Increasingly Irrelevant?

Does anyone else find this morning's Today Show interview with former President Jimmy Carter somewhat ironic?

In a nine minute segment, host Merideth Vieira spent seven and a half minutes talking about Jimmy Carter's weekend remarks, in which he stated that George Bush's presidency was the worst in history (context: when compared on the basis of foreign policy accomplishments vs. Richard Nixon's presidency.)

The press took his remarks out of context and then, for seven and a half minutes, tried to make a story about it.

I found the interview especially ironic when Vieira asked President Carter to respond to the Bush administration's characterization that he was becoming increasingly irrelevant. The question was posed against a backdrop of re-construction efforts led by Jimmy Carter's Habitat For Humanity, in New Orleans.

Only 90 seconds of the interview focused on today's announcement that Habitat For Humanity was completing the construction of their 1000th house, in a major effort to begin to restore New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina.

Carter also announced the beginning of a second building campaign to build another 1,000 houses.

It begs the question. Who's increasingly irrelevant?