Jimmy Carter’s punishment

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In CNN's presidential rankings, lately released, Ford, Reagan, Clinton and Bush I all jumped up in rankings since the last time the panel of scholars reviewed presidential legacy, nine years ago, but Jimmy Carter plummeted, three positions, from 22d best to 25th best, well below the average. Note that Carter's biggest point drops were in international relations, also moral authority and public persuasion. If you think this has nothing to do with Carter's book on apartheid in the West Bank, well–count up all the actors who gave shout-outs to the people of Gaza at the Academy Awards tonight.

About Philip Weiss

Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics

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  1. Ed says:
    February 23, 2009 at 12:36 am

    I don't really get the last line. Did no one in Hollywood give a shout-out to the Palestinians for fear of the Carter fate?

  2. LD says:
    February 23, 2009 at 1:26 am

    I wonder what Folman or whoever made Waltz with Bashir, would have said had he won. Probably about how 'both' sides are suffering. I love how people try to equate this conflict as if the Palestinians have been inflicting the same amount of casualties and oppression on the Israelis.

  3. cogit8 says:
    February 23, 2009 at 2:04 am

    A few weeks back, the LATimes published an article about Waltz with Bashir. The only memorable point of the article was pride in the fact that Israel had produced the film; other than this not one hint of what the film was saying. I remember thinking after I read it, hmmm another communist piece of s–t.

  4. MRW. says:
    February 23, 2009 at 3:35 am

    Did you hear the boos when Waltz with Bashir didn't win? There were a few.

  5. Joachim Martillo says:
    February 23, 2009 at 3:55 am

    Carter has not been President for a long time.

    The only possible explanation for such a dramatic change in ranking in such a short period of time must be the venting of animus by Jewish Zionist historians against Carter for being slightly more honest about the true nature of the Zionist regime.

    Jewish Zionists in academic committees are no different from Jewish Zionists in the Nobel Prize committee.

    They have been given preference to fellow Jewish Zionists for years to the point where large parts of academia evince scholarly corruption.

    I discuss the awarding of the Nobel Prize in this comment.

  6. chris berel says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:15 am

    Down three places is dramatic? From 22, bottom 50% to 25, bottom 50%? Humiliated by teeny, tiny Iran, whose revolution he instigated by forcing the Shah to allow the Ayatollah to return?

  7. Habitat4Humanity says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:22 am

    Who has matched Carter's post-presidential contributions to humanity? No former president. Who brought
    actual peace for Israel and major arab powers? Only Carter.

  8. Rowan says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:28 am

    I see Berel is still here. Are we to assume that he, suzanne x, and bill pearlman have agreed not to hurl obscene insults at everybody they disagree with in future?

  9. chris berel says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:38 am

    Everyone except our favorite member of the britsh nazi party, Rowan. By the way, how's life on the dole? I see playing the troll has not been financially rewarding for you.

  10. Sword of Gideonthe point. says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:41 am

    Jimmy Carter should be at the bottom of the list. Well, second from bottom, Buchanan was no great shakes. Th Soviets were on the offensive, the Iranians shit all over us after he betrayed the shah. , and The situation at home was even worse. His pro-hamas, pro- hezbollah actions since then aren't really relevant for something like this. The guys lousy record, when he was president, stands has a monument to ineptitude. And if it wasn't he wouldn't have got steam rollered by REagan, wouldn't he.

  11. Julian says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:43 am

    Carter is way overrated. I would drop him another 5 spots.

  12. CJHarwood-WarLaw says:
    February 23, 2009 at 9:20 am

    The 64 C-Span voters

    Here are the 64 invited voters, in the "C-Span 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey." How many of them are Jewish:

    Ken Ackerman, Catherine Algor, William Allen, Annelise Anderson, Carl Sferrazza Anthony, Perry Arnold, Dick Baker, Jean Baker, Walter Berns, H.W. Brands, Alan Brinkley, Doug Brinkley, Lara Brown, Vernon Burton, Charles Calhoun, James Cannon, Lou Cannon, John Milton Cooper, Edward Crapol, Thomas Cronin, Robert Dallek, Susan Dallek, Alvin Felzenberg, Andrew Ferguson, Thomas Fleming, Michael Frazier, Gerard Gawalt, Debra Goodrich, Annette Gordon-Reed, Ken Gormley, David Greenberg, J. Robert Greene, Fred Greenstein, Allen Guelzo, Steven Hayward, Hugh Helco, Peter Henriques, Stephen Hess, Harold Holzer, Robert Kauffman, Paul K Kengor, Stephen Knott, Walter MacDougall, G. Terry Madonna, Pauline Maier, Robert Maranto, John Marszelek, James McPherson, Edna Medford, Stephen Oates, Joseph Persico, Joe Pika, Richard Pious, Willard Sterne Randall, Russell Reily, Stanley Renshon, Don Ritchie, Bert Rockman, Larry Sabato, Garrett Sheldon, Brooks Simpson, Richard Norton Smith, Mary Stuckey, Shirley Anne Warshaw.

    This is an essential disclosure, but C-Span omitted it, a material bias, because Israel is a self-proclaimed "Jewish State." Among most Jews, Jimmy Carter is the most feared man on the planet, precisely because of his moral authority, his knowledge, his political connections, his activism. Jewish voices overwhelmingly demonstrate their Jewish bias, in the U.S. media, government, think tanks, academia.

    It's obvious to me, the continuous flood of virulent abuse they direct at Jimmy Carter — the Jewish echo chamber (main stream media, Jewish newspapers, rabbi network, blogs, academics) — this abuse aids and abets, facilitates, the violent war crimes of Israel, the looting/colonization of the 1967 oPt (Israeli occupied Palestinian territory) and the Israeli violence inflicted to enforce those two war crimes.

  13. rfk says:
    February 23, 2009 at 9:27 am

    Phil

    I would have to say that these academic ratings of presidents are worth no more than a Moody or Standard & Poor credit rating, research or risk analysis.

    We will know the real value of this president by the regard the nation evokes when he dies. The national response when Nixon passed away shocked the critics. I suspect it will be the same, if not more with Carter.

  14. Sword of Gideonthe point. says:
    February 23, 2009 at 9:28 am

    We simply have to get yellow stars on these people. Tattoos also. It worked before and according to the "Pig Weiss" fan base it can work again.

  15. CJHarwood-WarLaw says:
    February 23, 2009 at 10:39 am

    Academic C-Span project

    This is an excellent academic research project, a test for bias.

    Examine the 64 responses, ascertain the Jewishness of the 64 responders, and then compare that cohort's votes on Jimmy Carter with the rest of the voters.

    And do the same, separately, for the 4 presidents who aided and abetted, facilitated, Israel's violent war crimes (Reagan, GHWBush, Clinton, GWBush).

    And then compare that cohort's votes, on everybody else, all the other presidents, to further test their bias, a presumptive control.

    Because Jewishness is a matter of degree, the project should footnote the variations within the Jewish cohort, depending on their ancestry.

    Brian Lamb at C-Span will certainly appreciate this is a valid, important, research topic and would surely cooperate, and reveal the votes of each of the 64 to the researcher. The project might need not disclose how each individual voted, but if relevant, Brian Lamb could solicit their consent.

    Their votes should anyway be posted, individually, for transparency. And if Brian Lamb promised them privacy last time, then he should not do it next time. This is a politically charged survey, and those who want secrecy Brian Lamb should deny them a vote.

  16. American says:
    February 23, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    @ CJHarwood-WarLaw

    Thanks for the rundown.

    Even before I saw your post I was going to say that most polls,especially those done by the media are 99% of the time deliberately squewed. It's amazing that for only being 2% of the population the jews are always way over represented in these polls.
    But then we have already established that the zionist element has total control of our MSM and press and all the assorted sectors within it.

  17. chris berel says:
    February 23, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    Just as Jews are over represented in all academic fields in America, and all financial fields, and all medical fields (Except in Nurse's aides and orderlies, which is a field christians have conquered), and all engineering fields and all legal fields (but not secretaries, another almost exclusively christian endeavor).

    I wonder how that came to be?

  19. Joachim Martillo says:
    February 23, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    BTW, the pattern of corrupt Jewish social networking goes back a long time as this 16th century discussion indicates.

    If you read the entire blog entry to which the preceding hyperlink points, you may also be interested in the followup entry here.

  20. chris ferel says:
    February 23, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    we have to tattoo swastikas on people like Carter for it seems tar-brushing him in print and on TV isn't working sufficiently. Actually, we need to do the same with all these people increasingly finding something wrong with Israeli policies–I suggest we make all government workers, at least, here in the USA, swear allegiance to Israel like they do at US jewish summer camps for tots. That's the least we should do in the interest of the USA and world humanity.

  21. Citizen says:
    February 23, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    chris, most jews always promote their own, regardless of merit; they do not have the same sense of earned merit and individuality that western gentiles have. They are very eastern in that respect, But you know that.

  22. chris berel says:
    February 23, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    Both Joachim and citizen of (not america) believe that jews are over represented in all intelectual fields because they cheat. How interesting and how antisemitic.

    I wonder how those Jews get to stay at the top of all those intellectual fields since only works are rewarded.

    Perhaps they think the Jews stole the brains of the goyim?

  23. LanceThruster says:
    February 23, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    I forget where I read it but a female Jewish motion picture exec spoke at a trade gathering and when asked how she got her job, she answered, "the same as everyone here, through a relative."

    She went on to say that the nepotism shouldn't be hidden but celebrated.

    I at least agree with her that the nepotism shouldn't be hidden.

  24. Chris Berel says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    A very intellectual field. Want to show me how the top doctors got there?

  25. Ed says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Berel: "Jews are over represented in all academic fields in America, and all financial fields, and all medical fields (Except in Nurse's aides and orderlies, which is a field christians have conquered"

    I hope this disabuses all Christians of any notion that Jewish Zionists respect them in any way.

  26. WorldJewryUnites says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    right chris, the jews all got to their powerful slots by sheer merit, just like Shrub got to be president.
    The difference there is Shrub depended on his immediate family, while the jews depend on their much larger, extended family–organized world jewry, you know, those who declared their economic boycott of Germany back in the day? Hence, sealed their own doom, not anticipated by even the new Nazi regime? They live on, united no matter what country supported them at the expense of the more native populace, like vampires in True Blood, HBO special.

  27. Ken Hoop says:
    February 23, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    Sword of gideon doesn't give a damn that the Shah was held in contempt by the vast majority of his people as long as he allied with America, as long as it in turn "allies" with his favorite nation.

  28. Wondering says:
    February 23, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    A general question I've been thinking about as an American: At what point will all the myriad of affirmative action policies benefiting minorities ( including jews, who are everywhere represented in our
    influential offices, both elected and appointed, way beyond their proportion in the population–the only "white" group that gets to claim victimhood status, even if they grew up rich, as more of them do than any other group in the land) reach
    a crisis point for those citizens who cannot officially claim the status of victimhood? When will the
    hard working, responsible masses, those who never ask for federal or state aid, object with real force to the hijacking of the USA's best interests as a whole, both in terms of
    domestic and foreign affairs in the Middle East? During Obama's second term? Will this beneficiary of
    affirmative action himself help or hinder the highest values of the only superpower?

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