Fox News host Todd Starnes called the media scrutiny around the life and memoirs of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson a “lynching” on Monday.
“The mainstream media’s political hit job on Dr. Ben Carson is nothing short of a journalistic lynching, strung up with rumors and innuendos and flat-out lies,” Starnes said in a video posted to the Fox News website. “It is further evidence of the mainstream media’s appalling behavior towards black conservatives.”
Since rising to prominence in polls nationally and in early voting states, Carson’s best-selling memoir “Gifted Hands” and his speeches have been intensely scrutinized, including stories about a violent and temperamental youth, a claim of a scholarship offer by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and involvement with a medical supplement company.
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