Conservative Writer Calls Out Carson's 'Bold-Faced Lies' About Company
By Catherine Thompson October 29, 2015, 1:42 PM EDT 19977 views
Dr. Ben Carson flatly rejected a CNBC moderator's questions about his ties to a medical supplement company during Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate.
The retired neurosurgeon first spoke at a Mannatech event in 2004 and continued speaking at the company's conferences over the next decade, according to Geraghty's report. Carson also spoke about the health benefits he felt he'd gotten from taking Mannatech's supplements in a video for the company and touted "glyconutrients" in a 2014 PBS special. The company has also touted Carson's experience .. http://ir.mannatech.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=62253&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1849026 .. with their products in its press releases.
Here's a clip of the Mannatech video in which Carson touts the health benefits of the company's supplements:
CNBC's Carl Quintanilla asked Carson about his relationship to Mannatech during the debate. He pointed out that the company, which claimed to cure autism and cancer with its products, settled a deceptive marketing lawsuit for $7 million.
"Does that not speak to your vetting process or judgement in any way?" Quintanilla asked to loud boos from the audience.
"No, it speaks to the fact that I don't know what's going on," Carson dodged.
Carson also denied having given Mannatech permission to put his image on the homepage of its website and claimed he had "no involvement" with the company.
"I didn’t have an involvement with them. That is total propaganda, and this is what happens in our society. Total propaganda," Carson said. "I did a couple of speeches for them. I do speeches for other people. They were paid speeches. It is absolutely absurd to say that I had any kind of a relationship with them. Do I take the product? Yes. I think it’s a good product."
Watch the exchange between Carson and Quintanilla:
"Mannatech wanted to improve its image and happily paid Carson, one of the country’s greatest neurosurgeons...to appear at their events and to appear in the company videos," he wrote. "They put his face all over their web site (sometime between my story and now, those images were taken down). Carson’s lack of due diligence before working with the company is forgivable. His blatant lying about it now is much harder to forgive."
Indeed, archived versions of Mannatech's homepage show that Carson's image, which appeared on the company's website as recently as Jan. 16, had been removed by Feb. 7. Geraghty's report was published on Jan. 12.
Trump showed that he could modulate and not act up... i suspect horse tranquilizers were involved, as Dr. Ben probably shared some of his 'script pills with him. Ben's eyes look like he just bonged some northern california sinsimella, and his ideas seem to match up with that hypothesis. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=118105614
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