Longtime Aide Tells FOX News Why He Cut Ties to Carter (Left's Hero Down The Toilet)

Fox News ^ | 12/7/2006 | Melissa Drosjack

[tobyhill]

WASHINGTON — A longtime aide to former President Jimmy Carter told FOXNews.com Thursday that he cut ties with the Carter Center in protest of a new book on Palestinian lands because it distorts history to shape the reader's opinion to one side of the issue.

"I just want to be sure that when people write history, people don't do it for purpose of special pleading," said Kenneth Stein, director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel of Emory University. "They write it the way it was. They don't try to shape a person's opinion and slide them down a path in order to come to an inevitable conclusion."

Stein resigned Tuesday as Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center of Emory University, stating in his resignation letter that "President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments."

"I think he's become increasingly frustrated that the Palestinians don't have a voice," Stein said. "I just don't think this is the way you do that."

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Good thing Carter isn't know for Georgacide.

[cripplecreek]

"I think he's become increasingly frustrated that the Palestinians don't have a voice," Stein said. "I just don't think this is the way you do that."

Sounds to me like he's simply adopted the palestinian PR methods.

[samadams2000]

Like the truth matters any more....zzzzz

[bannie]

Carter only murders in his heart.

[tobyhill]

The Palestinians have a voice but because they have the mentality of an eight year old they picked Hamas to speak for them.

[dhs12345]

"...it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments."

Hate to say this about an ex-president, but maybe this is why his presidency was such a failure? And/or maybe he is getting senile.

[unkus]

As in Arkancide? Jimmy wouldn't know how to go about arranging Georgacides.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

LOL!

[Buck W.]

LOL--let's see if anyone else gets it!

[toddlintown]

There's more behind this story, I'm thinking.

[MizSterious]

Much of what people think they knew about Carter was a lie in the first place--peanut farmer? Please. Most of his campaign photos of him supposedly in a peanut field were actually in a SOYBEAN field. Just for starters. Lied about little things, big things--even things he didn't necessarily need to lie about. He had much in common with Clinton--and most 'Rats.

[bannie]

:-)

[savedbygrace]

Good one.

(Yes, I do remember the Playboy interview. And the other fine articles.)

[MizSterious]

Why wouldn't anyone "get it"? His Playboy interview was one of the biggest laughs of the day.

[Buck W.]

"Jimmy wouldn't know how to go about arranging Georgacides."

I remember a great cartoon during the Carter administration. When Hamilton Jordan was accused of using cocaine, I saw a multi-pane cartoon of Carter trying to snort coke--except he was using two straws in a Coke can!

[Yo-Yo]

Ooh, ooh! Playboy interview, 1979?

[tubebender]

Carter only murders in his heart.

I am so fortunate that my wine glass was empty as I read that line... I don't have a backup key board

[Buck W.]

OK--just seemed obscure to me!

[MSM Hater]

LOL--let's see if anyone else gets it!

Lust - not for Rosalind.

Jimmah is by far the worst president in US history. Remember the misery index? Remember double-digit inflation, unemployment and interest rates? Remember 444 days in Iran?