Jimmy Crack Up, And I Don’t Care
Somebody call the waaaahmbulance. Jimmy Carter writes a maliciously anti-Semitic book, with a title designed to offend, and now he’s whining about how the reaction has hurt him. Grab the tissue:
“I’ve been hurt and so has my family by some of the reaction,” Carter said during an appearance at Brandeis University, a nonsectarian Jewish-founded college in the Boston suburb of Waltham, Mass. “This is the first time that I’ve ever been called a liar and a bigot and an anti-Semite and a coward and a plagiarist. This has hurt me.”
Because in the end, it’s all about you.
UPDATE: Oh, goody. To the extent one can trust WorldNetDaily, the news just got worse for St. Jimmy. News that he complained of “too many Jews” on the Holocaust Memorial Council, and even passed over a Christian historian because his name sounded too Jewish, is bound to hurt Jimmy’s feelings even more. It might hurt other people, too, for that matter.
January 24th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
I have always been ambivalent about Carter. He’s a good man who cannot believe that others can be as good as he believes himself to be. It borders onto a religious question. (Not for him — as a general concept.)
January 25th, 2007 at 9:20 am
I don’t think he’s good in any way, shape or form. Once he started deliberately undermining other Presidents’ authority, he stopped being a good ex-President in my book. With his latest Jew-bashing screed, his journey to the dark side is complete.
Just my opinion - but it’s the correct one.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I’m pretty sure people have called Carter at least a liar and/or coward before now.
Plagiarist and anti-Semite and even (ethnic, at least) bigot might be new, though.
I’m sorta glad it hurt him, but only because that hurt might get him to reflect on his words in a way that nothing else seems likely to - not that I have much hope of a positive effect.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Somebody complained to my local paper (not the AJC) about people bashing Carter, and asserted that he was the most honest recent president (the irony of this having been said shortly after Ford’s death must have escaped him).
My response was that Jimmy Carter is as honest as the minute is long.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
What can I say? I read Dostoevsky at an impressionable age.
January 27th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Well, I did something radical and actually read Mr Carter’s book. I didn’t think that he was an anti-Semite just from reading the book, although he clearly sympathizes with the Palestinians.
Here is my wonderful, somewhat less than positive, review.