The Ben Carson/West Point story has taken some pretty absurd turns the past couple of days, which is what usually happens when a media feeding frenzy like this starts. One Detroit political reporter was actually bragging (!) that his paper had three reporters working on an assignment to check Gen. William Westmoreland's schedule from 1969 to find out if he actually had dinner with Carson.
And it all started when the worst web site in the world claimed Carson had admitted he fabricated a passage in his book about being offered a scholarship to West Point during the aforementioned dinner with Westmoreland. I thought it looked pretty bad too when it came out on Friday (and I still think Carson wrote the book passage in a misleading way, although probably unintentionally), but boy oh boy, did Carson come out swinging on Friday and ever since.
Check this out"