West Point; and CNN claimed it could not validate stories found in the book about his violent youth, insinuating the former neurosurgeon may have made them up. Under pressure, Politico later changed its title, taking out “fabricating.”

“I do not remember this level of scrutiny for one President Barack Obama when he was running. In fact I remember just the opposite,” Carson said last Friday. “I remember people saying, ‘Oh, we won’t really talk about that. We won’t talk about that relationship. Well, Frank Marshall Davis, well, we don’t want to talk about that. Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, well he don’t really know him. All the things that Jeremiah Wright was saying, oh, not a big problem.'”

National Review’s John Fund pointed out that the Jeremiah Wright story, which did get widely reported, was buried for months. “Brian Ross’s ABC News report on Wright didn’t air until March 13, 2008, after more than 40 states had voted in the Democratic nomination contest and Obama needed only 225 delegates to wrap up the race against Hillary Clinton.” From that point onward, Clinton won nearly twice as many delegates as Obama: 302-171. 

Troubling video of Rev. Wright (Obama’s pastor at the time) calling on God to d–m America first came to light as result of a Rolling Stone piece entitled The Radical Roots of Barack Obama in Feb. 2007. “The story so rattled the Obama team that they pulled Wright from the speaking roster less than 24 hours before the campaign announcement,” Fund writes. The media follow up was scant, according to former CBS reporter Bernie Goldberg. Additionally, the Media Research Center reported that several months later, Rolling Stone changed its title to Destiny’s Child.

The president’s relationship to Frank Marshall Davis is another example Carson pointed to regarding the media, by-and-large, giving a pass to the candidate. Obama wrote about his mentor “Frank” in his best-selling memoir Dreams From My Father (2005). He mentioned him 22 times in the book by his first name, with various other references as well. The future president recalled a conversation that he had with Davis in the late 70’s as the young man prepared to leave Hawaii to go to college on the Mainland.

Davis warned him that college professors would “train you to forget what it is that you already know. They’ll train you so good, you’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that s–t…”

Dr. Paul Kengor, professor and author of the book The Communist – Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor (2012), noted that Obama took out all overt references to Davis in his audio version of Dreams From My Father (which he narrated) as he prepared to run for president. Kengor writes that the future candidate for the highest office in the land “no doubt feared being tied too closely to a man who joined the Communist Party under Stalin and had been so radical that the federal government placed him on the Security Index [watchlist.]”

“As Obama became a community organizer in college and later grappled with the challenges of race and poverty in Chicago, he visualized Davis and asked, ‘What would Frank do? What would Frank think?'” Kengor wrote.

Red State noted how un-curious the media appeared to be regarding Obama’s college years:

Obama applied and was admitted to Occidental College under the name Barry Sotero. Why? Has anyone seen his application? Has anyone seen his grades. (I only mention grades because of the furor the media went into over trying to get George Bush’s transcript.)

Obama attended the private Columbia College of Columbia University and later Harvard University. How did he pay for that schooling? Has anyone seen any documentation.

Did he only register for Selective Service in 1980?…

And on and on and on. In short, virtually nothing in any of Obama’s memoirs has been “vetted.”

Regarding “vetting,” Ben Carson told reporters on Friday, “There is a fair way to do this and a very unfair way to do this…My job is to call you out when you are unfair.” He added, “You are not going to find with me, somebody who will sit back and let you be completely unfair without letting the American people know what is going on. The American people are waking up to these games.”