Tale of Two Candidates : If Carson Is Unfit, So Is Hillary

Dr. Ben Carson is battling Donald Trump for first place in the Republican presidential race, and he has become both a target and a fear for the leftist mainstream media that touts Hillary Clinton as the only way to save America from GOP conservatives. ~~~~~ Carson has been fighting the mainstream media since Friday. Yesterday he appeared on Sunday political talk shows to try to settle continuing questions about his background. "Meet the Press" ran an interview with Carson made Saturday night at JFK airport about his claims he shielded white students in high school during protests over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. The Wall Street Journal can't find evidence to support his claim, but Carson answered as he did when classmates said they couldn't recall his trying to stab a friend or having a violent temper in his early teens : "Why would they know about that unless they were one of those students?" ~~~~~ Carson says he's being "vetted" more heavily than any other presidential candidate because what he calls the "secular progressive movement" sees him as "a very big threat because they can look at the polling data and they can see that I'm the candidate who's most likely to beat Hillary Clinton." Carson challenged the media : "Show me somebody, even from your business, the media, who was 100% accurate in everything that they say that happened 40, 50 years ago. Please show me that. I'll...learn something from them." ~~~~~ But, the Democratic Party candidate is protected by the leftist mainstream media. Since February, the issue of Hillary Clinton’s secret email server has been treated as a campaign news story, not an issue of her honesty. Mrs. Clinton lost her 2008 bid to become the first woman to top the Democratic ticket, so she spent four years being the voice of Barack Obama's addle-brained foreign policy -- thinking that despite Benghazi, the Russian reset button and the Iraq withdrawal, she would be nominated. Actually, GOP candidates have beaten Democrats so often in state and local elections since 2010 that Democrats have little choice but to anoint Hillary Clinton. Even now, as she contends with weak polls and serious legal problems, Democrats cling to her. ~~~~~ Ever since the existence of her secret email server was revealed in February by the New York Times, Hillary has handled the issue with public jokes and sarcasm -- and with silence followed by a press conference in which she said the email server never transmitted sensitive material, and that her team deleted more than half the emails on it before turning it over to the State Department. Clinton pledged never to turn over the server, saying that it was her personal property. All that was a lie. Two of those emails from spy satellites and the NSA were classified as Top Secret when they were sent and still are. More than 300 emails have since been proven to be classified, despite Clinton's continuing refusal to admit it. Six months after refusing to turn over her server, the FBI requested and got it, and hopes to restore all the files in the server to enable the Department of Justice to see whether the deleted emails were really “personal,” as Clinton claims, or were deleted for other reasons. And in October, the House Select Benghazi Committee presented emails and testimony proving that Hillary Clinton knew within hours the Benghazi attack was carried out by terrorists but lied to America for several weeks. She still refuses to admit this. ~~~~~ Dear readers, transmitting and retaining classified material in her private server violates criminal statutes 18 USC 793 and 1924. Others have been convicted. David Petraeus plea-bargained. Bureaucrats have been imprisoned. Some lost their security clearance and couldn't be employed in sensitive federal or contractor jobs. Hillary still has her security clearance. But, mainstream media doesn't talk about her lies or possible criminal acts. If Ben Carson's faulty memory raises questions about his fitness for the presidency, Hillary Clinton's lies should long since have disqualified her.