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I guess maybe like yeah, like 10 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:35,960 forty percent of the hour was just eaten up by it. 11 00:00:36,439 --> 00:00:39,520 It's like a it's like a Carter esque inflation, if 12 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,439 you will. It just kind of took a portion. It's 13 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,039 like a tax, you know, inflationary text. It just took 14 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:49,000 part of the hour as part of Jimmy Carter's funeral 15 00:00:49,039 --> 00:00:55,960 coverage here at WBT listening to the funeral today, I 16 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,079 don't know, like with all of those accomplishments that they 17 00:00:59,079 --> 00:01:04,959 were citing, like, how did Jimmy Carter only serve one term? 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:09,079 He was apparently the man, He was an awesome president. 19 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,079 I don't understand what happened. It was before my time. 20 00:01:13,159 --> 00:01:16,280 I don't recall the election. I was like three years old, 21 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:23,120 so I don't remember those times, but just listening to 22 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,560 all of the things that he did and paved the 23 00:01:25,599 --> 00:01:31,519 way for. And apparently, like all this time, I've been 24 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:36,560 under the impression that inflation was a huge problem for 25 00:01:36,719 --> 00:01:40,159 Carter and that he solved it but then lost and 26 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,920 then Reagan got to enjoy all of the the fruits 27 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,599 of Carter's inflation busting. Well, he didn't actually have policy. 28 00:01:48,719 --> 00:01:56,840 I guess it was putting vulgar in charge of the FED. Yeah, yeah, 29 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,560 so I don't know. I mean, here, I thought Jimmy 30 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:05,120 Carter one because he had the Watergate scandal, the backlash 31 00:02:05,159 --> 00:02:09,479 against Gerald Ford for pardoning Nixon, and basically any Democrat 32 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,639 would have kind of walked in and it's all he 33 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,879 had to do was really win the Democrat primary, which 34 00:02:15,879 --> 00:02:20,800 he did, and then things were really, really, really bad, 35 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,199 so bad that they threw him out and brought in 36 00:02:24,319 --> 00:02:27,919 Ronald Reagan. That's what I thought. But apparently I was 37 00:02:28,039 --> 00:02:30,719 mistaken all of this time that Jimmy Carter was apparently 38 00:02:30,759 --> 00:02:35,759 like the best president we have ever had. I cannot 39 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:41,520 fathom why he only had one term. Now, some other 40 00:02:41,599 --> 00:02:44,800 things Jimmy Carter, they usually point to Jimmy Carter's legacy 41 00:02:46,759 --> 00:02:50,599 after he served the four years and all the stuff 42 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,879 he did, and usually it's about the building of all 43 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,159 of the habitat houses, and that's not to be denied, 44 00:02:56,319 --> 00:02:57,960 not at all that he did a lot of good 45 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,400 work for that. But he also did some other stuff. 46 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,199 You know, there were other things that Carter did, like, 47 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:10,080 for example, in January of nineteen ninety six, he went 48 00:03:10,159 --> 00:03:16,680 out and met with leaders of Hamas. That would be January, 49 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:18,639 and then a couple months later Hamas started a whole 50 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,479 bunch of suicide bombings. They murdered sixty five people, so 51 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:24,280 there was that. He then met again with the Hamas 52 00:03:24,319 --> 00:03:29,400 people in April of two thousand and eight while it 53 00:03:29,479 --> 00:03:36,159 was launching a whole bunch of missiles at civilian targets. Also, 54 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:43,439 the former president harbored a quote fondness for Yeser Arafat, 55 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:47,479 who was kind of sort of the godfather of modern terrorism. 56 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,560 He said the relationship transcended politics and was based on 57 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,800 their emotional connection and the shared belief that they were 58 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:01,759 both ordained to be peacemakers by God. Yaser Arafat peacemaker 59 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:07,439 as we all know him to be. Carter apparently also 60 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,560 tried to cram Arafat into the Camp David peace talks 61 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,279 after Israel and Egypt had already cut a deal, which, 62 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:20,199 according to David Harsani at The Washington Examiner, Carter really 63 00:04:20,199 --> 00:04:21,839 didn't have a whole lot to do with It was 64 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:26,639 Israel and Egypt. Now, Harsani says, to be fair, the 65 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,600 only people Carter is inclined to extol more than Palestinian 66 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,920 terrorists are communists. And I don't mean communist in an 67 00:04:33,959 --> 00:04:39,759 ambiguous pejorative sense. I mean like actual Kamis. The esteemed 68 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,759 Georgian never met an Eastern European strong man that he 69 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:49,759 didn't admire. Soviet flunky Edward Jirek of Poland was among 70 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:55,120 the most enlightened leaders, to quote Carter, in the whole world. 71 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,800 This guy was. How about Tito of Yugoslavia. He was 72 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,279 a man who quote believes in human rights, said Carter. 73 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:08,279 Romania's Chichescu was dedicated to enhancing human rights. You get 74 00:05:08,319 --> 00:05:11,279 the idea here. Even as the world was running out 75 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:15,240 of communist dictatorships for intellectuals in America to whitewash, Carter 76 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:17,560 was seeking them out and lifting them up. And then 77 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,800 of course there was Fidel Castro. I'm not talking about 78 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:26,079 the Prime Minister of Canada. That's baby Fidel. Carter famously 79 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,000 became the first ex president to visit the Cuban dictatorship 80 00:05:30,199 --> 00:05:34,959 and praised its superb systems of healthcare and universal education. 81 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,839 He participated in gross propaganda events with Castro as political 82 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,079 prisoners rotted in cells and families were held in a 83 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:48,879 captive state. Oh and then there was Ugo Jades. Remember 84 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:54,120 that guy Carter didn't merely back Chavismo as it was called, 85 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:58,279 as so many progressives did. He legitimized one bogus election 86 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,759 after the next in order to keep the man in power. 87 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,839 When Chavez died of cancer in twenty thirteen, Carter lamented 88 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:13,120 the loss. Like Hamas, Carter implored Americans to give communists 89 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,480 Daniel or Tega give him a chance, just like you know, 90 00:06:16,639 --> 00:06:21,120 give Hamas a chance. As President, Carter helped facilitate Ortega's 91 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:23,800 rise in Nicaragua, welcoming him to the White House in 92 00:06:23,879 --> 00:06:28,240 nineteen seventy nine. The murderous Sandinistas became a cause celeb 93 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:34,240 for Democrats into the nineteen eighties. And remember also, Carter 94 00:06:34,439 --> 00:06:38,920 was not appointed by anybody to do these things. His 95 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,279 post presidency was dedicated to undermining the will of US voters. 96 00:06:44,079 --> 00:06:47,759 Journalist Lance Morrow best described him as the anti President, 97 00:06:49,079 --> 00:06:52,199 which I wonder if that might be shading just a 98 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:57,120 little bit of the nostalgic look back on all the 99 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:01,399 wonders and achievements of one James Earl Carter. Here's a 100 00:07:01,439 --> 00:07:04,319 great idea. How about making an escape to a really 101 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,560 special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a 102 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,240 quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Ashville is 103 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,199 your connection. 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James, Welcome to the show. 127 00:08:33,639 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 2: Hello James, Hey, hey, hey, your rhetorical question about why 128 00:08:38,759 --> 00:08:44,039 did this wonderful man think since slice bread uh lose 129 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:45,720 the election after one term? 130 00:08:45,799 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: Yeah? 131 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,919 Speaker 3: Double digit inflation and double digit interest. 132 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: Rates yep, stagflation. 133 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,639 Speaker 3: My first mortgage was thirteen percent. 134 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, A lot of people don't understand and how high 135 00:09:00,799 --> 00:09:04,320 those rates were when they've grown up with rates under 136 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,360 five percent. You know, that's true. 137 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:14,399 Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. And basically, as far as his foreign 138 00:09:14,399 --> 00:09:18,720 policy was concerned, he's the one that gave us all 139 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:21,200 the wonderful things that we've had going on for the 140 00:09:21,279 --> 00:09:22,799 last thirty years in the Middle East. 141 00:09:22,919 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: No, I've been told at the funeral there that he 142 00:09:26,039 --> 00:09:29,559 made us energy independent and such. That's yeah, that's what 143 00:09:29,639 --> 00:09:33,559 I was reliably informed today, James. I do appreciate the call. Look, 144 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,519 there was really one terrific result that occurred after the 145 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:46,840 Carter administration was shown the door, which was Reagan. Without Carter, 146 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,519 I don't think we would have had Reagan. And as 147 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:54,080 Frank Hill wrote at the North State Journal n sjonline 148 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:59,360 dot com, it could happen again starting on January twentieth 149 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:04,679 at noon this year that Americans, having seen the last 150 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:08,039 four years of Biden, much like after seeing four years 151 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,360 of Carter, Americans are like, WHOA, yeah, we don't want 152 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,879 this anymore, and then course corrects the country back to 153 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:23,039 a center right disposition. David Harsani also pointed out that 154 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,600 Carter famously brokeered quote unquote a treaty with North Korea 155 00:10:26,639 --> 00:10:30,360 in nineteen ninety four. Remember that, deliberately undercutting the Clinton 156 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:35,320 administration's efforts to stop that communist state from obtaining nuclear weapons. 157 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,720 Carter was not empowered to enter into agreements on behalf 158 00:10:38,759 --> 00:10:41,200 of the US or anybody else for that matter, but 159 00:10:41,279 --> 00:10:44,600 he struck one with Kim Ol sung and then publicly 160 00:10:44,639 --> 00:10:48,320 released it to try to pressure the Clinton administration into capitulation. 161 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,960 Carter admitted this. He said, I hope that it would 162 00:10:53,039 --> 00:10:55,600 consummate a resolution of what I considered to be a 163 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:00,120 very serious crisis. A Clinton aide called his actions quote 164 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:05,000 near traitorus. Indeed, if anybody ever deserved to be prosecuted 165 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:08,720 under the Logan Act, it was Jimmy Carter for that. 166 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,759 Carter's defenders whitewash his long unsightly history by treating the 167 00:11:13,799 --> 00:11:16,519 former leader of the most powerful nation on the planet 168 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,759 as some well meaning naf whose only goal was merely 169 00:11:19,799 --> 00:11:22,519 to broker peace. Hey have you heard about all the 170 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:25,039 houses he built? Yeah? But in truth, he was a 171 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,080 middling political talent who lucked into the presidency after Watergate, 172 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,000 took it upon himself to spend his life legitimizing some 173 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,559 of the most nefarious people and regimes on the planet. 174 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:42,240 See that's my assessment of Jimmy Carter. And had the 175 00:11:42,279 --> 00:11:48,480 eulogies not glorified this man as they did today, I 176 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:53,039 probably wouldn't have said anything, but they did, so I did. 177 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,399 Oh last thing, Peter Schweitzer says, remember this. In January 178 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,879 nineteen eighty four, Carter went to the Soviet ambassador as 179 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:04,960 a private citizen and urged the Soviets to do what 180 00:12:05,039 --> 00:12:11,440 they could to make sure Reagan did not get re elected. Yeah, 181 00:12:11,519 --> 00:12:17,159 appalling conduct by a former president. Don't ever forget All right, 182 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,919 I hope you had a happy holiday season. But tell 183 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,519 me if something like this happened at your house. Your 184 00:12:22,519 --> 00:12:25,000 family and friends are gathered around. 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