Sorry, but trying to smear and "swiftboat" Jimmy Carter because of his new book

[Kellyiswise]

just won't work for thinking people. Just saw the guy who quit the Carter center over publication of Carter's new book. His reasons were really less than substantive, picking over none citations of maps etc. The really substantive issues of Carter's book will strike hard at the neocon core and might wake up a good segment of the population to look more critically at our ME foreign policy. We neglect Carter's warnings and appeals to our own peril.

[Scurrilous]

1. Maps in Carter's book are questioned

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"Harsh allegations over President Carter's new book on Israel and the Palestinians came into sharper focus Thursday when a former top aide to Carter said the book appeared to contain maps that were "unusually similar" to those in an earlier book.

Kenneth W. Stein had sent a blistering letter of resignation Monday to officials at the Carter Center in Atlanta charging that the former president's book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," had factual errors, invented segments and, most seriously, "copied materials not cited."

But, in a telephone interview Thursday evening, Stein offered a narrower criticism. "It appears that at least two maps that came out of the Carter book were or are very closely similar, or unusually similar, to maps that were produced and published in Dennis Ross' book 'The Missing Peace,' " Stein said.

That book, published in 2004, is also about the search for peace in the Middle East. "This could be incredibly coincidental, or it could not," Stein said. "But it goes to the way history books should be written, and the way citations should be made when material is borrowed."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-carter8dec08,0,7400200.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

[Kellyiswise]

2. Not cited but accurate? Notice there were no complaints about the accuracy of the maps.

Just that they were similar to other maps published by someone else without citation. More of the "change the substantive topic" technique to divert attention from the facts and the truth. I ain't buying it and neither should anyone else. Read the book for yourself and see if Carter is credibel or not.

[johnaries]

4. Well, if 2 different maps are very close to being accurate,

wouldn't they be "unusually similar"?
:shrug:

[OneBlueSky]

3. "just won't work for thinking people" . . .

unfortunately, there ain't that many left in this country . . . thinking people, that is . . .

[catnhatnh]

5. Someone has to say it out loud....

...he is being slammed for supporting Palestinians...

[LSK]

7. yep

[cali]

6. I'm anxious to read Carter's book

and agree that he is being smeared. However, not all disagreement is a smear. I think we have to be careful about that.