After Carter passes, we won't be able to criticize

Another phone call about President Jimmy Carter on the Michael Medved show:

Ron in Brooklyn, New York, you’re on the Medved Show.

Thank you for taking my call. I’m disagreeing with you on what you said back on the 9th of January. The Useless One…

No, no no, I said worthless. The Worthless One. Worse than useless.

I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

Let’s get the full scope of the insult. There are people who are useless who are not necessarily worthless. But worthless means totally with no redeeming characteristics. That’s Jimmy Carter.

Could you elaborate?

Yeah, I think he’s one of the worst presidents we’ve ever had—certainly one of the worst three. He destroyed the United States, he created two new federal departments we’re still paying the price for, he created the Islamic radical movement as we know it by pulling the rug out from under the Shah of Iran and installing the mullahs in Iran, he decimated the military, he gave all kinds of advantages to the Soviets, and he wrecked the U.S. economy, and he was a sanctimonious, officious, know-it-all, miserable prig. And that’s p-r-i-g; I’m using approved language. So what was good about Jimmy Carter?

Well, I was going to just say one thing.

Yes?

And that is he stood for Christ.

What?

He stood for Christ. After the secular ’60’s.

He stood for Christ? As a supporter of abortion? I think he gave Christians a bad name! Jimmy Carter’s a huge supporter of abortion. Are you?

No!

So how does he stand for Christ? He stands for his own messianic pretensions. He’s a miserable, miserable human being. And a disgusting excuse and a blight on humanity. And I’m saying all this now while he’s alive because if something, G-d forbid, happens to ex-President Carter, I know I’m going to have to watch my mouth. Okay? Ron, part of what I’m doing is pre-emptive. Okay? I’m trying to allow the full scope of this man’s wretchedness to become clearly known because when he is remembered, after he is gone, I will not be allowed to do so. You can’t do it. We’ll take that day off. I’m not suggesting it should be a national holiday, but I am suggesting I’m going to have to be very, very careful. This is going to be very hard. How am I going to be able to keep quiet on Carter? It’s Disagreement Day. If you have a thought on that, you can give me a call.

Jimmy Carter, the Worthless One: best ex-president?

This is a timely response to one of my Friends who thinks Jimmy Carter is a great ex-president.

From the Michael Medved Show Jan. 15:

Hello, Michael, I listen to you every day. Can you explain why you despise Jimmy Carter? President Carter was president during a terrible time. I don't think you can blame him for the awful, immoral '70's any more than you can blame President Bush for the issues of the last decade. President Carter has shown his true character in his actions since his presidency. I respect him for that. I didn't vote for Bush, but I would never disrespect him the way I feel you do President Carter. He certainly is not responsible for the abundance of abortion of the '70's. Thanks. I usually appreciate your opinions.

Medved: He is certainly one of the two or three worst presidents we have ever suffered through. He is an insufferable, sanctimonious idiot. I agree. He has shown his true character. I despise him for that. Okay, let me try to respond to this. It is precisely because of his behavior since he left the presidency that I particularly despise and abominate Jimmy Carter. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for attacking his own country. For attacking one of his successors, George Walker Bush. It is a long tradition in American life that even if an ex-president hates the guts of a current president, he keeps quiet about it. Because an ex-president--I mean, part of what you do--you are receiving public money--you are being paid a great deal of public money--for being a dignified ex-president. Harry Truman--let me give you an example--hated Richard Nixon. Despised him. Just despised him. And why? Because Richard Nixon made Harry Truman look bad on the issue of Alger Hiss. This was a high State Department official during the Truman Administration who, it turns out, was a Soviet spy. And he was. And Nixon was right about that, and Truman was wrong. But he never attacked him after Richard Nixon became Vice-President and then President. He was quiet about it! He was decent about it. President Carter has not been decent. He has also consistently supported and excused Islamic terrorism, Latin American dictators like Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales in Bolivia, going around--who asked him, in our government?--to go around certifying the elections of leftist creeps all around the world. Jimmy Carter has become a sanctimonious, American-hating cartoon. And a bad cartoon. And I'm tired of it. And yes, I will continue to call him The Worthless One. Not because he was totally worthless as president. No one is. I mean, every president, by accident, sometimes does something right. But as an ex-president? I think Jimmy Carter is just about completely worthless and a disgrace to the country and a disgrace to the human race.