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On April 20, 1979, during a few days of vacation in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Carter was fishing in a johnboat (sometimes erroneously described as a canoe) in a pond on his farm, when he saw a swamp rabbit, which Carter later speculated was fleeing from a predator, swimming in the water and making its way towards him, "hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared", so he reacted by either hitting or splashing water at it with his paddle to scare it away, and it subsequently swam away from him and climbed out of the pond. A White House photographer captured the subsequent scene. Carter was uninjured; the fate of the rabbit is unknown.
Why was this a controversy???
Reagan used it to portray him as a wuss, if I'm understanding the strange boomer/"greatest generation" sociology correctly. I'm not positive. For me it just appears endearing
Yeah, like don't we want a president who won't kill things because they mildly inconvenienced him? I don't understand that generation's mindset at all.
Reagan pulled a Nixon and worked with hostage takers to stymie Carter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory
It's fucking disgusting, it's treason, just like Nixon.
By the time of the election in November 1968, LBJ had evidence Nixon had sabotaged the Vietnam war peace talks - or, as he put it, that Nixon was guilty of treason and had "blood on his hands".
because Carter literally didn't do anything wrong he existed in an era where politicians sucked openly so bad.
Is the rabbit of Monty 'S Holy Grail a parody of this perhaps?
Yes, if a movie made in 1975 can parody events in 1979.
Everyone says Monty python was ahead of it's time.
Don't look at me I wasn't alive then.
Was this a Streisand Effect thing? Did it happen before the Streisand thing?