PBS News Hour’s first weekly recap featuring Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks of the new year concluded with the duo taking turns singing the praises of former President Jimmy Carter and “the glow around him.” While one might have expected the liberal Capehart to say such things, the supposedly conservative Brooks failed to even mention one area where Carter was not the model former president some want to paint him as.
Host Amna Nawaz began with Capehart, “Our politics, our nation, obviously very different right now to the times that he was living and leading in. But I just want to ask each of you—Jonathan, you first—what are you in this moment taking away from the legacy of President Carter?”
Capehart began by recalling that when “I was a little kid when Jimmy Carter was in…
