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Dr. Ben Carson knows how to get an audience of conservatives going. In a recent speech, the retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and current Fox News contributor suggested that progressives could turn the United States into the next Nazi Germany, according to The Huffington Post.
The comments came at a Jan. 31 fundraiser for Oregon Republican Senate candidate Dr. Monica Wehby. A video of the speech, uploaded to YouTube, shows Carson discussing how the "secular progressive movement" wants to "fundamentally change who we are." The majority of Americans who have "common sense," meanwhile, are "afraid to speak out," Carson said, because "they will be targeted, they will be called names, they will be investigated by the IRS, and all kinds of unimaginable things will happen."
A few moments later, Carson brought up the Nazis.
"There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up," he said. "Think about Nazi Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing. But did they speak up? Did they stand up for what they believe in? They did not, and you saw what happened."
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-nazi-reference
Walk away
(9,494 posts)He is the Rain Man of neurosurgery. Everything he says that isn't directly related to neurosurgery is just gobbledygook.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)Secular progressive Nazis who want things to... CHANGE!
elleng
(131,292 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)MD = Major Dick.
Wolf Frankula
(3,604 posts)Because he doesn't want to be reminded of what he is.
Wolf
madaboutharry
(40,245 posts)Someone must be paying him a lot of money to say such stupid things. This new commercial I have seen him in is a disgrace. He talks about bringing back the greatest health care system known to man, the one we had before Obamacare. What a pig.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Loki
(3,825 posts)Republicanism will rot the brain of a Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon as sure as shit.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)being with feeling for others. Ben Carson is a huge disappointment as far as his politics goes. But I still respect his professional accomplishments. He is a great surgeon.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Second of all...he's just projecting because that's what right wingers to best.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)now that he has repeatedly opened his mouth....sheesh! Cuckoo for cocoa puffs!