NBC: 'Blunt' Carter 'Prompted Us to Reexamine Our Assumptions About Race'

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An evening after trumpeting President Jimmy Carter's racism charge (“An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man”), NBC led Wednesday night with the “fallout” as Andrea Mitchell proposed that though “many thought” the “racial divisions” were “healed by the election of the first African-American President,” Carter's “blunt comments” have “prompted us to re-examine our assumptions about race” -- as if everyone is like those at NBC who adjust their views based on what Carter says.

Mitchell proceeded to smear the tea party activists, corroborated by just two racist posters the network managed to find:

In a season of angry protests, there are ugly signs that some of it is not rooted in bailout fatigue or suspicion of big government. Mixed in the anti-Obama crowds over recent weeks, racial slurs against the President of the United States. All that, plus an unprecedented interruption of the President's speech to Congress prompting Jimmy Carter's blunt comments first broadcast on Nightly News last night.

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After Mitchell recounted how “Carter's comments ignited a verbal fire storm. On talk radio: two nations. On one side, Rush Limbaugh and his followers....On the other side, callers to Al Sharpton's show,” urged viewers to “listen to Congressman James Clyburn on whether racism in politics is real” and featured Bill Cosby, “who agrees with Jimmy Carter,” she concluded by channeling Chris Matthews:

Is there evidence of hard core anti-Obama sentiment? Well, when you look at how people voted last fall by region, in the south ten percent of white voters in Alabama went for Obama, eleven percent of whites in Mississippi voted for him. In Louisiana, that number was fourteen percent. But the national number of white voters who went for Barack Obama was 43 percent.

(Southern whites being less-enthused about a liberal candidate than the rest of the nation didn't start in 2008. The 2004 exit poll found that in Alabama only 19 percent of whites voted for John Kerry and he earned just 24 percent of the white vote in Louisiana.)

The CBS Evening News also jumped on Carter's allegations. Katie Couric set up a full story:

The vitriol in the health care debate reached a new high when Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina accused President Obama of lying. Well, now former President Jimmy Carter is saying such attacks on the country's first African-American President are the result of racism.

My Tuesday NB post, with video, “ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges,” related:

“This morning in Atlanta, former President Carter spoke up and spoke out about what he has seen emerging in some of the public protests against President Obama,” Williams announced in touting his “exclusive” session with Carter: “During the interview, we talked about what some see as a heightened climate of racial and other hate speech since the election of President Obama. A certain number of signs and images at last weekend's big tea party march on Washington and at other recent events have featured racial and other violent themes and President Carter today said he is extremely worried by it.”

Brian Williams teased the Wednesday, September 16 NBC Nightly News:

On our broadcast tonight: Race Matters. After the outrage and the outburst directed at President Obama, tonight new fallout over what a former President told us last night, that some of it is just racism.

The lengthy lead story:

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Good evening, the White House today responded to the words of a former President and a son of the American south who says the current President, the first African-American in that job, is the target of blatant racism. Jimmy Carter made that charge in an interview we conducted with him in Atlanta yesterday and the conversation picked up speed and currency today against the backdrop of a severely partisan public debate. NBC's Andrea Mitchell starts us off tonight from our Washington news room. Andrea, good evening.

ANDREA MITCHELL: Good evening, Brian. It is a debate as old as the nation, the racial divisions that many thought were healed by the election of the first African-American President. But now a former President has prompted us to re-examine our assumptions about race. In a season of angry protests, there are ugly signs that some of it is not rooted in bailout fatigue or suspicion of big government. Mixed in the anti-Obama crowds over recent weeks, racial slurs against the President of the United States.

[Signs in video: “Obamanomics: Monkey See, Monkey Spend!” and “Some Kenyan Tries to Destroy America? I Don't Think So!!! HOMEY DON'T PLAY DAT!!!”]

All that, plus an unprecedented interruption of the President's speech to Congress-

CONGRESSMAN JOE WILSON: You lie!

MITCHELL: -prompting Jimmy Carter's blunt comments first broadcast on Nightly News last night.

JIMMY CARTER: I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American. And I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south, but around the country that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country.

MITCHELL: Today, Carter's comments ignited a verbal fire storm. On talk radio: two nations. On one side, Rush Limbaugh and his followers.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Any criticism of an African-American President's policies or statements or mis-statements is racist and that's it. Therefore, the question, can this nation really have an African-American President?

MITCHELL: On the other side, callers to Al Sharpton's show.

FEMALE CALLER: The bottom line is, they fear Barack Obama as President of the United States. This intelligent black man can go and work towards a goal for everybody, so they're going to continue to do things to keep him at bay.

MITCHELL: And listen to Congressman James Clyburn on whether racism in politics is real.

CONGRESSMAN JAMES CLYBURN: I have, on occasion, been given added police protection for some of the threats that we get all by people who are, forsome reason, insulted by my skin color. I did not ask to come here as this color. The good lord made that decision for me.

MITCHELL: Today the President didn't hear, or ignored, a shouted question about what Jimmy Carter said. And even though Mr. Obama didn't start the debate, Republicans challenged him to put an end to it.

MICHAEL STEELE, RNC CHAIRMAN: Look, don't sit there and tell me now he needs to be excused from this debate when members of his party, the former President of the United States who's a member of his party, injects it voicefully and so forcibly into this debate.

MITCHELL: The White House does not want to talk about it, but in a 47 minute briefing, the President's press secretary was asked about race 18 times -- when you count follow up questions.

ROBERT GIBBS: The President does not believe that -- that criticism comes based on the color of his skin.

MITCHELL: So, is this debate healthy or will it only increase racial tensions? We asked Bill Cosby, who agrees with Jimmy Carter.

BILL COSBY: I don't think you can get people who are entrenched in their own hatred to stop. I think what we have to do is find the people who are willing to work together, the people who realize that mistakes will happen and we've got to work for the betterment of the American people.

MITCHELL: Is there evidence of hard core anti-Obama sentiment? Well, when you look at how people voted last fall by region, in the south ten percent of white voters in Alabama went for Obama, eleven percent of whites in Mississippi voted for him. In Louisiana, that number was fourteen percent. But the national number of white voters who went for Barack Obama was 43 percent. That said, the White House views this as an unwelcome distraction. They want to get back to talking about health care.

—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center


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"Us" being NBC.

"Us" being NBC.

Yes...

...I'm waiting for the lede that it is the left and their minions in the no-longer mainstream media that are, at the very least, the ones obsessed with race, if they are not, indeed, the ones who are racist in their actions. I'm not holding my breathe.

--

We need to stop calling them "Progressives" when in reality they are big government "Socialists" who no longer value the individual's rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Race Issues

The only dolts keeping up the whole race "issue" are the media and liberals who can't stand the thought that their messiah and his policies brought out such a huge gathering of people.  The only card left in the deck for them is that race card.


The White House.....

just came out and said that Obama totally DISAGREES with Carter on race being an issue.

I'm itching to see how the heirloom media explains this in the light of all their statements to the contrary.

 

 

 

I'm white and friggin-A straight proud of it !

tire marks becoming fashionable

Another one thrown under the bus.  When will the carnage end?  Oh the humanity!

Isn't this what a self-loving dictator does, when things start getting hot, excess baggage will begin to be shed in favor of self-preservation?

-Jon

Stockholm syndrome

Obama has been held captive by so much racism that he can not see that it is racism and only the fringe media can show him their new definition of racism, any opposition to him.  They will spin in the direction as Obama is the victim even when he does not feel like one.

Here's the Yahoo link:

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090916/pl_nm/us_usa_carter_racism

 

 

 

I'm white and friggin-A straight proud of it !

The white racists are on the left.

The white racists are on the left.

Un-Credible sources

NBC would be better served by re-examining their lack of journalism  ethics!

 

Brian Williams

Please forgive me but... Brian Williams resembles a Mr. Potato Head assembled by a drunkard. And his comments are warped as well!

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

A second look...

After I read your comment, I had to scroll all the way to the top to look, and you are right...I laughed out loud, that was a good observation...

A drunken Mr. potato head...funny!

 

 

Judgement Day - 2010

Is there evidence of hard

Is there evidence of hard core anti-McCain sentiment? 95% of black voters went to the ballot for Obama and only 4% for McCain. In Alabama, McCain only garnered 2% of the black vote.

I'm sure Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell are concerned about this overwhelming racist trend against White candidates for President, and will step up their investigative efforts accordingly.

__________________________________________

"Tax the rich" is a basically unstable way of governing - The NYT

Mistake

NBC mistakes blunt, for dense.

~~nada

According to one dictionary:

Blunt-

Cigar hollowed out and filled with marijuana, can be smoked in public (somewhat)inconspicuously.

 

carter is homphobic

Not only did he do it once, he just said it again at Emory University. And not only that, he revealed he is homophobic.... 

A woman asked him about the photo of him in the White House with Bush, Obama, Clinton and Bush Sr. She said she noticed how far away he was from the others, and if he ever stopped feeling like a Washington outsider.

http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/jimmy-carter-homophobic.html 

 

Bad Politics

I hope Carter, Williams, Dowd, Olbermann et al. keep this idiocy up. It will just alienate the independent voters who voted for Obama. Obama and his advisors know this. That's why they're trying to downplay it.

Game Over?

Carter, Williams, Dowd, Olbermann et al

If that's the team we're up against, I feel damn good about our chances.

THE JOOOOOOS...

 President Peanut is also an anti-semitic loon. Every chance he had to kiss the butt of an enemy of Israel(which are usually American enemies) he puckered up.

BTW, anything that happens involving Iran gets hung around his neck. That dufus was crippled by Iranian college kids & eventually formed the Islamic Republic of Iran. All of the terrorism could have been snuffed out in terms of Iran's involvement if Carter had any balls. That is going to heat up while Obama is wondering what he should do.

President Carter, you were the worst President in my lifetime, & you should have stuck with building houses.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

Hay MSM, keep bringing up Carter, The misery index champ.

Jimmy Carter calls Barack Obama a "black boy"@ 44 sec.

also @ 55 sec, No substance or experience to be President...

Tie a YELLOW ribbion round the ol' oak tree.

As negotiations continued into December, Penelope Laingen, wife of
hostage Bruce Laingen, charge d'affaires of the embassy, tied a yellow
ribbon
around a tree at her home in Maryland, and a nationwide movement
began. Millions of Americans also tied the yellow symbols of freedom
around trees in their yards. (They stayed up until the hostages came
home – more than a year later.

 

MSM + Carter  = love fest.

Thank Upcountry

That goes in the favorites file.

Carter's comments are shameful

Carter should apologize.
It is one thing to ask people to be more respectful in their
disagreement, but to label one as "racist" is simply wrong.
I dont know if Carter is having some cognitive problems, or
if he is simply stupid, but the MSM should be very careful about
giving platforms to this type of reckless charge.

WRONG!!!  Liberals can call

WRONG!!!  Liberals can call anybody and everybody a racist, even with no evidence of wrongdoing. It's people like Glenn Beck who get chastised if they call someone a racist, even if they DO have circumstantial evidence.

How desperate do they have

How desperate do they have to be to have to use a quote from a rejected one term president like carter? It just illustrates how out of touch from ordinary Americans the media is. Jimmuh has no credibility.

WTG

I wonder how many viewers NBC lost right there?

I can't imagine anyone with even vaguely moderate views sitting there and listening to NBC create such an obviously biased, race baiting report.

I have two words for NBC:

You lie!

Viewers.

They lost about one hundred viewers. They don't have many more than that to begin with.

I thought we had transcended

I thought we had transcended race when Obama ascended, is this an Obama failure?

RACE CARDS...

 Race politics are imprinted into the liberal mind. It's almost bred into them, just like a dog chases rabbits. They can't help it, it's natural instinct.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

An inconvenient truth:  Al

An inconvenient truth:  Al Gore didn't carry his home state of Tennesse in 2000. 

 

 

I see the lite

After contemplating what Rev. Williams and Sister Andrea said, I think that mabe I should reconsider my personal doctrine, and beliefs about President Obama. 

I now see that I HAVE been overly focused on his "Transformation" of our government through: the "public ownership" of our banking and financial system, public ownership of major corporations and major industries, public ownership or control of energy, unionization of the entire workforce, govenment control of the health industries, politicalization and his bismerching of our military efforts in Iraq, and Afgahnistan,and of our military in general, elevation of oppressed groups through the financing of selfless groups like ACORN, black panthers UAW, GE.  And my judgemental attitude toward some of (if not all) of the Czars, with theyre diverse backgrounds and ideologies.  The taking of my money for redistribution to those who havent earned it (how selfish of me), and the silencing of and villifiing of those who disagree with his plans (even though he has my best interest, and my future joy in mind).  Capitolism, and self interest...well maybe this things are as bad as they say, mabe trying to raise my kids up the way I think they should be raised up, well, mabe thats not right either, maybe I need to look at the bigger picture, and not be so concerned about their futures.  Maybe I need to give eugenics a whirl. (like Dr's Emmanual and Holdren).

I should mabe stop looking at trivial matters, like the above, and try looking at our presidents intentions, and his heart.  I repent

Carter's “blunt comments” have “prompted us to re-examine..."

"our assumptions about race..." Really? Well...Maybe an alternate and no doubt more appropriate statement would be...

"Carter's asinine comments have prompted us to re-examine how he ever won the presidency and does anyone really care what this idiot thinks?" 

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

They Totally Misunderstand The Protesters.

Andrea Mitchell says the Dems just want to get back to talking about health care. The opposite is true! This race card distraction is their last hope. They're in for a shock. The people protesting Obama's agenda are doing so based on politics, plain and simple. When a lefty goof like Mitchell looks those Americans in the eye and says, "You're not thinking about politics, you hate Obama because he's black," she infuriates them beyond her ability to imagine. The most shocking thing to me is Mitchell et al really, really don't get it. They're not just playing a game (although they certainly are doing that), they honestly do not understand where the protest energy is coming from.

They're dead meat (metaphorically) in this debate.

Ignunce

I can't believe how silly I feel now..

 10 years ago, I honestly thought that Brian Williams, Christopher Matthews and Andrea Mitchell were "honest-to-God" serious non-partisan "reporters"...

Racism? You betcha!

And what percentage of blacks voted for Obama? Well over 90%, wasn't it? I'd say that was DEFINITELY racism.

Silly, only whites can be...

racist...Dontcha know that??? (sarcasm on)... 

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

Funny thing about the race card.

It's really a Boomerang.

I can hardly wait 'til it returns home.

islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.

Wow, you gotta hand it to

Wow, you gotta hand it to the government run media.  They will do anything not to have to answer the question.  Was bambi, the first stupid liberal, lying as Congressman Joe Wilson contends?

Not only are they jumping through hoops not to have to answer this question and the veracity of much of his speech, but they drag out what has to be the worst president in the 20th century to accuse Americans that they are racists for questioning the president of the United States when he lies repeatedly to the American people. 

Carter, take your meds, sip your hot tottie and settle in to write another anti-semite book like your last one, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.  

→ Yuck

I just got this mental image of Brian Williams and Jimmy Carter reexamining each other for bumps and polyps.

Like a couple of chimpanzees, only a lot more invasive.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Jimmah

Damn Cool, I was just going to eat my desert...chocolate ice cream. 

BTW does that indemnify my from being a racist, because I'm an equal opportunity ice cream consumer?

For once Andrea got it right

  Carter's “blunt comments”

From Merriam-Webster:

  • Main Entry: 1blunt
  • Pronunciation: \ˈblənt\
  • Function: adjective
  • Etymology: Middle English
  • Date: 13th century

1 a : slow or deficient in feeling : insensitive b : obtuse in understanding or discernment : dull
2 : having an edge or point that is not sharp <a blunt instrument>

Your dictionary seems to be off

Why else would the word "blunt" have jimmuh's bio for a definition? 

"If the man, with the power, can't keep it under control...some heads are gonna roll." -Judas Priest

→ Restless

Maybe Jimmah sparked up a blunt.  Sure sounds mellowed out enough.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Careful Cool

We don't want to impugn stoners. They will wake up with most of their intelligence, but jimmuh will still be stupid. 

"If the man, with the power, can't keep it under control...some heads are gonna roll." -Judas Priest

Mentally Slow

Isn't Jimmy Carter retarded?  Why would we care what he says?

I'm sick of Carter

That fool can't do anything right and certainly couldn't do anything right as a president.

Now, some of the Obamaton media want to take him seriously after he makes just the most ignorant comments a stupid old man can make.

Look, he better worry about other things like:

1. how  to stop the lawsuits coming from those crappy houses his Habitat for Humanity built

and

2. What to do with Rosalyn's face...Did you see her during that conference?  She's got a worn out leather punching bag for a face.

It is the fault of whitey.

  Whitey allowed black peoples to enter the entertainment culture. If white peoples had stopped black peoples from being actors and comics and singers and songwriters, we would not have black peoples uttering sayings that enter our popular lexicon. Like -

homey don't play with that.

What are you talking about mr. willis.

I really pity that poor fool.

kindly get the blankity-blank out of here.

I am Rick James and I am going to the beach.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

What are you trying to say here JWF?

 

Is this a comment on how, and why Mother got to be half a word?

 

http://gjresult.com

 

Not sure if you are following or joking too sir.

  I was referring Andrea Mitchell's comments about racial slurs and the signs including "HOMEY DON'T PLAY DAT!!!"

  The saying came from the show In Living Color and the actor Damon Wayans. My point is, the show was nationally broadcast and the slogan was picked up by the American culture, not just black culture. The same with "what you talkin' about Willis". It is in the American lexicon, not just one culture.

  So to say it is a racial slur by using it seems kind of silly is all. Should one culture own a saying that is broadcast nationally and visible to all? 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Nah JWF, I'm just hangin' in there....

 

The so-called 'black culture' gave us many new words and phrases while they tried to create a 'black language' such as the dreaded -ebonics-....

But what else did they have to spend their time on?

The white liberals in government, with the willing assistance of Uncle Tom jesse jackson, uncle tom al sharpton, uncle tom charlie wrangel, uncle tom.... you get to name the next couple dozen or so, the minorities were relegated to slums and ghetto and daily told how evil everybody else is.

Having blurted all that out...

What value does an 'andrea mitchell' add to a NORMAL discourse?

She doesn't have a little head to think with, and her big head is full of schultz.

 

http://gjresult.com

 

Would have been interesting

Would have been interesting hearing Carter and the rest of the Libtards defending any criticism of President Lieberman as being "anti-Semitic".

Being sarcastic, of course.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

And now, for your enjoyment...

Brought forward from an earlier thread.

What we had here is a jackass talking head with no concept of reality, interviewing a jackass of an ex president with no concept of reality, and both expecting the intelligent mebers of society not to see what total jackasses they both are.

Am I allowed to say jackasses here?

http://gjresult.com

 

Race...blah...race...blah...

Race...blah...race...blah...

My god, the liberals are sabotaging 50 years of positive race relations.  Are there white racists? Yes.  Are there black racists? Yes.  Are there brown and yellow racists? YES and YES.  So what.  Most people are not and we are never going to "persuade" a hater like Rev. Wright or a Klansmember to change their mind.  But liberals are using race to further their agenda and that is what is disgusting. Liberals are using "race" as an immunity from political dissent. 

Why can't we all just submit

Why can't we all just submit now and began wearing full body burkas? Then all these race issues would go away.

nothing new

There's nothing new to add to Jimmah's epitaph. He was an embarrassment then and he is a disgraceful embarrassment now. He speaks for himself.

Lame

The networks are so lame.

"But the national number of

"But the national number of white voters who went for Barack Obama was 43 percent."

The national number of black voters for McCain was 5%; the primary number of black voters for Hillary Clinton was 3%.

So, Andrea, Jimmy, and Bill, I ask you....why are blacks so racist?

I know I am forced to examine

why the worst President in modern time and arguably of all time has one whit of credibility other than to be the village idiot of LIBLAND.

Fairy Tale Lefty Drivel

And here I thought incense, peppermints, unicorns, and the "HISTORIC, FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT" was the magic potion to end the "racial divide"? 

When I was informed by the MSM that I didn't vote for Obama because - I'm white - I saw the direction their bigotry would spin them. It's one thing for a black man who lived through the civil rights movement to be racially sensitive. It is telling that there are white liberals who seem to "know" what is in the heart of those who disagree with our presidents policies. Perhaps it is a revelation of what they are made up of beneath the bubble wrap.

So relevant

It is good the see that the MSM has decided to place such high historical (or hysterical ?) importance to a former president that ranks right up there with Chester A. Arthur and James Buchanan as an effective President and leader.  It is really a shame he is not a drunk like U. S. Grant, at least then he would have an excuse.

This could be positive

This is good for conservatism. Putting the merdivorous Jimmy Carter out there reminds Americans just how bad a President he was, and allows a side by side comparison with the Bamster. Who will end up the worst, Carter or the Bamster? Who is more of a Jew-hater, Carter or the Bamster? Whose foreign policy disasters will damage our country more, Carter's or the Bamster's?

The Bamster is dealing today with the Iran that Carter left us thirty years ago. There's some small bit of satisfying justice in that fact.

bamster by far

I've described Duh One as Carter on Steroids.  So far he's proven that and then some.

Can't tell who's the bigger Jew-hater because of Carter's affiliation with Hamas and Soetoro's muslim background along with trying to tell them what to do with the settlements.

After today about the missile shield, definitely DuhOne with another foreign policy.

End up as the worst?  Well, Carter did it over 4 years and unemployment's not as high then as it is now, plus a bigger polulation today, so definitely Soetoro again.

-Jon

Merdivorous???

lol...been a long time since I've been stumped, but you did it...for a minute or two...(seriously!)  Just for kicks, let me see if I figured this out:

I remembered that "merde" is French for the substance that falls to earth from the south end of a north-bound horse.  And "vorous" probably derives from the Latin, and means "consumes," as in "herbivorous" animals=plant-eating animals.

So, merdivorous would mean...oh my, you called him a nasty name...IF my translation is correct.  HAHA!

→ Merdivorous Media

Slick willie may have stumbled onto the perfect name for the media formerly known as the MSM.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

The hypocrisy in the MSM

The hypocrisy in the MSM regarding race can easily be determined by asking some simple questions:

How many whites in the MSM have a black spouse?

If not, why not because using you convoluted logic, doesn’t it make you a racist?

And doesn’t it also prove that your ‘white guilt’ only runs skin deep?

NBC: 'Blunt' Carter

NBC: 'Blunt' Carter 'Prompted Us to Reexamine Our Assumptions About Race'

It seems to me that Carter needs to reexamine his own a*s, and not worry so much about mine.

The upside to his rhetoric is that, like Biden, he surely is giving Obama nothing but headaches everytime he opens his mouth.

(Please, Jimmy, please just shut up.  What are you laughing at, Joe?)

 

http://www.pelicanmarsh68.blogspot.com

The dead eyes of a lost soul

I was at my bank this morning and they were playing CNN when the with that dark ugly mass spewing his incoherent hatred. A woman next to me says "what is he saying?" So I said, "Basically, if you disagree with Obama, you're a racist." She then said "why hasn't anyone figured out that Carter has been senile for a real long time." Everyone in the bank then started laughing their asses off.

Carter is doing a great job educating young people why exactly he is a moron.

And about that "journalism" thing...

Quote:  "Carter's 'blunt comments' have 'prompted us to re-examine our assumptions about race.'”

Yeah, I can relate to that.  Just like the MSM have caused Americans to re-examine their assumptions and expectations of contemporary journalism and professional "journalists."

another good reason....

to tune out NBC (and the others). And WHAT is the wierd look on Jimmy Carter's face? Does he need to get into the bathroom or something?

I believe the word...

I believe the word they were looking for is DULL.