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"hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared." Presi dent Carter was forced to swat at the vicious beast with a canoe paddle, which apparently scared it off. Upon his return to the White House, Carter told his staff about the furry amphibian's assault.
can swim, there's no reason to believe that rabbits cannot), and that even if they could, they certainly wouldn't attack humans, and certainly not presidents. For tunately, a White House photographer had been on the scene, and had reco rded the bizarre attack. The photograph showed Carter with his paddle ra ised, warding off a small creature which might, or might not, have been a rabbit.
Undaunted by their skepticism, Carter had the image enlarged, a nd there it was--a killer bunny rabbit, apparently bent on assassinating the president. The story might have ended there, except that White House Press Secretary Jody Powell mentioned the incident to Associated Press reporter Brooks Jackson in August.
Powell made a belated attempt to impress the public with the seri ousness of the attack, calling the creature a "swamp rabbit," but since Carter had to appease his rabbit-loving constituents by insisting that h e had not actually smacked his buck-toothed opponent with his paddle, bu t only splashed water at it to drive it away, it seemed unlikely that he had been in danger. The entire episode became a I'm a Bunny for Carter symbol of Carter's floundering presidency.
t shows the extent to which an insignificant incident can snowball and e nd up in newspapers and news shows across the country. Carter biographe r Douglas Brinkley says, It just played up the Carter flake factor.... I mean, he had to deal with Russia and the Ayatollah and here he was sup posedly fighting off a rabbit.
eyespysomething It's just embarrassing that anyone from Georgia - Democrat or not (Sam Nu nn, after all, was from Georgia) - would have been frightened by a wittl e bunny wabbit.
View Replies To: RWR8189 At the time, people were suggesting that Carter had finished drinking the last of his brother's "Billy Beer". Remember that Billy Carter actually started a short-lived beer franchise labeled with his name during his b rother's presidency?
View Replies To: RWR8189 Where is Greenpeace when you need them? What I wouldn't give to have seen the Rainbow Warrior moving inbetween the Presidential Dinghy and the ra bbit to save the poot creature from the crazed paddle swinging President !
View Replies To: RWR8189 What would have been great, would have been the VICIOUS rabbit doing to B ucky what the badger did to Will Ferrell in SNL on his camping trip. The badger went "up somewhere," when Will tripped and fell.
View Replies To: Mo1 "It was a fairly robust-looking rabbit who was swimming, apparently with no difficulty," the President told reporters while walking through his h ometown.
View Replies To: Mo1 Ronald Reagan will go down in History for winning the cold war and the fa ll of Communism. George H W Bush will be remembered for his leadership in Desert Storm a nd Liberating Kuwait. George W Bush will go down in history for toppling the dictators who sup ported the export of terrorism and the spread Democracy in the Middle Ea st. Jimmy Carter will go down in history for allowing our Diplomats to be hel d hostage in Iran for 444 days, and his near death experience with a Rab bit. Bill Clinton will go down in History for the I ntern that went down on him and doing absolutely nothing in response to several Terrorist attacks under his watch.
On this date in 1979, US President Jimmy Carter claimed he was attacked by a "killer rabbit" while fishing in a rowboat in Georgia -- this came just two weeks after Carter disclosed that hed once seen a UFO.
On April 20, 1961, the FCC granted FM radio stations the ri ght to broadcast in stereo -- that decision led to the "underground radi o" movement, which in turn spawned commercial FM radio.
"ABC's Wide World of Sports" debuted on this day in 1964 -- the crashing ski-jumper shown during the "agony of defeat" opening segm ent suffered only a few bruises.
Jimmy Carter didn't even have the spine to fend off a scary Bunny Rabbit. His secret service agents had to come to his rescue from that pesky wittle wabbit. I hold Jimmy Carter responsible for the birth of Te rrorism as we know it today. If that spineless invertebrate would have i ssued an ultimatum to the Islamic Fundamentalist in Iran back in 1979 th at was backed up by the full force of our Military and the power they pr oject, we would not have had our Marines blown up in Lebanon and the man y Terrorists attacks we suffered at the hands of the Islamo-fascist who considered us weak and incapable of responding to their attacks.
View Replies To: MJY1288 You are correct, and even before the Ayatollah took over, Carter hated th e Shah and helped push him from power. As an immediate reward Carter was humiliated by the extremists and (thankfully) driven from office.
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