"Dr. Carson is being vetted and you know what, I know you're going to be surprised to hear this, I think it's a very good thing that Dr. Carson is being vetted, that Dr. Carson is being tested, that Dr. Carson is having to answer to these questions, because in my opinion, and the opinion of many others, it's best that Dr. Carson address these issues early on and get them out of the way," Armstrong Williams, Carson's business manager and close adviser, told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day."
If anything, it is only making Ben Carson stronger!
"[...] It's only going to become more harsher and more difficult and Dr. Carson — and I say this because I know him as many others also — is that he's an honest man," Williams said. "He's a decent man. He's a good man. And even in the vetting process, no one has proven anything to say that Dr. Carson has not been honest and that he's been inaccurate."
Well, he said he had been offered a full scholarship to West Point and that didn't actually happen. It was a rather silly embellishment where he turned standard-issue recruiting rhetoric into yet another story emphasizing his own personal brilliance. That was a bit fibby. Some of the other stories, such as Ben Carson Stabbing A Child, Ben Carson Attacking His Mom, and Ben Carson Telling Gunman to Go Rob That Guy Over There, I think we're all happy to stipulate as being real if that's what the man wants. The jury's still out on the question of whether a young Ben Carson received a $10 prize for being the most honest person at Yale University.
(Bonus points, however, for having Armstrong Williams—yes, that Armstrong Williams—vouch for your honesty.)
The problem for Carson, of course, is that his entire rationale for becoming president is that he may not be experienced or know what the hell he's doing on the foreign policy/domestic policy/anyother policy stage, but that he's a "good man" and an "honest man" and so will only-somewhat-magically do the right things regardless of whether he knows even the slightest bit about them. Having the press scrutinize the storyline of a man famous for being only a point and a half shy of receiving his own personal halo goes to the heart of the only thing Carson has going for him.
America wants to know that if you say you tried to murder a child, you really tried to murder a child. This speaks to your character. Carson had damn well better hope he tried to murder a child, or there's going to be hell to pay.