Ben Carson’s Mother Completely Contradicts The Entire Point Of The Stabbing Story

As the white-hot spotlight continues to burn on retired neurosurgeon and alternate universe West Point cadet Ben Carson, BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski tried to do his part to pull Carson’s feet out of the fire a little bit by tweeting part of an old Parade article in which Carson’s mother says that the stabbing story “really happened.

Here's Carson's mother in a 1997 profile of the Ben Carson play saying the stabbing incident happened by the way… pic.twitter.com/WifmQsMJlJ

— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) November 9, 2015

Here’s that portion of the Parade Magazine article from 1997:

A young actor recreated the moment when, at 14, Ben Carson pulled a knife on a classmate and tried to stab him in the abdomen. Only the other boy’s metal belt buckle kept Ben from cutting him and going to prison instead of to Yale. “Oh, that really happened,” Sonya told me. “I sat him down and told him that you don’t accomplish much by being a bully. You accomplish more with kindness than you ever do by being harsh.” Sonya realized that the violence of the streets could easily ensnare her sons, and she made it her job to ensure that that would not happen.

While some, like Mediaite’s Joe Concha, are taking this as corroboration, all it really means is that Carson told her the same story (or stories) he told everyone else. If Kaczynski had read a little further, however, he’d have discovered that Sonya Carson directly contradicts the most important element of that anecdote.

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By: Tommy Christopher

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.