Jimmy of Mayberry

Ned Rice channels Ann Coulter with a splash of H.L. Mencken as he eviscerates eminently feckless Jimmy Carter and his adoring MSM entourage in the snarkiest piece of the week:

Not being an etiquette expert I'm not even sure what all the fuss was about. Air Force One was obviously overbooked, as so often happens since they added those extra-wide seats in business class, and Mr. Carter was undoubtedly at the top of the standby list the White House always maintains for people who call the current president a lying warmonger. Also, as I understand it, Carter may have been asked to be the U.S. government's representative to Johnny Cochran's funeral (also last week) instead, an opportunity he seems to have declined. But this wasn't enough for the 39th president's faithful who apparently go into full-attack mode whenever his name is mentioned in the Washington Post just out of sheer habit.

"I think it's an outrage," said Carter's national-security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski — who, considering that the expression "Jimmy Carter's national security" is oxymoronic, is a generally reasonable, amiable fellow. "It's scandalous," Brzezinski added. "He (Carter) should have been included in the official party." Brzezinski offers no insights as to why President Carter passed on two opportunities to attend the funeral of a pope back in 1978. Perhaps negotiations to restore the White House tennis courts had reached a sensitive stage and he was unable to get away; some secrets are lost to history.

Even better, a liberal blogger wrote last week that Condoleezza Rice should have given her seat on Air Force One to Carter. The Democrats wisely passed on this chance to return to their original position on civil rights: that black women using mass transit be required to give up their seats to white men.