Jimmy Carter Steals Proprietary Maps for new Israel-Bashing Book

Fox News ^ | December 8, 2006 | daveinboca

[daveinboca]

"President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments."

Besides the statement above, Dr. Stein pointed out a gross factual error that Carter used to bolster the argument that people "weren't listening to [him]."

[daveinboca]

Carter claimed that people "in the real world" have been buying his book. However, Carter's allegations that people don't listen to him may indicate that he is aware of the fact that most Americans regard him as hopelessly addicted to self-promotion, mouthing platitudes of ultra-left sloganeers and sounding like Cindy Sheehan on a particularly bad day. His statements are disregarded because of his foolish policies and incompetent administration during his [thankfully] short tenure in the Oval Office. He managed to get double-digit inflation and interest rates at the same time as running the country into a recession after his seven economic plans---a true Trifecta of ineptitude.

His foreign policy was so badly-conceived and poorly-executed that Iran spiraled into Islamic Revolution, largely because this inept peanut farmer's Human Rights chief in the State Department, Pat Derian, refused to sign off on allowing the Shah's police rubber bullets---months later the Shah's police used live ammunition on students, killing hundreds, and then even the bazaari middle class opted for ridding Iran of the Shah. Another tale of Carter's serial brainlessness.

And his fact-checking makes even the third-rate New Yorker look competent by comparision, although Carter does not commit the solecism of "Saudia Arabia" in a Hertzberg column a while back.

And I must, while I'm at it, again express my sadness at the passing early this year of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, who was one of the sole sane influences at Columbia University's Middle East department and was my mentor on the Middle East while I served as a Middle East consultant for John Anderson in the [ultimately successful] national effort to rid the country of the bane of the Carter Presidency.

I thank God every day for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, who saved the US and UK from eventual capitulation to the Eurocommunism that Carter and his Labour analogues in Britain aspired to. And greased the skids for the final downfall of the Soviet Union into the dustbin of history.

[AmishDude]

You know, I'll bet Carter didn't see this book before the publisher did. He may be many things, but he's politically astute enough not to write this trash.

On the other hand, you'd think he'd at least read the title.

[johnny7]

It was Jimmy Carter who proved to me that Dhimmicrats weren't fit to lead... and in many cases, serve this nation.

[TMSuchman]

Just the same old tripe! Nothing to see here floks just move along, citizens!

[Rocky]

So, we're starting to hear the specifics of the plagiarism accusation. I suppose it's going to be a trickle of information over the next week to prolong Carter's agony as he twists in the wind. Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow.

[N. Theknow]

With Carter and the Bipartisan Surrender Group having similar views on Israel, the Israelis must be feeling like the Czechs before WWII.

[austinaero]

"I suppose it's going to be a trickle of information over the next week to prolong Carter's agony as he twists in the wind. "

You know, I don't think Carter cares as long as he gets some attention.

FWIW, I was in Barnes and Noble today looking at some books on the middle east and there were a handful of various types in the same section, reading up on the 6-day war, the Ottoman Empires, the history of Persia, etc....

I was impressed that people are actually turning to books to try and learn something about the crazy mess in the M.E. I'm glad to see it.