Former President Carter's recent claim that he never portrayed most tea party participants protesting against President Obama as being motivated by racism has been highlighted both on Friday's Special Report with Bret Baier and on Monday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC. As previously noted by NewsBuster Matt Balan, the Thursday, October 1, American Morning on CNN showed a clip of Carter denying what he previously seemed to suggest in an interview with correspondent Candy Crowley. Carter's original accusations of racism by conservatives were reported by NBC and CBS, but those networks have ignored Carter's attempt to backtrack.
On Friday's "Political Grapevine" segment on FNC's Special Report, host Baier relayed to viewers: "Former President Jimmy Carter is walking back from comments he made last month about President Obama and racism. Thursday, Mr. Carter said he did not mean protesters were upset at the reality of a black President."
After reading Carter's denial, Baier then played Carter's original words: "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity towards President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he is African-American."
Bill O'Reilly caught up to the story on Monday during The O'Reilly Factor's regular "Reality Check" segment. O'Reilly: "'Check' six, President Carter is 85 years old and may be having some memory trouble."
After playing a clip of Carter's denial in his interview on CNN, O'Reilly also played the clip of his original words before the FNC host concluded: "So it looks like that is what he said. Kind of like the Barney Frank thing. You know? 'I didn't say that.' Yes, you did."
Below are transcripts or relevant portions of the Friday, October 2, Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC, followed by the Monday, October 5, The O'Reilly Factor on FNC:
#From the October 2 Special Report:
BRET BAIER: And now some fresh pickings from the "Political Grapevine." Former President Jimmy Carter is walking back from comments he made last month about President Obama and racism. Thursday, Mr. Carter said he did not mean protesters were upset at the reality of a black President.
Quote, "If you read the remarks carefully, you'll see that's not what I said. I said those that had a personal attack on President Obama as a person, that was tinged with racism, but I recognize that people who disagree with him on health care or the environment, that the vast majority of those are not tinged by racism."
Well, here is what the former President said when asked about anti-Obama protests and tea party demonstrations last month:
JIMMY CARTER: I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity towards President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he is African-American.
BAIER: So is the former President right in his new defense of those comments? You decide.
#From the October 5 The O'Reilly Factor:
BILL O'REILLY: "Check" six, President Carter is 85 years old and may be having some memory trouble.
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN: You said overall you thought the protesters were upset that there was a black President, that there was racism involved. You said that many people-
JIMMY CARTER CLIP #1, AIRED FRIDAY: By the way, that's not what I said.
CARTER CLIP #2, FROM AN EARLIER INTERVIEW: I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely-demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American.
O'REILLY: So it looks like that is what he said. Kind of like the Barney Frank thing, you know? "I didn't say that." Yeah, you did.
—Brad Wilmouth is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
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Jimma
October 8, 2009 - 06:44 ET by svh83It's over Jimmy. It's been over for almost 30 years. Gas lines, 17% interest rates, neglect of the military, hostages in Iran, no real accomplishments, one-termer. Oh yeah; attacked by a rabbit.
"I think you'd better call John, 'cause it don't look they're here to deliver...the mail". -NY
Jimma
October 8, 2009 - 06:44 ET by svh83It's over Jimmy. It's been over for almost 30 years. Gas lines, 17% interest rates, neglect of the military, hostages in Iran, no real accomplishments, one termer. Oh yeah; attacked by a rabbit.
"I think you'd better call John, 'cause it don't look they're here to deliver...the mail". -NY
Dat Wascally Wabbit had
October 8, 2009 - 07:48 ET by danboDat Wascally Wabbit had better sense then everyone in the dead media.
HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. (Charles Gibson of the dead media.)
Not just "a rabbit" but one
October 8, 2009 - 09:07 ET by celatorNot just "a rabbit" but one of them thare GIANT rabbits.
Oh, he was a big 'un. Forty foot ears on him. Scare the wax right off yer mustache. Big eyes on him, too. Two foot across, I'd say. Could do 100-foot hops when he was amind to.
Thing about this here rabbit, he could tap dance and sing. Seen it myself. Lordy he could sing. Liked Simon and Garfunkle songs. Crazy rabbit.
Scuse me now, I have to go out and feed my talking chickens. See, y'all.
Jimma
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
His name was
October 8, 2009 - 09:33 ET by danboHis name was Harvey.
HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. (Charles Gibson of the dead media.)
Harvey....perfect. Forgot
October 8, 2009 - 10:41 ET by celatorHarvey....perfect. Forgot about Harvey. Great movie.
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
Kiwwer Wabbits
October 8, 2009 - 10:50 ET by BlondeHere's a picture and an account of the *ahem* incident.
I hope he fails, too.
Oh no! Run for your lives!
October 8, 2009 - 11:09 ET by celatorOh no! Run for your lives! And hide all your carrots!
\No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
Holy cow Blonde
October 8, 2009 - 12:35 ET by general companyThat is hilarious
So, when he says he believes in this phenomena, how can anyone say it doesn't exist?
I mean, if a president, who has access to much more info than we
will ever have, says this...then obviously what questions he did ask
while in office were answered in a way that, if anything made him
believe in this subject even more!
Jimmy Carter 's belief in the UFO phenomena makes me believe in it too.
Also, does anyone here believe that that attacking rabbit was possibly programmed to do what he did?
Like some sort of "Manchurian rabbit?"
I needed a good laugh,
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
Manchurian Wabbit?
October 8, 2009 - 12:42 ET by BlondeI'm surprised you've never seen that before, gc.
I think I've linked it here maybe 3/4 times. All you have to remember to find it is to go to Yahoo Images and search on "Jimmy Carter Killer Rabbit". Glad you enjoyed it!
Oh great, an emergency at Miami International....earlier today there was a bomb threat alert at our local hospital.
I hope he fails, too.
I have heard about the rabbit
October 8, 2009 - 14:56 ET by general companyThis particular artical on it (obviously from a moonbat, or the same folks I got the danged whale info from) just tickled me.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
"Well...
October 8, 2009 - 10:36 ET by JPR1...we live in a trailer at the edge of town. You never see us cause we don't come around." NY
What?
October 8, 2009 - 07:01 ET by 10ksnookerYou mean anti-Semite and closet segregationist Jimmy Carter wants out of the fix he made for himself by accusing others of being racist? Bet he didn't know that Barrack 'the closet racist' Obama had already killed the race card when he exposed himself with the Gates affair.You mean you thouhght Barrack Hussein Obamaba, mmm, mmm, mmm --- sat in Rev Wright's Black Liberation Theology Church for 20 years and didn't learn anything?
Shame on you for not paying attention before voting.
Did you know that Jimmy Carter is responsible for the murdering thug Mugabe being put in charge of what is now Rwanda?I wonder how the dead feel about it now?
Mugabe
October 8, 2009 - 08:10 ET by Brad BrzezinskiIt was Zimbabwe, not Rwanda. (I know, all those African countries look the same. :-)
When Jimmy wrote his Palestine: Peace or Apartheid book, he later qualified that he referred to the situation in the Paletistinian territories, not Israel. He does a lot of this backtracking.
I need to quote someone...
October 8, 2009 - 07:04 ET by shooterJimmy, allow me to quote Joe in response...
"YOU LIE!"
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"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert A. Heinlein
well it is either
October 8, 2009 - 07:09 ET by ChattychitoSenile dementia syndrome or he is lying.
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effect of folly is to fill the world with fools."
Herbert Spencer's "State Tamperings with Money Banks"
I bet ole Jimmy would love
October 8, 2009 - 07:28 ET by FeynmanFanI bet ole Jimmy would love to jump into Mr. Peabody's WABAC Machine right about now to go back and change his comments. It's tough to deny something you said when they've got you on tape.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
He can always try the
October 8, 2009 - 07:34 ET by motherbeltHe can always try the Sheila Jackson-Lee defense: that maybe the video was doctored. LOL
mother
October 8, 2009 - 08:02 ET by FeynmanFanOr, he could go all-out and say that it wasn't him on the tape. He could try to convince people that it was a Jimmy Carter impersonator trying to cause problems for him - you know, a conservative operative working behind the scenes to implement the Grand Conspiracy they started on the Clintons.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
You guys don't get it.
October 8, 2009 - 07:57 ET by WhoIsJohnGaltNailed as he was with his own words, he's convinced that he did NOT say what he said. That's the beauty of liberalism...regardless of your past actions or words, you can simply deny it with a straight face and act like it didn't happen, and in Liberalland, no one calls you on it. There is no consequence for lying or scandalous behavior.
Read what he really said
October 8, 2009 - 09:16 ET by redrock505We conservatives rightly point out the knee jerk-reactions of liberals to things we say. We ought to be aware of our own knee-jerk reactions.
Carter, for whom I have little respect, did not say that people who oppose O's policies are racist. He did not even say that those who oppose O on a personal level are racist. He did not say that those who are hostile to O are racist. He did not even say that those who feel animosity toward O are racist. He might feel all of the above are true, but we have nothing to go by except his words.
His words were in reference to those who "intensely demonstrated animosity towards President Obama". "Animosity" is a very strong word, meaning "strong hostility." Carter narrows the target further by saying "intensely demonstrated" animosity. He makes his statement even more narrow by saying "towards President Obama." With his choice of words, Carter excludes all those who demonstrate animosity towards policy only, and all those who demonstrate their disapproval of O personally in a reasonable fashion. He is talking about a very small group of people. There is no doubt that the group of people who intensely demonstrate animosity toward Obama himself includes racists. Whether that group is overwhelmingly racist, as Carter claimed, is a matter for debate, and he himself has offered no proof of that claim. But let's talk about what he actually said, rather that the straw man claim that he is calling policy protesters racists.
→ Nope
October 8, 2009 - 09:27 ET by Cool Arrow"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated
animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is
a black man, that he's African American," Carter said. "I live in the
South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest
of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups
at that time, particularly African Americans"
I hold significant animus toward President Obama. I know lots of people who do.
Mr. Carter is saying that an overwhelming portion of the gang I hang with are racist.
Full disclosure: I made the mistake of voting for Carter, but soon developed a significant animosity toward him.
Must've been because the sumbich is white, huh?
Cool...Exactly...
October 8, 2009 - 12:03 ET by PrairieSkyI don't like Obama or his policies, and I am not a racist, nor are the people that I know who feel the same way that I do. This attempt to blithely dismiss those of us who have strong disagreements with Obama and his policies as just a bunch of racists, is insulting and despicable. It is nothing but an effort to try to diminish and silence our arguments against his ideologies and agendas. How dare Carter (and those like him) accuse a entire group (and a large one at that) of Americans of being racists, just because we have serious problems with Obama and his agenda.
My reasons for disliking Obama have nothing to do with his race. When he first announced he was running for president, I knew virtually nothing about him beyond the fact that he was a Democrat, a senator from Illinois, and had been a state senator there. Aside from that, he was a blank page to me. His race was, and is, irrelevant. However, once I began to learn about him, his beliefs, his voting record, and the people and causes he likes to associate with, I started to develop some serious concerns about him and his agenda(s). During the campaign, it became apparent to me that he was untrustworthy and dishonest, extremely liberal, and was misrepresenting who he was, what he believed, and how he would govern if he were elected. Unfortunately, Obama has proven to be every bit as bad as I had feared he would be, and as a result, I don't like him and I don't like his policies, which are damaging the country. This does not make me, or all those who think like me, racist, and I resent anyone who tries to label any of us as such. How dare they.
(I know I'm venting here, but I've really had enough of this "racist" BS...)
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan
→ Carter's legacy
October 8, 2009 - 12:06 ET by Cool ArrowMaybe Carter is trying to hold on to his "est".
At this pace, Obama stands to be the biggest loser ever elected. Then, where would that leave Carter?
Cool...No doubt...
October 8, 2009 - 13:12 ET by PrairieSky"At this pace, Obama stands to be the biggest loser ever elected. Then, where would that leave Carter?"
Right you are...That's no easy feat either, because Carter was (and still is) a loser of elephantine proportions...I guess ol Jimmy will just have to settle for being the second biggest loser ever elected, but it'll be close... ;)
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan
I don't like Obama or his
October 8, 2009 - 12:20 ET by MikeBI don't like Obama or his policies, not because he is black, but because he is red. Hint for Jimmah: not "red" as in American Indian. I don't like Barney Frank or his policies, not because he is white or gay or a damn Yankee, but because he is red. I don't like Hillary Clinton, not because she is female or white, but because she is red. I don't like Sheila Jackson Lee, not because she is female or black, but because she is red. Jimmah, et al, are you seeing a pattern here? Another hint: check out the bolded words. Jimmah, because you are 85 yrs old, I'll spell it out for you: I, and most of the people opposed to Obama are opposed to his and most of the Democrat Party's policies because we are opposed to marxism/socialism/nannystateism.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Redrock, why
October 8, 2009 - 09:30 ET by boomerconWhy don't we just talk about what the meaning of "is" is.
(when you're in a deep hole, stop digging!)
Oh Look, isn't that cute. Red is 'splainin'
October 8, 2009 - 15:22 ET by BO STINKSthe nuanced speach of Goober Jimmy to us. Thank you, Red, for that indepth (bs) analysis. Now back to our regular programming.
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" Sam Adams
Redrock
October 8, 2009 - 09:36 ET by FeynmanFanI disagree with your interpretation of Carter's words. What he said, exactly, was:
I think that when Carter said "intensely-demonstrated animosity" he was talking about protesters at the Tea Parties and Town Hall meetings. There was a lot of emotion at both kinds of events that could easily be called "intensely-demonstrated animosity".
"Overwhelming portion" means that most or almost all of the "intensely-demonstrated animosity" was intended to be covered by Carter's comment.
I also think that when Carter said "toward President Barack Obama" he was referring to people's dislike of Obama's policies and actions because that was the thrust of the protests. Very few, if any, of the comments made about Obama were directed at him personally.
I think Carter was playing the race card to try to make people who oppose Obama's policies and actions (which, by the way, Carter supports) look like racists and force them to defend themselves against that charge.
People took it exactly the way Carter intended his remarks to be taken. It didn't work and now he has to try to "recalibrate" his words and make them out to be something different.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
???
October 8, 2009 - 10:31 ET by Patriot IIJimmy who? Whut? Hey Jimmy you got an i.d.? idee 'bout whut?
YOU don' get it, redrock
October 8, 2009 - 11:01 ET by CobraManYOU don't "get it," redrock505.
When Jimmy use the phrase "intensely demonstrated animosity towards President Obama," he meant ANYONE who protested Obama and his policies. And when he used the phrase "overwhelming portion" he meant the vast majority of those protesters.
You see, the MSM and the liberals (but I repeat myself) portrayed all of the protests, and the people who attended them, as a personal hate fest against Obama, the Black Man, and they, time and time again, insinuated that Racism was the motivation behind those protests.
This is why they repeatedly referred to those protests as "uncivil" and
made repeated references to any "racist imagery" that may have been
displayed. That was a calculated ploy to portray anyone who opposed
Obama as a hate-filed racist.
That all occurred DAYS and even WEEKS before Jimmy made his ill-famed comments. Do you really think that Jimmy was unaware of the image the liberals and their MSM enablers were portraying and that he didn't AGREE with the sentiment that this was all due to the inherent racism that th liberals always seem to equate with anyone who opposes them and their policies? No, he was fully aware of the false image of inherent racism of anyone who criticized Obama that the liberals were trying to cultivate and, since he agreed with them that this can be a useful image in which to denigrate anyone who opposed Obama, he, too, tried to cultivate that false image by falsely accusing the vast majority of protesters of racism.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
Exactly. RedRock and many
October 8, 2009 - 12:05 ET by TenebrousExactly.
RedRock and many liberals love to play little word games where they can parse the meaning of something to their advantage in clear violation of common sense, context, and often, reality. They are ever-unwitting that in so doing they simply prove the point that the original meaning is not what they say it is. That is, if every sentence uttered or written is so phenomenally complex that only a few unriddlers (who are always late to the scene) can understand it, that it fails as communication. The decoder ring strategy is not the purpose of the communicators; it is only a desperate fallback plan, in case someone should not like what they say. The fallback plan is made even more ridiculous when the communicators are obviously not geniuses who speak in elevated language.
The whole arrogance of the decoders as political priests, always at the ready to construe the gibberish of their doddering idols, is shockingly elitist and runs on the fuel of hiding away the truth from the masses.
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Let's see...
October 8, 2009 - 10:33 ET by JPR1I count four separate assertions in Carters statement:
1) There is animosity toward Obama.
Ok. No question on that one.
2) The animosity has been intensely demonstrated.
Why quibble about intensity, I’ll give him that one.
3) Obama is a black man.
Technically this has its shortcomings but I’ll let it slide.
4) The “overwhelming portion” of this animosity is due to his race.
Sorry Jimmah’, until I see a valid study, not just a “poll” mind you, distinctly concluding this I’m gonna’ have to believe you just pulled this one out of your…hip pocket.
Find a rocking chair someplace quiet Mr. Carter. And, we don’t need any more books, ok.
There are two possibilities...
October 8, 2009 - 11:22 ET by PrairieSkyhere...Carter's statement that most Obama critics are motivated by racism is asinine and untrue, and when he was challenged on it, he lied in an attempt to run from what he said, or he's senile and truly believes that he didn't suggest that Obama's crtitcs are mostly racists.
Either way, Carter is irrelevant...He is an embarrassment now, just as he was an embarrassment as president, and I wish he would just shut up already, and go away.
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan
Why Apologize On Something He Actually Got Right?
October 8, 2009 - 22:06 ET by The7SticksOf all the stupid and moronic things frm. President Carter has said over the years, why should he apologize now for something he actually got right, which is that the majority of these TEA party protesters are partially motivated by racial fear? I'd rather he apologize for the anti-Semitic remarks he's made against Israel, but since he got the issue about President Obama's critics right, he shouldn't backtrack. When even the great Bill Cosby agrees with frm. President Carter that there is a racial problem going on among many of these TEA Party protesters, you have to realize that it's really your side that is more out of touch with the rest of America. You really ought to know better when even a president, who has done some of the most incompetent and idiotic things in modern American history, is more correct on an issue than you are. It doesn't mean I support his agenda, but I think he's right, and he shouldn't retreat from this one.
What is your basis for
October 8, 2009 - 22:12 ET by NL207What is your basis for concluding opposition to Obamanomics, Obamacare, etc is principally based on race as asserted by that mental titan, Jimmy Carter?
Prove that he majority of people who oppose Obama's brand of Marxism do so only because they dislike Obama's race.
Or shut your piehole.
Why, sticks, of course
October 10, 2009 - 18:41 ET by MikeBWhy, sticks, of course you're correct. Why, those folks would never have opposed a government takeover of healthcare if a white woman had proposed it. Huh? Hillary proposed it and it was defeated? Uh, nemmind. Well, then, they'd never oppose the government turning contract law on its ear and taking over the auto industry if only a white man had done it. All of the "Czars" would have been okay if only a white president had pulled this crap. Yup, we oppose(d) Teddy Kennedy, Mikey Bloomberg, Barney Frank, Frank Lautenberg, Tom Daschle, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, and Nancy Pelosi, et al, because they are black men. Sticks, are you feeling stupid yet? You should be. We oppose Ear Leader (and the rest listed above) because he is (they are) a marxist/socialist.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Hey Sticks
October 10, 2009 - 19:02 ET by general companyProve your not a bigiot, give your home and job to a minority.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
g.c.
October 10, 2009 - 19:05 ET by MrShyGreat one! :)