The Regime Media are stepping over each other to see who can offer the most sycophantic coverage of the legacy of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, who passed away yesterday at the age of 100. It appears that a frontrunner has emerged.
Watch as CBS’s Major Garrett, in for outgoing anchor Norah O’Donnell, finds a new way to burnish Carter’s “legacy”:
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CBS EVENING NEWS
12/30/24
6:58 PM
MAJOR GARRETT: We end tonight looking at some of the 39th president's contributions that you may not be aware of. When you think of Jimmy Carter, it might not occur to you that some of the best parts of the holidays now can be traced, at least in part, to his presidency. Let's start with low cost flights, because Carter deregulated the airlines. Then there is affordable and fast shipping of presents, because Carter deregulated the trucking and rail industries. New cellular phones and streaming shows, because Carter opened telecommunications to competition, paving the way for unimaginable innovations decades later. Lastly, craft beer. Carter legalized homebrewing, the precursor to craft brews that now account for more than 24% of the $175 billion beer market. Holiday cheer. Some of it, at least, courtesy of Jimmy Carter.
OK, this is just ridiculous. Until this point, the network newscasts had hewn to the standard Carter postmortem with varying coverage of his philanthropy, his marriage, his presidency, and his post-presidency.
But this effort to credit Carter for things that happened decades after he left office is an escalation in the ongoing effort to canonize Carter, something that we warned about on X in reaction to the whitewashing of Carter’s penchant for palling around with tyrants:
The "legacy" media will work overtime to canonize Carter as a secular saint to generations who enjoyed the luxury of being born after his presidency. In the process, they will omit his post-presidential embrace of regimes such as the murderous Chavista dictatorship. https://t.co/BWZHvHZpJR
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) December 30, 2024
And this is the main reason why the Regime Media do this. Newscast time spent crediting Carter for craft beer, Amazon delivery and Netflix is time not allocated to a more honest examination of Carter’s record than we’ve seen so far.
And yes, this includes his coziness with the Castro dictatorship and his closeness to Hugo Chavez. Carter’s lending of his gravitas to the rigged 2004 recall referendum allowed Hugo Chavez to remain in power and eventually leave Nicolás Maduro as successor. The result has been devastating to the entire hemisphere.
The Regime Media, avoiding that discussion at all costs, choose instead to whitewash Carter’s actual legacy for younger generations.
