Retired Neurosurgeon, Failed Presidential Candidate, Treasury looter, Oddly Comatose Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson has difficulty concealing his hostility to questioning by Freshman Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts for his medical opinion about health effects on the residents of Federal Public Housing of the increasingly subhuman conditions therein since his incumbency at the agency*, for which Carson is seeking a budget reduction:
The exchange speaks volumes for itself. Carson shares with his boss a comically robust (if undeserved) self-regard and a penchant for leaving a trail of bizarreness in his wake, but this episode perfectly captures the arrogance of an incurious man who has milked a hot dogging celebrity for 30 years who now finds himself having to answer for his incompetence (or negligence or dereliction of duty-- it hardly matters which) to someone he would desperately prefer to see as his inferior. Even his eyes can't be that closed to reality.
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* He could also be grilled on his Christian perspective on the matter.
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