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 AP Photo Ben Carson does not like the media 
 
 Dr. Ben Carson has found himself in the midst of a press frenzy recently, as his remarks about Muslims, guns and the Holocaust are taken through the media wringer. 
 
 Carson, in turn, has blamed the press for taking his comments out of context, a favorite tactic among, well, nearly every politician ever. 
 
 The retired neurosurgeon, at a speech and question and answer session at the National Press Club headquarters on Friday (note the irony of location) repeatedly took shots at the national media, which he said, "don't like" him because he's "not politically correct." 
 
 "I don't necessarily care whether the press likes me or not and therefore I'm not going to conform to all their little requirements," Carson said. 
 
 "I mean, you guys are down there with used car salesmen," he said later. 
 
 According to Gallup, Carson is off by a few points. In 2014 Gallup found that 8 percent of Americans view used car salesman as having "high or very high" honest and ethical standards. Fully 24 percent Americans find that journalists have "very high" or "high" honest and ethical standards. 
 
 Carson also complained that his remark that he "would not just stand there" and let the Oregon attacker shoot him was misconstrued. 
 
 "[The media has] tried to paint me as someone who is insensitive because they didn't show the whole question," he told Fox News' Sean Hannity. "I was asked the question what would you do if you were in Oregon ... and I said what I would do. They didn't include the question. They just added the answer to make it seem I was insensitive." 
 
 "In fact, the press has an agenda," Carson told WJLA on Friday. "That question there is a perfect example of it — taking something that most Americans understand implicitly what I'm talking about and trying to make it into a controversy." 
 
 "[T]he press is the only business protected by the Constitution," he lamented to CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "The reason they're protected is because it was assumed they'd be honest and they'd be on the side of the people and wouldn't have an agenda." 
 
 Carson has found some defenders in the media: News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch and one of his properties, Fox News. For weeks, Murdoch has been tweeting his support of Carson. And this week, as the media frenzy grew around Carson's comments on the Oregon college shooting and the Holocaust, the hosts of "Fox & Friends" said the mainstream media was twisting Carson's words. 
 
 "Mainstream media went crazy over Dr. Ben Carson," host Elisabeth Hasselbeck said on Thursday. 
 
 "So that's why you watch this show, just saying," host Steve Doocy said. "He's one of the leading Republicans, so you know how it works: Mainstream media is going to try and take him down," Doocy later added. 
 
 "I don't remember a time where everyone ... has gotten it wrong. He's being blamed and has to explain something he never said," host Brian Kilmeade said. 
 
 Hadas Gold is a reporter at Politico. ||||| Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson admonished the Washington press corps Friday, calling the news media “embarrassing” and “insincere” and vowing to “expose” the institutional bias he says runs rampant. 
 
 Speaking at a gathering of reporters and communications professionals at the National Press Club in Washington, Carson lashed out at the press, citing several instances where he believes his views have been misrepresented. 
 
 “Many in the press will say I’m sensitive and that I should not be thinking about running for office, because I get offended by what they do,” he said. “But the reason I expose the press is because I want the people of America to understand what they’re doing. It’s not because I’m sensitive.” 
 
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 The retired neurosurgeon said he has no intention of calling a truce with the news media. 
 
 “I will continue to expose them every time they do something, so that as more people understand what they are and what they’re doing, it will negate their affect,” he said. “Until they have the kind of transformation that’s necessary for them to become allies of the people, we have to know what they’re doing.” 
 
 Carson’s frustration with the press is boiling over as the presidential candidate, who is soaring in the polls and raising tens of millions of dollars from grassroots conservatives, has battled weeks of controversial headlines. 
 
 Carson believes his views on guns and religion have been intentionally distorted by reporters eager to sink his presidential hopes. 
 
 “The good thing is that a lot of people in America are on to them and understand what they’re trying to do, and that’s one of the reasons we’re doing well,” Carson said. “It seems like the more they attack me, the better we do.” 
 
 This week, Carson said that if he had been at Umpqua Community College, the site of a recent mass shooting, he would have stood up to the gunman. Many people interpreted the remarks to mean that the victims didn’t do enough to protect themselves. 
 
 Carson this week also called for arming officials on school grounds, described an encounter with a gunman at a Popeye’s restaurant and said that the Holocaust would have been less likely if the Jews in Germany had been armed. 
 
 Carson on Friday defended his remarks on the Holocaust but said that in several other instances, his words had been taken out of context or overblown. 
 
 “Everything needs to be looked at in context, and when news media picks one word or one phrase and they run with it and try to characterize people like that, I gotta tell you guys, that’s why people don’t trust you anymore,” he said. “I mean you’re down there with used car salesmen.” 
 
 Carson also recalled an encounter with a reporter that led to a story about him being unprepared to deal with the threat of a hurricane. 
 
 Carson said he was getting on a bus when he was approached by the reporter and didn’t have time to answer in full. 
 
 “I mean, this is the level of insincerity that we see, and it really is kind of embarrassing to see that,” Carson said. 
 
 Carson said he’s a frequent target for attacks because as a black Republican, doesn’t fit the mold of a traditional conservative and therefore is viewed as a threat to the liberal order. 
 
 He said there’s “still hope for the press” but that they must be called out on their hypocrisies in the hopes “that some of them will recognize it’s almost a sacred obligation they have to the people, to be honest.” 
 
 “There is only one business in America that is protected by the Constitution, and that is the press, and there was a reason for that. It was because the press was supposed to be an ally of the people," Carson said. 
 
 "They were supposed to expose and inform the people in a nonpartisan way. When they become partisan, as they are, they distort the system as it was supposed to work, and they allow the side that they pick to get away with all kinds of things.”
– Ben Carson used a speech before the National Press Club on Friday to tell the national press what he really thinks of them. "You're down there with used car salesmen," he said, accusing the media of distorting his remarks on issues like the Oregon shooting, the Hill reports. He said journalists don't like him because he's "not politically correct" and they are trying to wreck his presidential campaign by taking comments out of context and misrepresenting him, reports Politico, which notes that a 2014 Gallup poll found that 24% of Americans rated journalists' honesty and ethics "high" or "very high," which was below most professions, but ahead of used car salesman, who scored just 8%. Carson, who counts Rupert Murdoch among his supporters, told reporters that if they are called out on their hypocrisies, hopefully "some of them will recognize it’s almost a sacred obligation they have to the people, to be honest," per the Hill. He said some of his remarks had been misrepresented, but doubled down on his comments linking the Holocaust to gun control, the BBC reports, which notes that his remarks have been condemned by groups including the Anti-Defamation League. "Basically, what I said is when tyranny occurs traditionally around the world, they try to disarm the people first," he said.