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May 9, 2015 8:00 am - NewsBehavingBadly.com

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Presidential wannabe Ben Carson likens President Obama to a “psychopath.”

“I said he reminds you of a psychopath, because they tend to be extremely smooth, charming people who can tell a lie to your face with complete — it looks like sincerity, even though they know it’s a lie,” Carson told CNBC’s John Harwood. “I think he knows full well that the unemployment rate is not 5.5%. He knows that.”

(The interview aired before Friday’s jobs report, in which the unemployment rate dropped to 5.4%.)

Carson was most likely referring to the debate over how the Bureau of Labor Statistics defines the unemployment rate. Some conservatives have called for more attention to be paid to those who have given up looking for a job, whom the most commonly used statistic excludes.

Carson, repeating an argument he has previously made, said Obama’s administration was willing to manipulate the unemployment number to paint a more positive portrait of the economy.

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D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

15 responses to Ben Carson Explains Why Obama ‘Reminds [Him] Of A Psychopath’

  1. causeican May 9th, 2015 at 8:40 am

    Ben Carson projecting.

  2. jybarz May 9th, 2015 at 10:49 am

    For a bloody doctor, he’s a bloody clueless, idiotic man.
    Doesn’t he realize that he says stooopid things all the time?
    What a bloody waste of a doctor.

    • Dwendt44 May 9th, 2015 at 12:38 pm

      It’s probably a good thing that the hospital got him out of the surgery when they did.

  3. Suzanne McFly May 9th, 2015 at 11:09 am

    “I said he reminds you of a psychopath, because they tend to be extremely smooth, charming people who can tell a lie to your face with complete — it looks like sincerity, even though they know it’s a lie,”

    Sounds like a definition of a republican except for the extremely smooth and charming part. I have a problem with the people who are looking for the percentage of people who are no longer looking for a job, why weren’t they concerned about this percentage when cheney was in office?

    • Larry Schmitt May 9th, 2015 at 4:25 pm

      Exactly. The statistics have been calculated the same way for decades. It’s only “phony numbers” when a Democrat has a low jobless rate?

  4. anothertoothpick May 9th, 2015 at 11:11 am

    Carson is only obeying commandments that are evidently chiseled on a stone tablet somewhere for all the extreme right to follow:

    Thou shalt not understate;

    Thou shalt not be thoughtful;

    Thou shalt not make a lick of sense.

  5. No way out May 9th, 2015 at 11:18 am

    Running for president today, arguing with a ghost whilst wearing 4 jackets and a Mexican sweater in a library tomorrow.

  6. StoneyCurtisll May 9th, 2015 at 11:21 am

    Ben Carson says: “I said he reminds you of a psychopath, because they tend to be
    extremely smooth, charming people who can tell a lie to your face with
    complete — it looks like sincerity, even though they know it’s a lie,”..
    Hey brother man..you just described yourself…

    • Red Mann May 9th, 2015 at 3:58 pm

      And with Carson’s remark, every irony meter within a million light years exploded.

  7. whatthe46 May 9th, 2015 at 11:32 am

    if it were the opposite and the numbers were extraodinarily high, they would find nothing wrong with the findings. lol. and the butthurt continues.

    • Dwendt44 May 9th, 2015 at 12:39 pm

      Wonder why they never care to find out why or how those ‘drop outs’ are managing.

  8. labman57 May 9th, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Step #5 in “10 Easy Ways to Demonstrate that you are not a Viable Candidate for Public Office”.

  9. ChrisVosburg May 9th, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    So Obama cites a unemployment figure that everyone– excepting “some conservatives”– agrees is a correct assessment, and he’s a psychopath.

    So what Ben is implying is that “everyone” is a psychopath– everyone but Ben Carson, that is.

    What ‘s the name of the mental disorder in which the subject perceives everyone but himself to be mentally disordered?

  10. ChrisVosburg May 9th, 2015 at 2:27 pm

    Since the tell in psychopathy is the apparent sincerity (according to psychopathy expert Dr Ben Carson), I’m compelled to observe that the “sincerely held religious beliefs” cited in the Hobby Lobby case are therefore simply psychopathy and hold no evidentiary weight in any decision. Case dismissed!

  11. thinkingwomanmillstone May 9th, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    Ben should be starting with the man in the mirror.