WATCH: Ben Carson blasts the Left for 'woke' changes to Christmas classics

Steff Thomas

December 24, 04:52 PM December 24, 05:16 PM

Dr. Ben Carson, who served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump administration, says political correctness has only made things “worse” while blasting recent changes to Christmas classics.

“The first time I spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1997 about the fact that political correctness, if we continued along that pathway, was going to destroy our nation," Carson said on a special edition of WHD News's Hannity. “It has continued to get worse.”

“Now it's morphed into wokeness,” he told guest host Tammy Bruce.

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Bruce was referencing a church in the United Kingdom that shared a more modern take on the classic Christmas hymn, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.”

“God rest you queer and questioning, your anxious hearts be still. God rest you also, women, who by men have been erased. Through history ignored and scorned, defiled and displaced,” the new lyrics from All Saints Church in Loughborough, England, read, which Bruce called left-wing “woke madness.”

When asked for his take, Carson talked about the United States, where he said it has gotten so bad that students on college campuses are now “afraid to express themselves,” especially conservatives.

“College is supposed to be a place where you explore and you have an opportunity to discuss certain things so that you can determine which way you're going. And basically, what's happening is people are being shut down,” the heart surgeon told the host.

"And it doesn't have to be the government that shuts down your freedom of speech, you know. Big Tech, social media, college professors can shut down your speech. And if the government is compliant with that, it's the same as if they're doing it. And we, the American people, should be outraged about that," Carson said.

From changes in the Marines being required to stop calling commanding officers "sir" and "ma’am" to avoid the risk of “misgendering” them to even Carson’s name being removed from a school in Detroit for his views, the former Trump official said America's freedoms are being diminished.

Quoting from the Declaration of Independence that “our freedoms come from God,” Carson said that with each “woke” change, society is “allowing them to be taken away from us.”

“We also have a government that is insinuating itself into every aspect of our lives. You know, liberty and community was about what the people could do, not what the government could do,” he said, adding that America is dynamic and innovative because of the country's diversity.

“If everybody is thinking the same way and saying the same things, where's that out-of-the-box thinking that's going to allow us to continue to be that beacon?”

Enjoy: Ben Carson says ‘hard to convince people’ monkeypox is major immediately after COVID-19

Heather Hamilton

July 24, 01:06 PM July 24, 01:06 PM

Ben Carson said the community is not guaranteed what to think of monkeypox in mild of how usually COVID-19 recommendations adjusted around time.

“The problem [with monkeypox] is no a single appreciates how involved to be about points,” Carson informed WHD News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Early morning Futures. “It’s likely to be incredibly hard to influence folks that this is anything that is really serious. It is not clear to me that it is likely to be that severe."

On Saturday, the Environment Overall health Group declared the monkeypox outbreak a “public health and fitness emergency of worldwide issue." The monkeypox virus can usually spread via pores and skin-to-skin contact and entails complications, fevers, swollen lymph nodes, rashes, and other signs and symptoms.

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Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who was the secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the course of the Trump administration, also talked over President Joe Biden’s new COVID-19 diagnosis and his prescribed therapy applying the antiviral drug Paxlovid.

“It is incredibly valuable, notably in older individuals who may well have a propensity to require hospitalization. Now, it does have some possible facet outcomes,” Carson claimed, noting doable results on the liver and a person’s immune technique. “But for the most portion, it is fantastic, and I use that as a segue-way to say that there are a number of treatment plans. We have learned a good deal of factors about COVID considering that the commencing and have the potential to treat it to a much increased extent.”

“Therefore, if it starts to multiply once more among our population, the degree of fright and hysteria ought to be appreciably diminished,” Carson added.

A online video resurfaced Thursday of Biden, who is thoroughly vaccinated versus COVID-19, saying one year ago that everyone who is vaccinated are not able to get the virus. Previous White Home COVID-19 Reaction Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx admitted the vaccines have been “overplayed.”

“I understood these vaccines have been not heading to safeguard in opposition to infection, and I imagine we overplayed the vaccines,” Birx told WHD News. “It built men and women then stress that it really is not likely to protect in opposition to critical sickness and hospitalization. It will. But let us be quite apparent: 50% of the people who died from the omicron surge were being more mature, vaccinated. So which is why I am saying even if you are vaccinated and boosted, if you might be unvaccinated ideal now, the vital is testing and Paxlovid. It is really effective. It is a good antiviral.”

Monkeypox was initial found in 1958 and initially observed in individuals in 1970 in existing-day Congo. There are presently vaccines and antiviral prescription drugs developed to deal with the infection, and governments around the globe have been scrambling to ramp up creation.