Jimmuh Carter's New Book Gets Panned

Dr. Kenneth Stein is a professor at Emory University and has been working with former worst president ever Jimmuh Carter at the Carter Center. Professor Stein has resigned from his work at the Carter Center thanks to Jimmuh's new book: Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.

Stein's resignation announcement is printed in full at Powerline, but here's the money quote:

President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. 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. Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook.

I don't think he liked it.

Jimmuh has been increasingly anti-Israel, perhaps even anti-Semitic in his comments about the Middle East. If he hoped to have the Sadat/Begin agreement (Camp David Accords) as his legacy, he's certainly destroyed any pretense at being fair and open-minded in the past few years.

At least on a positive note, Carter has been working on his funeral plans. I hope they leave room at the gravesite for the dance floor.