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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: The 61st annual National 
Prayer Breakfast -- one speaker getting even more media 
attention than President Obama, Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. 
Benjamin Carson giving his biblical interpretation of taxes and 
health care.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DR. BENJAMIN CARSON, JOHNS HOPKINS NEUROSURGEON: We spend a lot 
of money on health care, twice as much per capita as anybody 
else in the world, and yet not very efficient.

You make $10 billion, you put in a billion. You make $10, you 
put in one. Of course, you got to get rid of the loopholes.

(APPLAUSE)

CARSON: But now -- now, some people say -- they say, Well, 
that's not fair because it doesn't hurt the guy who made $10 
billion as much as the guy who made $10 -- where does it say you 
have to hurt the guy? He just put a billion dollars in the pot! 
You know, we don't need to hurt him!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAN SUSTEREN: Was Dr. Carson's speech inappropriate based on the 
location and the timing? Former congressman Allen West joins us. 
Good evening, sir.

ALLEN WEST, FORMER CONGRESSMAN: Good evening. How are you doing, 
Greta?

VAN SUSTEREN: Very well. And as you may have noted, that Dr. 
Carson is a world famous neurosurgeon making those comments has 
caused somewhat of a controversy among some because they were 
made at the prayer breakfast. Your thoughts on that, sir?

WEST: Well, I don't think it should cause any controversy 
whatsoever. I thought that we lived in an America where you 
could have freedom of speech. And I believe that the doctor gave 
his assessment of some of the policies that involve his 
profession in the health care profession, and also talking about 
the culture of and the relationship of government to the 
individual.

Now, I think what has everyone upset is that he violated the 
unwritten rule of being an African-American male and he 
criticized the policies of President Obama, which I can somewhat 
understand, having been on the other side of a lot of attacks, 
as well.

But if you go back to September of 2012, there was the chairman 
of the Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver, who gave an 
incredible statement saying that if anyone else were in the 
White House other than President Obama, that they would be 
marching on the White House, and that the President Obama knows 
that he is given a deference that would not be given to a white 
president.

And we were talking about the incredible 14 percent unemployment 
rate in the black community. And I think that we cannot continue 
to go on believing that all we can do is ask the president what 
his favorite color is and continue to have these softball 
interviews. We have to start talking about the policies that are 
failing this country, and I think Dr. Carson -- hat tip to him 
for having that platform, being able to challenge those policies.

VAN SUSTEREN: What do you think President Obama thought sitting 
there?

WEST: Well, I think he felt for the first time, Someone has 
stood up to me, because pretty much so, he's been given a free 
pass, just recently, we saw in that "60 Minutes" interview. So 
it has become rather Pavolvian if you continue to reward this 
type of behavior and these type of failing policies without any 
type of challenge that comes from the media.

And furthermore, when you see him going out and about, he 
continues to be placed in front of, you know, the fawning 
audiences that just clap, and they become campaign rallies more 
than anything else. So I believe that it is time that we have to 
start standing up and challenging the president, and let's see 
what happens tomorrow night with the State of the Union address.

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west-doctor-violated-unwritten-rule-being-black-male-and-
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