For the benefit of those of you in UK who don't follow historical US political humour, I offer the following links as authentication:
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/...s-2010.cnn
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-...1e5d3e6a6c
It was August 1979, and President Jimmy Carter was taking some time off before the 1980 campaign began in earnest. He was fishing on a lake near his home in Plains, Ga., when he was attacked by a killer rabbit.
That's the story that Jody Powell, Carter's press secretary, told the news media at the time. And even though many doubted Carter, the White House photographer, who happened to be there, snapped a picture showing the incident.
In 2015, Carter retold the story to Howard Kurtz.
“Wild rabbits … all of them know how to swim,” the former president explained. The rabbit, being chased by hounds, leapt into the water and began swimming toward his boat. Carter used a paddle to shoo the bunny away.
“There was nothing to it,” Carter told Kurtz. “When Jody told it, it became a very humorous and still lasting story. Lots of people that had tame bunny rabbits threw them in swimming pools and said their rabbits could swim, too.”
Here's what the actual incident looked like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy6dF4yAgRs
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