you re going to get you re going to end up with interest rates at 21% and you re going to have inflation going through the roof. that was president george h.w. bush invoking the carter comparison against bill clinton back in 1992. that was 22 years ago. now, as a tactic, this all makes sense. carter presided over an economically traumatic part of american history. high unemployment, soaring inflation, brutal interest rates. gas lines. there s also the endless iran hostage crisis. when he ran for re-election in 1980, carter lost 44 states. strategically, i get it. the current democratic president with a past democratic president whose tenure is not generally remembered well. but there are two things that bother me about it. the first is how far off the right s character of carter is from reality. because the way they tell it, he failed because he was some kind of radical european-style president who was pursuing a far left agenda. you know, just like that far
a lot of people will know that story well, and we covered it on fox news you certainly did, thank you. right. [laughter] rick: kirsten, now we hear the assertion from the white house briefing room from jay carney that this is all nothing more but a giant fishing expedition paid for with taxpayer dollars. do you see in the coverage now a lot of the mainstream media organizations sort of taking that line and running with it straight from the mouth of the president s spokesman? well, i mean, they certainly report that the white house spokesman said that. i don t think that it s reported that way, per se. i think judy s right, the only thing they really take an interest in is the executive privilege, and it is a story because obama s very critical of bush invoking executive privilege and, actually, the new york times even, you know, pointed that out in their coverage. so i think in that sense it s been covered pretty fairly, um, the executive privilege aspect.
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