
Truth be told, I was hoping "Fox News Sunday" would totally ignore Friday's announcement that the Global Warmingist-in-Chief won the Nobel Peace Prize.
After all, mainstream news outlets regularly boycott events they deem un-newsworthy, like people receiving the Medal of Honor, for example.
As such, in the grand scheme of things, what really was the significance of a charlatan winning an award -- one that had previously been given to that marvelous humanitarian Yasser Arafat, no less! -- exactly one day after a real American hero was posthumously bestowed one of the finest honors in our land to a deafening media silence?
Despite my skepticism, as the panel discussion began Sunday, and Bill Kristol enunciated likely the exact sentiments shared by people still capable of thinking for themselves, I realized just how fortuitous it was for this to be the first topic on the docket (video available here):
Friday, I felt a warm glow thinking that this man got the Nobel Peace Prize for bloviating about global warming. I mean, it's a prize given by bloviators to a bloviator for nothing. What did he - he was Vice President of the United States for eight years. I missed the Clinton administration's bold initiatives on global warming and carbon caps. Did they enforce the Kyoto Treaty? I don't think so. You know, so he gets the Nobel Peace Prize for talking, when brave people in Burma, and in Iraq, and journalists in Russia are being killed by dictators. And the Nobel committed of course has no interest in any of them.
Exactly. Next, after NPR's Mara Liasson said her piece, Charles Krauthammer put an exclamation point on Kristol's view:
Look, let's remember what the Prize is about. Al Gore now joins the ranks of Yasser Arafat, the father of modern terrorism, Le Doc Tho, who signed a treaty on behalf of a government that two years later invaded and extinguished the country it signed that treaty with, and the most disgraceful ex-president of the United States Jimmy Carter, who, forget about Iraq -- I'll remind you in the Gulf War, actively lobbied other countries to oppose his country in helping it in going to war. So, look, this is a treaty that is, has nothing to do with peace, it's about politics. It's the...I'm sorry, the award.
The Nobel Peace Prize is about politics. It's the Kentucky Derby of the world left, and it gives it to people whose politics are either anti-American or anti-Bush, and that's why he won it.
Exactly. Next, after NPR's Juan Williams predictably gushed over the Nobel announcement like a teeny-bopper around a rock star, Kristol offered another salient point:
I think there's something about this wonderfully moving narrative about Al Gore that Juan likes to compare to Mother Teresa. I haven't noticed Al Gore taking a vow of poverty recently. You know, there's something sick really about taking the whole thing seriously. The day before the Nobel Peace Prize was announced, President Bush signed off on the third Medal, Congressional Medal of Honor in the current global war on terror. The first for anyone who served in Afghanistan, for Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy.
This got about one-one thousandth the coverage of the Nobel Peace Prize which as Charles says is an entirely political gesture. There are fewer Congressional Medals of Honor awarded than Nobel Peace Prizes. The New York Times, this is, Mike Murphy, the 29-year-old who died in 2005, from Long Island. The New York Times, the local newspaper for this genuine American hero, hasn't mentioned it. Huge stories, Al Gore, what a narrative, what sacrifices he's made to produce this movie and to become a multi-zillionaire as he makes himself so famous touting the cause of global warming.
Michael Murphy gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, and the New York Times, our leading newspaper and the local newspaper in this case, can't notice it. There's something sick about, about our culture when we don't acknowledge genuine heroes, and, as I say, give a prize, make such a big deal about some guy who's made a movie.
In fact, according to LexisNexis, outside of New York's local papers such as Newsday, the Daily News, and the New York Post, no major daily bothered reporting Lt. Murphy receiving the Medal of Honor.
And, other than Fox News, which did six reports about Murphy, not one television news organization mentioned it. Not one.
By contrast, since Friday morning, there have been 1,378 reports about Al Gore, including fourteen by the New York Times, 29 by CNN, fourteen by CBS, and eight by the Washington Post.
It's good to know these organizations have their priorities right, wouldn't you agree?
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
















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All right, after a long
October 14, 2007 - 21:54 ET by Chicago RepublicanAll right, after a long silence, I have to weigh in here. This award is a complete joke and it annoy's the hell out of me that people actually care about it. When a fascist power whore (arafat), a bumbling enabler of fascism & communism (Carter) and a phoney reforming, birthmarked overlord of the gulags (gorby) win an award meant "for the betterment of mankind" (paraphrase), it loses all meaning to thinking people.
And I still think Liberty or Death is a booger eating kook.
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Thank you FSU
October 14, 2007 - 22:11 ET by BlondeBoo yah! Glad to see you back. Just kidding about the rest of it tho....glad to see you back here.
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salute to the CMH
October 15, 2007 - 10:54 ET by TruthMongersalute to the CMH winners!
I still refuse to trash Al and the Nobel committee - but it is not easy let me teel you
this award used to be a huge asset to mankind
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Either Way
October 15, 2007 - 10:57 ET by JimboI beleive those who have received it prefer to call it "awarded" as opposed to "won".
Either way, it is still a major award that is held in the highest regard. If the MSM chooses not to report it becasue it will undermine their political position, then they can go to hell.
Jimbo says - "There is a fine line between freedom of speech and treason"
I hear you Jimbo. The
October 16, 2007 - 13:48 ET by Chicago RepublicanI hear you Jimbo. The way the Left breathlessly campaigns for the NPP, it might as well be a contest to "win".
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October 15, 2007 - 00:31 ET by UnsaneYeah, you come back AFTER I visit Chicago. Not BEFORE.
:-)
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Sorry, Unsane. Liberty or
October 16, 2007 - 13:59 ET by Chicago RepublicanSorry, Unsane. Liberty or Death and Though Police told me you were working in concert with the Bush Administration to apprehend me and send me to Gitmo to be tortured with Air Conditioning and Barney the Purple Dinosaur music, all because I was in the process of exposing their insider plots on the forum pages. I was avoiding you.
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Soros/OSI
October 15, 2007 - 07:39 ET by NortoBeliever
Is the reference to Soros' Open Society tongue in cheek, I hope ?
Norto, Open Society is
October 16, 2007 - 13:54 ET by Chicago RepublicanNorto,
Open Society is a reference to Sharansky's work in the Case for Democracy. He talks of "Open Society" - as in does a person have the freedom to openly criticize the government without fear of retribution? If not, he lives in a "fear society", the opposite of a free or "open socieity". If the left is really concerned about the plight of the "children around the world", then they should support the spread of capitalism and its precursor, open society around the world. No, its easier for them to accost me on the sidewalk outside my office and ask me for 30 cents a day's worth of compassion, all while bemoaning the Bush Doctrine. Its always irked me.
Don't worry, its not a Soros reference.
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Mika?
October 14, 2007 - 22:09 ET by BacchusNewsbusters (comment section) to Mika: What say ye? Does Micheal Murphy deserve a mention on your newscast, um, ahead of algore?
Anxiously awaiting your professional decision,
NB(cs)
The libs official response:
October 15, 2007 - 12:37 ET by TruthMongernaah - soldiers "do torture!"
and furthermore the MSM doesn't highlight awards that are "purely political" - unlike the Burka Chicks grammy or Al Gore's oscar...
CMH is a complete joke - at least while Bush is in office - means nothing right now...
Very sorry to Micheal Murphy, but HERE'S TO A GREAT ANTI-AMERICAN LIKE MICHEAL MOORE INSTEAD!!! YEE-HAW!!!
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TM, I hope your statement
October 15, 2007 - 23:20 ET by MikeBTM, I hope your statement that "CMH is a complete joke - at lest while Bush is in office - means nothing right now..." was typed with the heaviest of sarcasm. Clinton's awarding of the Medal was the worst sacrilege.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Fortuitous Not
October 14, 2007 - 22:13 ET by Lame CherryI disagree this coverage being fortuitous as it is the tip of the iceberg of the vampire boy sucking the life blood out of western economies for an international coup where like minded leftists will join world communists for a united world order.
This has nothing to do with the earth warming. It has the same parody which Rush Limbaugh pointed out a decade ago in leftists had run out of tax money and all that was left was raiding retirement accounts. Communism can not defeat capitalism. Cartel members like the Rotshchilds, Rockefellers, Warburgs can not control free trading peoples, because independent people look to God, themselves and guns to defend themselves. The only way one overthrows a culture like America is to make it addicted to government handouts the citizen is paying for........and the Catch 22 is it costs the citizen twice for the service making them more enslaved upon the very cartels who readily gain complete control and turn Republics into shadow communist fronts.
The end result as Robert Mugabe of Rhodesia learned long ago was this, "Mugabe was is no communist, but it wasn't until the Soviets explained that by establishing a communist system HE NEVER HAD TO LEAVE POWER."
This is what the cartels will to implement instead of having these bogus elections installing a new dupe to drag a free state into slavery.
It is just so much easier to have Putin in control perpetually than getting George Bush and having to destroy Iraq to get Bush hemmed in and then show him a little DVD of him in Mexico in a lewd act of crime when he was a college kid blackmailing him.....all so Mexicans can be utilized like Russian and Chinese illegals to destroy the unity of a nation.
In Europe, this cartel imported Muslims which are raising hell threatening these western states from within.
Al Gore is the focal point in this now in Big Brother as dolts like Steven Webber looks at the GOP as Big Brother.
What Mr. Krauthammer said was monumental and echoes in showing how disgraceful the Nobel has become. It is a joke and the more often that Al Gore is shown to be in company with a terrorists pedophile in Arafat and a traitor in Jimmy Carter (Carter was dealing with the Soviets promising them things if they would implement policy which would keep Ronald Reagan from being elected.).
The more Gore is made a joke the more the policies these people are trying to implement become a joke. Certainly this crowd wants pedophilia legalized, but even in the Arnold sodomy of California scores of Americans are simply refusing to go along.
The one thing the cartels have not figured out is the fact their elite group can control militaries made of monkey men or androids, but they are never enough to maintain the circus as it will always take too many resources (the Nazi learned this as much as Stalin learned this........when you butcher huge numbers of "problem" people you end up ruining your empire.)
Al Gore is heading to head a state ship which will have to solve the problems of millions if not billions of problem people who will be honed by war, famine, want and survival. While Gore has been pumping global warming real people have been pumping life.
Look to the example of the la homme buisson of Quebec to the American ranger. Those honed always prevail. Gore will bring the house down with his masters, but it will be the enfant chretien who will win out. They always do as God's choice always prevails.
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There's the rub
October 14, 2007 - 23:21 ET by Scout FinchThe only way one overthrows a culture like America is to make it addicted to government handouts the citizen is paying for.......
It's coming to a your neighborhood soon, and it's called a "single-payer system" or "National Health Care" or any other moniker the Dems want to pin on it to NOT call it "socialized medicine". But be certain that Americans will get addicted to it. And it will be our downfall.
Lame, I am speechless.
October 14, 2007 - 22:44 ET by JeffCLame, I am speechless. You've thought a lot about something. I'm just not sure what that something is.
JeffC
Does anyone really care about the truth any more?
I wholeheartedly agree, Mr.
October 14, 2007 - 22:55 ET by motherbeltI wholeheartedly agree, Mr. Sheppard! The Nobel Peace Prize was supposed to go to someone who worked to reduce arms in the world and increase cooperation among nations. Nevermind the other losers who got the award for no reason, what, pray tell, has Mr. Gore done along those lines? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Zip.
The Peace Prize has now firmly enshrined itself as a fake bouquet given to the biggest proponent of the latest political fad.
Or as Shakespeare said about another subject: it is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
In other words........
October 14, 2007 - 23:23 ET by Scout FinchIt has the same value as an Oscar or an Emmy.
arms reduction
October 15, 2007 - 07:42 ET by NortoBeliever
Yes, but if it had been given in "science" where it belonged, that would have been even a bigger mistake.
Some one needs to go back and map out how many times the msm has touted a warming or cooling trend.
Norto, he could have won it
October 15, 2007 - 23:11 ET by MikeBNorto, he could have won it for Literature. Much of literature is fiction, as is Algore's insistence on the anthropogenic nature of global warming. So, Literature would have been the appropriate category for Gore's Nobel nomination.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Mike, Nobody - except for
October 15, 2007 - 23:22 ET by Trix RabbitMike,
Nobody - except for the MSM - would take Gore-on's Nobel Lit prize seriously, because they always award it to obscure writers nobody has ever heard of for political reasons. This year it's a French writer, next year it will be probably be an Asian, and so on.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell
Rabbit, I don't take his
October 15, 2007 - 23:41 ET by MikeBRabbit, I don't take his peace prize seriously. Literature is the appropriate category for Gore's propaganda piece.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Mike, Agreed. I know you
October 16, 2007 - 00:01 ET by Trix RabbitMike,
Agreed. I know you wouldn't take it seriously. But had he indeed won the prize for literature, the MSM would have given it the same undeserved pomp and fanfare that his schlockumentary had received.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell
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October 14, 2007 - 22:57 ET by dahliatraversYou know, so he gets the Nobel Peace Prize for talking, when brave people in Burma, and in Iraq, and journalists in Russia are being killed by dictators.
Great point. Even if AGW were real, enlightening mankind about it would not be as high on the "peace making" list as things that other people around the world have been doing. What's been going on in China, for example? Never mind, I don't want to know. But the Nobel Committee should know.
Not including those
October 14, 2007 - 23:20 ET by drillanwrNot including those gathered here, but do you know how damn hard and rare it is to be awarded the Medal of Honor ?!?!! The extremely high accomplishment in battle the recipient must meet? Many times the MOH is given posthumously, as in Lt. Murphy's case. That, in itself, says quite a lot about this award!
Those who have read the book or seen the HBO mini-series "Band Of Brothers" know it's the story of The 506th Easy Company Paratroopers during WWII ...
To this day there are those survivors of Easy Co., and two and three generations since that are practically pleading for Maj. Richard Winters to be given the Medal of Honor for what he did on D-Day. The man, G-d bless him, is yet with us, but as with all our beloved WWII Veterans is seeing the sands of his hour glass trickling away. And we would much rather see Maj. Winters wearing the deserved MOH after the President places it around his neck, than hear about his family accepting it neatly tucked inside a box in his honor.
The fact that Lt. Murphy's MOH is being practically ignored is quite possibly a mortal sin this nation can never do just penance for ...
especially given how much
October 15, 2007 - 12:42 ET by TruthMongerespecially given how much the MSM loves dead soldiers - they could easily smear Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Haliburton, etc with this story - maybe drag Pat Tillman into it - all the "great folks that are dying needlessly, etc..."
that's about the best coverage you could expect on this, i think...
our beloved "objective and impartial" MSM - they refuse to wear flag pins, ya know - wowee...
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Smuggness
October 14, 2007 - 23:20 ET by third eyeSmuggness, noun, an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction
"Upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, Al Gore could not hide his smugness, which was painfully obvious to everyone."
He should be proud - he got
October 15, 2007 - 12:45 ET by TruthMongerHe should be proud - he got everyone who already adores him to give him an award - it's a huge accomplishment
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Medal of Honor
October 14, 2007 - 23:24 ET by hoystoryNoel, you'll want to watch how you word your comments about the Medal of Honor. It is not won. It is awarded. It is earned. It's not kewpie doll that is "won." Oh, and it's just the "Medal of Honor," not the Congressional Medal of Honor. Do you think this Congress would award that to anyone?
HS
October 15, 2007 - 00:02 ET by Noel SheppardHS,
Noted and amended. Bear in mind that Kristol referred to it as "Congressional." ns
Medal of Honor vs. Nobel
October 15, 2007 - 00:35 ET by UnsaneNoel - How about this fact:
As far as I know, 100% of the Nobel Prize winners receive it while living.
About 70% of Medal of Honor recipients receive it posthumously.
(I bring this up because I suspect that not too many know that fact about the Medal of Honor...)
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Medal of Honor
October 15, 2007 - 01:13 ET by AjtlawyerYou're correct, it is the "Medal of Honor" not "Congressional Medal of Honor". It is awarded in the name of the Congress but Congress has nothing to do with bestowing it---it is reviewed by an increasing hierarchy of officers to determine if the actions merit the recognition. Congress sometimes gets involved by extending the statute of limitations for such an award to be considered in specific cases---but the Congress cannot order the Medal be presented to anyone. And you're also correct, you do not "win" the Medal of Honor. Medal of Honor holders call themselves recipients, not winners of the Medal. The majority of Medals of Honor are awarded posthumously; there are probably about 150 or fewer living recipients and it has been awarded only 5 times for actions after Vietnam, all of those awards posthumous.
It is truly disgraceful that the NY Times and most of the MSM refused to mention Lt. Murphy being awarded the MOH. I had read about it in my local paper only because a small AP article about it was stuck in the middle of the paper.
Now had Lt. Murphy been accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan, we would've had 100 articles about him by now.
"Medal of Honor holders
October 15, 2007 - 02:24 ET by nofateYou know, Ajtlawyer, after watching numerous specials where they have talked to living Medal of Honor winners, I can't recall a single one that didn't at some point in the interview, say something like "I didn't do anything special." "I was just doing my job." "I had to do it to help my friends." And if they don't say so, they usually imply that they had a lot of help from brave guys who didn't get any awards. I went to a local historical society dinner a few months back, and in the room, were a group of old men telling how they had spent their time in WWII. Not one of them felt he had done anything special. A couple of them had been bomber pilots that had been shot down and spent time in prison camps. It was just their job. It is truly humbling knowing there are people in the world like them.
Yet, the big stories in the media continue to be about reprobates like Algore. A "peace" prize??? We are truly living in bizarro world.
"The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
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i still always call it the
October 15, 2007 - 12:47 ET by TruthMongeri still always call it the CMH - habit
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I am so sick of hearing
October 15, 2007 - 01:58 ET by nofateI am so sick of hearing about Algore. You can't get away from it, it even came up during one of the football games I was watching! So, after reading Noel's blog, I went looking for something inspiring, and found more that I could possibly put up here.
Here are a few more medal of honor recipients that I've not heard of. It is truly a shame that people like Terrell Owens , Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears and other useless excuses for humanity garner the news headlines, when people like those in our military are making major improvements in the lives of people in Iraq and Afghanistan. As I went searching, I found some tributes and some real footage that seemed appropriate to the mood I'm in right now.
Respect
Corporal Jason Dunham
Jason Dunham - Medal of Honor Recipient
Medal of Honor (Paul Ray Smith)
Faces of Courage: Paul Ray Smith
Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Raphael Peralta
An American Hero - My Husband
Military Wives Song; ; if this don't make you tear up, you don't have a heart.
U.S. Military
US Military/Marines Tribute with a lot of (combat) footage
Hardcore Marines (Improved Version)
US MARINES in Iraq Real Footage Warning Graphic. Note: Blackhawk Down was graphic. Pulp Fiction was graphic. This was not close.
Iraq Marines Kicking Butt
Battle on Haifa Street, Baghdad, Iraq
Medal of Honor Bruce Crandall. This guy was "snake" in the movie "We Were soldiers".
"The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
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Bore - I mean Gore Award
October 15, 2007 - 05:26 ET by philhoeyMuch ado about nothing.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius
There's another fraud that
October 15, 2007 - 07:33 ET by danboThere's another fraud that got the peace prize. Rigoberta Menchu.
In the article is this telling paragraph.
And from
Has the peace prize become the shame prize?
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Does anyone else find it
October 15, 2007 - 09:18 ET by clarkfkDoes anyone else find it moronic that someone who spreads panic and unrest would win a "peace" prize?
Yes, it is a tad
October 15, 2007 - 09:40 ET by Jack BauerYes, it is a tad ironic.
Especially if you consider that Gore and his acolytes want to cripple the capitalist fuelled economic growth which has created the most prosperous, well-fed, healthy mass population in the history of the world.
This forced socialism would cause huge unemployment, reduce the standard of living we expect, and create socialtal unrest. In other words... NO PEACE.
Environmentalism was much
October 15, 2007 - 12:52 ET by TruthMongerEnvironmentalism was much more peaceful before Gore's AGW campaign...
Before that it was only Greenpeace boats attacking whaling ships or the ELF folks burning down housing developments
I am truly suprised they haven't won the peace prize yet
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We shouldn't be so hard on
October 15, 2007 - 09:35 ET by Hero SquadWe shouldn't be so hard on Al. After all, he needs the $1 mil Nobel prize money to pay for the carbon credits he uses to support his guilt-free jet setting lifestyle.
*****
"I heart famous people."
LOL
October 15, 2007 - 21:30 ET by clarkfkLOL amen!
Just remember
October 15, 2007 - 23:06 ET by Cape Conservativeit's HIS carbon-offset company he's paying those millions into - you know, out of the left pocket and into the right pocket!
Who they passed over. A real hero.
October 15, 2007 - 10:07 ET by danboWho they passed over to give Gore this prize. (Not just Rush)
“She is one of the last heroes from the generation of our parents and our grandparents, who when confronted by the unparalleled evil of twentieth century totalitarianism, revealed great bravery, simple conviction, and the power of human will and intention,”
"In 1943 she was arrested by the Gestapo, tortured and sentenced to death. During the tortures she didn’t give away any information about the children or the individuals involved in the Council to Aid the Jews."
More
The peace price is truly meaningless.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
SHACK!!!!!! If Gore was a
October 15, 2007 - 10:57 ET by BDSHACK!!!!!!
If Gore was a man of honor he would personally pay for her to travel to Oslo (On his private jet) to be given the Nobel Prize instead of his sorry behind.....
I've checked several sites
October 15, 2007 - 11:21 ET by danboI've checked several sites on this woman. Irena Sendleris truely an amazing woman. She saved 2500 jewish children at a time when to save one was punishable by death. The world is a better place because of people like her.
http://www.irenasendler.org/
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Sendler.htm
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Looks like Al Gore was
October 15, 2007 - 11:43 ET by drillanwrLooks like Al Gore was finally able to steal an election ...
Oooooh, SHACK!!!
October 15, 2007 - 13:29 ET by BDOooooh, SHACK!!!
Not due a Peace Prize
October 15, 2007 - 18:12 ET by blueridgerDespite the good she did, she does not qualify for the Nobel Peace
Prize. She did nothing to promote peace - she just quietly saved a
small portion of humanity.
Instead, she is a true hero and may deserve the Newbusters Hero Prize. Why not
establish a fund to recognize heroes where ever they appear and not rely
on silly "global" prize comities to offer their opinions and decrees?
I would concur with this
October 15, 2007 - 18:50 ET by BDI would concur with this assessment with one caveat. None of the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize in memory has done ANYTHING to establish peace. Carter, Lee Duc Thou, Arafat, etc.
Therefore, since it is simply meaningless award, it can be presented to anyone, at anytime, for any reason.
If there was ever any doubt
October 15, 2007 - 12:39 ET by motherbeltIf there was ever any doubt that the Nobel Peace Prize has completely and utterly betrayed its origins and purpose for cheap political theater, this is it.
Every member of that committe who chose Gore over this woman (and probably a couple of others more worthy than him) should be ashamed.
They have sign the death warrant of their own relevance.
Maybe Bill Kristol will now
October 15, 2007 - 12:01 ET by dscottMaybe Bill Kristol will now write a column on Lt. Murphy for the NYT to at least get them to actually have something news worthy. He can title it, People who really matter!
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity
Charles Krauthammer put an
October 15, 2007 - 13:19 ET byCharles Krauthammer put an exclamation point on Kristol's view:
Maturity...
October 15, 2007 - 17:27 ET by m4ster chiefOne sign of the maturing process is to be able to recognize and embrace truth when it is right in front of your face. Failure to do so is willful blindness and continued ignorance.
Concur, it provides
October 15, 2007 - 18:51 ET by BDConcur, it provides Krauthammer more credibility.
You show all the grasp of
October 15, 2007 - 23:40 ET by marvlYou show all the grasp of this situation that I would expect of a 12 year old. Thirty years ago there was no historical perspective by which to judge Carter. Only a fool would stick blindly to his beliefs in the face of mounting evidence that they are wrong.
As it is, Krauthammer is one of the sharpest and most insightful political minds out there today. It's a real shame he is not president.
Noel, I noticed you referred
October 15, 2007 - 23:39 ET by marvlNoel, I noticed you referred to Navy "seal" Lt. Michael Murphy. That should be rendered as "SEAL" and is an acronym for "SEa Air and Land." Just a minor nit-pick.