Weimar on the Potomac

As the latest piece of evidence that there's a cancer in the American body politic: Powerline, the blog that feverishly imagines it brought down Dan Rather, is now claiming that Jimmy Carter is "on the other side" of the War on Terror, i.e. pro-Osama.

That's right everybody! Former President, Former Naval Officer, Nobel Laureate, Habitat for Humanity Champion, and not to mention expounder of the Carter Doctrine Jimmy Carter was rooting for Al Qaeda during the Afghan War! Who knew? Powerline's main evidence comes from David Horowitz' Frontpage Magazine, which is bullshit, and a new book by Steven Hayward, the bullshit artist who tried to connect Saddam and Bin Laden in his piece of bullshit "The Connection". Hayward, by the way, is the only guest I've ever seen Jon Stewart basically dismiss entirely on his show. Hayward deserved it, too. Still, I loved this excerpt of an interview with Hayward:

Carter panted after the Nobe Peace Prize for years... and finally met with success in 2002 when the left-wing Nobel Prize committee saw an opportunity to use Carter as a way of attacking President Bush and embarrassing the United States. Any other ex-president would have refused to be a part of such an obvious anti-American intrigue, but not Jimmy. Here we should observe that Carter conceives himself much more as a citizen of the world than as a citizen of the United States, and I think it is highly revealing that Carter is most popular overseas in those nations that hate America the most, such as Syria, where they lined the streets cheering for Carter when he visited. [emphasis mine]

OH MY GOD NO!!! Imagine the gall of that Jimmy Carter! Actively seeking one the world's most sought-after prizes! How dare he want something that no other President has ever accepted! Further more, how dare he consider himself a human being? Doesn't he know he's an American? That treasonous dog! Hang 'em high, I say!