The mainstream media’s revisionism of former President Jimmy Carter’s doomed presidency has begun amid reports he is battling brain cancer.
Leading the charge last week was MSNBC’s Joy Reid, a national correspondent who was host of the “Reid Report” from February 2014 to February 2015.
She addressed Carter’s situation on Thursday’s “Last Word” show:
“I think it does say something profoundly about who we are as a people that Carter’s decency and goodness was taken for weakness and had to be remedied with the sort of bluster of a Ronald Reagan and that the idea that we needed a cowboy to replace what people viewed as a man who wasn’t cowboy enough to be president, that he was too nice.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: “Carter wasn’t too nice. He was too incompetent and clueless about economics and the communist threat, both of which Reagan well understood. Reid’s fond memories of Carter demonstrate that he would have easily won re-election if the vote were limited to journalists.”
Mainstream Media Scream Rating: Three out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
