The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report with Ed Martin.
Welcome, welcome. Welcome! It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Great to be together and so much going on. So much going on. I want to encourage You I want to encourage you. Are you ready for this? Read books, read books and I’ll tell you why in a second. But we have some great guests coming this week and next. Books that we’re reviewing, books that I’m reading, really good stuff and and important stuff. So I’ll tell you in a second about why that’s important.
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Today I want to highlight I mentioned, read books. I want to highlight and I had this instinct about three months ago. And I have not had any conversation with anyone in the Trump campaign. I do talk to people in the Trump campaign, but I didn’t talk to, I’ve never asked them about the vice presidential pick, but I have said from the beginning the one man who would be the great pick in my mind is Dr. Ben Carson.
And because I believe that, and I and I’ve seen his name in a few of the articles, but mostly it’s not in there, you see Rubio and JD Vance and Kristi Noem. You used to see and some others every now and then you’ll see a reference to Ben Carson, Dr. Ben Carson, but not much.
But because of my belief that he is so obviously the right person for the job, he’s in his early 70s. He’s young and healthy, you know, for that age, he’s very lean. He’s very careful eater. He’s obviously very healthy if he’s kind of you, you have to say he’s athletic in the sense that I’ve never seen if he plays sports. But he was doing 16 hour surgeries where he have to stand and focus your arms and your legs and everything else. So anyway, he’s in his early 70s, which makes him young by comparison to President Trump and President Biden. But he’s just the right pick and I I I’ve talked about that a number of times. And I’ll talk about it again during the during what during this WYNK.
But I went back because of my interest in him and I went to look at his writings and he has spoken at some of our Eagle events and we put a link up when we put them up on our website on Phyllis schlafly.com and I’ll, I’ll get Ryan to put a button on the front of the page so you can click through to it, but it’s got Dr. Ben Carson speaking. His wife Candy was honored with the Homemaker of the Year award. It’s got some of the things that Phyllis Schlafly and I have said about him. And so there’s a lot there and some photographs.
But I’ve been interested to read more about him and and I knew that there was a famous book called Gifted Hands about his career. It’s an autobiography. He’s got a co-author credited on on that book as well as on Think Big, which is the book I’m gonna mention. His name is Cecil Murphy. So I knew a little bit. And there’s a movie that was made. About Dr. Ben Carson, and there was coverage of his biography when he ran for office when he ran for president. So there’s been a lot. I’ve I’ve known a lot about him, but I didn’t know that much. And I and I thought, well, I’m gonna go back because I I think he’s such an important character. I’m gonna go back and I’m gonna look very specifically at his writings. And so I’ve been looking at Gifted Hands. It’s called Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story. That’s the movie. Actually, the book is called Gifted Hands and written by Dr. Carson in what year 1990. OK, 1990. And it’s very good. It’s very good. And but I I noticed on Audible, you know, the the when I listen to books on tape it’s on Audible. And I noticed that there was another book available on Audible, and so I said to myself, well, let me let me check that out. I mean, what is that one? And this one’s called Think Big. And it’s Ben Carson with Cecil Murphy again, his co-author and Think Big was published after Gifted Hands. So 20, I think 2010 is when it was published. So maybe 18 years after I guess that would be and it’s about the other people who on his way up to great success helped him and but it’s all about him, it’s about his life and about how he got from where he was. But he spends more time. Talking about the other people in, in, in, in Gifted Hands he talks about his career and his life and his career and how he succeeded and it’s very powerful. This book is all about the people that that were around him and I’m only about halfway a little bit less than halfway through and it’s Extraordinary. It’s extraordinary to hear. Hear.
In his voice, it’s written in the first person. Dr. Ben Carson talk about how he dramatically was confronted by his failures in school in the 5th grade. His mother, who was a single mother raising two boys, Dr. Ben Carson’s brother, is named Curtis, is a few years older, two years older, as I recall. And so he he was confronted by his mother, who said you have to do better, but the way she did it was she made him not watch much TV. Just a couple of hours a week instead of watching it every day after school. But even more compelling is she said, you gotta read two books a week and you and your brother have to go to the Public Library and go get books.
And he talks in this in this book that has been written, that’s called Think Big. And he talks about the experience of learning to read, not just learning to read, actually read the words, but learning to Maybe value reading. That’s a better way to say it and it’s unbelievable. It’s extraordinary. And to have someone so clear. Someone so straightforward about the power of reading and education, it’s stunning.
And I’ve told you that I think that Dr. Carson is a great candidate for VP for Vice President, United States on Trump’s ticket because he he’s he’s loyal. But I got to tell you, I was telling my wife this morning about this book. Think Big and I was explaining to her and she said, you know, he he just looks and sounds like a good man. And of course, my wife sat next to him at one of these dinners and she so she got to know him a little bit. And so she knows he’s a good man. But she said he looks and sounds right. He looks out of central casting. He looks and sounds like a good man.
But then she said my wife, unsolicited, she said he’s also just loyal. And that’s right.
Now I don’t even mean loyal to Trump. I mean, he’s just loyal to, I don’t know himself. He’s loyal to the Country he, you know, being loyal, it’s it’s a great word. It’s a great characteristic of of, of someone and it. And she’s right. My wife is right. It’s a. It’s what you when you see him, you think to yourself that’s a guy that is loyal and it’s really a funny thing because there’s other ways to say kind. Faith filled all these kinds of things, but loyal is a great word. And so, by the way, loyal, the roots of loyal actually come out of. I believe I’m looking for it right now. Out of the Latin and having to do with related to the law. Related to the law and loyal comes from the old French word. Yeah, loyal. Which means something like legal. But if someone is only loyal to you because of the law requires them to be. That’s not true loyalty. So it comes out of the word law and. And.
And that’s good because in some ways what we need in office are people that respect the law. And respect God’s law. And that’s another part of this man that’s so obvious and so interesting. So anyway, back to this. You you need to check this guy out and and if
I’m just telling you right now, if Dr. Ben Carson turns out to be the nominee for VP. The discovery of him and his life, the discovery of him and his goodness, the quality of his successes, the way he relates to them, even in the book he talks about how he got smarter and smarter and smarter than everyone because his mother forced him to read and he was just as high achieving, top notch Student.
And then he talks about going off to Yale and he said there I met geniuses. I wasn’t a genius. I realized I gotta work hard and he said and then he talked about reading Proverbs every day and he said I read Proverbs, proverbs, proverbs every day. And he said, and I I read it at at one point, he said I was reading it to to get myself to stop being angry. Remember that story? And he said that was a miracle that God did in his heart. But then he said I I realized that I had to be careful about Pride and arrogance.
And look again. You talk about like a well adjusted man. And an accomplished man. And I told you also, the contrast. Think about Dr. Ben Carson. You know you can’t fake your way to be the greatest neurosurgeon in history. You cannot get DEI to be the best neurosurgeon in history. You can get DEI to be a political candidate. That’s Kamala Harris. You know, when she started out, you can’t get DEI to be a neurosurgeon and the contrast is unbelievable.
But more importantly, he’s loyal. He’s kind, he’s a man of faith.
So when again, here’s what I wanted to say. One of the great things about Carson if Dr. Carson, if he’s the candidate, is he’s been vetted, everybody went through his life, they’ve gone through his life, his finances, his they’ve gone and asked his neighbors, his friends, they’ve asked his, you know, his, his nurses. Was he ever, you know, inappropriate. Was he ever this and that nothing. They got nothing. They found nothing.
But when they go to do that again, because they will if you’re the VP nominee. What they’ll find is an extraordinary man. What a gift. What an American. It will be spectacular and amazing. Alright, check it out. I’ll put a link up and Dr. Ben Carson. My pick. Good man.
Be right back. Ed Martin. Pro America Report. Back in a moment.
