Ben Carson says Pharrell Williams' song "Happy" is a communist plot...

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Ben Carson Thinks Obama Is Engaging In A Leninist Plot To Intentionally Destroy The Economy

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Tuesday, 7/8/2014 11:05 am

Readying for a potential presidential bid, Ben Carson has been speaking out about how everything from health care reform to gay marriage is part of a long-term communist plot to bring down America, inspired by Vladimir Lenin and Saul Alinsky and orchestrated by none other than President Obama. In the second part of Carson’s interview with WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah last week, which he began by tying together pot use, Benghazi and the Pharrell song “Happy,” the conservative activist said “people need to wake up” about the subversive communist plot.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Ben Carson is waaay past due for a psych exam.... n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. The Onion is so funny!

Wait....that's not the Onion.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. And this guy is a respected surgeon?

I wouldn't let him give me an aspirin. Just shows that it's possible to be really smart and really stupid at the same time, I guess.

[freshwest]

20. Surgeons are plumbers who work on bodies instead of toilets. Think Joe the Plumber. Both necessary.

Well, Joe, not so much, but you see the style being used. If you check out this guy's life, despite his awesome skills, he is vulnerable to wing nuttery.

I've dealt with surgeons a few times. Some have great personalities and a well-rounded world view and they are wonderful, down to Earth, good folks. It's their technique and ability to hold things all together under stress that makes them a success and a necessity. They are right there to save lives when no other person can.

One I had to deal with was doing surgery on a family member, had such a dismissive personality, if he hadn't been so highly recommended, I would have gone elsewhere.

We only had about three encounters as he was so well paid, his time was so valuable, that he never gave more than a few minutes to anyone. His life was focused on the operating room. That is a good thing, rude or not.

But he knew exactly what was happening when a fracture failed to heal, went to a seminar on the exact problem and did the third surgery. Then at our last meeting, when all had healed, was the first time I saw the human side of the man. He was ecstatic that the method worked and restored the functioning and positioning, just as before the break. He went on about how perfect it was, truly happy. It's why he was recommended, his passion, but he had no 'people skills' at all.

But others are like Joe and just not good for making decisions that effect the lives of millions. We've had a rare chance for the last few years, much of it squandered by wing nuts and on the reverse side, voter apathy. Things to go downhill when Obama leaves office.

[Initech]

35. My brother is a medical resident.

He said when he was in medical school that the surgeons were the most high strung, unlikable people in the whole school. I'm not saying all surgeons are like that but I'm also guessing that Dr Carson is not too far off from the stereotype.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. They can be as high-strung and unlikable as they want if they are good at surgery.

But I assume one needs to be reasonably intelligent to get through medical school and all the training that follows. What I can't figure out is how someone who is smart enough to have done all those things and has had an apparently successful career as a surgeon could be stupid enough to believe the crap he's spewing. Or maybe he doesn't believe it at all and just spews to attract the knuckledraggers comprising his desired constituency. That would make him an evil cynic.

[el_bryanto]

4. I am looking forward with interest to Mr. Carson's Campaign

It sounds like he has some great ideas on how to best represent the modern Republican Party; I just hope his campaign isn't derailed by his potential institutionalization.

Bryant

[BainsBane]

5. Obama has enlisted the puppytarit in his communist plot against America

Witness Nathan, the Leninist pooch.

[BlummberBee]

6. Republicans have their own theme song: Unhappy & Whiney About Everything American

[TBF]

7. Subversive communist plot?

I am always the last one to know anything.

[PADemD]

13. Not the last

I just played the song "Happy." Nice catchy tune.

[bullwinkle428]

8. Didn't George Bush Sr. use "Dont Worry, Be Happy" as a campaign theme song

back when it was a big hit in the late 1980s?

[3catwoman3]

30. The high point of that Republican National convention...

...for me, was when the Bush and Quayle families were up on stage with all the fluttering confetti, and the music playing was one of the signature pieces from La Cage aux Folles -

[DetlefK]

9. Motown Sound = Cold War = Communists at the doorstep

I just read the article. The REAL connection between "Happy" and communism is that people rather listen to that song than to republican rantings about the communist in the White House.

[Enrique]

10. his counterparts in Iran fear that song as well

they see it as a Western plot.

That said, I can't watch the video at the moment and I'm curious what exactly he said about the song.

[TheBlackAdder]

34. It sure sounds like Ben is just as much of a Fundie as the Muslim Iranian Clerics are. nt

[Skidmore]

11. What kind of plot is Ben Carson involved in?

Do we know?

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Communism? Still?

There are still people worried about that? I think we established that humans aren't ready for that sort of system. We're still too hierarchicial.

Seems like there might be, you know, REAL things to worry about.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Didja notice he also resurrected Saul Alinsky?

Back in 2000 the Repugs used his name a lot.
they never could say why, but they did spew it.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. When You Got Nothin'. . .

. . . you give nothin'.

He's got nothin'!

[frylock]

47. they still do..

take a look at reader comments on Raw Story.

[TheBlackAdder]

36. If he took PoliSci classes, he'd see that pure Communism & Capitalism are just Utopian fantasies. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

40. Sort of Where I Was Headed

You were more succinct than i.
GAC

[TheBlackAdder]

43. Suck what?

1:00 into the video clip

[ProfessorGAC]

44. Great!

I forgot about that line. Thanks

[Mike Nelson]

14. I hope Ben runs!

Run, Ben, run!
Run, run, run!
Make the Republican nomination process fun!
Fun, fun, fun

[Xyzse]

15. Trying to figure that one out.

Other than having two verses. Everything else is the chorus.
So, here's the lyrics:

It might seem crazy what I'm about to say
Sunshine she's here, you can take a break
I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space
With the air, like I don't care baby by the way

Chorus:
Because I'm -happy-
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm -happy-
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm -happy-
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm -happy-
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do
hey, come on!

Here come bad news talking this and that -Yeah-
Give me all you got, don’t hold it back -Yeah-
Well I should probably warn you I'll be just fine -Yeah-
No offense to you don’t waste your time here's why

It basically just says, whatever bad things come my way, it won't faze me, I rather be happy about life and everything else.
Is that what that idiot thinks is communist?

I guess the idea of being resilient and is antithesis to his thinking everyone should just be mad every time.

[SamKnause]

16. Would anyone in

their right mind let this neurosurgeon operate on them ???

It is quite obvious he suffers from severe mental problems.

[alarimer]

17. I guess you don't have to be all that smart to be a brain surgeon, after all.

He's certainly dumb.

[Archae]

19. Not dumb. Stupid.

Dumb means not knowing any better.

Ben Carson does know better, but he spouts the bullshit anyway.

[Orsino]

31. Not stupid. Corrupt.

I mean, unless we think he actually believes this shit.

[SwankyXomb]

22. He'd fit right in here:

[JHB]

33. and here...

[KurtNYC]

21. "It might seem crazy what I’m 'bout to say..."

Because I'm Carson

[JEB]

23. I am "happy" to be part of the plot.

[Dawson Leery]

24. Ben Carson would suffer a 20 point/450 electoral vote loss against Hillary,

or most any other Democrat.

He is focusing his campaign on social issues. The nation is moving in favor of gay rights, ending the drug war, contraception is no longer controversial (95% support usage).

[Johonny]

25. Look at Russia and China: a modern communist is a western capitalist's Ayn Rand fueled wet dream

Ben Carson would fit right in...

[Arkana]

26. Apparently he's decided that going for the "crotchety old person" vote

is the most viable path.

"You kids and your Snapple and your skateboards and your Chee-tos and your smartphones!"

[DonViejo]

27. And the irReverend Pat Robertson believes...

John Lennon's "Imagine" is a commie, pinko, f*g anthem.

[TexasTowelie]

28. Interesting facts about Dr. Ben Carson, Conservative Icon:

1. raised by a single mother
2. raised in public housing
3. fed with food stamps.
4. supported with welfare
5. kept healthy with medicaid
6. educated in public schools
7. got eyeglasses from state agency
8. benefited from affirmative action to enter college
9. used federal loans and Pell grants in undergrad school
10. benefited from affirmative action to enter medical school
11. med school paid for with grant from USPHS*
12. said: "The disintegration of the family unit and the welfare state are enslaving African-Americans and ruining their futures."
*USPHS - United States Public Health Service

[3catwoman3]

32. Dr. Carson and Paul Ryan have both benefitted enormously...

...from government assistance. It is completely mystifiying to me that they are so rabidly opposed to others being similarly helped.

He knows about the structures of the brain, but not about the parts that give rise to compassion.

[erpowers]

49. Maybe They Wish It Had Not Happened

It seems a number of people who have either taken money from the government for themselves, or their businesses want to pretend they did everything by themselves. You may have seen posts about the Mother Jones article that listed the Silicon Valley companies that had taken money from the government and the fact that their creators claimed their companies had not received money from the government.

Maybe people like Dr. Ben Carson and Rep. Paul Ryan wish they had gained their success by themselves. Maybe the real reason they want to end the social safety net is that if they end it they can claim they did not used the social safety net.

[frylock]

48. in other words: i got mine, fuck all y'all

[arcane1]

29. Silly Carson, intentionally destroying economies is what capitalists do.

[jmowreader]

38. Blame Reagan for Dr. Ben Carson

If Reagan wouldn't have closed the mental hospitals Ben Carson would be in a rubber room where he couldn't harm anyone.

[wandy]

39. About that happy song. Maybe Ben Carson is on to something. He is not........

the only one to see the evil implications of that song.
Iranian Youths Arrested for Dancing to Pharrell's 'Happy'

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi is reportedly behind the tough reaction to this and is taking a hardline, saying that "Islam is against laughing loudly for no reason."

http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/iranian-youth-arrested-dancing-pharrells-happy/

Do Ben Carson and the good Ayatollah see something about this song that we don't know.

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Or are beginning to see something about right wing extremist the would rather us not know.

[NightWatcher]

42. Where the fuck are the FEMA camps and why the fuck aren't people like him in them?

[LadyHawkAZ]

45. And here I thought "Happy" was a plot by SiriusXM to drive listeners to road rage

via repetition.

Apparently I was thinking in too small a scale.

[frylock]

46. can this guy do us all a solid and perform a self-lobotomy?