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VIDEO: Watch Soupy Sales Interrogate Jimmy Carter
Rumble ^ | January 2, 2025 | DUmmie FUnnies

Posted on 01/02/2025 9:53:30 AM PST by PJ-Comix

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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.


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: jimmycarter; soupysales
White Fang remained backstage.
1 posted on 01/02/2025 9:53:30 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: Xenalyte; RMDupree; AlexW; CzarNicky; Mike Fieschko; motzman; codercpc; thingumbob; tje; ml1954; ...

PING!


2 posted on 01/02/2025 9:54:16 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Yes, I am the Toxic Troll Terminator)
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To: PJ-Comix

Funny, he bragged about streamlining government and improving the budgeting process. Is that true? Sounds very Republican


3 posted on 01/02/2025 10:04:09 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: PJ-Comix
Soupy should have hit Carter with a pie. That would have embarrassed Carter on national TV, and saved the country a lot of future grief.


4 posted on 01/02/2025 10:11:29 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again)
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To: PJ-Comix

OK kids. Go get your dad’s wallets and send all of those green papers with faces on them to Uncle Soupie.


5 posted on 01/02/2025 10:14:16 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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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.


6 posted on 01/02/2025 10:19:40 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: PJ-Comix

This makes me nostalgic. My brother and I used to watch the Soupy Sales show together as kids.


7 posted on 01/02/2025 10:22:10 AM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! Stand for Trump or Kneel for Leftists!)
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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”.


8 posted on 01/02/2025 10:28:13 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: SteelPSUGOP
No.

And no.

He was busy taking care of the White House tennis court schedule.

You see how that "streamlined" things?

9 posted on 01/02/2025 11:05:34 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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when almost nobody knew who Jimmy Carter was outside of Georgia.

After Carter filed to run for president the Atlanta paper had a headline that read: "Jimmy Carter is running for what?"

10 posted on 01/02/2025 11:55:59 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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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.


11 posted on 01/02/2025 1:14:29 PM PST by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (GO LIONS)
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Soupy was one of the great observational comics. Underrated and would be entirely forgotten today except for all the ...



12 posted on 01/02/2025 2:48:23 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: SteelPSUGOP
Funny, he bragged about streamlining government and improving the budgeting process. Is that true? Sounds very Republican

He did campaign on that, and may have done some combining while president. Of course he did the opposite when he split up HEW, to make the Department of Education. The Dept. of Energy was spun up from nothing, because Europeans all have one.

What I didn't know is that the Georgia movie-making started with him. The Walking Dead was a big Georgia produced production. Great find. Didn't know Dana Valery was a panelist.
13 posted on 01/02/2025 2:59:16 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: PJ-Comix

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 !


14 posted on 01/02/2025 4:14:11 PM PST by cquiggy (Ck)
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

Johnny Ginger is still with us.


15 posted on 01/02/2025 4:35:54 PM PST by Chengdu54 (This is a time for which the 2nd Amendment was intended. )
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Thanks for the reply, I had no idea.
More info from Wiki
16 posted on 01/03/2025 10:04:51 AM PST by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (GO LIONS)
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