Posted on 01/02/2025 9:53:30 AM PST by PJ-Comix
The idea of Soupy Sales interrogating Jimmy Carter sounds quite surrealistic. However, it actually happened in 1973 on "What's My Line" when when almost nobody knew who Jimmy Carter was outside of Georgia.
PING!
Funny, he bragged about streamlining government and improving the budgeting process. Is that true? Sounds very Republican
OK kids. Go get your dad’s wallets and send all of those green papers with faces on them to Uncle Soupie.
He doesn’t even belong on this TV show. He isn’t the least bit interesting in any way. He has no wit, just a big goofy old smile to has his one and only charm (if you could call it that, I certainly am not charmed), and even though he is a governor of a US State, he looked completely stumped and befuddled about anything he could brag about besides having a program (which I doubt is really even his) which attracted motion picture production to his state.
I don’t know if this guy polished his routine in the subsequent years, but it looks to me like this was obviously staged as for political exposure on a national program. There’s no way in he11 the producers of this show sought out Carter. I would bet the (peanut) farm it was the other way around.
This makes me nostalgic. My brother and I used to watch the Soupy Sales show together as kids.
Trivia: His real name was Milton Supman, and his was the only Jewish family in town. His father ran a dry goods store and Soupy later joked that they sold the Ku Kluxers their white sheets. From Wikipedia: “Sales got his nickname from his family. His older brothers had been nicknamed “Ham Bone” and “Chicken Bone”. Milton was dubbed “Soup Bone”, which was later shortened to “Soupy”.
And no.
He was busy taking care of the White House tennis court schedule.
You see how that "streamlined" things?
After Carter filed to run for president the Atlanta paper had a headline that read: "Jimmy Carter is running for what?"
I never met Soupy Sales or Milky the Clown, but Johnny Ginger (local Detroit weekday AM show) lived just down my street from my house. Mr. Houdini, (PM kids movie show) was my drafting class teacher who we somehow conned him into an airplane ride in his plane. He was the most nervous pilot I ever flew with. White knuckles and flat minimum aileron turns.
Watching this even now shows you how stupid and uninformed voters were when they elected him.
And then along came Bill Clinton the original used car salesman, and then the Amazing Barack Hussein Obama three snake oil peddlers !
Johnny Ginger is still with us.
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