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skip fox

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Sun Oct 4, 2015, 09:33 AM Oct 2015

"It's as easy as brain surgery with a chainsaw." . . . Please come CAPTION Ben Carson!!! [View all]



Ben ("Just hold still for a minute, will ya?&quot Carson just finished saying: "If it's a majority of people in that area want a Confederate flag to fly, I certainly wouldn't take it down. . . . Who's to say that even some of my own ancestors weren't proud to be slaves under its banner? . . . Maybe thousands of them teared up to the strains of Ol' Dixie Mine and wept to be part of the land of cotton that stretched out beneath that glorious flag! . . . I mean whose to say anyway?"



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Above CAPTION is based upon (indeed the first sentence is almost verbatim from) the following article at Crooks & Liars":

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/ben-carson-ignites-firestorm-over
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