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AL WINS!
Media-shunning unsafe-for-children ecodunce Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
UPDATE. Al will lift the world:
“We face a true planetary emergency,” Mr. Gore said in the statement. “The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.”
Good luck with that.
UPDATE II. Al isn’t in Oslo, possibly to spare himself the embarrassment of collecting a prize for raising global warming awareness while wearing four layers of clothing.
UPDATE III. Al is scary: “He’s like a werewolf standing in front of the moon, only instead he’s in front of the earth playing God again. Or maybe Jack Nicholson. Geez his tie even matches the earth. They are so going steady.”
UPDATE IV. Congratulations from Kevin:
Mr Rudd said every fair-minded Australian concerned about the country’s future and the planet’s future would welcome Al Gore’s win.
“Personally I have sent my congratulations to Al Gore just now,” he said.
Barack Obama is now a short priced favourite to win American Idol.
At longer odds: Hilary Clinton will win second prize in a beauty contest and collect $15.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 10 12 at 05:45 AM • permalinkWell, considering they gave it to Arafat years ago, I doubt anyone will be hugely surprised.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 10 12 at 05:46 AM • permalinkIn a stunning turn of events, Al has also won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, for producing a teflon coated turd that people are prepared to swallow without questioning.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 10 12 at 05:51 AM • permalinkWho knew they had sharks to jump in Norway…
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 10 12 at 05:53 AM • permalinkHe joins other luminaries such as Yasir Arafat and Jimmy Carter. Great company.
As a prize the Nobel Peace prize is about as discredited as they come. You have to be totally unethical to qualify.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 10 12 at 05:55 AM • permalinkWas the world under threat from a horde of ham sandwiches?
Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2007 10 12 at 05:59 AM • permalinkDidn’t Tom Lehrer give up performing and recording when Henry Kissinger won the prize. I think he said that satire had died that day.
Who’s going to stand up for the right?
Posted by Hero Schema on 2007 10 12 at 06:02 AM • permalinkUtterly appalling!
There are so many, far more worthy campaigners for anti-Western Neo-Medievalist Regressionism who’ve been completely overlooked with this absurd choice for the 2007 Nobel Appease Prize.
Iranian President and Twelfth Imam-inspired visionary, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Taliban spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar and the humble, unassuming leader of the New Wahhabist World Caliphate, Osama bin Laden spring immediately to mind!
If he weren’t dead, and therefore excluded, I’d tip Mohammad as next year’s winner.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 10 12 at 06:22 AM • permalinkWTF ... Peace Prize awarded to the Algorithm? The nominators include the usual suspects ... you’ll need to wait 50 years to find out who nominated him, and who else was nominated. Must have been a very small field in the 2007 race. You can find out who nominated who up to 1955 from here.
The auditorium was alive with a steady murmur, as the audience waited in excited anticipation for the proceedings to commence. On the dais sat a trio of stout, elderly men in baggy, full-evening threads; with their bald heads, neat beards and flashing spectacles, they lent a mildewed academic air to the event. Seated apart from them, in an ornately-carved chair resembling a throne, was another elderly man, of regal aspect, decked out in what appeared to be the uniform of a French admiral from about the time of the Franco-Prussian war – but since this was Norway in the year 2007, it was obviously King Harald V.
One of the stout little men in rumpled suits approached the podium, and held up his hands, prompting silence from the audience. He thumped the microphone once, which elicited a loud, but brief, hum from that instrument, and then opened his mouth to speak. But he held his tongue and listened in perplexity as another, disembodied voice was heard throughout the auditorium, apparently coming from behind the curtain, stage left.
“It is a great honor . . .no, no, no . . . It is a great honor . . .yes, that’s better . . . It is a great honor . . .What? My lapel mike is switched on? Dammit, why didn’t somebody tell me?”
A ripple of gruff Norwegian laughter swept the audience, and the man at the podium smiled. “Vell, by golly, I suppose it’s natural for a feller who’s bein’ avarded de Nobel Peace Prize to haff a case of de yitters!” His smile disappeared abruptly, and he assumed a mien of great dignity, as he began his prepared remarks.
“Ladeeeeez and Gentlemen! As chairman of dis here Nobel Peace Prize Committee, I haff de honor of introdewcin’ dis year’s vinner, Mee-u-ster Albert Gore!”
From behind the curtains, a somewhat sheepish-looking Al Gore advanced onto the stage, to thunderous applause. Overwhelmed by the tumultuous welcome, he swelled with pride, looking, in his white tie and tails, like one of those gargantuan birds from the Paleocene epoch, a sort of giant, flightless magpie.
He approached the chairman, who escorted him to the chair upon which was seated His Majesty, King Harald. His nibs rose, smiled, and pumped Al’s hand as if he were jacking up a car preparatory to changing a flat. Then Al was bustled by the chairman back to the podium. Al stood by, basking in the moment, as the chairman cleared his throat theatrically, and read out a laudatory description of his achievement.
“Mee-u-ster Gore, ve, de Nobel Peace Prize Committee, take great pleasure in presentink to yew dis here avard, in acknowledgement of the contribyutions yew haff made to vurld peace by losin’ de yew-ess election in de year tew tausand, by yiminy!” Beaming, the chairman handed Al a box covered in blue velvet, containing the coveted medal.
In a long history of wooden public appearances, Al Gore had acquired the reputation of being rather like a tree; he was now demonstrating another aspect of arboreal similitude by imitating the effect of the change of seasons. The color of his face underwent a series of kaleidoscopic transitions, in a manner suggesting time-lapse photography, from a whitish green, to pink, to heliotrope, to a vivid crimson. His prepared speech forgotten, he muttered, almost involuntarily, into the microphone the only Norwegian words he knew, comprising an expression he had learned on this trip when he had inadvertently stepped on the foot of a bell hop at his hotel:
“Uff da!”
I do love that Al Gore shares it with the UN Committee on Climate Change. Whatever the underlying b.s. of it all, Al Gore lead the charge here.
Dateline, Indianapolis: A J FOYT *and* The Indianapolis Department of Motor Vehicles have won the 500!
Dateline, Prague: Vaclav Havel *and* the the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament watched as Communism collapsed!
Bravo, paco. (#20)
*thunderous applause*
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 10 12 at 06:55 AM • permalinkAs I said here, the US Navy crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier task force has done far more to promote peace and actually help people (see, for example, the work they did in SE Asia post-tsunami) than “Cannes-Do” Gorezilla has ever possibly conceived of.
It’s just disgusting, and a blatant attempt to influence the next US election cycle.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 12 at 07:17 AM • permalink#24 Too many idiots follow Gore’s every word for that to work, Rhhardin.
Imagine the arguments now.
RWDB: Global warming isn’t happening, and it’s not the fault of man. It’s just a normal cycle of the Earth.
Greenie: No, it’s the fault of man! Look at all the cars! Look at all the aeroplanes! Look at all the electricity! Look at all the coal!
RWDB: Look at Al Gore, with his huge electricity use and all his aeroplane trips. Doesn’t that tell you that if the biggest leader of the whole entire “Global Warming” movement isn’t scared of flying or using electricity, you shouldn’t either?
Greenie: He’s ONLY doing it because it’s NECESSARY!!! He wouldn’t put the world in such peril if it wasn’t necessary to spread the MESSAGE! He has a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!!! He wouldn’t have that if he wasn’t trying to do good for the world! He’s trying to have us live in peace and harmony with the Earth!
RWDB: Oh please. Don’t you realize that he’s in it for a ton of money!
Greenie: He is not! I paid $5000 for a ticket to see him speak, and he’s genuine I tell you! Genuine!
RWDB: If he was genuine, wouldn’t he have given the speech for free?
Well, Yasser not so much anymore, obviously.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 12 at 07:39 AM • permalinkThe fact that Gore spent about 6 months lobbying to win shows how political the peace prize is. The list of winners is hardly filled with high quality people or organisations as I’ve pointed out - it’s an embarrassment.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 10 12 at 07:40 AM • permalinkNobel Peace Prize Laureates lists peace award except when war.
Why not OBL?
He seeks only peace of the grave for unbelievers.Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 10 12 at 07:43 AM • permalink#29 Are you implying Gore has sex with his bodyguards?
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 10 12 at 07:44 AM • permalinkI don’t think the Draft Al effort will succeed. He’s already got all the adulation and none of the downside of actually having to win an election, to say nothing of forcing Congress, not to mention the world, to do his bidding if elected. Plus he’s making alot more money now than he would as president. I can’t see him risking another defeat, either for the nomination or in the general, not when he’s already got a self-appointed, life-time job as Savior Of The World. Mere President of the US would seem small potatoes in comparison.
so now he’s got an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize, all for his silly little error-ridden documentary.
I look forward to the day Gore becomes known as a fool of historic proportions.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 10 12 at 08:06 AM • permalinkAl’s promised to donate his US$1.8, share of the prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection.
Pardon my ingrained skepticism, but who makes up the alliance, who governs it, to whom is it accountable?
The chairman is…ta dum…Al Gore.
The constituency is the usual bunch of gullibles like church groups, university students, arts collectives, etc etc etc
Pardon me while I do a death curse on Al, the unutterable creep.
Michelle Malkin’s Headline: Just when you thought Al Gore’s Head Couldn’t get any Bigger…
The page also gives details on how you can offset, carbon offsets (hat tip to this ‘ere blog].
O/T:
Check it out race fans! The NASCAR Needle!
According to the US leftardic liberals (differentiated from actual liberals for you foreign folk) NASCAR fans are so disgustingly filthy, so degenerate and diseased, that their staffers had to be immunized against infection before visiting a race venue to study “health issues”.
What do you call it when an international award committee has an intellectual meltdown?
Gorenobel.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 12 at 09:05 AM • permalinkOld irony: A man who got rich by making safer explosives dedicates his fortune to peace.
New irony: A man gets rich by claiming that the real problem with the other guy’s work was not advances in warfare but in highway construction. For his insistence that people will be better off if they stop putting so much carbon dioxide in the air, he is given some of the vast fortune created by the immense utility of the chemical equation 4C3H5(ONO2)3 → 12CO2 + 10H2O + 6N2 + O2.
Advantage: new irony.
Thank Christ the prize has nothing to do with science
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 10 12 at 09:09 AM • permalinkCan Al win a Brownlow without ever playing a game?
Tune in next September…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 10 12 at 09:14 AM • permalink#60 The goebbels may be in his, er, um, nevermind…
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 12 at 09:16 AM • permalink#27 Ash_
Greenie: He’s ONLY doing it because it’s NECESSARY!!! He wouldn’t put the world in such peril if it wasn’t necessary to spread the MESSAGE! He has a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!!! He wouldn’t have that if he wasn’t trying to do good for the world! He’s trying to have us live in peace and harmony with the Earth!
The Goracle is truly the Bhagwan Shree Rashneesh of the wacko environmentalist movement.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 12 at 09:39 AM • permalinkMy money’s on Kim Jong Il or Mugabe for 2008. I mean, who else has done more to lower carbon emissions lately?
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 10 12 at 09:43 AM • permalinkRe #37, I agree, Retread. The Goreacle™‘s ego is too fragile to face even the possibility of another election loss. Why run for President when He already has the masses swooning at His feet? And for so much less work, no accountability, and far more money.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 09:54 AM • permalinkGoogle has Pavarotti in their logo today, but at first glance I thought it was the Goreacle.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 10 12 at 10:01 AM • permalinkRoosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Yasser Arafat, Kofi Annan, Rigoberta Menchu. Be proud Al… be proud.
Oh yeah, what the fuck did this sociopath do for peace?
The award was a joke before Al. If found myself in a conversation with a winner, I’d just turn my back on them and just walk away mid sentance to find someone more respectible to talk to, like the buss boy.
Tim, if youse guys dress up in four layers of clothing for 42-degree weather, I’m afraid we can’t invite you along when we invade Antarctica to steal the rest of the ice…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 10 12 at 10:49 AM • permalinkAaron, President Theodore Roosevelt actually earned his Peace Prize….by negotiating a peace. Of course, back then, the award actually meant something.
After reviewing the history of awards for the prize, I noticed that there were some years in which no prize was awarded, during WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and several times during the 60’s and 70’s.
It looks like the Nobel committee started it’s downhill slide into irrelevancy in the early 80’s. It’s been like watching a train wreck…..and the train stopped moving today.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 10:57 AM • permalink“After reviewing the history of awards for the prize, I noticed that there were some years in which no prize was awarded, during WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and several times during the 60’s and 70’s.”
Sorry—I forgot to note that it’s too bad that the committee didn’t continue with that tradition of not being obligated to award the prize every year. This might be an example of the ever decreasing attention span of people.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 10:59 AM • permalinkI don’t know if Alfred Nobel is spinning in his grave, though I do wonder if he’s gathering up large quantities of TNT and one of those old-style plunger detonators and shambling towards Oslo.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 10 12 at 11:11 AM • permalinkRe #79—true enough, but given that lefties tend to have a shorter attention span than most, it’s possible that we are looking at two facets of the same problem.
You know: watermelons.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 11:30 AM • permalinkThere is now a tradition in US baseball parks that when the opposing team hits a home run, the fan who catches the ball will throw it back onto the field in an act of derision.
That’s been killed by the No-Fun Cops, at least at Fenway. Throwing anything on the field is an ejectable offense. Safety concerns, don’tcha know.
This country is so pussified.
At least you can still throw hats at hockey games. For now.
O/T, but we have a Mr. Lefty appearance. Do read, but please, no personal abuse—Jeremy’s heart can’t take the strain.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 11:56 AM • permalink#75: Thanks, Merlin! (And Pedro at #25!)
The model for my phoentic spelling of Norwegian-accented English was my recollection of some of the performances of the great character actor John Qualen.
In my story, Al Gore should haff von for de globbal varming, but since de British coort ruled dat hiss movie iss just so much reindeer pewp, by yiminy, I figger I got to revise de testimonial. Vas too late to return de medal and get de Committee’s money back.
Re #93, Crossie, he has until the primaries start early in 2008. If he’s being coy, he’ll need to announce by early December. So it’s possible, but it’s not likely.
Although, I must admit, it would be fun to watch the Dhimmicratic Party respond. And to see Hillary!! melt down.
And truly, The Goreacle™ has an ego bigger than Mount Rushmore. He practically lost it when he lost the 2000 election.
And He wouldn’t be satisfied with His face on Mt. Rushmore; Mount Everest is more to his liking.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 12:22 PM • permalinkLetting Al run for the White House would be bad for the environment.
Hillary would start spinning in place so fast, trying to figure out whether to run to the left or right of the Vice-Presidential Plumper, that she would generate Force 5 Tornadoes all up and down the East and West Coasts…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 10 12 at 02:33 PM • permalink#59—Thank Christ the prize has nothing to do with science.
Please, it doesn’t even have anything to do with peace.
The Nobel committee hit rock bottom with Arafat (although it started circling that particular drain with Kissinger/Le Duc Tho) and now it just flails about and wallows there. The joint award to the IPCC was an unexpected, and most amusing, little twist though.
Run, Al, run.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 10 12 at 03:35 PM • permalinkHow utterly consistent with the mendacious, trivial, banal and pretentious history of this “prize”. Al the Hypocrite can join other failed politicians like Jimmy Carter, fabulists like Rigoberta Menchu, thieves like Kofi Annan, terrorists like Yasser Arafat, retired terrorists like Menachem Begin, enablers and apologists for terrorists like David Trimble, military dictators like Anwar Sadat, war criminals like Le Duc Tho, and enablers of war criminals like Henry Kissinger. In all seriousness, I wouldn’t be surprised if the next prize went to Osama bin Laden or Mahmud Ahamdinejad.
So here’s to Al. I wonder if he can find room in his mansion for the…what do they give you? A gold plated mirror? I wonder if he’ll take the Lear or fly first class? There is little better symptom of the decline of civilization than that this mendacious, arrogant rent seeker has somehow become an “intellectual”.
If there’s one good thing to come out of this, it will be that Al’s already etiolated moral sense, fueled by his swollen ego will lead him to challenge Billary for the presidency, thereby ensuring the final demise of the Democratic Party. Maybe he’ll launch a 3rd party. I’d give him a Nobel for that.
You don’t think a Republican could ever win, do you?
Hucbald, Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican.
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Oh, you mean recently. My bad!Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 05:20 PM • permalinkThe Nobel Prize is awarded far too often for purely political reasons.
Al Gore is certainly not one of the more worthy recipients of the Peace Prize. I suspect the Scandinavian countries, in collusion with others, thought it would be a clever way to put pressure on the USA to sign the Kyoto Protocol.
But then what can you think about a Prize that has been awarded to Yasser Arafat and Kofi Annan, but not to Mahatma Gandhi?
My reading on this is the Nobel mob saw their prize as no longer being “cool” so thought they’d hitch their waggon to a world of free publicity.
Now there too cool for school again.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 12 at 06:50 PM • permalinkRegardless of how many studies there are which contradict the global warming orthodoxy, our media will continue to take the line of least resistance and highlight one side of the argument. Oh, I forgot. The argument is over.
There are other examples. Our national broadcaster tends to use NPR, CNN or the BBC for overseas coverage. Fox! Aaiieee! Make the sign of the Cross!
They go to Bob Brown nearly every day for comment despite his lack of a meaningful mandate - he does, after all, only represent a small number of Tasmanians - i.e. just the ones who voted for him. He is not of Premier status, or anywhere near it.
For rent-an-expert coverage there’s the Lowy Institute, for History Lessons with the right flavour there’s some guy from Wollongong Uni, for apocalyptic economic forecasts there’s Bis-Schrapnel.
The Nobel Prize for Peace had been thoroughly discredited long before the Gore/IPCC apparition rode into town like the headless horseman. It has descended into black farse now.“It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.”
When the next big resources war breaks out, The Goracle will be distraught:
“Peace, Love, Brothers and Sisters…Sadly, we have not reached the 1% threshhold needed to levitate the whole Global population.
Keep on bashing those mattresses!Sheeesh, the guy’s Soooo 1969..
Tim, why didn’t Al win the science prize instead of the peace prize?
According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the following criteria are necessary to win the prize:
The Peace Prize should be awarded “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”.
Huh?
A member of the five member Nobel committee is quoted in 2002 as saying Jimmah Cartah won the peace prize to “kick Bush in the shins.”
Morons, all.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 10 12 at 07:23 PM • permalinkTrue enough, Forbes, but there’s a movement (probably doomed to fail) to withdraw those Oscars;
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 12 at 08:11 PM • permalinkIndian scientist Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the UN panel on climate change that shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice-president Al Gore, said today he was overwhelmed by the award.
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“I feel privileged sharing it with someone as distinguished as [Al Gore],” he added.
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“I’m only a symbol of a much larger organisation, the IPCC, and it’s really the scientific community that contributed to the work of the IPCC. They’re the real winners of this award.”
“Asked what he would do now, he said he was going to “have a good sleep”, having been travelling extensively.”
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