Jimmy Carter: Some of My Best Friends Are Jews.

Dateline: Atlanta, GA. President Carter and spokesmen for the Saudi Royal Family are pleased to announce that the millions of dollars allegedly paid to Jimmy Carter by the Saudi royal family had nothing to do with the title of President Carter's book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” rather than "Palestine: Peace Not Terror Murder Of Men, Women And Children.”

President Carter stands by his position. “Some of my best friends are Jews,” he said. Other 'best friends' are Arabs. President Carter also has good friends who are black. The fact that his Arab best friends may have given him a large sum of money and advised him on the title of his book, and the fact that his Arab best friends may have provided some of the research for some of the 'facts' as represented in the book, especially those 'facts' that have been criticized as being false, wrong, and technically incorrect is not meaningful.

President Carter pointedly ignored the fact that 14 of his former best friends and Directors of the Carter Center have resigned in protest over the book. However, he did point out that there still are 186 Directors of the Carter Center, and observed that the Saudi Royal Family and Emir of United Arab Emirates could help him replace the 14 who left.

President Carter noted that the use of the term 'best friends' to describe his friends who are Jews and his friends who are Arabs, and the use of the term 'good friends' to describe his friends who are black is not meant as a slight to black people. In fact, some of President Carter's good friends who are black are 'Best Friends.' Other friends who are black can be described as ‘Very Good Friends.’

President Carter's black friends, however, like his Jewish friends, didn't pay him any money to write this book. The Reverend Louis Farakhan doesn't read books by white people unless they are Moslem. The Reverend Al Sharpton won't say whether on not he likes the book, but he didn't buy it, he asked President Carter to give him a copy as a gift. Andrew Young refused a copy. The Reverend Jesse Jackson also refused a copy.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, in a private telephone conversation with President Carter that was recorded for quality assurance or training purposes said 'Jimmy, I am not touching your book. I'm still on the hook for that 'Hymietown' remark I made 30 years ago. If he was alive today Martin Luther King wouldn't touch your book. Malcolm X wouldn't touch your book. OJ won’t touch your book. Even that Judith Regan chick won't touch your book and you know how she feels about Jewish people. (You might call Mel Gibson about the movie rights, but please don't ever tell anybody I said that.) This book is the dumbest thing you ever did. And you don't even need the money. You're 84 years old. What are you gonna do with all that money? You should give it to the Israelis whos homes are blown up and lives are destroyed by Hamas and Hizbollah. Just when people forgot about the Iranian hostage situation. Now look what you did. Boy, you should have stayed in Plains.'

And Arnold Schwartzenneger, California’s Austrian born Governor, said “President Carter, you know that I have given a lot of money to the (Nazi Hunters at the) Wiesenthal Center, even tho they don’t like my “Uncle” Kurt (Waldheim). But you have made a very big mistake with this book.”