Good news: Carter, Kofi, Mandela, Tutu form problem-solving supergroup
posted at 5:38 pm on July 19, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Think of them as a geopolitical Traveling Wilburys. Why, they even have a band-like name. Mandela is Dylan, Kofi is George Harrison, Tutu is Tom Petty, and Jimmeh of course is Orbison. But who’s Jeff Lynne? Ace has a candidate. Hint: He digs Chilean sea bass.
Actually, there are 10 in all and they’ve already attended to the important business of setting up a snazzy website. Among the other six is Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and organizer of the infamous anti-”Zionist” UN Durban human rights conference in 2001 that concluded with a declaration finding, among other things:
We declare Israel as a racist, apartheid state in which Israels brand of apartheid as a crime against humanity has been characterized by separation and segregation, dispossession, restricted land access, denationalization, “bantustanization” and inhumane acts.
So she’ll be bringing her own special brand to this repository of Absolute Moral Authority, whose periodic diktats will be received warmly by the left not necessarily for their wisdom but as a benediction for whatever cause it is they’re weighing in on. Exit question: Is it cynical of me to expect, in their problem-solving travels, we’ll find most problems are attributable to Israel and melting glaciers?
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why do i have a fear my wallet is about to be raped??????
Mojack420 on July 19, 2007 at 5:40 PM
They keep doing this under one name or another. A few years ago it was the Club of Madrid.
Laura on July 19, 2007 at 5:43 PM
Jees! That looks like the who’s who of failed policy.
If Arafat had been there, they’d had a quorum.
TheSitRep on July 19, 2007 at 5:44 PM
“Unfettered by political philosophy”- unlikely.
“Fettered by delusional hatreds”- almost certainly.
“The new heart-throbs of every MSM Sunday-morning chat show”-
Guaranteed.
cheers
eon
eon on July 19, 2007 at 5:45 PM
My first suggestion of a problem to solve (assuming it can be). How do you get Jummy Carter to shut his yap?
I am sure this prestigious group could use some other suggestions!
On-my-soap-box on July 19, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil…even in the devils den.
right2bright on July 19, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Coming soon to a Robert Smigel cartoon near you.
Bad Penny on July 19, 2007 at 5:49 PM
I expect we’ll find out that they actually represent the aliens from “V” who are really reptiles who want to eat us. Think of Jimmuh as the Jane Badler character “Diana” who loves to swallow rodents whole. Only this time we won’t have Marc Singer to save us!
MikeHu on July 19, 2007 at 5:50 PM
That’s good.
Forgive all debts to emerging nations…that will be the theme.
right2bright on July 19, 2007 at 5:50 PM
They forgot the “of Zion” part of the name…
jeffshultz on July 19, 2007 at 5:52 PM
Seriously, how full of yourself do you have to be to think that you are one of the 10 wisest people on the planet and that you should advice all others?
Bad Penny on July 19, 2007 at 5:52 PM
Um, no, it is not cynical of you.
Is that a word?
4shoes on July 19, 2007 at 5:53 PM
In Corporate America, these “Super Groups” are often named:
1. Tiger Teams
2. Steering Committees
3. Strategy Teams
What do they all share in common?
1. Excessive and usually unearned salaries
2. No accountability
3. No requirement to do anything but talk and dictate
4. No traceability of their positive or negative contributions to the bottom line
5. Unlimited budget renewals for their mere presence
6. Off Site Resort trips to “brainstorm”
7. One Free Pass per day, per member, to blow up and yell and at “underlings” for no reason at all
8. Smug superiority and huge golden parachutes when the company falls into shambles around them
9. Deniability for all of the above
Given the members of the super group in this story–I’d say member selection criteria was as follows:
1. Utter incompetence
2. Devout socialist
3. Hatred of America
4. Smarmy attitude
5. Senility or near-senility
Montana on July 19, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Augh! Advise not advice. That’s one of my pet peeves and I did it myself. I hang my head in shame.
Bad Penny on July 19, 2007 at 5:53 PM
As Jimmah loops further and further into orbit, it looks like this group might make it all the way to “Death to America! (Nonviolently of Course)”
eeyore on July 19, 2007 at 5:55 PM
They’re liberals. They flatter themselves.
But I repeat myself.
NellE on July 19, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Well, it’s nice to know that after they leave politics, Nancy and Harry have someplace to go. Otherwise they would have to be door greeters at Wal-Mart.
conservnut on July 19, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Why the hell is Mandela trolling around with those losers?
This is a day at the UN:
Iran: “The Jews Should be pushed into the Sea!” “Death to Homosexuals!” “Submission to the Will of Allah!”
North Korea: “I AM the people of North Korea!” “Ignore the mass poverty and hunger, it reality my people are well fed.”
The Fantastic Five: “THOSE FIENDS! America isn’t giving detainees enough Orange Chicken and Isreal keeps insisting it has a right to defend itself!”
BKennedy on July 19, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Is vaporizing considered nonviolent? Just wondering out loud.
On-my-soap-box on July 19, 2007 at 5:59 PM
Is it Friday?
Editor on July 19, 2007 at 6:02 PM
The big question: Which one will play bass?
Blacklake on July 19, 2007 at 6:03 PM
Kofi, Mandela and Tutu, eh? Any chance, you think, they might start their tinkering in, say, Zimbabwe?
Maybe not.
Blaise on July 19, 2007 at 6:05 PM
I just checked out the website. With all due respect to mandela…
WHAT A BUNCH OF EGOTISTICAL, SELF-AGRANDIZING, ARROGANT OLD COOTS!!!
Nominating themselves as our “elders”…good gweef.
Blaise on July 19, 2007 at 6:08 PM
They say they are the Elders of the New Global Village. Is this the New World Order? The Illuminati? The Peoples Bilderbergers?
Richard Branson’s in the screencap, but not on the website. Are we going to get “Globalair”, where these people jet from hotspot to hotspot to keep the Zionists and the multinational corporations from spoiling their planetary ideals?
eeyore on July 19, 2007 at 6:10 PM
It has been so tragic to see Mandela, who is a genuine hero, ally himself with Jimmy Carter, who is an anti-semite.
The Race Card on July 19, 2007 at 6:11 PM
The Elders?
3 words-
Managed Care Facility,
i.e. What the flock are we going to do about Grandpa?
trubble on July 19, 2007 at 6:14 PM
Yet more proof that Jimmy’s corn has gone away from his cracker.
This is like “Super Best Friends” volume two.
Ryan Gandy on July 19, 2007 at 6:14 PM
Just what we need, a terrorist, a corrupt bureaucrat, a priest (Anglican) who turned his back on his vocation for the love of the world and an embittered failed ex-president. Wait a minute, I sense zaniness ensuing. Perhaps they can take over the “Caveman” slot after it gets cancelled.
srhoades on July 19, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Mandela is still alive? WTF?
robblefarian on July 19, 2007 at 6:16 PM
Anyone noticed that one of the organizers of this is Peter Gabriel? What, the guys from Spinal Tap were too busy?
Kensington on July 19, 2007 at 6:20 PM
They‘ll tell us what to do. Thanks be to Gaia.
Kensington on July 19, 2007 at 6:22 PM
One more thing: since when has Jimmy Carter needed a special arrangement to
betraybe “unfettered” by American interests.When was he ever concerned with American interests?
Kensington on July 19, 2007 at 6:24 PM
The website looks like they set it up, too. I think there first order of business should be to buy walkers ’cause they’re going to be stumbing wherever they go.
Anyway, the Global Village don’t need no stinkin’ global elders, whether they’re self-elected or not. What we need for this Global Village is a Global Retirement Home.
Dusty on July 19, 2007 at 6:25 PM
We have a fraud, a terrorist and a traitor.
Kofi? Oily food dealings.
Mandela? Why was he in jail for 30 years? He bombed a bus stop, killing women and children.
Carter? I hope no one is new here at hot air…
What a group.
Mazztek on July 19, 2007 at 6:29 PM
I am reminded of someone that once stated “it takes a village”. But I can’t seem to recall who said it. Can I get a little help here?
swami on July 19, 2007 at 6:29 PM
Oh great the PEP Boys and the the Ritz Brothers are now the saviors of the world…. I don’t live in a village and your elders can’t tell me what to do….. Now, having said that…. when I was a kid Mama Giambrone kick my butt in South Philly and she was my neighbor… but that’s not the neighbor these idiots envisage. Yeah I know I’m in MN. Don’t ask! Must be a mission from God.
MNDavenotPC on July 19, 2007 at 6:32 PM
Looks like an A-hole Convention…
D2Boston on July 19, 2007 at 6:33 PM
You know, that really kind of says it all. What a bunch of contemptible shmucks.
Kensington on July 19, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Is it sad that I first heard about this on Conan? Can’t remember his joke, so it must not have been that good.
Anyway, the group’s slogan should be “Because the UN just wasn’t a big enough POS!”
RightWinged on July 19, 2007 at 6:46 PM
I do this with yappy little dogs , feed them peanut butter and take away their water , you wont hear them bark for hours . It should work on jimmy carter.
Mojack420 on July 19, 2007 at 6:50 PM
No no no, you all have it all wrong. This will be the most useful geopolitical advisory committee in history. Anytime anyone in the US has a policy he is considering proposing, he can run it past the Great Geezers Group.
If they come out in favor of the policy, we know to spike it. If they condemn the policy, then we will know just how hard and how fast we need to implement it based on the shrillness of their condemnation.
Of course, that is only how it will work for those with America’s and Israel’s interests in mind. For liberals, Dhimmicrats and the MSM, it will be rather the opposite. Which will still be useful, as it will increase their (already high) predictability.
Lancer on July 19, 2007 at 6:50 PM
If you don’t mind, but I rather not be apart of that village.
There’s already too many elderly idiots.
Kini on July 19, 2007 at 6:55 PM
Thanks for the link, Allah. FYI, you can send them a nice “Thanks but No Thanks” right here…
marc@hubsandspokes on July 19, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Here’s Carter’s statement on joining the band:
Translation: Yippee! No accountability at all!
marc@hubsandspokes on July 19, 2007 at 7:02 PM
The Bilderburgers, the Kennedys, the Tri-Lateral Commission, the Rockefellers and now this. When will all these self-appointed power-hungry pr!cks go away?????
Andy in Agoura Hills on July 19, 2007 at 7:12 PM
And…death to the Jews!!!!!
Andy in Agoura Hills on July 19, 2007 at 7:12 PM
I liked the peanut butter idea. It should work real well on the peanut brain. We probably can even get the peanuts from him if he still has his peanut operation. Be sure that you don’t use the crunchy variety as that might not work as well.
TruthToBeTold on July 19, 2007 at 7:21 PM
Ten “elders” eh? Or the Ten Horns on the beast???
ScottG on July 19, 2007 at 7:36 PM
Nice photo. Caption should read, “Beam us up, Scotty.” Problem solved.
Connie on July 19, 2007 at 7:39 PM
I don’t know about you, but whenever I type a domain with the word “the” before a word that begins with the letter “e” – I alway forget to type the TWO “ee”s.
So, myself and others like me of course, would probably end up at …
http://thelders.org
BrunoMitchell on July 19, 2007 at 7:54 PM
Kofi Annan and Jimmy Carter. Great. That’s just great.
The end is near.
peacenprosperity on July 19, 2007 at 8:01 PM
By the way, how many of those people are from well run, thriving democracies with stellar human rights records?
You know if you asked Carter he would say he isn’t.
peacenprosperity on July 19, 2007 at 8:10 PM
I suppose I’m wasting my breath, but the crazed leftism of the Elders and any reasonable thought-out environmental position are not going to share many values or projects.
Any well thought-out environmental position requires sound economics. The poor are much more likely to destroy the environment than the rich. Any well thought-out environmental position does require surrender to the muslims. I’m hard pressed to imagine any reason to suspect Islamic environmental policy is likely to better than we have now. In fact, I suspect that people who riot at the drop of a cartoon likely do not have values compatible with long-run environmental sustainability.
thuja on July 19, 2007 at 8:26 PM
But can they play Free Bird and Stairway To Heaven?
infidel4life on July 19, 2007 at 8:34 PM
That is an insult to the Traveling Wilburys.
E. M. on July 19, 2007 at 9:03 PM
Mary Robinson was voted President of Ireland in good faith and she left before the end of her term to join some pointless UN group. It was a spit in the face to those of us who voted for her. She’s since dedicated her life to anti-semitism.
aengus on July 19, 2007 at 9:05 PM
The anti-semitic All-Stars.
Stormy70 on July 19, 2007 at 9:12 PM
Personally, I vote for:
Captain Ignorance and the Korruption Kommandos.
(The “K”s make them seem more bad-ass while simultaniously referencing Kofi Annan.)
Not to mention the good vocal effect the Hard C’s and K’s give you when you say it with an “Announcer voice”. Go ahead, give it a try.
Jones Zemkophill on July 19, 2007 at 9:40 PM
Robert Smiegel of Saturday Night Live could make a cartoon out of these guys, along the lines of the Super X-presidents!
ToddonCapeCod on July 19, 2007 at 9:47 PM
An apt question!
They have a website that manages to be creepy and absurd at the same time.
I say it’s time to declare Jimmy Carter a man without a country.
BTW, in the interest of following the money, I noticed these names listed as their supporters.
Richard Branson
Bridgeway Foundation
Michael Chambers
Ray Chambers
Peter Gabriel
Pam Omidyar (Humanity United)
Amy Robbins
Shashi Ruia
Dick Tarlow
The United Nations Foundation
This list apparently does not include them all. Underneath the names, it says:
Anyone know anything about these people?
INC on July 19, 2007 at 9:58 PM
What are their Protocols?
And where’s Roger Water’s name in the “supporters”?
profitsbeard on July 19, 2007 at 11:20 PM
Just looked at their websatire. I mean website.
My only thought:
The Eskimos were right.
profitsbeard on July 19, 2007 at 11:26 PM
The one man needed to complete this circus is clearly Shimon Peres. He’d beg to join, and give legitimacy to all the groups’ threatening and condemnatory statements toward Israel. In fact, after the others unanimously call for Israel’s destruction, and the killing of all jews, Peres will praise the dialogue as positive and say it offers new opportunities for Israel to re-open the peace process,release all terrorists, return more land and provide arms and money to “the moderates.”
eagles5 on July 19, 2007 at 11:45 PM
Time to put them into a “home”.
xplodeit on July 19, 2007 at 11:46 PM
I did find this on Sir Richard Branson in an article from the International Herald Tribune: Richard Branson forms a band of ‘Elders’ with Mandela, Carter, Tutu and others:
How do you like that? Jimmy Carter is a man above ego and partisan politics?
The article goes on to say:
INC on July 19, 2007 at 11:55 PM
Pam Omidyar is married to Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. (boy, am I ever sorry I bought anything from them).
Shashi Ruia is in business with his brother:
Well, that’s all for tonight. It appears to be a group of the super-rich bankrolling this thing.
They make me think of Warwick the Kingmaker. Plots and power.
INC on July 20, 2007 at 12:13 AM
Does this mean that our very noble, and seemingly unfortunate, Secret Service (and our taxes) are going to be trotting the globe with Jimmeh in his absolute moral endeavors?
Should we start arranging care packages and candlelight vigils for them?
Numenorean on July 20, 2007 at 10:16 AM
I’ll bet Jacques Chirac is pissed!
He wasn’t invited.
BTW: You can give the Elders your thoughts at this location.
CrazyFool on July 20, 2007 at 10:26 AM
Or is it the Springfield Retirement Castle road show? Carter is Abe Simpson, Mandela is Hans Moleman, Kofi is the guy with the long beard, and Desmond Tutu makes a special guest appearance as Gladys Skinner.
Hmm…I wonder if these Anti-Zion Elders have any Protocols that they follow.
James on July 20, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Jimmy Carter’s “above ego”?
I thought he wasego.
NellE on July 20, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Oh, and speaking of supergroups, we could call this The Monsters of Politics Tour ‘07.
James on July 20, 2007 at 1:12 PM
We’re absolutely sure sure this isn’t some huge episode of Punk’d, right? Ashton Kutcher Punks the globe. It’s gotta be. That can’t be real.
PowWow on July 20, 2007 at 2:51 PM
Who is that between Carter and Robinson? It’s not Mia Farrow, is it?
Kim Hartveld on July 22, 2007 at 10:24 AM
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