Election Sunday: Carter and the Killer Rabbit (1979) w/ Sam Sanders

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

It’s August 30th. On this day in 1979, newspapers around the country reported on an encounter President Jimmy Carter had earlier that summer with a rabbit while fishing.

Jody and Niki are joined by Sam Sanders of NPR’s “It’s Been A Minute” to discuss how the Carter vs. Rabbit narrative spiraled out of control and turned into a genuine scandal.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:09.0	This day, August 30th, 1979, an AP story was published in various papers around the country,
0:18.6	including the front page of the Washington Post with the headline, Goes Bugs Rabbit Attacks President.
0:25.7	It was the tale of President Carter and his encounter while fishing earlier that summer
0:30.0	with what was often referred to as a quote killer rabbit.
0:33.2	Here to discuss the story how it went from relatively benign
0:36.7	backwards incident to I don't know like maybe like a genuine scandal that may have
0:40.2	had an effect on Carter's presidency here Here to discuss is, as always,
0:44.0	Nicole Hammer of Columbia.
0:45.2	Hello, Nicole.
0:46.2	Hello, Jody.
0:47.4	And back with us, Sam Sanders of MPRs.
0:49.7	It's been a minute.
0:51.1	We did the Tan suits.
0:52.2	Now we're doing the Carter Rabbit story you're hitting a
0:54.4	very serious scandals jackpot here Sam with us love it it's just imagining a wild
1:00.5	rabbit in a tan suit. There you go.
1:03.0	Wouldn't that be cute?
1:04.0	Right, well this...
1:05.0	It would be amazing.
1:07.0	Yeah, there should be a linen suit because it took place in Georgia, but that would look quite nice.
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