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spanone

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Mon Nov 23, 2015, 08:59 PM Nov 2015

Ben Carson 'Doesn't Stand Behind' His Own Remarks About American Muslims Cheering on 9/11

you really can't make this shit up!!!!!


Hours after telling reporters that he saw a video of American Muslims in New Jersey cheering on Sept. 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center's twin towers fell, Ben Carson's campaign apologized for the remarks, saying he "doesn't stand behind" them and that they were "a mistake."

When asked by ABC News if American Muslims were cheering on 9/11 -- as has been suggested by Donald Trump -- Carson said “Yes.”

“I saw the film of it, yeah,” he said and cited "the newsreels" of 9/11 coverage at the time.

However, Carson made a 180 a short time later.

"He doesn't stand behind his comments to New Jersey and American Muslims," said campaign spokesman Doug Watts said. "He was rather thinking of the protests going on in the Middle East and some of the demonstrations that we're going on in celebration of the towers going down.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ben-carson-newsreels-american-muslims-cheering-911/story?id=35376256
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