TDS Time Machine | Jimmy Carter on the Rise of Fundamentalism
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In memory of President Jimmy Carter, a look back at an interview with Jon Stewart in which the 39th president talks about the dangerous rise of religious and political fundamentalism, the merging of politics with religion, and, inspired by his own faith, the need for separation between church and state.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:07.6 | My guest tonight, the 39th president of the United States, who was also a Nobel Peace Prize winner. |
| 0:13.4 | His latest book is called Our Endangered Values, America's Moral Crisis. |
| 0:17.3 | Please welcome to the program, President Jimmy Carter. |
| 0:20.3 | Sir? |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you. Nice to see you. How are you? Nice to see you. |
| 0:38.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:39.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:40.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:43.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:44.3 | The book is called Our Endangered Values. |
| 0:48.3 | It is your 20th book. |
| 0:50.3 | Absolutely. |
| 0:51.3 | You have been traveling the world, monitoring international elections, doing wonderful missionary |
| 0:57.0 | work, building homes. |
| 0:59.0 | Sir, I ask you this, why are you busier? Why do you work harder than our actual president? |
| 1:06.0 | Well, one reason is that although I have been governor of Georgia, I have been president of the United States, I have won a Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1:20.6 | I have 11 grandchildren, and they don't think I'll be a success in life until I've been on the Daily Show, |
| 1:27.9 | and if I was present, |
| 1:28.6 | and if I was present, I couldn't be here. |
| 1:36.4 | I understand, sir, and that's what this show is for. |
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