BEN CARSON: THE PLOT AGAINST THE DOCTOR IS ABOUT TO BEGIN, Roger Simon warns:

As Ben Carson continues to rise in the polls, ahead not just in Iowa but now nationally, there is one thing you can bank on.  A round of  attacks on Dr.  Carson are about to begin and they will be vicious, not to the extent of Stalin’s famous plot against the doctors perhaps, but the plot against this particular doctor will be pretty bad.  And as with Stalin’s plot, it will be filled with lies and innuendo aimed at destroying the subject.

Donald Trump has already given us a hint with his cheesy, supposedly innocent, question about Carson’s religion.  But that’s only the beginning. The media will have a field day.  They have already shown an eagerness to quote Carson out of context, thereby skewing what he is really saying (i. e. his comments about guns and the Holocaust and the presidency and Sharia law) in an obvious  attempt to “get him.”

It will be interesting to see how Carson holds up against this barrage.  Several factors are in his favor:  his intelligence, his honesty and that these attacks were to be expected (even by a political neophyte like Carson). Although it will give him problems in the short run,  his style of speaking, deliberate and thoughtful, rarely in sound bites, will also redound in his favor.

It will be a good test for him — if Carson can’t survive attacks led by Trump, how will he hold up under the full weight of the Hillary-Democrat-Media Industrial Complex pressing down on him should he win the nomination?