Here Are the Zaniest First Reactions in TV News to Jimmy Carter’s Passing

Curtis Houck
December 30th, 2024 1:55 PM

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With the networks having had over a decade to prepare their graphics and obituary packages for former President Jimmy Carter, the Georgian’s death Sunday at 100 years old came as no surprise (despite having been under hospice care for years) and thus the broadcast and cable networks merely had to dust off their files and hit play.

In the first 45 minutes since the Carter Center announced his death, the liberal networks had flowery hot takes ready alongside the deserving eulogies about, say, his service to the country and his 77-year marriage to the late Rosalynn Carter.

ABC’s Special Report was led by senior White House correspondent Mary Bruce and, given her role as the chief Biden regime apple polisher, it was no surprise she had kind words for Carter:

ABC’s World News Tonight anchor David Muir delivered the likely years-old obituary package, including this hot take:

Once that wrapped, longtime Atlanta-based correspondent Steve Osunsami gave his recollections of the former President, calling him “a truly honest man. This was an everyday man who found himself and led himself to exceptional circumstances, to the highest office in the land, who at the same time never forgot where he was from.”

CNN left it to longtime anchor Wolf Blitzer to deliver the voice-over obit. Blitzer even found a way to spin a critique of Carter into a positive:

The liberal media often use the passings of politicians – ones they loved and even loathed – to be wistful about how the current era is far too rough and tumble (which they help shape, but want none of the blame for). Blitzer did that in his conclusion: “Husband. Statesman. A connection to an era now gone. Jimmy Carter was a defender of values forever current.”

Back live, Blitzer beamed in to speak with fill-in host Rahel Solomon and offered this veiled remark about Carter’s decades of foreign meddling (including his virulently anti-Israel views):

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt gave Carter his flowers, but he also worked in the failures of his presidency:\

MSNBC’s coverage included the network’s own Biden apple polisher, Mike Memoli:

Longtime weekend MSNBC host Alex Witt just had to make a connection to the present and ignore the gracious TRUTH Social posts by President-Elect Trump:

We left the best hot take for last as former Newsweek editor and suck-up Carter and Obama biographer Jonathan Alter ripped those arguing his presidency was disastrous:

To close on a positive note, former MSNBC host Chris Matthews called in moments after Carter’s passing was announced to share his memories of not just the man, but what it was like as one of his White House speechwriters:

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