Watch Jimmy Carter Take This Whippersnapper Stephen Colbert To School (Video)
Let's just get it out there: We just love Jimmy Carter, and we'd watch him on the Morning Farm Report. Put him across a table from Stephen Colbert, and we are there -- or our DVR is. He's having fun, and has obviously done his homework: he's perfectly ready for the back-and forth with Colbert. If it's a little short on life-changing epiphanies (and why are you looking for life-changing epiphanies on late-night basic cable anyway?), it's a lot of fun to watch Jimmy play with the Colbert Persona. Carter has been making the talk show rounds to flog his new book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, which gives him the chance to cut off Colbert with a lovely correction:
Stephen: You've written about a dozen books at this point...
Jimmy: Twenty-eight.
Who cares if they maybe choreographed that in advance? Carter's smile is magnificent.
Too bad we didn't take his advice on energy. That could have saved a few thousand American lives and a shitload of money.
He seems nice. No, really nice.