The Nobel Fraud Prize

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | October 14, 2007 | Colin McNickle

[Lorianne]

The value of the Nobel Peace Prize yet again has been affirmed: It's worth nothing. So, too, has the integrity of the Norwegian Nobel Committee: It has none.

For his "work" on global warming, former Vice President Al Gore on Friday was named the 2007 co-winner of the now thoroughly discredited prize along with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It might as well have been the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (bad fiction at that, filled with historical inaccuracies) or the Wurlitzer Prize for Organic Circular Illogic given the dung both have been peddling as seasoned cordwood.

The factual relativists in Oslo who bestowed Mr. Gore with the Nobel Peace Prize are the same elitists -- internationalist purveyors of global moronism -- that inexplicably recognized the passionately anti-Israel Jimmy Carter in 2002, the criminal-enterprise-overseeing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2001, the common terrorist Yasser Arafat in 1994 and the extremist wackos at Amnesty International in 1977.

[Tim Slagle]

In honor of America's newest Nobel Prize Recipient:

A Tribute to Gore

Tooting my own horn, but I think It's relevant.

[John Semmens]

This was the second Nobel Peace prize awarded to a leading Democratic critic during Bush’s administration. The 2002 prize went to former President Jimmy Carter for his “masterful handling of the Iranian hostage crisis during his presidency.” In November of 1979, the new Iranian government under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini invaded the U.S. embassy and took over 60 Americans hostage for over 400 days. The Nobel committee commended Carter for “his patience under duress that enabled the crisis to be brought to a peaceful conclusion in January of 1981.”

In related news, former president Carter said that if he had it to do over, he wouldn’t have changed a single thing he did as president, citing his Nobel Prize as proof that he couldn’t possibly have done a better job.

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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm

[vamoose]

The Nobel Peace Prize people made a mistake. They shouldn't give a prize for merely raising awareness about global warming, the should award the prize for actually doing something about it. A better choice would have been Mount Pinatubo. While Algore was spewing fear, Mount Pinatubo spewed enough ash and gases in 1991 to cool global temperature by 0.5C. If that's not enough - and I think it is - the committee should have realized that Pinatubo's eruption also wiped out hundreds of thousands of forested acres, thus saving that land from man's deliberate and foolish exploitation. Man will now be forced to develop a realistic alternatives to agricultural and forest products. Finally, the NPP committee's snub of Pinatubo may come back to haunt them when they need to make tactical use of such rapid cooling in the future. Pinatubo has many volcanic friends that take the committee's award to Algore as an insult. Is it really wise to piss off mother nature?

[SuziQ]

Wurlitzer Prize for Organic Circular Illogic

Oh, I like that one!!

I guess the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize is going to have to come with an asterisk, kind of like Barry Bonds' home run record. ;o)

[GOP Poet]

Love it. I laughed my ass off. Especially the stuff about the scientists. Hilarious.

What a talented crew we have here! :-)

[raisetheroof]

They shouldn't give a prize for merely raising awareness about global warming, the should award the prize for actually doing something about it.

Although I'm not sure anything can be done about global warming, I see your point.

Nobel winners like Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa didn't just "raise awareness" about poverty. They spent their lives alleviating the suffering of the desperately poor.

By contrast, Al Gore has a lifestyle that is far more lavish than that of the average person, and uses a considerable amount of energy to maintain it, while he preaches against the "sins" of living too large the need for the rest of us to cut back.

What a travesty.

[yldstrk]

The award to Jimmah Carter is a complete hoot. I can still remember reading about the helicopters in the sand...........

[pankot]

This proves the Nobel isn’t so noble and not worth a glass of warm piss.

[uglybiker]

At least it comes with a million bucks.

Now Algore can pay that big electrical bill for running the AC in that gazillion square foot house (that none of the rest of us are supposed to have).

[Kay]

I love it!

[americanophile]

"A better choice would have been Mount Pinatubo."

LOL! hahaha...

[Califreak]

2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
2004 - Wangari Maathai
2003 - Shirin Ebadi
2002 - Jimmy Carter
2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
2000 - Kim Dae-jung
1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières
1998 - John Hume, David Trimble
1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama
1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984 - Desmond Tutu
1983 - Lech Walesa
1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979 - Mother Teresa
1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
1977 - Amnesty International
1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
1975 - Andrei Sakharov
1974 - Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
1973 - Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
1972 - The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund
1971 - Willy Brandt
1970 - Norman Borlaug
1969 - International Labour Organization
1968 - René Cassin
1967 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1966 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1965 - United Nations Children’s Fund
1964 - Martin Luther King
1963 - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
1962 - Linus Pauling
1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld
1960 - Albert Lutuli
1959 - Philip Noel-Baker
1958 - Georges Pire
1957 - Lester Bowles Pearson
1956 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1955 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1954 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1953 - George C. Marshall
1952 - Albert Schweitzer
1951 - Léon Jouhaux
1950 - Ralph Bunche
1949 - Lord Boyd Orr
1948 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1947 - Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
1946 - Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott
1945 - Cordell Hull
1944 - International Committee of the Red Cross
1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1938 - Nansen International Office for Refugees
1937 - Robert Cecil
1936 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935 - Carl von Ossietzky
1934 - Arthur Henderson
1933 - Sir Norman Angell
1932 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1931 - Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
1930 - Nathan Söderblom
1929 - Frank B. Kellogg
1928 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1927 - Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
1926 - Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
1925 - Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes
1924 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1923 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1922 - Fridtjof Nansen
1921 - Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
1920 - Léon Bourgeois
1919 - Woodrow Wilson
1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1917 - International Committee of the Red Cross
1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1915 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1913 - Henri La Fontaine
1912 - Elihu Root
1911 - Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
1910 - Permanent International Peace Bureau
1909 - Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d’Estournelles de Constant
1908 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
1907 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
1906 - Theodore Roosevelt
1905 - Bertha von Suttner
1904 - Institute of International Law
1903 - Randal Cremer
1902 - Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat
1901 - Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy

[LibertyGrrrl]

Tooooooooo funny! My husband was laughing, too.

[americanophile]

Given some of the recent winners of this distinguished award, I'm not sure I would want it:

[Bookie1066]

Going over the list from 1970 I see very few deserving winners

1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama (A man doing God’s work in trying to free a nation)
1983 - Lech Walesa (Helped put the first nail in the coffin of the Evil Empire)
1979 - Mother Teresa (Should have stopped giving out the award. They’ll never find anyone more deserving.)
1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin (Say what you want the peace they made has held.)
1975 - Andrei Sakharov (Told the truth about the Evil Empire and paid the price.)

[Califreak]

“Going over the list from 1970 I see very few deserving winners”

My point exactly.

[Red Dog #1]

From TDR to Al Gore, they truly have jumped the shark.

[Red Dog #1]

Someone needs to tell Jimmy he got fired. He not smart enough to figure it out himself.

[Erik Latranyi]

Well done, Tim!

I love your work. I always laugh when they play a clip of you on Sirius Blue Collar Comedy Channel!