Team Carson: ‘Politico Story Is An Outright Lie’  —  “The campaign never ‘admitted to anything,’” a spokesman for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told The Daily Caller News Foundation in response to a hit by Politico claiming his campaign admitted to “fabricating” a key point about his West Point story.

Ben Carson Says He Was Never Accepted to West Point  —  In his rise to the top of the crowded field for the Republican presidential nomination, Ben Carson has endeared himself to conservatives with his inspirational tale of emerging from a broken home to become an internationally renowned pediatric neurosurgeon.

Hit the Brakes on the Ben Carson Story  —  I've struck through the original piece here.  —  It is looking more and more like the details of Ben Carson's West Point story are more nuanced.  —  In 2013, he said he was offered a scholarship to West Point.  The Politico story centers on Carson claiming he “applied and was accepted.”

Ben Carson's allies defend West Point story  —  Allies of retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson are defending his long-told story of a “scholarship” to West Point by saying that he merely shorthanded the free ride he'd been offered to the military academy.  The argument — which depends …

No, Ben Carson Didn't Lie About West Point.  It's Another Media Hit Job.  —  Never underestimate the capacity of the media to propagandize against Republicans.  —  That's the theme of this morning's overwrought news coverage on Dr. Ben Carson's supposed “lie” regarding a “scholarship” to West Point.