By Goldie Taylor
How the Republican frontrunner hurt his brand by needlessly exaggerating his toughness.
Ben Carson might well be the “Rick Ross” of presidential politics.
In
no small irony, the retired neurosurgeon—much like the chart-topping
rapper— is under fire for allegedly misleading the public about parts of
his life story. Ross, also known as “Teflon Da Don,” was never the
thugged-out, gun-toting, cocaine-slanging street menace that so often
shows up in his lyrics. Instead, he was a college-educated corrections
officer before he turned to the music industry to make his millions.
Carson’s exaggerations don’t go that far—his tales are far more
pedestrian. But in story after story the iconic physician appears to embellish his life
growing up in inner city Detroit. He certainly did not need to spin
wild tales about his years as a young, gifted black boy raised by a
single mother in urban America. That’s a story millions know and can
relate to.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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