Media Claims that Obama Faced Same Scrutiny as Ben Carson Don’t Stand Up

Dr. Ben Carson, we're told, has been inducted into the "big leagues" of presidential front-runners, where the press is equally assiduous in vetting each candidate. Politico parsed Carson's imprecise public and written statements about receiving a full scholarship to West Point (actually his ROTC supervisors said they could get him an appointment to the school). The article's new headline no longer hits Carson with a charge of admitting to a fabrication, and it bears an editor's note sort of apologizing for its initially imprecise reporting.


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