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November 09, 2015
My pick of 100 or so Favorite Jokes Related to Dr Ben Carson Ridicule on Twitter (in no particular order)
Late last week, Republican Presidential front-runner, highly respected former neurosurgeon Dr Ben Carson, also an author of a plethora of books, was caught in some, should we say inconsistencies at least, if not lies. It kept getting worse over the weekend and now several of his most inspirational stories from his books and speeches are found to have no merit, or have no evidence that they occurred. It ignited a firestorm of ridicule that was trending on Twitter under the hashtag #BenCarsonWikipedia for much of the weekend. I haven't seen as much jokes against any one candidate at any time before in such enormous volume in such a short time. Not Sarah Palin, not Mitt Romney, not Governor Oops ie Rick Perry nor Captain Moonbase Newt Gingrich.
I joined in the Twitter fun and will post two blogs about it. This is my favorites collection of what others wrote, after a lot of consternation, selected my approx 100 favorites out of tens of thounsands of jokes I read over the past 3 days. But before we get to the jokes, most who read this blog are not that intensely involved in US politics, that they won't quite understand the intensity of the outburst and why some of the issues might be subject matter to jokes. So lets do a brief overview of Dr Ben Carson first, the factual side leading to this, so you understand, and you will have the context to also appreciate the jokes more. I will be brief..
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Bryan @bwguenther
I joined in the Twitter fun and will post two blogs about it. This is my favorites collection of what others wrote, after a lot of consternation, selected my approx 100 favorites out of tens of thounsands of jokes I read over the past 3 days. But before we get to the jokes, most who read this blog are not that intensely involved in US politics, that they won't quite understand the intensity of the outburst and why some of the issues might be subject matter to jokes. So lets do a brief overview of Dr Ben Carson first, the factual side leading to this, so you understand, and you will have the context to also appreciate the jokes more. I will be brief..
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The term algorithm is named after Al Gore, the inventor of the internet
Bryan @bwguenther
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