Jimmy Carter Lies About Tea Party Criticism

Former President Jimmy Carter must think Americans have Alzheimer's.

Via NewsBusters:

Former president Jimmy Carter lied in an interview with NPR talk-show host Diane Rehm on Tuesday. She ended the interview by asking about the Tea Party and he claimed he had never criticized them -- despite smearing them as racists in 2009 in an NBC interview with Brian Williams:

REHM: Last question, very briefly, what do you think of the Tea Party movement?

CARTER: You know, I never have criticized the Tea Party movement because, strangely enough, I capitalized on the same kind of situation politically that has made the Tea Party successful

Here is the part of the NBC Interview they are referring too.

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Jimmy Carter claimed the Tea Party was suborned by right-wing oligarchs less than a month ago.