Who knew the Carters were Munchkins? Or, are the Bidens giants?
We’re pleased to share this wonderful photo from the @POTUS and @FLOTUS visit to see the Carters in Plains, Ga.!
Thank you President and Mrs. Biden! pic.twitter.com/QcA33iUev4
— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) May 4, 2021
The hilarious admission comes from none other than Obama groupie Maureen Dowd in none other than the Obama fanzine otherwise known as the New York Times.
Don’t look now, but Democrats are resigning from the Barack Obama Fan Club en masse. The debt ceiling debacle pried open their eyes and finally allowed them to see things Republicans have been seeing for a couple years.
The hilarious admission comes from none other than Obama groupie Maureen Dowd in none other than the Obama fanzine otherwise known as the New York Times:
…Democratic lawmakers worry that the Tea Party freshmen have already “neutered” the president, as one told me. They fret that Obama is an inept negotiator. They worry that he should have been out in the country selling a concrete plan, rather than once more kowtowing to Republicans and, as with the stimulus plan, health care and Libya, leading from behind.
As one Democratic senator complained: “The president veers between talking like a peevish professor and a scolding parent.” (Not to mention a jilted lover.) Another moaned: “We are watching him turn into Jimmy Carter right before our eyes.”
Only problem is the Democrats’ tense. He’s not turning into Jimmy Carter. That transformation was completed long ago.
H/T: Fox News
Carter has never met an anti-American dictator he didn’t love, but at least we can’t recall him ever bowing to one.
Remember back when Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy was thought of as the family idiot? Feel free to consider those the good ol’ days because Jimmy is proving himself not only to be the worst President in recent history, but the worst ex-President.
Politico.com has the story:
Wrapping up his visit this week to Pyongyang, former President Jimmy Carter says relations between North Korea and South Korea are “currently at rock bottom.” Nonetheless, he said he believes the North is committed to getting talks underway.
Carter was joined on the three-day trip by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and former Irish President Mary Robinson. . . .
Carter also used his trip to North Korea to observe the country’s food rationing system. That the United States and South Korea have chosen “to deliberately withhold food aid to the North Korean people because of political or military issues not related is really indeed a human rights violation,” he said.
Yes, Jimmy Carter says the United States is guilty of human rights violations for deliberately withholding food from a nation that intentionally closes itself off from the rest of the world and routinely starves its own citizens.
Carter has never met an anti-American dictator he didn’t love, but at least we can’t recall him ever bowing to one.
Source: Politico.com
Jimmy Carter’s bucket list apparently includes failing in every country in the world, so he’s working diligently to check off the few remaining nations that were missing. Cuba? Check.
Jimmy Carter’s bucket list apparently includes failing in every country in the world, so he’s working diligently to check off the few remaining nations that were missing.
Cuba? Check.
The Associated Press reports Carter’s latest success at failing:
Former President Jimmy Carter met with a jailed American contractor before leaving Cuba on Wednesday but said Cuban leaders had made it clear they do not plan to release him.
The announcement was a disappointment to supporters of Alan Gross after the trip had raised expectations the 86-year-old former American president would be allowed to bring the Maryland native home. Gross is serving a 15-year sentence after being convicted earlier this month of bringing communications equipment into Cuba illegally.
State Department officials have said privately that Cuban authorities indicated they might release Gross on humanitarian grounds following the trial. But Carter said that from the very beginning, he knew Gross would not be freed during the visit.
“The Cuban officials made it very clear to me before I left my home that the freedom of Alan Gross would not be granted.”
In other words, Carter knew his mission would fail, but went to Cuba anyway? Yeah, right.
Carter also sat down Wednesday with revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, a day after holding talks with President Raul Castro.
“We welcomed each other as old friends,” Carter said of the meeting with the 84-year-old former Cuban leader.
This is the only part of this story that makes sense to us. My god, those two evil old sons of bitches deserve each other.
Source: Associated Press
Former President Jimmy Carter has deservedly earned a wide array of opprobriums over the years: Worst President in history. Anti-Semitic. Peanut-farming phony. Anti-American. And now you can add one more: Government teat-suckling cheapskate.
Former President Jimmy Carter has deservedly earned a wide array of opprobriums over the years: Worst President in history. Anti-Semitic. Peanut-farming phony. Anti-American. And now you can add one more: Government teat-suckling cheapskate.
The Washington Times has the specifics:
The tennis court at former President Jimmy Carter‘s private home is swept twice a day, his pool is cleaned daily and his grass cut, his flower beds weeded and his windows washed on a regular basis — all at taxpayers’ expense.
Under an arrangement with the National Park Service, taxpayers are responsible for the exterior of Mr. Carter‘s home in Plains, Ga. — to the tune of $67,841 last year alone. In exchange, the government obtains the right to add the home to the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site when he and his wife pass away.
Other presidents have had similar life estate agreements calling for their properties to be turned over after their deaths, but to have taxpayers footing the bill for upkeep and maintenance of the Carters’ property appears to be unique, and it’s drawing fire at a time of tight federal budgets.
They sweep his tennis court twice a day. They clean his pool once a day. Maybe while they’re at it they could burnish his reputation every once in a while. Because no matter how much work they do on the guy’s house, it’s really his legacy that needs cleaning up.
Source: Washington Times
Jimmy Carter’s presidency has always been known for two things – economic malaise and losing Iran. Now he can add a third achievement to that dismal legacy – losing Egypt.
Jimmy Carter’s presidency has always been known for two things – economic malaise and losing Iran. Now he can add a third achievement to that dismal legacy – losing Egypt.
Carter has always taken great pride in the fact that he was the midwife at the birth of the Camp David Accords, which were signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat on September 17, 1978.
Now it turns out that Carter’s proudest achievement is just as disastrous as his other achievements.
The Jerusalem Post has the pathetic particulars:
“After Camp David, all the Arab world sees that we are no longer a leader. Camp David made us a slave”
Like many at Tahir square on Tuesday night, 26-year-old Mohammed Salama of Cairo spoke of an eagerness for Egypt to shelve its nearly three decade old peace agreement with Israel, but insisted he does not want the country to go to war with Israel. In his hands he held a sign reading in Arabic “Netanyahu is worried about Mubarak”, which he said he wrote because “this is my country and my leader, I don’t want him to care about Israel, only about my country.”
… Salama’s friend, Hazan Ahmed, 29, said the years of peace with Israel are tinged with the sting of humiliation, and that Egyptians still feel they’re country is not completely free of the Israeli occupation of the Sinai which ended under Camp David.
“The Egyptian army can’t enter Sinai, we feel that it is still Israel. There are Israeli people there all the time, but when we go, we have to stop at checkpoints and we get turned back. We don’t feel that Sinai is Egyptian.”…
Ahmad Ragab, 42, spoke more vehemently towards Israel saying “look, all Egyptian people hate Israel, only Sadat wanted Camp David …”
Nice work, Jimmy. You so-called peace plan has been festering in the hearts of Egyptians for 30 years.
Maybe you should write another anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic book that explains how the Jews caused this problem.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Our mole at Time magazine tells us that an alternative cover was proposed for this week’s Reagan-Obama issue. For some reason, it was rejected.
Our mole at Time magazine tells us that an alternative cover was proposed for this week’s Reagan-Obama issue. For some reason, it was rejected.
Another honor for the Worst President of the Twentieth Century. People like every former President except Carter more than they did four years ago. Once again, Jimmy stands alone.
Another honor for the Worst President of the Twentieth Century. People like every former President except Carter more than they did four years ago. Once again, Jimmy stands alone.
Gallup has the story:
Of the nine U.S. presidents who have served in the past 50 years, John F. Kennedy continues to earn the highest retrospective job approval rating from Americans, now 85%. Ronald Reagan ranks second, with 74%. While these presidents’ ratings are largely unchanged from 2006, Bill Clinton’s rating has improved, putting him in third place, while Jimmy Carter, at 52%, has dropped from third to sixth. Richard Nixon remains the lowest rated.
For god’s sake, Jimmy, even Richard Nixon is more popular than he was four years ago. For your own good, please go away. Stop the endless legacy rehabilitation tour. It’s not working. The more people see you, the less they like you.
Hmmmm. Another one of those remarkable similarities to President Obama. This is starting to sound like that old “Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln and Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy” meme.
Source: Gallup
This should be entertaining. Miserable failure Jimmy Carter is going to meet with his latter day political doppelganger.
This should be entertaining. Miserable failure Jimmy Carter is going to meet with his latter day political doppelganger.
Politico.com has the story of the blind leading the bland:
Jimmy Carter wants to see President Barack Obama drop his efforts at bipartisanship during the next two years, and he thinks the president will heed his call.
“In the next two years, President Obama will be much more independent in fighting hard to prevail and not trying to reach out,” the former president said in an interview with CBS News on “Washington Unplugged.” “I think he’ll be a much more tough proponent of what he stands for in the future, giving up on Republicans’ support and taking his case to the American public.”
Meanwhile, Carter will meet with Obama on Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed.
Carter had planned to meet with the White House’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon. Obama then asked Carter if he would stop by for a meeting, Gibbs told reporters on Tuesday.
What advice could Carter possibly have? How to handle the Iranian threat? How to improve the economy? How to control a domineering wife?
Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the West Wing.
Source: Politico
Former President Jimmy Carter told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, “Ronald Reagan only had less than 51% of the vote, but he won because of a third-party candidate.”
Jimmy Carter and Hardball. Just reading those words is enough to let you know something odd is about to happen.
In this case, the former President told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, “Ronald Reagan only had less than 51% of the vote, but he won because of a third-party candidate.”
We’re not even quite sure what that means, but since Carter is in the middle of his 30th Annual Carter Presidency Rehabilitation Tour, you knew he’d say something stupid.
For a few years people were saying, “Jimmy Carter is the best former president we’ve ever had.” Now they’re just saying, “Who is that crazy old coot?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNLsBHe7Quo
H/T: Breitbart.tv
The scene: Morning Joe on MSNBC. Guest Zbigniew Brzezinski describes the nation’s current state by using the same word that doomed Jimmy Carter’s administration: malaise.
The scene: Morning Joe on MSNBC. Guest Zbigniew Brzezinski describes the nation’s current state by using the same word that doomed Jimmy Carter’s administration: malaise.
Brzezinski: I think we’re now going through a phase in which there is a sense of pervasive malaise, which affects different groups in society in different ways. So people are dissatisfied; they’re slightly worried; they don’t see a good certain future for themselves or for the country, but in their own narrow sphere. There’s no grand mobilizing idea. And I have a sense that Obama, who started so well, and who really captivated people—he captivated me!—has not been able yet to generate some sort of organizing idea for an age which combines a malaise that’s pervasive and percolating, and complexity…
Buchanan: We need a new paradigm!
Brzezinski: And the President hasn’t articulated it.
Buchanan: No, he hasn’t.
Brzezinski: There goes any further invitation to the White House!
All is not lost, Zbig. White House invitations may be a thing of the past, but we’re betting you can still score an invitation to the Bristol Palin-Big Moron wedding.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
A new anti-Obama billboard has popped up at the intersection of Highways 6 & 50 in Grand Junction, Colorado. This one features Jimmy Carter contemplating that he’s the worst president anymore.
A new anti-Obama billboard has popped up at the intersection of Highways 6 & 50 in Grand Junction, Colorado. This one features Jimmy Carter contemplating that he’s the worst president anymore.
This billboard was paid for by an anonymous small business owner.
We assume this one is for real. Looks real. But we’re a bit skeptical because we can only find two references to it online. It’s supposedly found in Ennis, Texas near the intersection of the I-45 and the 287. Can any of our Texas readers confirm that it’s real?
We assume this one is for real. Looks real. But we’re a bit skeptical because we can only find two references to it online.
It’s supposedly found in Ennis, Texas near the intersection of the I-45 and the 287.
Can any of our Texas readers confirm that it’s real?
Source: CriticalBias.com
Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. And you know that in the dark of night, this is exactly what Jimmy Carter really thinks.
Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. And you know that in the dark of night, this is exactly what Jimmy Carter really thinks.
Source: StoryBalloon.org
Mika Mxyzptlk, co-host of the Morning Joe show on MSNBC is one seriously funny chick. As a result of her hilarious ad libs, Morning Joe is giving Red Eye some serious competition in the comedy department.
Mika Mxyzptlk, co-host of the Morning Joe show on MSNBC is one seriously funny chick. As a result of her hilarious ad libs, Morning Joe is giving Red Eye some serious competition in the comedy department.
NewsBusters reports the hilarity:
Shortly after 8:00 a.m. on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, noting that it was President’s Day, host Joe Scarborough asked the day’s panel members who was their favorite President. After the first two guests named Abraham Lincoln, to which co-host Mika Brzezinski agreed, she then announced her admiration for Jimmy Carter’s post-presidential activities calling him her “favorite former President.” She went on to call him the “best former President we’ve ever had,” prompting Scarborough to quip, “You should be paid.”
After Willie Geist poked fun at Brzezinski by declaring that Jimmy Carter was the best President because of “his bravery against that killer rabbit in Plains, Georgia,” Brzezinski sulked: “Stop mocking him.”
C’mon, man, praise for Jimmy Carter is gut-busting funny. She’s funnier than Chris Rock and Robin Williams put together. Of course, Chris Rock and Robin Williams haven’t been funny in years, so that comparison is really unfair to MSNBC’s new queen of comedy.
Source: NewsBusters.org
Media Math, our blantant rip-off of Spy Magazine’s Celebrity Math, is sweeping the nation. Submit your own ideas and we’ll rip them off, too post the best ones here on IHateTheMedia.com.
Media Math, our blantant rip-off of Spy Magazine’s Celebrity Math, is sweeping the nation. Submit your own ideas and we’ll rip them off, too post the best ones here on IHateTheMedia.com.
Let’s see, which is worse? Being compared to one of the worst American presidents of the 20th century or being compared to one of the worst British prime ministers of the 20th century?
Let’s see, which is worse? Being compared to one of the worst American presidents of the 20th century or being compared to one of the worst British prime ministers of the 20th century?
We have to think about this one for a minute or two.
OK. That’s long enough. We’ve decided it’s worse to be compared to Jimmy Carter than to Neville Chamberlain because at least the British accent sounds sophisticated, but Jimmy Carter sounds like…well…like Jimmy Carter.
Here’s another example of the left turning on Barack Obama. Chris Matthews is upset. And we like that.
Chris Matthews: Will this long deliberation, Anne Kornblut, you’ve got the tough question here to start with. Whip around here. It took three months to make this decision. Will he look smart and deliberate for having taken all this time, or will the dithering shot still being cast in by people like former Vice President Dick Cheney, is that still going to hurt?
Anne Kornblut: The gamble they’re making is that he’ll look smart and he’ll look like the anti-Bush for having thought about it for so long.
Joe Klein: The anti-Bush part is really important because Bush really needed to do a strategy re-evaluation about Iraq six months in there and he never did.
Chris Matthews: Andrea, will it look good if he takes all this time?
Andrea Kramer: I agree. I think it will look good if he takes his time, if taking his time he comes out with something that adds up. If he doesn’t then people will say you took so long and what did you deliver?
David Ignatius: The long period of analysis, very deliberative, robs this of passion. This is, he is going to be a wartime president now, and he has to sell the country on the idea that our young men and women are going to go there, fight and get killed and I think this is not…
Chris Matthews: So, too much Chamberlain and not enough Churchill.
David Ignatius: Well, too much, too much college professor.
Now we just need to put Barack Obama in one of those fancy top hats that Neville Chamberlain used to wear and the image is complete.
PhotoShop, anyone?
For the last two years Chris Matthews has acted as if Barack Obama is the second coming of Christ. Now even Matthews seems to recognize that he’s the second coming of Jimmy Carter.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, the guy who once got a tingle up the leg at the mere thought of Barack Obama now suggests the President may be “Carteresque.” And there’s no way to interpret that as a compliment.
Here’s a transcript of Matthews conversation with David Ignatius and Anne Kornblut of the Washington Post:
Matthews: Welcome back. The word these days is optics, visuals, signals. In the Carter presidency, the optics were not exactly robust, and Ronald Reagan rode that to a big victory in 1980. Is the Obama White House sending some Carteresque signals these days? Some see that in the deep bow to the Emperor of Japan, an unforced error say critics. Then there was, there was what happened in China: Obama got nothing in the way of concessions over there in spite of playing the polite visitor. And his effort to speak directly to the Chinese was jammed by the government. Third, that decision to try the terrorists up in that federal court in New York City. Again, nothing that had to be done, and critics say it shows that Obama, his team doesn’t understand this is a war we’re in. David, that’s the question. These optics are everything in a president. Carter used to carry that garment bag over his shoulder. This president is he making mistakes like in China like in Japan?
Ignatius: I think he is coming across as stiff. He is talking too much sometimes and communicating too little. So the opposite of what we saw during the campaign. Although the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York apparently was Eric Holder’s, it strikes me that it really is a mistake. I mean, there are too many bad things that could happen. There is no reason to have to have done this. And, you know, it’s a political feel for decision-making. That wonderful thing you just did about President Johnson’s feel for the moment. That’s what I think is missing now with this group in the White House. I don’t know where it’s gone. They certainly had it during the campaign. Maybe they’ll get it back. But it’s missing now.
Matthews: It’s the political touch. You were in China. You just got back. Tell me about that. The president tried to speak to the Chinese people and apparently it was jammed. Tell me about that.
Kornblut: This was the big moment of the whole trip to Asia in fact, eight days in Asia he was going to speak to Chinese students in Shanghai unfiltered at least in his answers, and in fact the Chinese government, you know, they allowed the event to take place, but it was only shown locally on Shanghai television. People didn’t see it. The one piece of news he made in it saying that the internet should be free and people should have access dribbled out to the Chinese public and then started being deleted from all the Chinese websites. So, then, the following day he held a quote unquote press conference with the Chinese President Hu Jintao in which there were no questions and they read statements. Now, this is of course, this is the Chinese, it’s their home turf. They were allowed to do what they wanted to. That was the White House’s argument. And the White House haggled with them to get it more open.
Matthews: The White House got jammed here. Did they know this was coming, that it wouldn’t get to the people?
Kornblut: Sure. They knew, previous presidents had been allowed to reach the Chinese public. They knew that it might or might not. It did. But they didn’t have to stand there at a press conference, call it a press conference, and not answer questions. And I think they’re expect, they may have raised expectations a little for how much they were going to be able to do.
For the last two years Chris Matthews has acted as if Barack Obama is the second coming of Christ. Now even Matthews seems to recognize that he’s the second coming of Jimmy Carter.
We’re conflicted. We don’t know whether to laugh or laugh really hard.
Source: NewsBusters.org
“Linguistic experts have finally deciphered the exact meaning of the name Barack Obama – turns out it’s Kenyan for Jimmy Carter.”
Source: IOwnTheWorld.com
What did wishy washy John McCain think of Jimmy Carter saying any animosity expressed toward Obama is racist. “It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.”
What did wishy washy John McCain think of Jimmy Carter saying any animosity expressed toward Obama is racist.
“I’m deeply disturbed by those accusations because it’s an unfair and untrue commentary on the American people and for them to exercise their God-given right to disagree with this administration. It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.”
Hard to believe we finally agree with the man who has earned his place as if not the worst presidential candidate in history, the worst presidential candidate of the 20th Century.
The former President had this to say about Mahmoud Achmadinejad and the “election” in Iran: “I think this election has bought out a lot of opposition to his policies in Iran, and I’m sure he’ll listen to those opinions and hopefully moderate his position.”
If you’re going to fly around the world observing elections, shouldn’t you be a little more observant? Here’s a video that shows you exactly how Mahmoud is listening to his people – with nightsticks.
We may have understated it. This may be the video of the week. Maybe the month.
It’s always been rumored that there’s no love lost between Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. You can just imagine how “het up” the sanctimonious Carter get over the mere thought of the things Clinton did in the Oval Office.
This clip exposes that lack of respect in all its glory. Bill Clinton is doing his best meet-and-greet at some reception. When Carter approaches, Bill looks away while the peanut farmer and the little lady walk right past and completely ignore him. Clinton looks away and pretends he didn’t see the snub. And best of all, Hillary completely freezes in the background. The look on her face is priceless.
Former President Jimmy Carter weighed in with his opinion of the Fairness Doctrine.
“Well, I liked it when it first came out,” Carter said, “because I was just a child listening to programs, and I liked to hear some limits on some of the programs. But no. As a matter of fact, when I was president is when we deregulated radio, television, all the communications and relationships, so I have not been in favor of perpetuating the Fairness Doctrine since I’ve been in politics.”
After Carter sat back with that trademark silly smirk on his face, an aide nudged him, then whispered in his ear.
“I just found out my friends Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won’t be covered by the Fairness Doctrine,” the former president is rumored to perhaps have said. “In that case, I’m against it.”
Consider this proof positive that Hollywood is on another planet. Actress Rene Zellweger, star of Jerry Maguire, has a crush on the worst president of the 20th century.
“I have a crush on Jimmy Carter,” Zellweger confesses. “I admit it. He has an extraordinary mind. He’s an exceptional human being. And he writes poetry, for crying out loud. He’s all good things.” Hell, she said everything except, “He had me at ‘malaise.’”
The delusional Zellweger claims she stood in line for more than two hours in bitterly cold Manhattan weather to have the former peanut farmer sign his latest book.
We’re pretty smart operators here at IHateTheMedia.com. So we quickly spotted the obvious flaw in this Hollywood story. No, not the part about the beautiful young actress being hot for a senile, shriveled old man. That’s par for the course in Hollywood.
What we don’t buy is the idea that enough people wanted this book to form a line 2-1/2 hours long.
