Hello ladies, hello gentlemen, this is the Victor Davis Hansen show. I'm Jack Fowler, the host

Victor Davis Hansen is the star named say he is the Martin and Eli Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover

institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale college

victors back from a little little trip straight from the airport to the microphone just the news.com

that's our happy home on the internet as ever a lot to talk about and Victor little dicey here

I like us to begin talking about or me asking you about you addressing the issue of Jimmy Carter

who as we speak is in hospice he will as we all will pass away but he is expected to pass away

soon I don't know if it stays a week but there's been a lot about pouring over over a rot praise of

of this man and Victor I'd like to get your thoughts on that and uh Raul Dawley the uh

revising of his children's books and many other subjects and we'll we'll get to that right after

these important messages. We're back with the Victor Davis Hansen show so Victor like to springboard

off of a piece of writing by Andy Ferguson my old colleague at national review long long time I go

and he's just one of the best writers out there he used to have he used to be a regular writer for

many years with a weekly standard before it went under I don't know if you you may know Andy or not

Victor I know Andy I like Andy a long one. Oh he's just a good man. So here's what he wrote the

other day for Washington free beacon and it's about Jimmy Carter and uh bear with me and then Victor

give you if you give your thoughts you write we human beings often react this way when we catch

ourselves doing something that's in poor taste or otherwise and undignified we break wind in a

reception line we tell a dirty joke with a near shot of a toddler and and in our mortification we

turn on the motor mouth hovering foolishly over the deathbed of a celebrated stranger for endless

days as members of our nation's press corps are doing waiting for him to hurry up and croak already

and wandering in the streets of his tiny hometown to find a resident who hadn't yet been interviewed

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