After the success of the Checkers shirt and the Nixon Pardon Speech shirt, Whiggy Tease Nation breathlessly awaited the next TV speech item to hit their favorite on-line store. Will it be Eisenhower “Military Industrial Complex” speech? Or maybe Al Gore’s sloppy kiss at the 2000 convention?
No. We would never lie to you. It’s time for Jimmy Carter.
“Ooh, you mean the Cardigan Sweater speech?”
No, we’re saving that for the winter. It’s all about timing. See, that is why we are millionaire businessmen and you are not.
Today, we’re rolling out a shirt celebrating the 20th Anniversary of The Malaise Speech. Here it is…
It’s the perfect gift for your friends who are still mad at Jimmy Carter. Do you like it? Did you notice it’s on a 1970’s television set? See, that is the Attention to Detail that you would expect at Whiggy Tease.
Of course, there’s one problem. Carter never actually used the word “malaise” in his speech.
It kind of reminds us of the scene from The Fugitive. Tommy Lee Jones spends two hours of the movie chasing Harrison Ford around. Trapped, Ford says to him “I didn’t kill my wife,” to which Jones replies “I don’t care.”
That’s basically what American told Carter on Election Day in 1980.
Carter’s campaign didn’t adequately address the Malaise Issue, but if they had offered a rebuttal, it probably would have looked like this…
Yes, Carter had a campaign poster that looked pretty much like this. Same color, same inspiring photograph, similar late 70’s/early 80’s font. Again, it’s the Attention to Detail.
We don’t have a crisis of confidence. We here at Whiggy Tease Planet Headquarters are confident you’ll drop a bundle in our newly opened Jimmy Carter Store.
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