Jimmy Carter has a good press agent for sure. 

The New York Times Nick von Kristof has decided to tout Carter's efforts in combating blindness in Africa.  I am sure it is a very good cause.  But why now?  And why is it important that we know Carter's association.  Also, must the tone be so breathless?  Going around asking "Have you ever heard of Jimmy Carter?"  As if they would never have heard of the Messiah himself.

Yet, so little reporting about Carter's anti-Zionism (dare I say anti-Semitism?); Arab oil money which has bankrolled him for so many years; and certainly little or no reporting on his failed Presidency -- he was an imcompetent masquerading as a technocrat.

Instead, we get one more nomination for sainthood from a Times columnist.  Who pays these people to write these articles?