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Nobel academy member calls Bob Dylan's silence 'arrogant'
Associated Press ^ | Oct 22, 2016 2:50 PM EDT | Jan M. Olsen

Posted on 10/22/2016 7:26:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A member of the Swedish Academy that awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature to Bob Dylan says the American singer-songwriter’s silence since receiving the honor is “impolite and arrogant.”

Per Wastberg said Dylan’s lack of reaction to the honor the academy bestowed on him last week was predictable, but disrespectful nonetheless.

“One can say that it is impolite and arrogant. He is who he is,” Wastberg was quoted as saying in Saturday’s edition of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Humor; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: arrogant; bobdylan; denmark; nobelprize
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To: Olog-hai
All of the prizes awarded by this pack of fools have lost their luster after they granted the Peace prize to an evil community organizer who then proceeded to murder thousands in the course of the ill-conceived "Arab Spring".

Spring indeed!

God help us.

61 posted on 10/22/2016 11:24:37 PM PDT by Bobalu (Trump Is The Bitch Slap This Country Needs)
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To: bramps

Bramps, I think you’re referencing a flirt with Christianity a few decades back. (not that that would have made Bob Zimmerman-Dillon NOT Jewish anymore) but he’s a Jew through and through. Thus:

The Jooooooooos win the Nobel again....


62 posted on 10/22/2016 11:40:13 PM PDT by Phinneous
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To: Olog-hai
They'll stone you when you're trying to be so good
They'll stone you just like they said they would
They'll stone you when you're hearing Hillary's lies
They'll stone you when you win the Nobel Prize
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned!

(Here's a pretty good version - sounds like the Salvation Army Band...)     :-)
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - Eric Clapton & Band du Lac





63 posted on 10/22/2016 11:40:49 PM PDT by Heart-Rest (Reject all evil Demonic-rats & Repugnant-cons. Make America Great Again!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

johnny’s in the basement mixing up the medicine


64 posted on 10/23/2016 12:22:19 AM PDT by Pelham (Behold a pale horse, its rider's name is Hillary and Orcs follow her)
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To: gaijin

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a26889/dylan-buble/


65 posted on 10/23/2016 12:28:05 AM PDT by Pelham (Behold a pale horse, its rider's name is Hillary and Orcs follow her)
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To: Olog-hai

The Nobel Prize Committee for Peace already made itself an historical laughing stock by choosing Yasir Arafat and Barack Obama for “peace” prizes. Bobby, a Jewish boy from The Range, must be smart enough to know these arrogant clowns are trying to put him in with very bad company.

I hope that he never answers them and that doesn’t show up. That would be the most polite thing to do if he doesn’t want to speak truth to them.

If Bobby does speak or write, he should tell it like it is with regard to the absurdity of giving prizes to a mega mass murdering terrorist and a president who did nothing for peace and everything to advance jihadists globally. The Nobel power structure must have known ahead exactly that Jihad lovers and Jihad ancillaries were the ones to boost Obama meteorically from obscurity and installed into the U.S. presidency in support of Yasir Arafat’s degenerate evil. Bobby, don’t take the prize.


66 posted on 10/23/2016 1:55:30 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Olog-hai

LOL! It took a while but I actually developed a taste for much of his music - now I have a modicum of respect.


67 posted on 10/23/2016 4:15:24 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: aquila48

I know but I am trying.


68 posted on 10/23/2016 5:08:49 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Olog-hai

Nobel academy member calls Bob Dylan’s silence ‘arrogant’


This is called “projection”.


69 posted on 10/23/2016 5:31:40 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Mears

Why do you keep saying it is a different group? All of the Nobel awards are distributed by the Nobel Foundation. The ceremonies of each award may be announced at different times and locations, but it is the same group handing out the awards.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundation/


70 posted on 10/23/2016 5:49:40 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Phinneous
You don't ‘flirt’ with becoming a Christian. Once you have believed, you remain a Christian unless you renounce your faith in Christ.

If you have evidence of Dylan renouncing his faith in Christ, please present it.

And could you please explain your 'joooooos' comment. At face value, it comes across as an anti-Semitic slur.

71 posted on 10/23/2016 6:02:35 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: Olog-hai
It is not Dylan who is arrogant. It is the Nobel Academy. It takes no special talent to give away someone else's money. Over the years the Nobel Academy has amply demonstrated its lack of talent. Hooray for Dylan.

PS, I hate his so-called singing.

72 posted on 10/23/2016 6:06:48 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (always)
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To: Olog-hai

There was a time when being a private man was an admirable trait.


73 posted on 10/23/2016 6:08:01 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Kirkwood

“Why do you keep saying it is a different group? “


Oops!

Sorry,my error.

.


74 posted on 10/23/2016 6:36:53 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Olog-hai
It's not rude, it means nothing other than the cash.
75 posted on 10/23/2016 6:39:45 AM PDT by Vision (Best Radio Station Ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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To: bramps

The Jooooooooos comments were to thumb our (glorious) Jewish noses at those who accuse us of being too involved in science, finance, art, what have you.

Re his faith, decidedly Jewish. By the way, in Judaism, a Jew cannot renounce his or her Judaism. Dibs on his true soul forever, as it were.

http://www.aish.com/ci/a/Bob-Dylans-Jewish-Odyssey.html?mobile=yes


76 posted on 10/23/2016 8:32:33 AM PDT by Phinneous
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To: publius911

If we have learned anything in the last year, it is the arrogance of the “experts”.


77 posted on 10/23/2016 9:09:47 AM PDT by HARRY TUTTLE (Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. R. E. Lee)
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To: Olog-hai

Bob to Nobel Academy: “Just send the check.”


78 posted on 10/23/2016 9:52:43 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Olog-hai

Next time they should actually listen to his lyrics. Morons.


79 posted on 10/23/2016 11:14:06 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Pelham

omg thank you!

I’d heard that great Bob Dylan story in the form of a short synopsis, and you really helped me out...!

A hundred laughs..!!

^_^


80 posted on 10/23/2016 1:52:45 PM PDT by gaijin
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