It’s unbelievable but former President Jimmy Carter has outdone himself this time:

Another moment of lunacy from this nation’s biggest Oval Office mistake of the 20th century — which may be akin to saying “water is still wet,” but we should be keeping a tally. While in Colombia, former President Jimmy Carter told an interviewer that the Bush administration “could have been involved” in the 2002 coup attempt against Venezuelan wanna-be dictator Hugo Chavez. Dan Calabrese unloads on America’s worst ex-president:

On Sunday, Jimmeh told the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo that he believes the Bush Administration was likely behind a coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002 in Venezuela.

“I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could even have been directly involved,” said the man whose favorite pastime these days is to huddle up with anti-American thugs.

This got picked up immediately by Iranian state media, of course, which has plenty of reasons to air this allegation. The Iranians want to paint the US as hostile as well as justify its attempts to bolster Chavez in Venezuela. Having an American ex-president give credence to Chavez’ paranoid conspiracy theories plays into memes propagated by leftists throughout Latin America and undermines American influence.

This man knows no shame, does he? You have to wonder whether he’s destroying America’s image and abetting the enemies of the free world purposefully or whether he doesn’t quite understand the impact of his words. He’s a former president, he can’t say the things other insane lefties say. Americans know they have to ignore everything this man says, but the rest of the world still think he should be taken serious.

Exit question: Is Jimmy Carter the Glenn Beck of the left?