Posted on 10/01/2009 1:19:15 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of former President Jimmy Carter talking with CNN's Candy Crowley and denying that he ever accused those who oppose President Obama of doing so because of racist motivation. In fact, he repeatedly corrected Crowley in saying he did not say what he actually said! Carter claims he was only talking about the "fringe element," not most people. But that is not what he said in the interview with NBC's Brian Williams. He said an overwhelming amount of the animosity directed at Obama is because he is a "black man."
Check out the video below and listen to what he said for yourself . . . (VIDEOS)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
He’s gone around the bend.
Coo Coo.
Someone needs to introduce this old fart to YouTube
alzheimers or lair’s syndrome?
YOU LIE!
Whenever anyone thinks Carter has reached the nadir in clownishness he proves that person premature.
President Obama is worse!
Senile
All leftist play double standard games, and they will always get away with it, unless the entire world, as a majority, really and successfully ends everything leftist and everything that’s politically correct!
Not necessarily mutually exclusive.
IOW, I’d wager a bit of both.
OMG is he senile?
He is just another bigoted liar grown to be a Democrat
The list, ping
Rush pointed this out today, too. Carter is such a fool.
KA-Choo!
Boortz said “someone should give Jimmy Carter a shopping cart he can push around in his suburb”. ha.!
A real journalist would not have let him skate free from such a blatant lie... er, sorry! Misstatement! (’Rats don’t lie, dontchaknow. Especially not nobel prizewinning ones like Jimmuh.)
Of course this was not a real journalist, but rather, Candy Crowley from CNN.
LOL
What an old bag of dung! Lying dung, at that.
Carter is not completely worthless; He could always serve as a piss poor example.
You lie.
>> OMG is he senile?
The Carter I saw in both videos is NOT senile. I have some experience with the matter. (No, I’m not admitting I am senile, although Mrs. Tick might debate that!)
The Carter I saw in these clips is coherent and focused on the present, in control of his thought processes, and has no trouble turning thoughts into language.
He is not acting like a person with either Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia (often called “senile dementia”).
No, what you are seeing is a typical ‘Rat — above the law, above scrutiny, above the need to justify anything he said before. Confident that the press is HIS tool to use as he sees fit.
The one thing he’s behind on, IMO, is awareness that tapes of his words now and before are instantly available for all to see and compare. He’s still living in the ‘80s when his prior words — if they existed at ALL — were in a “transcript” somewhere that the public did NOT have access to, and that a journalist wouldn’t bother to read.
The man is just an evil SOB in my opinion. He arrogantly figured he could get away with his little rewrite of history and no one could or would call him on it.
i want him confronted head on with a tape of him saying this stuff!
>> i want him confronted head on with a tape of him saying this stuff!
I don’t know why they don’t do that!
Any journalist worth his or her salt would hear that lame response... and then say, “I just happen to have the transcript right here, Mr. Carter. Better yet, let’s roll the tape from before...” Because a real journalist would come to the interview PREPARED and ready to spring the trap on the dissembling they KNOW will be coming!
Like I said in another reply, a REAL journalist wouldn’t let him skate, but we don’t seem to have any of those.
Now that is funny.
Gosh, Jimmuh, I don’t know, who do I believe, you or my own lying eyes and ears?
Those who get their news exclusively from the MSM will never see these two videos side by side. To the MSM's audience of zombies, Carter will remain the smiling peanut farmer who said he would never lie to us, and never did.
"I said those that had a personal attack on President Obama as a person, that was tinged with racism."
I see no real contradiction here.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/animosity
animosity
1. Bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/intense
intense
a. Deeply felt; profound
So Carters original statement refers to deeply felt or profound hostility, open enmity or hatred. Such deep feelings for someone would reasonably be seen as “personal”. Thus, his recent statement doesn’t contradict his original statement. The specific group he was referring to originally was very clear.
animosity:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/animosity
: ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude
The crowds demonstrating against Obama can be fairly described as having "an antagonistic attitude" toward him, and people who march with placards can be fairly described as "intense." Politics is personal, as FR posters demonstrate daily. In all the Internet coverage that I saw of Carter's comments, people took the view that Carter was referring to most of the protesters. For example, Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said, "I think what President Carter said is precisely what is going on. I am not saying that everyone involved in opposing healthcare reform is a Klansman in disguise but it is the elephant in the room." Potok did not intend "the elephant in the room" to describe a small minority of the protesters who made personal comments. He thought Carter was referring to the protesters as a group, and he basically agreed with Carter's opinion.
Carter said of Joe Wilson's "You Lie!" outburst, "I think it's based on racism." Carter needed no actual proof of racism to make the allegation, why would he use a different standard for the protesters?
The sincerity of Carter's CNN "clarification" is highly suspect, because it came only after he received tremendous criticism. I think Carter found that he had stepped into the fire, and he tried to excape using the old "I never said that" trick. During his administration, long before YouTube, it would have worked.
If Carter clearly states in the unaired portion of his NBC interview that his criticism was intended only for a small specific group, "those on the fringe element that had vituperative personal attacks," then you have a point. Otherwise, not.
excape > escape
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