From the right: Carter the Terrible
Jimmy Carter “was a terrible president but an even worse former president,” thunders National Review’s Philip A. Klein. His “true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage.” “He left the country in its weakest position of the post-World War II era” and “spent the rest of his life meddling in U.S. foreign policy” in a “manner that could fairly be described as treasonous.” And that’s to say nothing about his “obsessive hatred of Israel.” We’ll see “an effort to rewrite history and claim that the 39th president was underappreciated and that people have been too harsh on him. But the truth is that historians have not been harsh enough.”
Conservative: Good Riddance to GEC Censorship
By denying it funding, Congress has forced “the Global Engagement Center, an office housed within the State Department . . . to close up shop,” cheers the Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky. “The taxpayer-backed GEC,” created in the name of thwarting misinformation, “violated its mandate to work only overseas and devolved into a partisan enabler of speech suppression in the United States” by granting funds “to the British Global Disinformation Index, which created a blacklist of” right-leaning US-based websites (including The Post) that reported on such stories as “the Hunter Biden laptop story and COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis.” The GEC “even circulated internal guidance with the aim of discrediting” critical reporters such as Kaminsky and Matt Taibbi. Its defunding “is a further vindication of our reporting on its seemingly unlawful activities.”
Media watch: Distorting Reality in Gaza
“Nothing is as it seems” in Gaza, fumes Commentary’s Seth Mandel. Take the Kamal Adwan Hospital and its medical director, Hussam Abu Safyia. The New York Times mentioned “dismissively” that Israel “claims” Hamas was using the hospital, and Safyia penned an opinion column griping about conditions. But a recent IDF raid on the site revealed it was in fact hosting 240 suspected terrorists, “including Safyia.” Many tried to flee. “It’s easy to see through the mainstream press’s smokescreen” around “medical staff and patients who aren’t medical staff or patients, trying to flee the hospital that isn’t a hospital.” “Journalists who aren’t journalists,” “teachers who aren’t teachers” and “aid workers who aren’t aid workers — who are these folks even trying to fool?”
Obama was worse than Carter!
Biden made Carter look like a good guy for the country!
Carter was a lousy president but he was a good man, honest and truthful.