We suddenly have a flurry of reports — a lot of them coming from sources that would not usually be described as hostile — that things Ben Carson has been saying are not so. Well, obviously, a lot of his opinions are pretty wacko but now we're dealing with strictly factual matters and he's being called out for supposed lies.
Are they? Looks that way with some of them…but to be a lot fairer to him than he is to his political opponents, a few of them seem a bit stretched to get called out as lies. And a few of them are things he could have dealt with in a wiser manner saying, "Okay, I guess I phrased that badly," instead of calling reporters liars. I suspect the biggest damage all this is doing to him is making him look very, very thin-skinned and inept at crisis management.
And I do think that if a Democratic opponent had the same seeming gaps in truth, Carson and his supporters would not hesitate at all to say the examples prove the Democrat is a mentally-ill congenital liar who can't be trusted to tell you today's date without lying his or her ass off.