Ben Carson “abandoned his gentle manner on Friday night and delivered a powerful public scolding of the news media that has begun to question his celebrated biography,” the New York Times reports.
“In the process, he turned what has become an almost robotic ritual for candidates under attack — the live and often defensive news conference — into an aggressive confrontation, and at times interrogation, of the reporters’ motives and methods.”
“The performance, at a news conference in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., was mesmerizing at times, in part because of the serious personal questions that have been raised: whether he embellished or even made up crucial episodes in his life story, like the attempted stabbing of a childhood friend and his claim that West Point had offered him a ‘full scholarship.'”
