“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence–beginning with one’s own.”
–Henry Brooks Adams
Fallout continues after the publication of former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial new book, Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. First his longtime aide spoke out about the book’s many distortions and now comes this claim of plagiarism.
Former President Jimmy Carter faced new criticism Friday over his controversial book on Palestinian lands when a former Middle East diplomat accused him of improperly publishing maps that did not belong to him.
The new charge came as Carter attempted to counter charges from a former top aide that the book manipulates facts to distort history.
Ambassador Dennis Ross, a former Mideast envoy and FOX News foreign affairs analyst, claims maps commissioned and published by him were improperly republished in Carter’s book.
“I think there should be a correction and an attribution,” Ross said. “These were maps that never existed, I created them.”
After Ross saw the maps in Carter’s book, he told his publisher he wanted a correction.
When asked if the former president ripped him off, Ross replied: “it sure looks that way.�?
Carter’s book, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid,” was released last week.
“A former Carter Center fellow has taken issue with it, and Alan Dershowitz called the book’s title ‘indecent.’ Out in the real world, however, the response has been overwhelmingly positive,” Carter wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece published in Friday’s edition.
The full story is here.
December 9th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
I wonder what President Carter’s version of the “real world” is? How many states would he win today?
I would think that others who worked on the book (and received no credit) probably are guilty of these infractions. It just makes no sense that Carter would do these things on purpose. Of course, Carter and common sense do not exactly go hand in hand so anything is possible.
December 10th, 2006 at 9:05 am
It is amazing that people don’t think Carter has a right to free speech. If Bush’s father refuses to publicly criticize his son’s disastrous policies, that is his understandable choice. But Carter has a right to speak.
December 10th, 2006 at 11:15 am
Mr. Blog-hole,
Who is questioning Carter’s right to free speech? Just because a lot of folks (on both sides of the political spectrum) feel the need to question Carter’s conclusions, I’ve heard no-one say “don’t let him speak”.
What folks of your ilk have to realize is that criticism isn’t censorship.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
Blog,
It is not free speech that is at issue here. It is plagarism and not properly siting your sources.
President Carter and President Clinton retain their constitutionally protected rights to be absolute classless jackasses.
I would fight to the, OK well not death, but at least to a bloody nose, to help them preserve that right.
December 11th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Blog-hole is testimony that some speech is worth no more than “free”