Time to break out my Jinx icon

[sethrak]

Watching the local news, and they just did a short segment on the recent awarding of the Nobel Peace prize.

Now, certain members of my readership have, shall we say, views... on the subject of Al Gore, and on global warming in general. Some others have views in the diametrically opposite direction.

But regardless of your views on the former Veep, I found this nugget absolutely jawdropping.

Gore beat out, among 180 other nominees, Oprah, Rush Limbaugh, and a woman who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust.

Dear God, what are they smoking over in Oslo, Norway?!

Comments

[thoth-of-nd.livejournal.com]

I was rooting for the former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, myself. He brokered the Aceh peace deal, and IIRC is in Croatia right now...

[geoduck.livejournal.com]

The way I understand it, The Nobel Peace Prize is given out partially on the expectation that said recipient will continue to produce good works of peace in the future, and to call attention to a current issue somewhere in the world.

That being said, today's far-right-wing talking points seem to be "compare the Al Gore NPP to Yasser Arafat's." Funny that when farcical Nobel Peace Prize recipients are brought up, they never ever mention Henry Kissinger.

[davner.livejournal.com]

Right, and Jimmy Carter has done oh so much with his prize, sucking the dicks of third world psychopaths, blaming Israel for every suicide bomber that blows up a bus of school kids and labeling Darfur as everything under the sun but the genocide that it is.

Al Gore's win is not unexpected. After all, the Nobel Prize SHOULD go to people who declare all dissent with their opinion wrong, that the argument is closed and then refuse to debate actual... I don't know... FUCKING CLIMATOLOGISTS... about their work. I also find it ironic that he might have the NPP, but may lose the Oscar as the left-wing British judiciary has declared his movie a work of hyperbole and can't be shown to school children without the disclaimer that many of the facts used to support the work are just flat wrong. Funny, I didn't think there was a Nobel Prize for exageration and scare-mongering.

So before we toss out the "Well, a Republican won it in 1973 so it must be fair now," argument, let's try to be open to the idea that maybe the fucker doesn't deserve it as much as the hundreds of Buddhist monks who've been shot in the head in Burma trying to peacefully change their government for the better while the rest of world yawned, declared it "quite dreadful," and went back to bitching about four polar bears who died in an Arctic storm. Politics aside, the idea that someone can win ANY Nobel Prize while refusing to debate his work with the scientific or political community should illustrate exactly what the prize has become, a way for a select group of European academics to further a political agenda. Al Gore may not be Yasser Arafat, but he sure as fuck isn't Woodrow Wilson, Martin Luther King Jr. or Aung San Suu Kyi.