Chomsky 2008?

Well said, Shannon. The Nobel Committee accumulated a lot of political capital and legitimacy by honoring individuals whose integrity and moral defiance of tyranny were of heroic dimensions. Lately, they’ve been spending it on tyranny’s sycophants in order to take political shots at the West. Gore, for his multitudinous flaws and usefulness as an anti-Bush symbol, was a decided improvement. Hell, it could easily have been Chomsky going to Stockholm instead.

Besides, there were lots of stories from Gore 2000 campaign contributors and volunteers about how he never thanked them for busting their butts for him after the loss. The ingrate just walked away and left them to clean up — real classy. Why reopen that history?

As for being bitter, not at all. As Zen points out, Gore is a very respectable choice given the caliber of the Nobel committee and the kinds of people they usually pick.

As Laura Ingraham pointed out, all anyone needs to know to appreciate the significance of the Nobel Peace Prize is that neither Ronald Reagan nor Margaret Thatcher ever won it.

unless you also believe the Nobel grou in n the scam.

Not exactly, but the Norwegian parliament has definitely fallen prey to the postmodernist urge to use the power and prestige they hold due prize in order to advance their own political views at the expense of the long term interest of the institution they serve.Its been over 30 years since someone from the Western Right won the prize especially for doing something the Left disapproved off.

People win the prize for agreeing with or accomplishing the goal of Leftist. Henry Kissinger won the “Peace” prize for negotiating a “peace” settlement in Indochina that led directly to a massive war, invasion, political mass killings, 15+ years of continual warfare and the largest proportional democide in human history. The Left of the day hated Kissinger like few others but they wanted a communist victory so badly in Indochina that they gave him and his communist counter-part the prize.

The prize committee appears to award the prize largely based on their desires to influence this or that political event in the direction they approve of. In this case, I don’t even understand what Global Warming has to do with “Peace.” The prize is supposed to go the the person who, “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”

…and here I thought Global Warming was a scientific issue.

We should call it the Western Leftist Intelligentsia Prize for the sake of fair advertising. No one who carries out an action or creates a peace that they disagree with will ever, ever see the prize.

I don’t think many on the Right really give a damn because they’ve long lost respect for the prize itself.

Instead he has become wealthy building a media empire promoting an artificial crisis.

A sound tradition.

Mayor Richard M. Daley: “Don’t back no losers.”

Wisdom from when Democrats won pretty much all their elections.

One of his best quotes, though not as good as: “Shoot to kill”.