[Rennes Templar]

"If it weren’t for Carter, wild Alaska today would be despoiled beyond recognition."

Scary to realize academicians think this way, but they do - almost all of them.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Pure, unadulterated tripe. Carter was a complete fraud and a world-class incompetent idiot.

[CaptainK]

Lots of wishful thinking in that article. Nobody likes the sanctimonious Carter, not even other Democrats.

Illustrating once again that the cheese stands alone. For a reason.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Douglas Brinkley is a “pop” historian. He is to History what “Dr.Phil” McGraw is to Psychotherapy. Both are willing to twist truth and ethics to enhance their celebrity status and bank accounts.

[stylin19a]

turns out there is a reason for ARGO being “’based on’ a true story”!.....Brinkley obviously didn’t do the research

[x]

Not since Gregory Peck in 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird has an actor performed with the unforgettable gravitas of Daniel Day-Lewis playing Abraham Lincoln in the months before his assassination.

"Unforgettable Gravitas" = forgettable stiffness

His post-presidential work with the Carter Center fighting guinea-worm disease, river blindness, and other plagues has likewise turned him into a global humanitarian folk hero.

"Global humanitarian folk hero" = someone much less well-known abroad than at home but more welcome overseas than in his own country

Carter – Mr. Clean Energy – had become the butt of innumerable jokes.

"Mr. Clean Energy" = Mr. Scared of Killer Rabbit or Mr. Obsessively Scrutinized White House Tennis Court Sign-Up Sheets

Carter also deserves credit for establishing Channel Islands National Park in Southern California, the favorite marine paradise of many in the movie industry, and for protecting the Dakota Badlands from ruin.

"Deserves credit" = signed bills upgrading already federally protected National Monuments to National Parks which increased tourist traffic to threatened ecosystems

In my estimation, the greatest environmental speech ever delivered to Congress was Carter’s stunningly prescient May 23, 1977 message.

"Stunningly prescient" = mindnumbingly mixing banal rhetoric with billion dollar spending proposals

And Carter was the avatar of mass-transit.

"Avatar" = manifestation of a deity in bodily form on earth.

Huh?

[what's up]

When I saw Argo it was quite obvious to me it was a vehicle intended to resurrect Carter's reputation.

As far as the storytelling...it was OK. But really more like TV movie quality than A-list Hollywood.

And Affleck certainly doesn't deserve a best actor award. There was no range for acting...more a tepid role really which just about anyone could have done.

[Stosh]

If Hussein is your standard for greatness in a President (we are talking Hollywood and academia, after all), then Carter is already rehabilitated.

[Lx]

There is simply no way to ‘rehabilitate’ Carter in the left’s view (he caused us to have 8 years of (Reagan))? Yes!!!!

On our side, he was just incompetent, and we then looked into his sad past and realized what an empty cheap suit he had worn all his life. Hie Nuclear engineering degree he was supposed to have had was tossed around with so many reasons why it wasn’t granted, he should have hired Antonio Rossi to get a PhD from Billy Bobs graduate student class available in LANR or LENR and they give you extra points to debunk the science behind it.

It’s Fake, it’s dead, it’s pining for the fjords, it has ceased to be.

Look for Dennis Lee to have more than this guy has had,

[miserare]

So, I see that Douglas Brinkley is just another revisionist.

I’ll never pay any attention to anything he says or writes in the future.

I cast him into the dustbin of American historians, alongside Doris Kearns Goodwin.

[freekitty]

Imagine a University such as Rice University supposedly known for academic excellence would have a professor such as this teaching our children. Carter should have never been President. He was also being controlled by the Middle East.

[SES1066]

The military KNOWS that studying the failures is often more productive than studying the successes. Hollywierd has been enamored with the leftists long before the infamous "Mission to Moscow" made Stalin look like everybody's favorite uncle with a pipe. There is not a leftist alive or dead they cannot glorify, witness "The Motorcycle Diaries" of the mass murderer 'Che' Guevara.

I don't think I will hold my breath for any movie that features Carter's 'Desert One' fiasco which was so reminiscent of LBJ's micromanaging of the Vietnam War. Every study I have ever seen of that effort showed it to be full of 'critical failure points' although I have to say that that RATO equipped C-130 was a magnificent though ultimately unsuccessful effort!

[hecht]

Argo is such BS. the Alan Arkin character is made up, as is most of the story

[Ennis85]

You I came across this video recently "Jimmy Carter: 'Argo' Was Good, But Inaccurate" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHolUwKn28 The top rated comment on said video caught my eye. "You can say anything about Jimmy Carter, but you absolutely cannot deny that he was our most honest president. He isn't the typical politician who BS's their way out of a crisis to make themselves look good (Reagan-Iran contra, Bush- Iraq)." I'm not actually on expert on his presidency or anything, but "most honest", would there be a slimmer of truth to this claim?

[Gay State Conservative]

While he was President and for some time after he left DC I thought the peanut farmer was a basically well meaning guy who was in *way* over his head.Today I see him as being *far* more despicable than Bill Clinton and almost as despicable as Osama Obama.It's unlikely that I'll outlive Osama but likely that I'll outlive the peanut farmer.If I outlive either of them I'll visit his grave...once.When I arrive my bladder will be full.When I leave,90 seconds later,it will be empty (prostate problems,don't you know).

[2ndDivisionVet]

I worked for the man and his replacement. BZZZZZTTTT! Fail!
During the Carter administration we were weak and hapless. All that changed within months of President Reagan taking office. The morale in the military went up like a rocket ship. They are always trying to re-write history.

[Rummyfan]

...historians are starting to see our 39th president as a flawed, yet visionary leader.

WTF? Which historians???

Everyone knows he should have won a Nobel Peace Prize back in 1979 for negotiating the historic Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty.

Of course, everyone knows that!

[Wyatt's Torch]

Wow what a bad piece. Having seen Argo it’s fairly agnostic on Carter. The rest of this piece is just garbage. Carter is a despicable human being. I don’t care how many houses he built.