Ben Carson believes everything he hears and reads
by digby
He does. Everyone is all a-twitter about his recent comment that he believes the pyramids were built for grain storage. Now this sounds odd, mostly because we know for a fact that they were built as tombs --- hence the mummies and artifacts buried inside them.
But many right wing Christians are convinced that the first pyramid built by the Pharoah Imhotep was actually a grain silo and that Imhotep was actually Joseph from the Bible. (You can read the whole story if you really want to know it.) Carson didn't explicitly say he was referring to the Step Pyramid, which is the one in question, so it's possible that's what he meant. It doesn't matter. It's just more evidence that Ben Carson is the most gullible person in America.
Recall that he was taken to caves in Arizona by wingnutty Sheriff Paul Babeau and told that they harbored drug smugglers. Somehow he got confused and thought this has something to do with immigration and suggested the next day that we should use drones at the border. He later explained that he was talking about droning the caves. Or something.
Ben Carson has a lot of information in his brain and it tends to get muddled. Aside from the medical knowledge, it's almost all far right Christian and right wing fever swamp propaganda.
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