{"id":1858476,"date":"2023-02-24T05:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T10:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1858476"},"modified":"2023-02-24T05:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T10:05:16","slug":"a-great-great-great-man-the-cringey-gushing-over-jimmy-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-great-great-great-man-the-cringey-gushing-over-jimmy-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Great, Great, Great Man&#8217;: The Cringey Gushing Over Jimmy Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-great-great-great-man-the-cringey-gushing-over-jimmy-carter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1858476&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Are we all talking about the unseemliness and death watch that Jimmy Carter has received?<\/p>\n<p>Human beings are known to react in this manner when they see themselves doing something in bad taste or otherwise unworthy. We tell a dirty joke to a child, break the ice in a reception desk, and then we start turning on the motor mouth in our shame. As members of the nation&#8217;s media corps wait for him to speed up and croak, we hover ghoulishly above the grave of a famous stranger for endless hours. We then wander the streets of the small town to find someone who hasn&#8217;t been interviewed by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>So we blather. We talk balls. We will say whatever is necessary to fill in the silence that could draw attention to our shabby ways. We say things like \u2026 oh I don&#8217;t know \u2026 like, Jimmy Carter &#8220;moves humanity forward every single day.&#8221; Or maybe he did. &#8220;the sweetest and best parts of our character.&#8221; We might even describe Jimmy Carter as &#8220;probably the most intelligent, hard-working, and decent man to have occupied the Oval Office in the 20th century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first quote was translated into concrete terms. &#8220;I really, really like him,&#8221; Maria Shriver, a former TV newsreader, is the inspiration for this article. Her heritage is Kennedy-born and Schwarzenegger-married, so words don&#8217;t suit her. The Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is the second, and he shared his outrageous sentiments during a sleepy chin-wag on MSNBC&#8217;s Morning Joe. Kai Bird, left-wing historian and journalist, was the author of the third. He is a great writer. He is a master of words. In fact, he wrote a whole biography about Jimmy Carter. It is possible to expect him not to be so smart.<\/p>\n<p>Unavoidably, there will be a certain amount of one-upmanship. Public commentators can be so competitive. Mia Farrow went on Twitter\u2014it&#8217;s not clear she ever gets off\u2014and called Carter a &#8220;great, great man.&#8221; &#8220;Hold my beer,&#8221; Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist, said it metaphorically. (He doesn\u2019t seem to me to be a huge drinker. Kristof tweeted Carter: &#8220;a great, great, great man,&#8221; Mia Farrow beat her two greats by beating him with a third. Twitter may pay him by his word. (Thanks, Elon.) Kristof also tweeted Carter &#8220;leaves the planet so much more better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it the very unseemliness of the death watch over poor Jimmy Carter that has forced everyone to talk balls?<br \/>\nThe post &#8216;A Great, Great, Great Man&#8217;: The Cringey Gushing Over Jimmy Carter appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":1858479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[8499,7197,7260,19570,4917,6804,4781],"class_list":["post-1858476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-man","tag-a","tag-carter","tag-cringey","tag-great","tag-gushing","tag-jimmy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}