The hagiography of President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, continued Monday evening on the tax-funded PBS News Hour. The online headline summarized: “A look at Carter’s accomplishments as president and his legacy as a human rights champion.” President Ronald Reagan certainly didn’t get that treatment for ending the Cold War by pushing the Soviets into the dustbin of history.
Guest host Nick Schifrin spoke with veteran reporter Judy Woodruff, Carter speechwriter James Fallows, and liberal historian and Carter biographer Kai Bird. Woodruff gushed that “It was the longest imaginable journey” to the White House for Carter, “who did come from that very simple beginning, but, against all odds, achieved everything that he achieved.”
