Busted! Jimmy Carter Caught Plagiarizing in New Book!
Updated: With the plagiarized maps!
** Jimmy Carter Caught Plagiarizing! **
Greg Tinti reports that Jimmy Carter lifted material from a Dennis Ross book and inserted into his new Jew-hating book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Jimmah, Jimmah, Jimmah.
...Certainly you know that using "(another's production) without crediting the source" is plagiarism?
The maps in question appear on Page 148 of Carter's book
The Political Pit Bull reports:
While the LAT wasn't able to get a hold of Ross last night, luckily FOX News was able to get him this morning. And in what seems to be an open and shut case of plagiarism, Ross explains that the maps in Carter's book were specifically created for his book "The Missing Peace"--and Ross created them himself.Here is one map from "Missing Peace" that shows the extensive work done previously by Dennis Ross.
Map from The Missing Peace via Jewish Virtual Library.
This is the Dennis Ross map in question:
This was picked up at Jewish Virtual Library in a review of the book by Jimmy. Look under section "Camp David 2000".
Updates to Ross's maps can be found HERE and HERE. Other Dennis Ross maps from The Missing Peace are listed HERE.
Here is what Dennis Ross said to FOX News this morning with Brian Ross:
Dennis Ross: The maps in his book certainly appear to be taken from my book. Those maps are maps that I created, that didn't exist. The fact is that when we did the Clinton idea, when we did Camp David, we presented ideas, percentages, criteria,. After the fact, I created maps based on that and he has used maps that are drawn from my book without my permission.Political Pit Bull has the video!
Here is Carter's response yesterday to the accusations of lies and distortions in the LA Times (Via FOX):
For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary voices...This may have sounded good yesterday, but face it Jimmy, you're Busted!
With some degree of reluctance and some uncertainty about the reception my book would receive, I used maps, text and documents to describe the situation accurately and to analyze the only possible path to peace: Israelis and Palestinians living side by side within their own internationally recognized boundaries.
...I've signed books in five stores, with more than 1,000 buyers at each site. I've had one negative remark — that I should be tried for treason — and one caller on C-SPAN said that I was an anti-Semite...
The book describes the abominable oppression and persecution in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a rigid system of required passes and strict segregation between Palestine's citizens and Jewish settlers in the West Bank. An enormous imprisonment wall is now under construction, snaking through what is left of Palestine to encompass more and more land for Israeli settlers. In many ways, this is more oppressive than what blacks lived under in South Africa during apartheid. I have made it clear that the motivation is not racism but the desire of a minority of Israelis to confiscate and colonize choice sites in Palestine, and then to forcefully suppress any objections from the displaced citizens.
Jimmy with an old friend. (Gina Cobb)
FOX News has more on the video posted on their website now:
WASHINGTON — 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.Dr. Kenneth W. Stein resigned yesterday from the Carter Center.
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."
Here is his letter of resignation obtained by FOX News.
National Review's Media Blog has the side-by-side comparisons up.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 12/08/2006 04:35:00 AM
14 Comments:
When someone write an anti-semitic screed I wouldn't want to accuse them of stealing my work.
Dennis Ross is half Jewish. The Jews have stolen everything anyway, so what's the big deal?
Signed,
Billy "Beer" Carter
And to think I voted for the stupid S.O.B. in my first election back from Nam because I thought we needed more "honesty" in Washington. I've added and excerpt and link to my roundup: Jimmy Carter Caught Plagiarizing in New Book.
Jimmy Carter has continued his track record for bumbling and incompetence. This time it concerns what may have been an inadvertant misuse of a proprietary map devised by Ambassador Dennis Ross.
In addition, Kenneth Stein, the director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, resigned Tuesday as Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center of Emory University, citing:
"President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments." Besides the statement above, Dr. Stein pointed out a gross factual error that Carter used to bolster the argument that people "weren't listening to [him]." Stein alleged an inaccuracy on page 131 in the book of a 1990 White House meeting where Carter cites that Washington was mostly preoccupied with the Iraq/Kuwait conflict. Stein said that was in 1980, not 1990.
"He makes it appear that the reasons people didn't pay attention to what he was saying was because of the invasion," Stein said. "How was that possible? I was there."
"Carter can disagree with me. I don't think if you're president of the United States you have a specific privilege to overstate," he added. Carter claimed that people "in the real world" have been buying his book. However, Carter's allegations that people don't listen to him may indicate that he is aware of the fact that most Americans regard him as hopelessly addicted to self-promotion, mouthing platitudes of ultra-left sloganeers and sounding like Cindy Sheehan on a particularly bad day. His statements are disregarded because of his foolish policies and incompetent administration during his [thankfully] short tenure in the Oval Office. He managed to get double-digit inflation and interest rates at the same time as running the country into a recession after his seven economic plans---a true Trifecta of ineptitude.
His foreign policy was so badly-conceived and poorly-executed that Iran spiraled into Islamic Revolution, largely because this inept peanut farmer's Human Rights chief in the State Department, Pat Derian, refused to sign off on allowing the Shah's police rubber bullets---months later the Shah's police used live ammunition on students, killing hundreds, and then even the bazaari middle class opted for ridding Iran of the Shah. Another tale of Carter's serial brainlessness.
And his fact-checking makes even the third-rate New Yorker look competent by comparision, although Carter does not commit the solecism of "Saudia Arabia" in a Hertzberg column a while back.
And I must, while I'm at it, again express my sadness at the passing early this year of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, who was one of the sole sane influences at Columbia University's Middle East department and was my mentor on the Middle East while I served as a Middle East consultant for John Anderson in the [ultimately successful] national effort to rid the country of the bane of the Carter Presidency.
I thank God every day for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, who saved the US and UK from eventual capitulation to the Eurocommunism that Carter and his Labour analogues in Britain aspired to. And greased the skids for the final downfall of the Soviet Union into the dustbin of history.
Here's another less inflammatory possibility--oh and by the way, this is an accusation of plagiarism and should be labeled as such--both are representations of the Clinton proposal in black and white ink. Both are representing the same set of info. If you and I were to both draw a pie chart representing x variables, they would look remarkably similar. You piques my interest, but this is hardly a case--at this point--of definite plagiarism.
And secondly, why don't you add something constructive and serious to the debate rather than labeling Carter a jew hater? Come on. I know you're more intelligent than that.
Piqued, not piques.
And secondly, why don't you add something constructive and serious to the debate rather than labeling Carter a jew hater? Come on. I know you're more intelligent than that.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck it is a duck. Do not try to tell me otherwise.
Jimmy Carter has proven over and over again that he is an anti semite of the "jew hating" vein. In this respect he might as well put on the ol' white sheets.
He is also our first marxist anti-American president as he has proven over and over again through the deacdes. He has never met a dictator, a terrorist or an Islamofascist that he did not love. Explains why he is so popular in Europe and at the worlds largest floating cocktail party aka the UN.
Sorry hun, but his actions speak alot louder then your words. Now, if you were as "intelligent" as you think you are you would know better then to try to defend the actions of Jimmy Carter.
Nahanni,
You offer no proof to bolster your argument. You just say Carter is a "jew hater" beacause he is. This is circular and unconvincing.
I suspect that we'll see more of this. After all Dr. Stein wrote that Carter's book contained:
copied materials not cited. I would not be surprised if there were other aggrieved authors too.
Would it occur to anyone that maps that describe the same boundaries would always look similar?
Would it occur to anyone that maps that describe the same boundaries would always look similar?
Jewish Current Issues is making a strong cast that copying the maps may be the least of Carter's worries. He appears to have altered their meaning in ways that seriously distort the facts.
JCI
There is more that's yet to be explored. In his book, Carter said that a Paul Pugliese created the maps. Judging by a Google search, that seems to be:
"Paul Pugliese, President of GCI, was Chief Cartographer at Time Magazine for over twenty years. During this time he created over two thousand maps that appeared in Time Magazine and other Time publications.?e specialize [sic] in providing maps and informational graphics at the highest level of accuracy and attention to detail with over thirty years experience in book, newspaper and magazine publishing."
Along with this contact information:
Paul J. Pugliese
General Cartography Inc.
6 Corwin Court
Dix Hills, New York 11746
tel: (631) 462-6939
web: http://www.terradata.com
Source: http://dev.nacis.org/index.cfm?x=16
If he's responsible for the maps, it'd be interesting to know his side of the story.
--Mike Perry, Inkling Books, Seattle
To say that Jimmy Carter's book is factually inaccurate is a gross understatement. His assertions of Israel's oppression of the Palestinians and Israel's "intransigence" in all peace making efforts are predicated on Carter's skewed and subjective personal opinions, but not fact. He is a man who is seething with anger that his political career came to a demise after one term as president, and blames it on Israel for not acquiescing to his pressure to relinquish territory and to make other major concessions to the Arabs. There is no question that Carter couldn't manipulate Menachem Begin and use him as a pawn to garner his place in history as the "great peace maker" in the Middle East. The fact that Carter's book lacks any footnotes and scholarly references leads the reader to believe that this book's premise is based entirely on Carter's personal agenda. The Arab propogandists of the world must be thrilled. A book written by an ex-President that touts their lies and distortions, disguised as an intellectual treatise, is something money can't buy.
This is a fantastic book. Bought two copies and got them both signed last week.
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