While Moore has great potential, dhimmi carter has a greater career of idoitarianism.

"Shudder, shudder, shudder, shudder, shudder, shudder, shudder."

Indeed. I've got to get a shower after reading all that.

Go Jimmy! Moore is really more of a liar and a huckster than an idiot; similarly, the UN behaves as it does not because of stupidity but because of the bad intentions of its many dictatorial members. If the award is really about Idiocy, it's Peanut Boy all the way.

This trophy will certainly be more meaningful then his igNobel Peace Prize.

Meanwhile, competition for the next year award is heating up. According to Ha`aretz, "Senator Lieberman tells Tel Aviv press conference: Saudi Arabia real target of Islamic terror groups, not the West."

Are there any non-idiotarian Democrats left in the U.S. Congress?!?

I vote for Jimmy. Moore is a national liar and buffoon while Carer is an international liar and buffoon. Moore's influence is generaly resticted to this country but Carter, as a former (thank God) president, still has considerable influence on American and world opinion.

Moore is the P.T. Barnum of the Left while Carter is its
Walter Duranty.

OK. After reading Jay Nordlinger's essay I'm sold. Dhimmi's the one.

What an ignorant, sactimonious, jackass. The fact we elected this goober-grabbing, pompous piece of s**t president in the 1970s is good evidence that societal overindulgence in mind-altering drugs is a dangerous thing.

I confess I voted for this grinning coot in 1980. May I be forgiven...too many bong hits...maybe?

Carter Carter Carter. Peacemaker my ass.

#7

I voted for him in 1976 (but not 1980). I was still angry
over Watergate, the Ford pardon and I was smoking a lot of dope. I'm afraid many people (like me) voted for Carter for the wrong reasons. So we got four years of economic malaise, stagflation, 20% interest rates, the Iran hostages (and the horribly bungled rescue attempt), sanctimony, drift, toadying to dictators, etc. It was just awful and the worst part is that this pompous, clueless, anti-American ass won't go away.

jimmy carter.....one truly sick puppy.

BTW as followup:

Carter's international prominence, position as former US president (or current anti-president), and this year's (ig)Nobel Peace Prize winner also clinched it for me.

If the election results hold up, Charles, I think LGF readers and all anti-idiotarians should be encourgaged to send Jimmah their heart-felt congrats.

Let's make it a campaign! I'm sure some informed LGF readers can give us the address to send our letters to. I'm ready with mine.

#9 Paul

Couldn't agree more. You stated it better than I did. I was trying to be whimsical, but you hit the nail on the head with why Carter was elected in 1976. It just took me a little longer to grow up than some :).

from the NR article

Mary King was Carter’s key aide and emissary. She once took a flight with Arafat, and “Arafat noticed that I was tired and insisted that I take his customary seat on his plane because it reclined in a certain way, so that I could sleep. I used my handbag as a pillow. After some time had passed, I noticed that a pillow was being ever so gently substituted for the handbag. Arafat himself was trying to place the pillow under my head without waking me. This reflected a caring side to his character which has rarely been evident to the international public as a whole.”

LMAO...Arafat trys to steal her handbag and she tells the world how wonderful the old terrorist is....if anything sums up idiotarian....

well, well,
granted, Carter occasionally emits a nauseating whiff of naive ultraliberal-peacenik-flower-power-ignorant-do-goo der perfume. And of course, you guys like to put a little stick about and deliver your boots up some leftist backsides. All good and well. But anybody who calls Carter "historys greatest monster" - with or without any degree of sarcasm - is nothing but a plump little bag of squirming totalitarian appetites who mistakes personal decency with naivete. Imagine if your slurs actually were subject to the law of the land: you wouldn't last a week in court.

#9

...I hadn't grown up because I voted for him in 1980 when I should have known better...That's my apology.

Nice try, T.H., but "history's greatest monster" is from the Simpsons. Go tell them about it.

It's a joke, get over it.

#14

The guy is an ex-presdent of the US..not just some flower-power peacenik no-one listens to, so his support for terrorists is not just dismissable as A.N.Other soapdodgers would be.

I think you will find that Charles meant histories greatest monster as a satirical, not literal, epitaph...and as far as I know the USA has a libel law so if arafats little cheerleader wants to sue then he will be able to

Carter's Historical legacy is:

1. The Great Appeaser

2. The harbinger of modern radical islam.

Any others...?

BARBARA WALTERS: You've recently been given the Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year. Feelings, comments?

JIMMY CARTER: Well, Barbruh, ah accepted this awahd with some hesuhtation. Yassuh Arafat, a man whom ah greatly respect and admyruh, woaned me about this L'il Green Footbawls. But Rosalunn and ah prayed long and hahd, and in the end ah decided that the impotaht thing was for me to set an exampull, and to boldy face up to the challunges of being the Idiuhtarian leaduh of the Westun World.

BARBARA WALTERS: As the world's leading Idiotarian, then, what do you think are the major problems that the world faces today?

JIMMY CARTER: Hunguh, Li'l Green Footbawls, and Nookier Woe. In roughly that orduh.

BARBARA WALTERS: Little Green Footballs and what?

JIMMY CARTER: Nookier Woe.

Go Jimmy Carter Go!

#19: To be fought with nukular weapons, correct?

Sorry for the extra posts, folks; I'm on holiday vacation and slightly bored.

#14,

I would never consider Jimmy Carter to be "history's greatest monster." He's merely a well-meaning jerk, trying to sell a mush-brained view of the world that I've long since found to be wanting in common sense.

Back when I was enamored with liberalism (c.1980), a socialist friend of mine said during the Iran hostage situation--And I'm not making this up--that Carter and his cabinet were just "murdering bastards." I thought about this for a second and realized how full of shit this was.

Carter...A murdering bastard?

Carter may have been a naive goober, but he wasn't an evil killer.

The real murdering bastards I saw in this era were the Ayatollah (sp.) and his mullahs who were sending droves to to their deaths in Iran, including their first Prime Minister Gobseydeh (sp.) who was trying to be a moderate, decent man, whose reward was a bullet in the heart from a firing squad. The Shah's trangressions were nothing compared to this barbarity.

Carter's failure was what? his...acquience...appeasement...downed helicopters with American dead in a failed rescue attempt.

Hell, I don't know. Maybe he is a murdering bastard after all.

charles, chill out a bit. carter is not history's greatest monster. come on, we insult holocaust survivors and survivors of various islamic genocides and families of 9/11 by saying carter is history's greatest monster. i ask you to take that line off or retract that from the front page.

bala, please learn to read the context, see #16 for the Simpsons link

bala (#23)

Please see post #16.

Whenever I open the newspaper to find an article about Jimmy Carter (or see him on TV) I scream, "Jimmy Carter?! He's history's greatest monster!" Alas, it's not my joke; it comes from an episode of "The Simpsons." Marge fails to make marshmallow treats for the town bake sale, which results in Springfield being unable to afford a statue of Abraham Lincoln. They settle for a bronze President Carter instead. When it's unveiled, someone shouts, "Jimmy Carter!? He's history's greatest monster!" and the town riots.

It's satire.

#25 - Maybe we should clear up some other confusions:

When they threatened to burn the High School principal as a heretic for claiming that the world was round, it was just a joke.

In another episode, Mr. Burns claimed that "For centuries, Mankind has dreamed of destroying the Sun." This is not actually true.

Glen Wishard (#26)

LOL! You are on top form today.

(Yes, yes, I'm following you around again :-)

Charles:

I'm no fan of Carter, though I voted for the UN in our little survey.

However, we should stop calling him History's Greatest Monster. That would put him ahead of Hitler, Stalin, and the Grand Mufti.

Surely we don't want to trivialize the monstrosity of these latter chaps by putting them second to Carter. It really does sound like we're incapable of making distinctions between and among gradations of evil. Stated more simply, we sound idiotic, which no anti-idiotarian should ever countenance.

Give it a thought.

Jeff

Jeff, here's a nickel, buy a clue.

I still think Howell Raines should have been on the short list.

Nevertheless, after re-reading Nordlinger's piece, I just had to go with Carter.

I'm sure I'm just being some sort of ethnocentric Zionist, but if Carter's opposition to Israel isn't mostly anti-Semitism, can anyone suggest what it is?

Happy New Year, all. Alas, I'm sure next year's Idiotarian of the Year voting will have no shortage of candidates.

It's scary how many humorless drones turn up on Internet boards. Maybe to be safe from their persnickety lecturing we should find some other title for Carter. How about, "History's Greatest Piece of Sanctimonious Shit." I think that really sings.

Umm....I voted for the nobel peace prize committee specifically because they gave the award to carter.

Isn't it more idiotic and idiotarian for the nobel committee to give carter the peace prize, than for carter to receive it (and to do all the things which "earned" the prize)?

Just wonderin'...

schaffman (7) wrote:

I confess I voted for this grinning coot in 1980. May I be forgiven...too many bong hits...maybe?

I am relieved that another LGFer has confessed to having voted for Peanut Boy in '80. Voting for him in '76 is one thing, but admitting to having voted for him in '80 is akin to admitting that Pee-Wee Herman (or Rosanne Barr, depending on your inclinations) gave you the clap in the parking lot of a Chuck-E-Cheese in '87. In other words, it is a deeply shameful and degrading memory that one confesses to (if one confesses at all) with red face and downcast eyes.

And yes, I blame the bong hits too. I also blame it on being a 20 year college student who claimed to be a socialist while not knowing how to balance my own checkbook. It's easy to prescribe statist solutions to economic woes if you're a Lit major who knows absolutely nothing about economics.

Well, so much for my plan to repel interstellar invaders by waving a board with a nail through it...

#33 Donna V.

You've won my heart:

"admitting to having voted for him in '80 is akin to admitting that Pee-Wee Herman (or Rosanne Barr, depending on your inclinations) gave you the clap in the parking lot of a Chuck-E-Cheese in '87."

That's funny.

I confess: I was dumb and young then. So were many of us. Please don't hate me for it.

schaffman:

How can I hate you, when I did the same damn fool thing myself?

Here's my dismal presidential voting record. I was like Gallup in reverse:

1980-Carter
1984-Mondale
1988 - Nobody (Had begun move to the right and marriage on rocks. Deeply confused and distressed that year.)
1992-Bush I
1996-Dole
2000-Bush II

A liberal during the Reagan years, and a conservative/libertarian during the Clinton years. Sad, isn't it? I confess, I took the 2000 election very personally indeed. For once in my life, I wanted to vote for a winner:-)

I'm hoping that Carter's Nobel and and Fiskie awards will trigger some sort of cosmic matter/anti-matter like chain reaction causing him to transition from mass to energy.

In case you were wondering, I gave up bong hits a LONG time ago.

As I noted in #9 I voted for Carter in 1976 (and McGovern in the prior election) but I'm happy to say I voted for Reagan in 1980. By then I was long out of college, working, and curtailing my dope smoking. It was the hostage crisis and the disastrous rescue attempt that finally cured me of Carteritis. 1976-80 was the post-war nadir of American politics, power, and confidence (all exacerbated by the dismal economy). I can't imagine what would have happened to this country had that silly-assed goober been reelected.

Twenty-two years later Carter is still making ill-considered noise, still infatuated with dictators/thugs (Kim Jong Il, Castro, Arafat), still sabotaging American foreign policy and collecting prizes.

The ultimate idiotarian.

CARTER! CARTER! CARTER!

By the way, Charles, my offer still stands. I'll help you write the press release.

#19, Glen Wishard:

[In which Babawawa interviews Jimmuh on his Fisk award.]

ROFLMAO!

Seriously, someone in Atlanta needs to hand deliver the award certificate to the Carter Center. Bring a digicam.

Perhaps one of the Stoners for Carter who needs to do some penance...

Although I am "represented" by Cynthia McKinney (not much longer!!!!!!!!!!!) and live in spitting distance to the Cynthia McKinney Parkway, I had to vote for my other fellow Georgian, Jimmy Carter. He's the perfect example that humans do not learn from experience. Is it too early to start choosing the Idiotarian of the Decade?

Queasey:

It's definately too early to choose Idiotarian of the Decade. Just look at the dozens of worthy competitors we've come up with for 2002 alone. God knows what the cat will drag in by 2010.

It's like newspapers back in the '20's calling Leopold and Loeb's murder of a schoolboy the "Crime of the Century." In hindsight, Leopold and Loeb, unfortunately, don't even rank in the top 100.

Donna V. (#36)

Whew. For a minute there, I thought you were going to confess to having voted for Clinton. There are some things that should be confessed only God, or to Jerry Springer.

I was too young to vote (unless the local Democrats signed me up and voted for me --- always a distinct possibility). But I've always suspected that my parents voted for Jimmy Carter. Because of that goddamned Saturday Evening Post, which ran a cover illustration showing Jimmy Carter with his face bathed in the light of a shining cross. He looked like Paul on the road to Damascus, or a homely Virgin Mary getting impregnated. Out my way, folks fell for it in droves.

Fortunately, they eventually wised up when they realized that there's nothing in the gospels about "malaise" and double-digit inflation. Besides, Jesus Christ gets along just fine without Jimmy Carter getting slobber all over him.

And the Saturday Evening Post is long gone, which is proof that Divine Retribution is no joke.

OK. Moore crossed the 20% threshold. This is getting serious. What are you people thinking? Moore is a mere showman! In fact, if Moore wants to portray the US as a bunch of gun-toting cowboys then he is doing us a favor! I WANT the rest of the world to be afraid of us right now.

No, Carter is the man! Long after Moore's movies are languishing on the discount table, Carter will be in the history books. His policies will be taught to our children by the socialists at the NEA and academia! Help put a chapter in there about his Fiskie! Do it for the CHILDREN!!!

CARTER! CARTER! CARTER!

Idiotarian of Consequence.

Late on the thread...Charles, Paul, Meryl, Donna V., et. al. Jimmy is the one, true Idiotarian of this year. A glorious consenses (sp?) is reached!

Luv ya all. Happy New Year!

It appears that Carter has a commanding lead over Moore (although the Chicago vote has not been reported yet). This election should become an annual event with perhaps an Idiotarian of the Decade election in 2010. Who knows? Carter still might be around, spewing nonsense, in eight years.

The sad part of all this is that the Left (and the extreme
Right too) has an apparently endless supply of actual and potential candidates. Donna's cat will exhaust herself dragging in all the cads and dolts between now and 2010.

"Idiotarian of the Year." is the only thing I've voted Carter for, mainly because, being Ex-president, he should know better: If you're ignorant in any given area, then for heavens sakes don't go for advice to people are also ignorant in the same area!

The only good thing about the Carter era and presidency is that the Reagan presidency came after it.

To his credit, Carter HAS followed his convictions in his post-presidential life, being more of a conspicuous humanitarian than many ex presidents, who seem content to rest on their laurels after their stint in the Oval Office(or on some woman's bed, in the case of Clinton).

#48 - To his credit, Carter HAS followed his convictions in his post-presidential life, being more of a conspicuous humanitarian than many ex presidents

I think his post-presidential activities have been more about being conspicuous than being a humanitarian

I cast my very first vote in 1980, and I'm happy to say it wasn't for Jimmuh. I wasn't quite smart enough to vote for Reagan, however (I found him smarmy and fake), so I was left with John Anderson.

The only problem with giving Carter the Idiotarian of the Year Award in person at the Carter Center is that the Atlanta Journal Constitution will feel compelled to produce more fawning articles about him, complete with his grinning jack o'lantern likeness, and I will need to puke.

Charles, here's a great cartoon you can use when giving the award.

Meryl,

That cartoon is absolutely hilarious, and perfect!

Forkum & Cox are phenomenal.

I say just give JC a framed picture of himself in March 1990, when the Nicaraguan people dared to exercise their right to vote for someone other than his pal Danny Ortega. The expression on his face is priceless.

And to think that he actually tried to pass himself off as some sort of "moderate" or even "conservative" in 1976? Sheesh. Sort of like Oliver Stone's JFK in reverse.