CNN's Blitzer Hyping "Carter Apologizes for Book Comments" coming up nowww....

[KoKo]

He's been pumping this Carter Apology for over an hour. I'm wondering why Carter was forced to apologize like all our Dems are when the Corporate Media keep at them...hounding them day after day...through RW Blogs and other Networks of Think Tanks.

If he ever reports ...I'll post. :eyes:

[seaglass]

1. He did apologize at Brandeis last night for one of the lines in

his book...


"In response to a question, Carter apologized for a sentence in his book that he acknowledged seemed to justify terrorism by saying that suicide bombings should end when Israel accepts the goals of the road map to peace with Palestinians.

"That sentence was worded in a completely improper and stupid way," Carter said. "I've written my publishers to change that sentence immediately in future editions of the book. I apologize to you personally and to everyone here."'


http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/24/carter_wins_applause_at_brandeis/

[KoKo]

2. All our Dems should apologize for everything...even John Kerry for making

a joke that got taken out of context and add Dick Durbin and Harry Reid to the long list of Dem Apologizers.

Geeze we Dems just can't get anything correct, can we. We fall all over ourselves Apologizing while the Bush Crime Family just shoves it in our face and does what it wants.

[KoKo]

3. CNN Reporter Says...Carter's apologies have to do with who Donate to Carter Center..

and shows Alan Derchowitz's rebuttal to Carter lies.

[seaglass]

6. You know what - I trust and respect Jimmy Carter. If he felt that

a line in his book gave the wrong impression and wants to correct that impression - then that's a good thing.

[zippy890]

4. dickhead Dershowiz spreading lies

about all the money the Carter Foundation recieves from Arab countries.

Carter said 3% of total donations to Carter foundation come from Arab countries.
big deal. trying to paint Carter as being controlled by Arabs

[originalpckelly]

12. I personally believe Alan "Torture Warrant" Dershowitz...

has no place in criticizing anyone. That man is sick for talking about torture being a possible viable action.

[KoKo]

5. Carter only "apologized" for ONE LINE in his book but RW Bloggers will be all over it

tonight and for weeks talking about how Carter's book is crap because he apologized for the Whole Attack on Jews and he's definitely an Anti-Semite.

Shows what good it does to apologize. I've not heard any Neo-Con Apologize for the Killing of Troops from America and Coalition in Iraq. Yet, Carter apologizes for a sentence in his book about "Suicide Bombers" and they will crawl all over him like blood suckers looking for a feast. His credibility will be destroyed and over 14 people have withdrawn from Carter Center taking their funding with them.

Amazing the POWER...that us folks out there in the "hills and hollars" don't have...:-(

[ShortnFiery]

15. We know better! I admire Jimmy Carter more than any other President

in my lifetime. He is unafraid to speak the truth as he sees it. He's genuine and doesn't have a malicious bone in his body. That's why he's a favorite "whipping post" for the immoral cretins we know as right wingers.

God Bless Jimmy Carter!

IMO, he's a true American hero. :grouphug:

[Emit]

18. RW Bloggers are all over it and have been, Koko

This story is all over the rightwing propaganda sites, NewsMax, The Moonie Times, and NRO -- earlier this week, it was posted by one of the rightwing PBS posters where I frequent. They're going to milk this BCCI/Carter thing for a long while to discredit him:

http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=NmVlNzc4OWI5YTc4MDY1MzhiMDM2OWRhNjgzYzk0ZTk=JRA

The Question of Carter’s Cash
In which our reporter follows the money

CLAUDIA ROSETT

Did Jimmy Carter do it for the money? That’s the question making the rounds about Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, an anti-Israeli screed recently written by the ex-president whose Carter Center has accepted millions in Arab funding.

Even in Carter’s long history of post-presidential grandstanding, this book sets fresh standards of irresponsibility. Purporting to give a balanced view of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, Carter effectively shrugs off such highly germane matters as Palestinian terrorism. The hypocrisies are boundless, and include adoring praise of the deeply oppressive, religiously intolerant Saudi regime side by side with condemnations of democratic Israel. In one section, typical of the book’s entire approach, Carter includes a “Historical Chronology,” from Biblical times to 2006, in which he dwells on events surrounding his 1978 Camp David Accords but omits the Holocaust. Kenneth W. Stein, the founder of the Carter Center’s Middle East program, resigned last month to protest the book, describing it in a letter to Fox News as “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.” As this article goes to press, more protest resignations, this time from the Carter Center’s board of councilors, appear to be in the works.

If there is a silver lining to any of this, it is that Carter’s book has drawn much-overdue attention to some of the funding that pours into the Carter Center, whose intriguing donor list includes anti-Israeli tycoons and Middle East states. Founded in 1982 and appended to Carter’s presidential library, the center has served for almost a quarter century as the main base and fund-raising magnet for Carter’s self-proclaimed mission to save the world.

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[Meshuga]

8. I'm no fan of Dershowitz

but what is the parallel?

[KoKo]

9. I've heard he's been after Carter for a long while... I used to like the

guy...but he seems to see "anti-semites" under his dinner table and wherever he goes. I thought he used to defend Clinton and then turned to some "dark side." :shrug:

[TomClash]

10. Well, where should I begin?

Buddies with Jonathan Pollard, a traitor to the Republic, who compromised the identities of several American covert agents, jepordazing their lives, the first of many sins.

And of course he has sanctioned torture under certain circumstances by the US against muslims in captivity.

He has advocated the indiscriminate bombing (with 24 hours notice) of Palestinian villages by Israel in the event of a suicide bombing.

The man is a fascist pig and no friend of humanity.

[KoKo]

11. Jonathan Pollard.....a good Google could get us "up to speed" on him...

It's hard to know what to think with the mudslinging these days..and short memories who don't GOOGLE!

[TomClash]

20. Good point

though some of the worst of the Pollard case is not really available on Google.

[originalpckelly]

14. Mr. Torture Warrant. That's why I personally despise the man...

he's a fucking lunatic for advocating torture, and really has no place talking about improper and inhumane methods of fighting, because most civilized people agree torture is not an acceptable method of finding information.

To think a man who is Jewish would ever be able to contemplate and support actions like those committed by Nazis is a strange and sickening thing.

[mitchtv]

19. How about approving of torture?

[oberliner]

13. He wasn't forced to apologize

He regretted the way that he had worded a sentence in his book which gave an impression that he did not wish to convey.

He has apologized and asked that the sentence be changed in future editions of the book.

[ShortnFiery]

16. As it should be. However, the Corporate M$M will deluge the air-waves

and distort this very thoughtful act. Name me ONE right winger who is even willing to admit ANY mistakes?

For example, today Cheney said that the thought that there were mistakes made during the Iraqi invasion and occupation was "Hogwash!" :eyes: You can't get any more immoral than that. :crazy:

[KoKo]

17. Agree...it's hard to know the "truth" of anything form MS Coporate Media

because they "CherryPick" replies and distort and defame according to what's in their "earwire."

For those out here subjected to this we SCREAM: "Bring BACK the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE!"