I've got your elders right here.
Posted on 07/23/2007 7:43:34 AM PDT by SJackson
The only one missing is “Bob Barker”.
I have to keep reminding myself that this is not a list of unindicted war criminals. This is, however, a group of dispicable men.
A group of international scolds, busybodies and useful idiots. It would be funny if they weren’t so pathetic.
‘’Protocols of the Elders of Stupid’’
When Jimmy Carter used the word “Apartheid” in the title of his book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, he knew it would deeply offend many Israelis, Jews and other supporters of Israel’s efforts to make peace with its Arab neighbors. Yet he deliberately chose that deeply offensive word precisely in order to provoke. As Jeffrey Goldberg of The Washington Post said, it was a case of “bait and switch,” since in the text of the book, the word Apartheid appears only three times and Carter goes out of his way to explain that what he believe Israel is doing “is unlike in South Africa – not racism….”
Carter was cautioned by friends not to use the inaccurate and provocative word Apartheid, but he insisted on putting it in his title, knowing full well how deeply offensive it would be to so many.
Contrast Carter’s insensitivity toward his Jewish readers with his extraordinary oversensitivity toward Muslim readers of Salman Rushdie’s controversial book The Satanic Verses. When Rushdie was sentenced to death in absentia by the Ayatollah Khomeini, and when Khomeini offered “Paradise” to anyone who would murder Rushdie, Carter did not leap to the defense of the threatened author.
Instead, he condemned him for his “direct insult to the millions of Muslims whose sacred beliefs have been violated and are suffering in restrained silence…” To be sure, Carter recited the obligatory defense of freedom of speech (“while Rushdie’s First Amendment freedoms are important …”), and the obligatory criticism of Khomeini (“it is our duty to condemn the threat of murder….”), it is clear that his true sympathies lie with the offended Muslims. This is what he wrote in his article entitled “Rushdie’s Book Is An Insult:”
“This is the kind of intercultural wound that is difficult to heal. Western leaders should make it clear that in protecting Rushdie’s life and civil rights, there is no endorsement of an insult to the sacred beliefs of our Moslem friends.
We must remember that Iranian and other fundamentalists are not the only Moslems involved. Around the world there are millions of others who are waiting for a thoughtful and constructive response to their concerns.”
Carter was relatively silent when millions of Muslims were on a rampage against the Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed (some positively, others negatively).
His sensitivity seems limited to Muslims and Christians. This is what he said about the film “The Last Temptation of Christ”:
"…the sacreligious scenes were still distressing to me and many others who share my faith. There is little doubt that the movie producers and Scorsese, a professed Christian, anticipated adverse public reactions and capitalized on them."
Yet Carter fully “anticipated” and “capitalized” on the deliberately offensive title of his best-selling book. Nor do I recall any condemnation by him of Mel Gibson’s film, “The Passion of the Christ”, that was deeply offensive to many Jews.
Jimmy Carter’s sensitivities seem to have a gaping hole when it comes to Jews. There is a term for that.
Bob isn't qualified - he's not an anti-Semite.
Kind of like Appalachia mob meeting with depends.
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See post 6
All in search of the next Yassir Arafat to lionize.
Hey, Carter isn’t stupid. Unlike everyone else, he has the sense to know that if we just embrace Bin Laden, Hamas, Chavez, Castro, Taliban, Amadamnutjob, et al, with warm kisses and lots of money, the world will see war no more.
And butterflies and fairies will flutter about dispensing rainbow candy to all the little children...
The only thing stopping this scenario and peace on a global scale is not murderers, despots, and tyrants, its the JOOOOOOOOOS...
If anyone in that group has an intelligent thought, it will die alone.
“They call themselves the ‘Elders’” . . .
Have you ever seen a better example of such total, nauseating vanity in your entire life?
Oh, there are many other candidates for a group like this. Noam Chomsky, Helen Thomas, Walter Cronkite come to mind. All peas in a pod.
They’re elders in the same way my senile old uncle is. I wouldn’t take a thing they say seriously. One other thing — like the uncle, these elderly fools ought to all be in an assisted living facility, heavily sedated and supervised around the clock, so they couldn’t do themselves any further harm.
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Oh brother! It’ll be a Meeting of the Mindless.
I've got your elders right here.
Reminds me of UNIDROIT. It is the left over part of the League of Nations which is contracted out to write Treaties and Conventions which multiple nations sign.
These “elders” are nothing more than a psuedo security counsel with only socialists.
Each day Jimmy Carter demonstrates how the old media was able to manipulate his PR image in the 1970’s. If Ford vs Carter were be held today, Jimmy Carter would have lost in a landslide after the new media exposed him.
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