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LOW-MILEAGE CARTER FILM RUNS OUT OF GAS (Don't Miss It!)
Miami Herald ^ | 10/26/2007 | KYLE SMITH

Posted on 10/26/2007 5:34:33 AM PDT by fweingart

October 26, 2007 -- THERE isn't enough re vealing material in the tedious documentary "Jimmy Carter Man From Plains" to sustain an 800-word magazine profile, let alone a two-hour film.

"The Silence of the Lambs" director Jonathan Demme followed Carter along on a 2006-2007 tour to promote his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" but utterly failed to illuminate the personality of the winner of such prestigious awards as the Grammy for Best Audiobook Recording and the Nobel Peace Prize. Nor does Demme go into any depth about issues in the West Bank and Gaza.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jimmycarter; peanuts; plains; rabbits
...but utterly failed to illuminate the personality of the winner of such prestigious awards as the Grammy for Best Audiobook Recording and the Nobel Peace Prize.

Not to mention the outstanding four years America suffered through during this miserable pin-head's administration.

Nobel Peace Prize?

Anything that Carter and Gore could win isn't worth winning.

The reviewer gave this movie about a Twit From Plains 1 star! Much too generous!

Now if the script had been completely revamped to show Jimmy Carter as a serial killer, driving around Plains in his pickup truck tossing rabbits into the bed of the truck then ravishing and murdering them ala 'Silence Of The Lambs' it might have garnered another half star.

1 posted on 10/26/2007 5:34:35 AM PDT by fweingart
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To: fweingart

“Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”

It’s so funny that Carter thinks Palestinians want peace with Israelis.


2 posted on 10/26/2007 5:38:39 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: fweingart

Jimmy built my home.

3 posted on 10/26/2007 5:39:54 AM PDT by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: fweingart
Jimmy Carter - the most oft-quoted man in the world.

Everybody uses the word "if."

4 posted on 10/26/2007 5:43:21 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: fweingart
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
5 posted on 10/26/2007 6:10:15 AM PDT by magslinger (I will not submit.)
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To: bmwcyle

Jimmy has brought homes to those who for one reason or another haven’t the gumption to get out and work to earn money to buy their own house.


6 posted on 10/26/2007 6:17:02 AM PDT by fweingart (FRED! (How is Mumia Abu-Jamal these days?))
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I still cant beleive The White House is getting feedback from Jimmy for the Israel - Palestinian peace process. Given his cozy relationship with Hamas and lambasting the current administration at every turn, this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.


7 posted on 10/26/2007 6:24:16 AM PDT by wingsof liberty
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To: fweingart

HAHAHA - I love the title - what a great double entendre if you remember the 70s!


8 posted on 10/26/2007 6:24:51 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: fweingart
Anything that Carter and Gore could win isn't worth winning.

We must remember to never mention the Nobel list without including Arafat - who also got the prize for hie great - cough cough - contribution to peace.

The list is "Carter, Gore and Arafat" - it rather deflates the 'honor', don't you think? And they can't complain because it's the truth.

CARTER, GORE AND ARAFAT Sticks a pin in his balloon and sticks the association in everyones head...

9 posted on 10/26/2007 6:31:53 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: fweingart
"'The Silence of the Lambs' director Jonathan Demme followed Carter along on a 2006-2007 tour to promote his book 'Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid' but utterly failed to illuminate the personality..."

BWAHAAAAAA!!!
There's the reason he failed, what personality?

Look *Jonathan*, time for some compassionate conservatism.
Many -- many -- went before you who were & are infinitely better than you will ever be when it comes to generating first-rate propaganda.

You're skills are deficient, you're no Associated Quislings-Press or Reuters and you never will be.
So be a good boy *Jonathon* and stick to making banal simpleton motion pictures whilst in Hollyweird.

...now run along, *Jonathan*.

10 posted on 10/26/2007 6:40:58 AM PDT by Landru (finally made it to the dark side of the moon.)
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To: bolobaby
HAHAHA - I love the title - what a great double entendre if you remember the 70s!

LOL

Good catch! 'went right by me...but now you mention it - oh yes, I remember.

I had a day care then - so I didn't have to put my daughter in one. I also had a big old Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser - for two reasons: Those who could afford the economy cars that Carter was insisting we buy, were trading in their big old cars. People like me, whose 'economy' couldn't afford a new economy car, were picking up the big old second hand cars....and reason two: I needed it for transporting the little ones.

The gas $ kept leaping up - the lines -, weren't those the pits - and the Carter groups spouting that people should be taking buses (That's a bit hard when you live in a rural area that doesn't have buses) - and THEN, Carter spouts that people had to learn - talking about groceries now - to "tighten their belts, buy cheaper cuts of meat."

I thought "Egad. I've already gone down to ox tails in place of my beloved short ribs for soup - where do I go from here?"

And then I thought - and I had a lot of company - "Carter. What an

11 posted on 10/26/2007 6:46:29 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: fweingart

I’d sooner watch a two hour movie about the bunny that kicked his ass.


12 posted on 10/26/2007 7:53:55 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: fweingart
A high-profile documentary, Sony Pictures Classics' "Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains," had a poor debut, taking in just $10,573 at seven theaters. The film from director Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs") follows the former president during a tour to promote his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."

http://www.elpasotimes.com/bob/ci_7306618

13 posted on 10/28/2007 7:39:17 PM PDT by Libloather (Hillary donors find their way to the cover of Time. Funny, the very next day, they're doing it...)
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To: Libloather

Wow. What a bomb!


14 posted on 10/29/2007 1:03:12 PM PDT by fweingart (FRED! (How is Mumia Abu-Jamal these days?))
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To: rogue yam

Stay away from Miggs, Jimmah


15 posted on 10/29/2007 1:07:24 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: maine-iac7

The Vista Cruiser was built on the mid-size F-85 chassis, much smaller than many stationwagons of its time.


16 posted on 10/29/2007 1:27:08 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer
The Vista Cruiser was built on the mid-size F-85 chassis, much smaller than many stationwagons of its time.

Mine was the middle one with "more space" but color of the front one - didn't seem " much smaller than many stationwagons of its time. " 9 passenger with over 100 cu ft of cargo space...


17 posted on 10/29/2007 7:02:36 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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