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In post-humous piece entitled ''Jimmy Carter: The False Savior'' published in ''Counterpunch'', Michael K, Smith wrote:

In post-humous piece entitled ''Jimmy Carter: The False Savior'' published in ''Counterpunch'', Michael K, Smith wrote:

{{Cquote|After the Shah was overthrown, Carter could not conceive of U.S. responsibility for the actions of enraged Iranian students who seized 66 Americans and held them hostage<ref>66 were originally seized; in a bow to [[identity politics]] dominating the [[Carter regime]], 17 [[Blacks]] and [[women]] were immediately released creating a division of sympathies in American [[politics]] and [[culture]].</ref> at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, demanding the return of “the criminal Shah.” (He had admitted the Shah to the U.S. for emergency medical treatment for cancer, thus precipitating the “hostage crisis.”) To Carter, Americans were by definition innocent, outside [[history]], and he dismissed Iranian grievances against the U.S. as ancient history, refusing to discuss them. In his distorted mind, Iranians were [[terrorist]]s by nature, and Iran had always been a potentially terrorist nation, regardless of what they had suffered at U.S. hands. In short, without the Shah, Carter regarded Iran as a land of swarthy and crazed [[medieval]]ists, what [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] today calls a “rogue state.”<ref>[https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/30/jimmy-carter-the-false-savoir/ Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir, Michael K. Smith, December 30, 2024. www.counterpunch.org</ref>}}

{{Cquote|After the Shah was overthrown, Carter could not conceive of U.S. responsibility for the actions of enraged Iranian students who seized 66 Americans<ref>66 were originally seized; in a bow to [[identity politics]] dominating the [[Carter regime]], 17 [[Blacks]] and [[women]] were immediately released creating a division of sympathies in American [[politics]] and [[culture]] and a lack of [[consensus]] with the administration over the order of actions as to what should be done. 51 white males were held for 444 days.</ref> and held them hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, demanding the return of “the criminal Shah.” (He had admitted the Shah to the U.S. for emergency medical treatment for cancer, thus precipitating the “hostage crisis.”) To Carter, Americans were by definition innocent, outside [[history]], and he dismissed Iranian grievances against the U.S. as ancient history, refusing to discuss them. In his distorted mind, Iranians were [[terrorist]]s by nature, and Iran had always been a potentially terrorist nation, regardless of what they had suffered at U.S. hands. In short, without the Shah, Carter regarded Iran as a land of swarthy and crazed [[medieval]]ists, what [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] today calls a “rogue state.”<ref>[https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/30/jimmy-carter-the-false-savoir/ Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir, Michael K. Smith, December 30, 2024. www.counterpunch.org</ref>}}

[[CNN]] commentator [[Scott Jennings]] said,

[[CNN]] commentator [[Scott Jennings]] said,

{{Cquote|He was a terrible President. That’s why he lost in a landslide after his one term. If it’s possible, I think he was even a worse ex-president because of his meddling in [[US foreign policy]], because of his saddling up to [[dictator]]s around the world, because of his vehement views, anti-Israel views, and more than dabbling in [[anti-Semitism]] over the years. He often vexed Democrats. [[Obama]] didn't even have him speak at his '08 Convention.

{{Cquote|He was a terrible President. That’s why he lost in a landslide after his one term. If it’s possible, I think he was even a worse ex-president because of his meddling in [[US foreign policy]], because of his saddling up to [[dictator]]s around the world, because of his vehement views, anti-Israel views, and more than dabbling in [[anti-Semitism]] over the years. He often vexed Democrats. [[Obama]] didn't even have him speak at his '08 Convention.