RE: New Charge That Carter Ripped Off Book Material
I assure you that I don't have a dog in this particular hunt, but I must clarify that the actual title of this particular Fox News article linked was "Jimmy Carter Fires Back at Longtime Aide Over Book." What happened to "We Report, You Decide?" And was that title not biased enough already for a news website? Anyway...
Even with the original title, President Carter's "firing back" is perhaps the most polite firing back I've heard. Here are the quotes attributed to Carter from the article:
"With some degree of reluctance and some uncertainty about the reception my book would receive, I used maps, text and documents to describe the situation accurately and to analyze the only possible path to peace: Israelis and Palestinians living side by side within their own internationally recognized boundaries," he wrote...
"Ken is one of the finest teachers I have ever known, and has been of great help during the early years of our center, as an advisor to me on Middle East affairs, and as a personal friend. I thank him for this, and wish him well," Carter said…
"If Ken has read my latest book he knows that, as the book's title makes clear, "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" is devoted to circumstances and events in Palestine and not in Israel, where democracy prevails and citizens live together and are legally guaranteed equal status," according to a statement by Carter released by Deanna Congileo, Carter's spokeswoman.
Andy: "Since his days as president, he has been viewed as being an anti-Semite."
Viewed by whom?
For whatever reason, in the eyes of some, it's perfectly okay for brash, mean-spirited political pundits to use cherry-picked facts and data in order to come to the conclusions that they prefer and that their audiences like to hear and read, but when the opportunity arises to skewer a polite, kind Christian man with opposing, yet equally controversial opinions on an issue that they deem ‘black and white’, they are more than happy to do whatever it takes to make him look bad. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of Israeli/Palestinian relations, don't you find it interesting that characters such as Ann Coulter scream from the rooftops to get a rise out of their opposition while, in comparison, a man such as Jimmy Carter seems to barely whisper?
Even with the original title, President Carter's "firing back" is perhaps the most polite firing back I've heard. Here are the quotes attributed to Carter from the article:
"With some degree of reluctance and some uncertainty about the reception my book would receive, I used maps, text and documents to describe the situation accurately and to analyze the only possible path to peace: Israelis and Palestinians living side by side within their own internationally recognized boundaries," he wrote...
"Ken is one of the finest teachers I have ever known, and has been of great help during the early years of our center, as an advisor to me on Middle East affairs, and as a personal friend. I thank him for this, and wish him well," Carter said…
"If Ken has read my latest book he knows that, as the book's title makes clear, "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" is devoted to circumstances and events in Palestine and not in Israel, where democracy prevails and citizens live together and are legally guaranteed equal status," according to a statement by Carter released by Deanna Congileo, Carter's spokeswoman.
Andy: "Since his days as president, he has been viewed as being an anti-Semite."
Viewed by whom?
For whatever reason, in the eyes of some, it's perfectly okay for brash, mean-spirited political pundits to use cherry-picked facts and data in order to come to the conclusions that they prefer and that their audiences like to hear and read, but when the opportunity arises to skewer a polite, kind Christian man with opposing, yet equally controversial opinions on an issue that they deem ‘black and white’, they are more than happy to do whatever it takes to make him look bad. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of Israeli/Palestinian relations, don't you find it interesting that characters such as Ann Coulter scream from the rooftops to get a rise out of their opposition while, in comparison, a man such as Jimmy Carter seems to barely whisper?
posted by Strother | 1:16 PM
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