Jimmy Carter, Putting the "Nit" In "Humanitarian"

Gotta love the MSM's ongoing infatuation with America's worst ex-president:

Diplomatic correspondent Andrea Mitchell was trotted in to fret about the poor, deprived Nobel-winning statesman: "You have to wonder why the White House couldn't have asked the Vatican to permit one more person in the Basilica, particularly a Nobel laureate who actually worked on Third World issues with John Paul II. And it seems as though this snub may have had something to do with Carter's strong criticism of the President at last summer's Democratic convention." (That would be the gut-punching speech in which Carter suggested Bush was an extremist and a liar.) Matt Lauer insisted that someone needed to make room for Jimmy: "Why doesn't Secretary of State Rice step aside and say, 'You take my spot...former President Carter?'"

Why does NBC love Jimmy Carter so? Neither ABC nor CBS led their show with this non-story. They didn’t even do a story. As National Review’s Kate O’Beirne pointed out, President Carter could have attended either one of the two papal funerals in 1978, but sent other family members in his place. You would think NBC could mention that fact to balance out their story. They didn’t.

And for all of Andrea Mitchell’s claims about all the joint Third World projects Carter and the Pope jointly worked on, try and find NBC News reporting on them. There isn’t any. A quick glance at the search engine of the former president’s Carter Center website offers only two mentions of Pope John Paul: when both men were honored by the Rotarians in 1994, and Carter’s press statement on the Pope’s death. Not even Carter finds whatever he did with the pontiff to be noteworthy.

Funny, I don't recall Andrea Mitchell urging Warren Christopher to step aside so Carter could meddle in Clinton Administration foreign policy....