"Carson: I Won't Become 'A Vanilla Envelope' Just To Avoid So-Called Gaffes"

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A Fox News host asked Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson on Wednesday morning what some might have wondered for a while now — did he need to get better at saying what he means?

During his campaign so far, Carson has made (and then walked back or clarified) comments on using drone strikes to secure the border, and whether he would be OK with a Muslim president.

This week, Carson addressed the recent massacre of nine people at an Oregon community college. He said that he wouldn't have just stood there and "let him shoot me." He also said that the thought of taking away gun rights was more "devastating" than any body with bullet-holes that he had seen.

During the Wednesday interview on Fox, host Martha MacCallum pressed Carson on the comments after he blamed the media for twisting his words.

[spanone]

1. proceed, doctor

[pinboy3niner]

2. A vanilla envelope is actually a brilliant idea

That stuff they make you lick now tastes like crap!

[COLGATE4]

3. Reminds me of the story where the Angels were

frantically looking all over heaven for a Psychiatrist. When they finally found one, she asked them what the problem was. They replied: "It's God. He thinks he's a neurosurgeon".

[Gothmog]

4. Ben Carson is not qualified to be POTUS

[Vinca]

5. Carson is no more qualified to be POTUS than I am.

The man is a neurosurgery savant who has turned into a bizarro cult leader on the right.

[Johonny]

6. You can't make Ben Carson care about the poor, the dying, the murdered, the sick, the hungry

[MurrayDelph]

7. Maybe be can use his Vanilla envelope

to hold Louie Gohmert's asparagus.