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Via Newsbusters:
Former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos on Friday fawned over Jimmy Carter. Though much of the interview with the “heroic” ex-president focused on his humanitarian work, Stephanopoulos also prompted Carter to push his liberal agenda.
The politician went on a rant against the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United campaign finance ruling, calling it “the stupidest ruling and the most damaging ruling that the Supreme Court has ever issued.” Ever? Worse than the 1857 Dred Scott case that ruled African Americans to not be citizens? Worse than 1896’s Pessy vs. Ferguson, the case that legalized racial segregation?
Stephanopoulos offered no follow-up to this perplexing assertion. Indeed, Carter was not portrayed as controversial at all. This is the same man who, on January 12th, pinned the motivation for the recent terror attack in France by radical Muslims on the “Palestinian problem”: