Posted on 10/05/2007 6:40:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
Political Correctness: The front-runners for this year's Nobel Peace Prize are a couple of global warming alarmists. With dozens of wars raging, the committee couldn't find a single person laboring honorably for peace?
Once a symbol of distinction, this honor has plumbed shameful depths in recent years. A county fair blue ribbon has more significance. Since 1990, winners include terrorist Yasser Arafat, fraud Rigoberto Menchu, foreign-policy incompetents Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan, unreconstructed communist Mikhail Gorbachev and the useless Mohamed ElBaradei.
Each year, the Peace Prize committee has a chance to redeem itself, yet it never seems up to the task. It looks like 2007 will be no exception. Later this week, say reports, it will name as this year's co-winners Al Gore and Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a Canadian who has drawn attention to what she believes are climate change's effects on Arctic communities.
It will be interesting to see how those two will be linked to anything resembling the promotion of peace.
Neither can meet the committee's qualifications by being "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.
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I nominate the Pope.
Can I nominate John Bolton?
Rush isn’t going to win this year?
My two choices were going to be the Pope followed by John Bolton. Perhaps I fell asleep at my computer and am dreaming this.
You can try next year
Rush would be a lot better then Gore and the other idiot
I may be a little slow on the uptake but I realized, when Carter won, the Nobel Prizes are nothing but political.
After all he is seeking peace with South Korea
If Kim is too much of a stretch, they can always nominate Iamanutjob from Iran.
He's a man of peace, just ask Israel
“Rush isn’t going to win this year?”
The prize only goes to the far left and their friends.
“when Carter won, the Nobel Prizes are nothing but political.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to remember the Prize committee stating that they chose Carter as a display of how much they disliked Bush.
That goes way beyond political, that’s clinical BDS.
“Rush would be a lot better then Gore and the other idiot”
You can say that again! Was hoping this would get some coverage that I heard on the radio yesterday. Seems AL Gore’s movie is getting bad press in the UK and then CNN’ weatherman joined in talking about it!
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/dan-gainor/2007/10/05/cnn-feels-more-heat-global-warming-report
I don’t get your “just ask Israel”
That's grotesque flattery to both of those genocide enablers.
And my nomination goes to everyone who participated in the takeout of the Syrian WMD site last month. Hands down.
When it comes to global warming, all the Universitys that back Al Gore, state that global warming has been proven.....case closed. If this is true, cut off the $500 million that they are getting to study the idea of global warming. It’s no longer needed.
They didn't come right out and say it. But everyone except Jimma knows it's the only reason he finally got it, after decades of unsuccessful groveling and kissing ass for it.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Jimmy Carter, for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.
During his presidency (1977-1981), Carter's mediation was a vital contribution to the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, in itself a great enough achievement to qualify for the Nobel Peace Prize. At a time when the cold war between East and West was still predominant, he placed renewed emphasis on the place of human rights in international politics.
Through his Carter Center, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2002, Carter has since his presidency undertaken very extensive and persevering conflict resolution on several continents. He has shown outstanding commitment to human rights, and has served as an observer at countless elections all over the world. He has worked hard on many fronts to fight tropical diseases and to bring about growth and progress in developing countries. Carter has thus been active in several of the problem areas that have figured prominently in the over one hundred years of Peace Prize history.
In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power, Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international co-operation based on international law, respect for human rights, and economic development.
Actually, one of the committee members did say they gave it to Carter as a way of giving W a “kick in the leg.” Dunno to what extent he spoke for the rest of the committee, but given the slime who’ve been getting the “prize” lately, he probably did.
Maybe somebody should tell the Nobel committee that they are supposed to be awarding the "Peace" Prize. Not the Nobel "PC" Prize.
The last recipient who was worth a darn was Mother Theresa. Don’t know how on earth she ever got it, considering the more recent winners.
So...when will they posthumously nominate Stalin?
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