Dr. Ben Carson has been rising in the polls, so the media jackals have descended upon him, trying to find whatever dirt they can on the retired neurosurgeon turned presidential candidate.

CNN began snooping around Carson’s long-ago childhood, a time when he described himself in his 1990 autobiography Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story as having a “pathological temper.” From attacking his mother with a hammer to an attempted stabbing of another boy, Carson wrote that after the stabbing event, he prayed to God for deliverance: “Lord, despite what all the experts tell me, You can change me. You can free me forever from this destructive personality trait.” After that prayer, he became a “different person,” as he described in his book.

Not satisfied, CNN snooped around and found nine people from those old days in the Detroit neighborhood where he grew up who did not remember Carson to be violent. None of them challenged the stories, but they couldn’t remember these incidents from 50 years ago, so CNN has decided they had the ultimate “gotcha” on Ben Carson.