[antimedia] antimedia: How biased do you have to be....

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How biased do you have to be....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1165546353.shtml


   ....for your closest friend and advisor to [1]resign his position as
   executive director of a center named after you after reading one book
   that you've written? That's how bad it's gotten for former President
   Jimmy Carter.

     A longtime adviser to former President Jimmy Carter has resigned
     his position as a Carter Center fellow for Middle East Affairs in
     response to Carter's new book.
     "Being president doesn't give one the prerogative to bend the facts
     to reach a prescribed reality," said Kenneth Stein, the first
     executive director of the Carter Center.
     The Emory University professor, who teaches Middle Eastern history
     and political science, said he picked up a copy of Carter's latest
     book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" last week. After reading it,
     he decided to resign.
     Stein bluntly criticized the book in a letter to Carter, Emory
     President Jim Wagner and John Hardman, the Carter Center's current
     executive director.
     "President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too
     inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analysis;
     it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited,
     superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments,"
     Stein wrote. "Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to
     provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was
     the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show
     little similarity to points claimed in the book."

   Carter has managed to surpass the failure of his presidency with his
   latest anti-semitic activities. He's prostituted himself in favor of
   appeasement and made himself an embarrassment in the process.
   Historians will not be kind to him.

References

   1. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2006/12/06/1206natcarter.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13