Today in History: Jimmy Carter Attacked by Killer Rabbit (April 20, 1979)

News of the Odd ^ | April 20, 2006

[dfwgator]

"Will you be...my neighbor?"

[E Rocc]

(See what happened to Carter's brain?)

[kinghorse]

I bet most of you oldtimers read his book, got all misty for the navy man and voted dem for president the first time in your voting life. He fooled a lot of conservatives.

Shows just how dangerous presidential politics are. Kerry tried to Carter his way in.

[mkjessup]

Bravo!

This story needs to be told, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why, with Iran threatening the world with nukes, you NEVER hear any mention by any news organizations that were it not for Jimmy Carter, that Iran would not pose a threat to the world at all, the son of the late Shah would probably be in Tehran right now as the head of an Iranian monarchy, but ceremonial in power, and a Western-style representative republic answerable to the Iranian voters would be a responsible member of the international community.

The Shah was never a threat to Israel. He was in fact a stabilizing influence in the Middle East, and his demise and the chaos that has followed can be laid at the feet of Jimmy Carter and his insane belief-system.

[ncountylee]

Before the Carter manufactured "Clash of Civilizations" is over, Jimmy will rank with Mao, Stalin and Hitler in total body count.

Peace Prize my butt!

[dfwgator]

I bet most of you oldtimers read his book, got all misty for the navy man and voted dem for president the first time in your voting life

What's sad is, if I was eligible to vote in 1976, I probably would have voted for Carter over that doofus Ford.

[loreldan]

Behold! There swam a dark rabbit...and all hell followed with him.

[Paddlefish]

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!" -- Arthur Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati.

Link to article on the famous WKRP turkey episode (w/ audio link) HERE

[mewzilla]

I thought it was a killer nutria? :)

[bkepley]

Upon his return to the White House, Carter told his staff about the furry amphibian's assault. Most of them refused to believe him

LOL. His staff thought "oh God not another one of his UFO stories..what a wierdo"

[airborne]

Today in history - Columbine.

[paddles]

I still remember all the cartoons. Like the one with Bugs Bunny: "So I swam out to ask the President about his energy policy, and he commences to beat the Hell outta me!"

And the one with Jimmy at a police line-up which included the Easter Bunny, Harvey, the rabbit from "Alice in Wonderland," and a thuggish-looking rabbit in a leather jacket. "That's him! That's him!"

The modern day joke should be; "Your guy beat rabbits, our guy shoots lawyers."

[ansel12]

Looking at the picture, I assume everybody would have done the same thing.

I avoid any wild animal that is acting in an abnormal manner, because rabies ia a common reason for that abnormal desire to approach humans.

Even without rabies, swatting the water to get any animal to swim on seems the natural reaction.

[Inspectorette]

You wouldn't have voted for the Peanut Farmer if you'd seen his evil smile when Ford committed his horrible gaffe during the debate (saying that Poland was not under Communist oppression).

Ford immediately knew he'd screwed up, and unsuccessfully tried to backpedal. Unfortunately, the damage had been done.

Carter's facial expression was chilling - I knew then that this was not a born-again Christian, I saw true evil.

[You Dirty Rats]

I don't know which legacy is worse: Staining an intern's dress or being attacked by a bunny rabbit.

[dfwgator]

Yeah, but how could Ford have been such a blithering idiot.

Of course hindsight is 20/20, and the only silver lining is that because Ford lost, it paved the way for Reagan in 1980.

[cvq3842]

Funny!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Carter is brain dead too!

[johnny7]

Doolittle bombs Japan... and Carter flees from a rabbit.

[Diogenesis]

It was Carter and his State Dept (and Pres. Bush's State Dept.)
which was (and is) a threat to Israel and American Jews.

At a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers,
Jimmy Carter angrily snapped, "If I get back in, I`m going to f--- the Jews."

Later in 1980, Cyrus Vance…confirmed to then-New York mayor Ed Koch that Carter,
if reelected, was planning to "sell out" Jews.