Posted on 03/22/2019 8:52:04 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Given that Mika Brzezinski's late father Zbigniew served as Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, you knew that Morning Joe would go out of its way to celebrate Carter on the occasion of his becoming the oldest living former President.
And sure enough, on today's show, Joe Scarborough glorified Carter as an "extraordinary human being, a wonderful man," working in a gratuitous swipe at President Trump by adding, "just a great contrast with, unfortunately, what we're struggling through right now." Scarborough commended Carter for Camp David, and even claimed that his support for human rights contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain.
But the show took things an unpardonable step too far by absolving Carter for his multiple failures. First, Scarborough claimed that the Iranian hostage crisis and the oil crisis were "beyond his control." A bit later, Scarborough claimed that Carter's 1980 loss to Reagan wasn't due to his own failed leadership, but to Democrats' past mistakes that "fell on his shoulders." Poor Jimmy.
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Ugh. Morning Joe glorifies Jimmy Carter as “extraordinary human being, a wonderful man,” and excuses all his failures: “beyond his control, fell on his shoulders.”
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Well, it worked for the Fraud for eight years, but Big Media is 40 years too late to help Jimmuh.
Does Jimmah still say that there’s an energy shortage? Next-to-worst president ever.
I remember those days. Carter was totally incompetent. Now the second worst President in my lifetime. the worst President is still lost in the “O” Zone.
Revisionist history, it’s what leftists do.
Unfortunately, we have an irredeemably ignorant public, and an evil media/establishment politician structure.
This isn’t going to end well, I’m sure of it.
Weak excuse for a weak man.
ROFL Carter was a bad president. Period.
Carter was simply an incompetent, self-righteous jackass. He never met a Leftist dictator he didn’t like and he detests the State of Israel. A complete waste of time.
Wasn’t Jimmuh’s fault that he was not up to the job?
"Bet you I could be a better president."
The Iran hostage crisis was a problem entirely of Jimmy Carter’s making and his lack of leadership and ineffectual response to the manufactured “ oil crisis “ is one of the biggest failures in US history
Iranian hostage crisis - Response was dismal and ineffective.
Panama Canal -- His decision alone to give it away.
Mariel Boat lift -- US response to the arrivals was terrible.
Afghanistan invasion by Russia - Response....... Boycott the Olympics!!
At least Carter is no longer the worst President ever.
The Kenyan from Indonesia easily outranks him for that.
carter was the first ex-POTUS to criticize the USA beyond waters edge.
Once he did that and got reinvolved in politics, all his good works in H4H went out the door.
The fact he was the (now) 2nd worse POTUS was due to incompetence, not evil.
Now I can’t wait for him to pass so I can piss on his grave.
What a tool.
Is that Meachem that he’s talking to?
My favorite 6-9AM talk show host Jim Quinn says Mika and Joe remind him of Hot Lips and Frank Burns.
The culture of victimhood, where ‘everything’ is someone else’s fault, is relentless in our society.
JoMa
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