The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is owned by the Canadian government and is not exactly famous for rocking establishment boats. That makes this no-beating-around-the-bush opinion piece on Climategate even more interesting.
In contrast to government-owned CBC, we have privately owned NBC, CBS, and ABC to keep the American people up to date on the important issues of the day. So here, in its entirety, is what these three networks have had to say on this ever-growing story since it broke two weeks ago:
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That’s right, nothing whatsoever. Sort of makes you proud to be an American.
Eric Trager, you take my breath away with the fabulous Dixie Chicks analogy and how Carter is seriously jeopardizing the one good thing he did during his administration, forging a peace between Israel and Egypt. His anti-Israel sentiments only serve to strengthen anti-Israel/anti-Jewish radical groups like the Muslin Brotherhood, a ubiquitous presence in Egypt that would like to topple Mubarak’s administration — and put an end to the peace treaty it supports.
The truth is, Carter should be tried for treason. He need to be brought to justice as a traitor– and without delay.
now the dixie chicks are more popular than ever and many other artists have followed their lead. especially eminem’s amazing “mosh” video from 04.
one hopes carter will have similar mainstream influence
What Carter conveniently forgets is that 20 years ago the support for Israel was not 100%. It might have been around 80%. There were groups, including Arab-American groups that you never see on TV anymore, as well as people from the left wing of the DP, like Jesse Jackson and his ilk, who did take an anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, or neutral, balanced, whatever you want to call it position on this conflict.
What happened to these people? They weren’t knocked off by AIPAC. They were undermined, in Jackson’s case by his own ugly anti-Semitism masquerading as anti-Zionism. While you can get away with this in Europe, you can’t in America. What really drove the nail into their ideological coffin, however, was the open transformation of the Palestinian cause and the whole Arab-Israeli conflict into a jihad-style crusade against the Jews and their Christian supporters. Why should any reasonable Christian or even secular American support a Muslim jihad against a Jewish state?
This was the greatest strategic blunder that the Palestinians have made, out of all their numerous strategic blunders, because this is an ideological and practical war that they cannot win. Islam is not going to come out the winner in its jihad against other religions or even no-religion (ie, Europe). They chose this losing hand and now it is playing out. Nothing Carter says is going to change that.
Carter’s contribution to the Israel-Egypt treaty has been vastly overrated — unless he deserves credit for terrifying both sides into concluding that if they didn’t pre-empt him, Mr.Peanut would drag in the Soviets and make a shambles of the whole process. And Mubarak has a funny way of upholding a treaty — unless, I guess, you think Mexico is an ideal kind of neighbor, too.
ot here sorry but
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=560278&in_page_id=1811
vladamir putin = my new hero (despite totalitarian tendencies)
genius! right on!
I don’t get too worked up over Carter. He has disgraced himself so often that no one listens to him. So if the ex-President wants to go around the Middle East on his own private diplomacy tour, big deal. It accomplishes nothing, and it’s not like the guy’s reputation can get any worse. Saying Carter is again acting like a narcissistic fool is a dog bites man headline.
ian,
carter is doing what he is doing because he senses that there is an interest in the west to sacrifice Israel to appease the islamists in order to save the west from jihad. carter hopes to initiate an opening the floodgates and I am afraid he may achieve that. europe has been almost there for a long time, but the US is getting there too. rice has already referred to hamas as resistance and the DoState has had a blog considering dealing with hamas.
The WaPo the other day published a propaganda piece by al-Zahar from which you would have no clue who he really is and what hamas is all about.
Don’t get fooled by the various polls that find the majority of americans pro-israel and anti-hamas. the elite is not in complete sync with the population when it comes to the ME, has different interests and can get away with manipulation, secrecy, etc. by elite i mean not only the govt, but academia, the media, the think tanks, business elite who are closer to arab appeasement than the public, and they influence the public opinion.
the west is in cowardly sacrificial mode and carter simply exploits it for his own purposes and to get attention.
oao
http://fallofknowledgeandreason.blogspot.com/
The thing about the internet and political blogosphere is that it creates a slightly overheated alternative universe where things are given exaggerated importance. When his book came out a journalist in Israel wrote that by the title of his book Carter was trying to manipulate the American Jewish community, which this journalist claimed Carter shrewdly understood. I recalling e-mailed back that whatever Carter’s supposed insight into the US Jewish community, the journalist did not understand Carter and how completely irrelevant Carter is in this country, and that in the end it would not amount to much. And it didn’t. If there is an appeasement strain in the West, Carter won’t be the one opening floodgates. And he’d probably drown himself anyway with his typical maladroitness.
Seth Halpern Says: “Carter’s contribution to the Israel-Egypt treaty has been vastly overrated”
Quite so: after Sadat’s historic flight to Israel, an agreement was inevitable,
with or without Carter, though it would entail hard, prolonged bargaining.
Carter preferred to join in and preside over the inevitable agreement, acclerating
it somewhat – but there was no need to hurry.
Sadat was firmly resolved to end the conflict – a statesmanlike and brave resolve, for which he paid with his life. The Israelis, forever dreaming of peace, were psychologically incapable of rejecting Egypt’s extended hand, even if the terms of the treaty were slanted
against them.
And slanted they were – under Carter’s pressure. Carter also undertook
to pay each side a large US annuity for something both did in their own interest.
Well, at least Israel is being compensated for giving up Sinai and the settlements
and the forward defense line – that makes some sense. What Egypt is being paid for, I never could understand – for accepting Sinai?
ian,
well, we will have to see. carter is simply pushing the gates that were opening wide open.
if he did not count the dhimmicrats wouldn’t have given him the keynote address. there’s lots of lunatics coming out of the woodwork. the US is in crisis which is when scapegoating occurs.
Carter was trying to manipulate the American Jewish community, which this journalist claimed Carter shrewdly understood
my recollection is that the reference was to the evangelical, not jewish community. he may not influence Hagee and his people, but there is a religious left in this country too.
incidentally, carter does not lead. he piggybacks on others and takes credit. that’s what he did on clinton’s korea deal, sadat’s peace with israel deal, and this is what he’ll do once somebody else formally deals with hamas.
Why should ANY American who meets with terrorists be let back into the country?