Despite the natural sympathy for a dying man, the revisionist attempt to erase his failures and their consequences should not prevail:
...the campaign to revive his reputation is already in full swing. In the last month since the news about his terminal illness was released, articles and opinion pieces boosting the 98-year-old and attempting to depict his single term in office as both underappreciated and unfairly attacked have proliferated.
And with the help of one of the men who gave us Rathergate in 2004, the spin has already begun! Malaise Memory Loss...
Ezra Klein, formerly of The American Prospect and now with the New York Times, began the Carter rehabilitation tour way back in 2009 by trying to explain how, ackchyually, his “Malaise Speech” really wasn’t such a bad moment after all.- Ed Driscoll
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