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Gore Wins Peace Prize

Michael Weiss
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Not to cross streams with our lovely litterateur Elisa Albert, but I actually think the Swedish academy excelled this year. Doris Lessing is of a generation of postwar English novelists that I'd assumed had been forgotten entirely, not just by the prize syndicate but by the international readership. Now comes the unsurprising news that Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize. You can quibble that his minatory work on global warming hardly relates to "peace," but there is no doubt that his tireless advocacy has done a world, so to speak, of good:

“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.”

I don't know about "spiritual," but the point is taken.

A cynic would be justified in saying that the committee in Oslo wanted to bury another rapier in the side of the sitting American president. Carter, ElBaradei, Gore: "Anybody But Bush" sounds about right.

Yet Gore has been an environmentalist far longer than Carter has been a champion of "stability" in the Middle East (it was his administration, after all, that coaxed Saddam Hussein into invading Iran); longer than ElBaradei has been going about, in his oh-so-multilateral way, atomic regulation. For once, then, it can truly be said that the Peace plaudit went to someone who has spent a lifetime earning it, rather than a mere election cycle. It's a day like today in which he must wonder if being the leader of the free world is all it's cracked up to be.

 



Michael Weiss

Michael is a contributing editor of Jewcy. His work has appeared in Slate, Gawker, New York, Democratiya, The New Criterion and The Weekly Standard. His blog is Snarksmith.


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jaywilton


     Jews may eventually convert to the Republican Party en masse over this(see,for example Fumento.com...hottest decade-30's...hottest year 1934...15 hottest days spread over seven decades...also several posts on Larryelder.com...also type in critics of Global warming on google)...I take it back...this is more like a sequel to 'Plan Nine From Outer Space.Yashir Koach to the guy in England who succesfully sued so this nonsense can't be shown to English kids without a disclaimer.





Joey Kurtzman

Joey Kurtzman


The fact that Gore won the prize makes me want to puke my innards out. Bjorn Lomborg, save us!



Eli Valley

Eli Valley


Once he leaves office, Bush will insist on becoming United States Ambassador to Iraq, where he will work tirelessly to bridge the divides between Sunni and Shiite clerics. "This war will be won only through grassroots efforts," he will insist, dining in bombed-out homes with Laura and the twins to show his solidarity with the Iraqi people. He will then form the George W. Bush Institute for the Study of Arabic History and Language, based in Baghdad (outside the Green Zone, of course -- to make a statement), where he will invite experts from throughout the world to join hands with local citizens in building civil society and democratic institutions from the ground up. As a show of his personal investment in rebuilding Iraq, he will adopt 45 Iraqi orphans and send each of them, when the time comes, to Yale University on special scholarships fed by the $50 million Bush Family Endowment for the Revitalizing of Iraqi Intelligentsia. By the year 2030, when the fruits of his campaign for Freedom and Democracy have finally borne fruit, George W. Bush will be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.





Michael Weiss

Michael Weiss


I don't know what's worse: That I'm completely serious, or that it took the guy who drew an uncircumcised God as a rapist to come up with it.



Anonymous


Another prescription from the neo-con Bible "Thou shalt not believe in Global warming or Ecological Devastation". I know you guys cream your pants at the thought of Bush getting the Nobel prize, but keep on dreaming.