Ben Carson Admired Joseph For Being the ‘Best Slave’ He Could Be
Retired neurosurgeon and erstwhile knife-fighter Ben Carson’s ride atop the GOP presidential polls has brought with it a renewed scrutiny of the crazy, stupid, and just plain weird things he’s been saying for years. This week, Buzzfeed‘s Andrew Kaczynski surfaced a quote from a 1998 speech in which Carson theorizes that the ancient pyramids of Egypt were built by Joseph to store grain:
“My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it. And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain.”
“And when you look at the way that the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d have to be that way for various reasons. And various of scientists have said, ‘well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they have special knowledge and that’s how-’ you know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you.”
I don’t know who the “various scientists” who attribute the pyramids to aliens are, unless that guy who did the voiceover on the original Battlestar Galactica counts, but I’m pretty sure there’s a decent scientific consensus on that whole “tomb” thing. See, you don’t need a “theory” when you’ve already got fact.
As usual, though, the media is missing out on other Carson nuggets from that same speech. For example, he begins his riff on Joseph by explaining that the Old Testament fashion icon is one of his favorite Bible characters, because when life gave him slavery…READ MORE
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Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
33 responses to Ben Carson Admired Joseph For Being the ‘Best Slave’ He Could Be
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Obewon November 5th, 2015 at 21:02
Next-up: realizing Jesus must’ve been a liberal Jew, Ben blows himself away Live on TV!
katkelly57 November 5th, 2015 at 21:05
I just heard that he said the pyramids were grain silos, not burial sites for Pharaohs.
He’s done pissed off the Anunnaki, I betcha they come for his dumb ass.
robert November 5th, 2015 at 21:17
too good to be true
robert November 5th, 2015 at 21:16
‘well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they have
special knowledge and that’s how-’ you know, it doesn’t require an alien
being when God is with you.”
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LOL it gets better each day
what a nutjob
StoneyCurtisll November 5th, 2015 at 22:06
That sounds just like Carson~!
jasperjava November 6th, 2015 at 10:56
That’s because that’s exactly what he said, verbatim.
Warman1138 November 5th, 2015 at 21:21
Poor Ben, did aliens steal his brain and drink his liquor too?
whatthe46 November 5th, 2015 at 21:26
“And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain.”” can someone explain that line to me please?
jasperjava November 6th, 2015 at 10:57
I’m not going to even attempt to take a crack at that one.
whatthe46 November 6th, 2015 at 12:20
that was a serious question though. i don’t know what it means. lol
robert November 5th, 2015 at 21:27
when your ready to announce ben
do it in style
whatthe46 November 5th, 2015 at 21:30
ha! what style?
robert November 5th, 2015 at 21:33
its not make america great again but it did get alot of votes
whatthe46 November 5th, 2015 at 22:36
you know what? the pic wasn’t there when i clicked on the article. all there was, was you post. now i see the pic.
Larry Schmitt November 6th, 2015 at 05:15
So far he hasn’t gotten a single vote. Nothing but polls so far. He won’t be around after the voting starts.
robert November 6th, 2015 at 21:35
trump will get plenty of votes from people who don’t want to know how he plans to achieve his promises .
because mexico hasn’t said anything about paying for a wall
anothertoothpick November 5th, 2015 at 21:35
Maybe for the next presidential cycle the repubs can draft Goodluck Jonathan.
Larry Schmitt November 6th, 2015 at 05:16
Only if he can show his long form birth certificate.
mfr4 November 5th, 2015 at 21:38
Jesus H. Christ, what is wrong with this man? What is wrong with people who support him?
Larry Schmitt November 6th, 2015 at 05:17
I’ve been wondering that about him and tRump since this carnival began. The sentence “They can’t be serious” keeps popping up.
StoneyCurtisll November 5th, 2015 at 22:05
Reality check…
There is no evidence whatsoever that “David”, (Jews) were involved in the building of the pyramids..
Or any evidence that the pyramids were used to store grain..
There is evidence that Ben Carson is full of BS..
And can easily be proved.
FatRat November 5th, 2015 at 22:28
That big thinking of his – look where it got him. He ended up being sold into slavery, but did that dampen his thinking? In no way. He said “If I’m gonna be in prison, I’m gonna be the best prisoner they ever saw.” And he ended up in charge of the prison. That was pretty big thinking. Before that, of course, as a slave in Potipher’s household, he said “If I’m going to be here, I’m going to be the best slave,” and he ended up running the household. And of course, he ended up as prime minister of the most powerful nation in the world at that time.
That rhetoric sounds somewhat familiar. lol
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IwC3S_TpcRs/TrgG-l12GQI/AAAAAAAAAgE/V7hFYhnpeLs/s1600/house%2Bnig.jpg
House Slave vs. Field Slave (ie best prisoner they ever saw)
http://orig01.deviantart.net/f711/f/2012/363/d/5/house_negro_vs_field_negro_1_by_alexlartwork22-d5pjucm.jpg
Tommie November 5th, 2015 at 23:23
I wish someone would build a working time machine and drop him off, during the roughest and brutal times, in Slavery History!
allison1050 November 5th, 2015 at 23:55
Does anyone have some duct tape?
fahvel November 6th, 2015 at 02:46
serious questio – is carson a little/lot insane? I only get snippets and that’s just enough for me to see him as a nut.
Darksnark November 6th, 2015 at 02:56
Ben Carson is starting to make Alex Jones look rational by comparison….
Darksnark November 6th, 2015 at 02:48
Question is, how much more footage of Ben Carson’s raving crackpot insanity is still out there waiting to surface?
The ignoramus isn’t intellectually qualified to run a dog kennel, let alone be handed the keys to the White House and the launch codes for this country’s nuclear weapons arsenals.
Carson was allowed to operate on people’s brains? The guy doesn’t sound like he’s taken very good care of his own….
Larry Schmitt November 6th, 2015 at 05:13
The rwnj modus operandi: When the facts don’t fit your way of thinking, make up a “theory” that does.
Buford2k11 November 6th, 2015 at 06:28
well, the rest of the world seems amused…the gop is projecting our political weakness to our enemies, and to our allies…these guys are doing more damage to the USofA than all of the terrorists together…Ben Carson is not mentally healthy…ya don’t need to be a Dr. to see that he needs professional help, but like most gop policies, he won’t get the mental help he needs…Insanity within the GOP is leading this nation to an uncertain future, one that HRC or Bernie may not be able to dig us out of…The GOP and their candidates are willing to let our nation suffer for their political and monetary gains…We are facing fascism now…in the form of the Republican Party…
MyDogsAreSmarterThanYou November 6th, 2015 at 08:19
And rightist nutballs want to give this buffoon the nuclear codes. Jesus F*cking Christ.
jasperjava November 6th, 2015 at 11:03
Republicans are not interested in facts or evidence. Ideology trumps all. This is true whether we’re talking about economics or foreign policy or whatever.
It’s scary to think of any of these bozos in the situation room being briefed by military and intelligence experts about a high-level crisis, and then saying, “you know, I have my own theory about that.. “
fredoandme November 6th, 2015 at 18:33
everybody knows that the tralfamadorians manipulated the humans to build the great pyramids as a signal to salo, their robot stranded on titan, to let him know that help is on the way.
fredoandme November 6th, 2015 at 18:37
by the by. my daughter told me that today she saw her first trump bumper sticker. the car had two of them.
she also noticed someone taking a carson sticker OFF of his car.
so……..