Borowitz - Jimmy Carter Deserved Better. So Do We.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As we remember Jimmy Carter, let’s also take a moment to remember what a ginormous dick Ronald Reagan was.

On October 28, 1980, the two men faced off in a televised debate, in which Reagan delivered his zinger for the ages, “There you go again.”

But Reagan’s knockout punch was hardly as spontaneous as it appeared. He had rehearsed it ahead of time, knowing exactly what Carter planned to say. How did he know? His campaign had stolen a copy of Carter’s debate briefing book.

When Americans elected Carter in 1976, they chose a man who pledged never to lie to them. He was a refreshing response to the cesspool of Republican lying typified by Watergate. By electing Reagan in 1980, Americans returned to the cesspool.

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/jimmy-carter-deserved-better-so-do

[Initech]

1. Republicans have been fucking over this country for 45 years now.

And now with this wretched abomination coming in, they will finish the job Reagan started. Fuck.

[byronius]

5. There's always hope --

— that they’ll be as utterly incompetent as they’ve always been.

Eisenhower was the last sane Republican, period. “I know! Let’s drive right over the edge at high speed!”

Jeebus.

[dgauss]

2. Carter at one point accused George Will of leaking his debate

briefing papers to the Reagan campaign. Will denied it and it was never proven, but seriously, who are you going to believe?

Here's the Wikipedia page about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debategate

And for people who didn't see it, Will did an editorial smear piece on Carter in the Washington Post yesterday, hours after he died.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/29/george-will-jimmy-carter-ronald-reagan/

That's behind a paywall so if you can't see it, it might be for the better. At least the comments uniformly expressed disgust.

Back to Wikipedia, here is a bit of that entry:

In 2004 and again in 2005, Carter accused columnist George Will of giving the briefing book to the Reagan campaign.[14] In a 2005 syndicated column, Will called his role in Reagan's debate preparation "inappropriate", given his position as a columnist, but denied any role in stealing the briefing book. In his column, Will quoted from a letter he had written to Carter privately: "My cursory glance at it convinced me that it was a crashing bore and next to useless—for you [Carter], or for anyone else".[15] In response to Will's column, Carter wrote a letter to The Washington Post retracting his accusations. Carter apologized to Will for "any incorrect statement that I have ever made about his role in the use of my briefing book.... I have never thought Mr. Will took my book, that the outcome of the debate was damaging to my campaign or that Mr. Will apologized to me".[16

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[ificandream]

3. Here's a gift link for the Will piece.

https://wapo.st/40iDqbu

I know the poster above said not seeing it might be for the better, but why hide Republican b.s.?

[dgauss]

6. Thanks for the link.

[Pas-de-Calais]

4. Forgot about the taken brief debate book