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In any case, Carson has to have at least some integrity to do this job (hopefully). Which makes it all the more baffling that he has a long history of grossly exaggerating his resume. In one of his biographies (called I Totally Saved Those Conjoined Twins, You Guys), he makes a comment about how he was offered a full scholarship at West Point, but turned it down to pursue his dream of doing neurosurgery stuff.

Welp, it turns out that, lo and behold, West Point doesn't offer full rides -- a fact that was left out of the many times Carson repeated the story over the years. When presented with this information, Carson admitted that the offer for the scholarship was more implied and informal -- i.e. it probably didn't happen at all. However, not only is the claim repeated in his other biographies (how many does he need?), but he also kept repeating it as recently as last year, when he said it on Facebook and in a Charlie Rose interview. On top of that, a bunch of other pesky details surrounding his childhood have been found to be a little too perfect to be true. Gee, it's almost like he exaggerated these stories to make them fit better into his personal narrative about Jesus picking him to save those kids or whatever.