Friday, October 9, 2009

Beyond Parody


Obama, Nobel Peace Prize Winner? Seriously? In the immortal words of Mojo Nixon, "For what?"

The Nobel Committee has officially gone off the rails in its quest for new adventures in smug Leftie nonsense. Even The One's most delusional acolytes are going to have a hard time defending this with a straight face.

UPDATE: Mickey Kaus offers the best advice Obama will receive this month. No chance in the world The Messiah's ego would listen, though.

UPDATE UPDATE: Jonah nails it:

The only thing that really bothers me is that this comes just days after the Obama administration turned a blind eye to the Dalai Lama and told the world that it's at least considering a separate peace with the Taliban. That's grotesque. Meanwhile, there are real peace activists and dissidents out there whose dungeons will stay just as cold and dark for another year because of this. Indeed, this news comes during a year when the Iranian people rose up against tyranny and were crushed. Surely someone in Iran — or maybe the Iranian protestors generally — could have benefitted more from receiving the prize than a president who, so far, has done virtually nothing concrete for world peace.

UPDATE^3: Turns out Mojo doesn't actually shout out "for what?" in "Rock And Roll Hall Of Lame," although I would have sworn to you this morning that he does. There's over-forty memory for you... but it's still a good song (and so is "Don Henley Must Die," in which Mojo exclaims, "Best rock vocalist? Compared to what?", which is probably what I was recalling in the first place).

15 comments:

  1. Seems Mojo was wrong when he wrote "You Can't Buy Cool"

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  2. Of course the Swedes love jim. He has a Swedish foreign [olicy!

    More to the point, the confusing of attitude with achievement is the signature mark of Obama's supporters.

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  3. Let's see... SNL thinks Obama has failed to do ANYTHING yet, but the he wins the Nobel Peace Prize? I assume for campaign speeches? Wow.

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  4. Hey, it's not like he's gone and done something crazy, like attacked a foreign planet...well, at least, yet.

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  5. So the Norwegian committee loves him. He wins the prize for being not-Bush. I haven't taken them seriously in some time, but this isn't any more ridiculous a choice than, say, Yasir Arafat, if I may damn them with faint praise.

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  6. It also makes me wonder what's next on his hubris trip, which as Victor Davis Hanson wrote recently, usually ends badly. Perhaps the Queen of England could knight him, and we will all start calling him Sir Barack?

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  7. And the Fonzie Prize for shark jumping goes to ... The Nobel Committee

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  8. I thought The Nobel Committee went down the tubes with Al Gore's "Peace" win. The Obama win has even Less substance than that.

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  9. *Hey, it's not like he's gone and done something crazy, like attacked a foreign planet...well, at least, yet.*

    LMAO. Oops!

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  10. My personal favorite Nobel Follies moment was when Gorby was awarded the prize for *not* invading Poland or Czechoslovakia. By that standard, every US president who didn't invade Mexico or Canada deserved a Nobel..

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  11. Since the Nobel Committee seems intent upon doing their best to trivialize the Peace Prize, what with awarding it to Al Gore and Jimmy Carter, it is only reasonable that they should award it to someone like Barack Obama who has done nothing. Worse, the Nobel Committee has insulted and denigrated those individuals who really have laid their lives on the line fighting for peace. But Barack Obama's huge ego and overwhelming narcissism will demand that he both accept the Nobel Peace Prize and laud himself for winning it. This is really the measure of the man Barack Obama and I am sure he is just as trivial as the committee which awarded him the prize.

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  12. This award diminishes both the prize and the recipient. Would have been cool if Obama turned it down on the basis he hasn't done anything yet, and suggested someone more worthy in the cause of peace, like the Iranian protesters like someone mentioned, or even Bill Clinton for talking to the North Koreans this year, and for helping end the Northern Ireland civil conflict years ago when he was president. What has Obama done for "peace" besides give a speech or two? Outrageous. They're giving it to him just for who he is, and now his hubris will be all the more. I was ambivalent and open-minded about Obama, but this award has gotten me incensed, such a ridiculous thing.

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  13. Kenneth, Obama is smart enough to express humility. We can argue about whether he's faking it.

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  14. If this weren't so awfully, pathetically true, it would make a hilarious SNL or Monty Python skit. The absurdity of it is truly surreal. The Nobel Committee has taken something that was already degraded (Yasir Arafat) and trivialized (Al Gore), and turned the Peace Prize into utter garbage. What a sad fate something once regarded as among humanity's highest honors. It's like spitting in the face of everyone who actually did something to merit the award. And of course, he'll accept it, and all the money--what a disgusting, shameful thing for our "President" to do.

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  15. Ok, joke's gone far enough. Who *really* won?

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