I'VE BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!!!
Posted by Dylan - March 26, 2005 - 11:39 PM MT
Holyshitholyshitholyshit!
One of my readers wrote in today to inform me that he has nominated me, Dylan Marchetti, for the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm so stunned, I don't know what to say. It's been a dream of mine for at least a year or so now, and the fact that it happened before I've actually done anything makes it even more shocking. While I'm sure I'll lose to Bono or someone, from now until the day I die people will have to refer to me as "Nobel Prize nominee Dylan Marchetti".
Particularly if their names are Scarborough, Hannity or Colmes...
Fox News host Sean Hannity and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough both promoted Dr. William Hammesfahr's false claim that he is a Nobel Prize nominee.
Hammesfahr, a Florida neurologist disciplined in 2003 by the Florida Board of Medicine who claims he can help Terri Schiavo, testified during an October 2002 court hearing on the Schiavo case that his claim to be a Nobel nominee is based on a letter written by Rep. Mike Bilirakis (R-FL) recommending him for the prize. But Bilirakis is not qualified to make a valid nomination under the Nobel rules.
According to the process posted on the Nobel Prize website, the Nobel Assembly sends out invitations to approximately 3,000 people who are allowed to propose candidates. The 3,000 are "mainly members of the Nobel Assembly, previous prize winners, and a selection of professors at universities around the world."
But the fact that Bilirakis is not qualified to nominate Nobel Prize winners did not stop Scarborough or Hannity from referring to Hammesfahr as a Nobel Prize nominee. Hannity did so a total of eight times during a single hour-long program; Scarborough made the reference four times.
OK, so they got called on it. But did it stop them?
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum identified Dr. William Hammesfahr, a Florida neurologist who claims he can help Terri Schiavo, as a "Nobel Prize-nominated neurologist," despite the fact that Hammesfahr was never actually nominated for a Nobel Prize.
Hammesfahr, who was disciplined in 2003 by the Florida Board of Medicine, testified during an October 2002 court hearing on the Schiavo case that his claim to be a Nobel nominee is based on a letter written to the "Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine" by Rep. Mike Bilirakis (R-FL) recommending Hammesfahr for a "Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine." But that award does not exist (the Nobel Assembly awards separate prizes in peace and medicine), and assuming Bilirakis intended to nominate Hammesfahr for the prize for medicine, as Hammesfahr claims, the nomination is meaningless because Bilirakis is not qualified to nominate anyone for that award.
So the hell with it. If it's good enough for Fox News, then it's good enough for me. From now on, it's Nobel Prize Nominee Dylan.
Sorry Howlin, it was thrown out of court.
Hammesfahr, who was disciplined in 2003 by the Florida Board of Medicine
Nope.
Funny. He's probably more deserving of a nomination than the quack.
You were right the other day, I didn't know what I was talking about. I don't spend very much time on the Terri threads and had you wrongly identified as one of the over-zealous save-Terri types. I do hope she's at rest now.
I apologize.