Did "The Scariest Republican Crackpot" Tell Some Whoppers? (UPDATED - Yes!)

"No doubt he's a nice guy. Too bad he's also something of a nut."  - Denver Post editorial, Nov. 5.

Yes, "something of a nut," or as we would say, "The Scariest Republican Crackpot."  

He also may be something of a fine story teller  fabulist.

You see, part of Carson's up- by- the- bootstraps life story was that he had a somewhat violent youth, after which he saw the light yada yada yada, ultra right- wing Republican.  Somehow, though,  journalism has erupted, and questions are being raised about this chapter of his life:

Ben Carson said Thursday that the names of two people he has previously identified as victims of his childhood violence are "fictitious."

"I don't like to generally bring them in, the names I used for instance are fictitious names because I don't want to bring people into something like this because I know what you guys do to their lives‎," Carson told reporters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

In a later interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly, he said that the person he tried to stab during his youth was a "close relative." Carson said he spoke with the relative earlier Thursday, who told the retired neurosurgeon they did not want to be revealed.

"I didn't want to put their lives under the spotlight," Carson told Kelly.

Carson had previously said the stabbing victim was a friend.

His comments follow a CNN investigation published earlier Thursday that probed his descriptions of his violent past. He has said he attacked a boy named Bob with a knife and hit another child named Jerry with a lock. Carson said Thursday that those names weren't real.  (our emphasis)

Are you sure it wasn't Ben and Jerry?  Or maybe Tom and Jerry?  And maybe he attacked Bob with a fork and Jerry with a spoon!  Behind the pyramids grain storage depots, with magic elixirs!  C'mon, give him time to get his stories straight!  Oh... he's just changing the names and the "facts" to protect the victims!  We get it! (wink wink)

This guy is one of the most ignorant,  medieval, bizarre persons ever to command significant support in a major American political party (albeit one that's rather insane itself).  That he has such significant support is itself a damning statement about the intelligence and judgement of a large slice of the American public. 

UPDATE:  Now this.  He seems to fit the definition of a pathological liar:

Ben Carson’s campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.  (our emphasis)

(Image:  If his lips are moving, he's lying.)