Condemning Carter Brings FNW Together: 'He Should Have Stopped A Few Books Ago'

Fox News Watch/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

How does Jimmy Carter know when he's outstayed his welcome on the international stage? When even Jane Hall, the genial liberal of Fox News Watch, suggests it's time to turn him out to pasture. Carter's latest book, an anti-Israel diatribe incitingly entitled "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" brought the panel together - in criticism of the 39th president.

Lefty Neal Gabler took the first shot, noting the way Carter went after Jewish critics of his book: "he's criticizing book reviewers of his book for being too Jewish, which I think is very odd."

Said conservative commentator Cal Thomas: "Carter has pretty much enjoyed a free ride on the Middle East because of Camp David and the great media celebration of that. I think it's time to confront him a little more about the content of his ideas."

But it was the normally mild-mannered Jane Hall who got off the line of the night:

"Maybe he should have stopped a few books ago."

Ouch!

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

Buh-bye Jimmuh ping to Today show list.

[mware]

Want to bet the Nobel committee give him the prize for Literature.

[Txsleuth]

I have seen Jane on with BOR for weeks...and she is WAY left of HIM!!

So..when she says something negative about Jimmah...Jimmah better take heed...

He really needs to retire for good.

[uncbob]

I hope he dies a miserable depressed old man and take Bubba with him

[Stayingawayfromthedarkside]

He should have stopped a few decades ago. He is the reason Iran scarring the sh*t out of me, and those with some brain cells left.

[DCPatriot]

Thanks GLGB...amazed you're on duty this fine Saturday evening!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Last I heard, he was running for sainthood.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I would be out playing golf but it turned dark tonight ;-)

[Always Right]

Jimmah Carter out doing Mel Gibson.

[BW2221]

There are not many that can make Bubba look good by comparison, but Carter is one.

[LibFreeOrDie]

And Jimmuh's not even drunk!

[CremeSaver]

Good! He is was a disgrace as president now he can be a disgraced author. Why doesn't he just go back to growing peanuts at there is a use for peanuts. Pathetic, foolish, stupid man.

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[gondramB]

>>He should have stopped a few decades ago. He is the reason Iran scarring the sh*t out of me, and those with some brain cells left.<<

I just can't hate Jimmy the way some folks do. He ran for governor here in Georgia when I was a little boy. The fellow he was running against (Lester Maddox) was famous for standing in front of his restaurant with an axe handle to keep black people out. I still cling to my memory of Jimmy Carter running an insurgency against the Democratic machine here -

I and every other 5 year old in Georgia was cheering for Jimmy that year.

But I think he may be declining mentally - he's always been painfully diplomatic and he doesn't seem to get that low taxes are good - he never should have been President - but he is the quintessential "nice guy" and this title is perfect for inflaming the situation -its not the kind of title you choose if you have any illusions (or even dillusions) that you are being helpful.

Trivia: 30 ago when President Carter was elected Newsweek ran a giant headline declaring that meant it was the year of the evangelical.

[ErnBatavia]

And Jimmuh's not even drunk!

Maybe not, but for sure he's got symptoms of "Oldtimer's Disease"...

[Steely Tom]

The fellow he was running against (Lester Maddox) was famous for standing in front of his restaurant with an axe handle to keep black people out.

As long as we're on the subject, which political party did old Lester belong to?

[AnAmericanMother]

I gotta disagree with you here (I was considerably older than you were when Jimmuh was elected, and my parents were very active in politics).

Lester Maddox was from an older generation that believed in segregation, but he had several distinct advantages over Jimmuh.

1. He was an honest man.

2. He treated everybody equally, even though he believed in segregation, he also believed in fairness. He was the first Georgia governor to appoint any black person to statewide office, something none of the white liberals who held office before him managed to do. (Did you know Jimmuh ran a shamefully race baiting campaign to get elected? He said far worse things than Maddox ever did.)

3. Maddox was not full of himself. ANYbody, down to the poorest dirt farmer from Quitman County, could walk in his office and talk to the governor. He would help you right there on the spot, or send you to somebody who could. Carter was too high and mighty to talk to anybody, you had to run a gauntlet of secretaries and assistants and aides and make an appointment . .. which he might break.

4. Maddox was a genuinely nice guy. All his employees, black and white, thought he hung the moon. Even Hosea Williams liked him. He adored his wife and was faithful to her always. We shared a doctor and I chatted with him in the waiting room sometimes -- he was kind and humble. He came up from nothing (his family was urban dirt poor in Atlanta, which is as poor as anybody could get) to be governor of Georgia, and he never forgot that. Carter is mean, rude, and nasty to people he thinks are beneath him.

Frankly, I don't think Jimmuh is fit to shine Lester's shoes.

[My2Cents]

When will Jews learn that leftists in general are not their friends.

[gondramB]

>>As long as we're on the subject, which political party did old Lester belong to?<<

I do believe old Lester was a Democrat - but back then everybody who got elected to any office in Georgia was a Democrat.

I think Ronald Reagan's second greatest legacy (after winning the Cold War)was to take and hold for one party a region as large and growing as the South for what is now coming up on 30 years - when white Southerners had not voted for "The party of Lincoln" in the 115 years following the War of Northern Aggression.

[gondramB]

>>I gotta disagree with you here (I was considerably older than you were when Jimmuh was elected, and my parents were very active in politics).

Lester Maddox was from an older generation that believed in segregation, but he had several distinct advantages over Jimmuh.<<

Yeah, my perspective was that of a 5 year old - one man wanted to beat up or threaten with a gun any black person who tried to enter his restaurant and the other was peanut farmer with a good smile.