Rightwing Echo Machine: "Every Obama speech is Carter's 'malaise' speech to media conservatives"

[Emit]

Every Obama speech is Carter's "malaise" speech to media conservatives
September 01, 2010 11:49 pm ET by Mike Burns

In commentary on President Obama's speeches, conservative media have apparently concluded that references to Jimmy Carter's "malaise" speech are a handy tool to use, no matter the topic at hand. For instance:


Obama's August 31 address on Iraq

•On the August 31 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News contributor Ralph Peters said that when he "listened to" Obama's speech on the end of combat operations in Iraq, "two ghosts appeared. One was the Jimmy Carter malaise speech. The other - the other ghost was Richard Nixon's Vietnamization speeches." (Accessed via Nexis)

Obama's June 15 Oval Office speech on the BP oil spill

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•During the June 16 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh stated that Carter's speech "is almost verbatim what Obama said last night, almost the exact same speech." Limbaugh added, "I tell you, it's second term of Jimmy Carter! And it's liberalism 100% through and through."

•In a June 15 RedState post titled "Barack Obama Embraces His Inner Jimmy Carter," Erick Erickson wrote, "Whatever the reason, Barack Obama gave the most depressing Oval Office speech since Jimmy Carter's malaise speech. He didn't just embrace defeat, he wore it on his suit as a substitute for an argyle sweater."

Obama's June 2 speech on the economy at Carnegie Mellon

•In a June 4 article on American Thinker, Ed Lasky wrote that "President Obama's speech at Carnegie Mellon University is rightfully being compared to Jimmy Carter's notorious 'malaise' speech,' adding, "All that was missing was the cardigan sweater."

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009010056

[Alexander]

1. Most conservatives today probably don't even remember Carter,

much less that speech.

And they certainly wouldn't remember that immediately after the speech, Carter's poll numbers improved dramatically.

[Historic NY]

2. They wouldn't know malaise if it hit them in the face.....

Carter was another Democrat left to cleanup in aisle 5.