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Morning Joe Lauds Lincolnesque Carter—Credits Him For Fall Of Soviets

Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough MSNBC Morning Joe 1-10-25 All that was missing was Joe Scarborough looking into the camera and saying—à la his recent claim that the current Biden was the best Biden ever and f-you if you didn’t believe it—that Jimmy Carter was the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.

Today’s episode Morning Joe engaged in some world-class revisionism in praise of Carter. Incredibly, citing supposed Soviet views at the time, Scarborough credited Carter [and Mika’s dad Zbigniew Brzezinski] more than Reagan, for the fall of the Soviet Union.

MIKA: This is the kind of thing where history, it takes time to really look back on what, a certain amount of time, what a presidency meant to the world. And in this case, wow!, did the narrative turn. When you look back on this presidency, and really pore through the details of it. 

SCARBOROUGH: When the Soviet Union fell, the Russians, they did not…

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