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Gore's prize: A fraud on the people
Five Norwegians gave a prize to Al Gore, and all the world is supposed
to heed his counsel henceforth. No, thanks.
Alfred Nobel felt horrible about the uses to which his invention --
dynamite -- was put. So he endowed the Nobel Peace Prize and
instructed that it go "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."
Al Gore has done exactly none of those things.
Gore, however, did write a book and make a film about global warming.
He has become the second environmental activist to win the peace prize
in the past four years. Wangari Muta Maathai won it in 2004 for
planting trees.
Thus we have indisputable confirmation that the Nobel Peace Prize is
no longer a serious international award. In 1994 the five Norwegian
politicians who award the prize gave it to the murdering thug Yasser
Arafat. Two years before that they gave it to literary fraud Rigoberta
Menchu, whose autobiography was largely fabricated. (An example: The
brother she supposedly watched die of malnutrition was later found by
a New York Times reporter to be very much alive and well.)
On Friday the prize was given to Al Gore and the International Panel
on Climate Change. Two days before, a British judge ruled that Gore's
film, "An Inconvenient Truth," contained so many errors (read: lies)
that it could be shown in British public schools only if accompanied
by a fact sheet correcting the errors.
The Nobel Peace Prize is worse than a joke. It's a fraud. It is such a
transparent fraud that the five Norwegian politicians who award it
have been reduced to defending their decision by concocting elaborate
rationalizations. This year they laughably claimed that Gore deserves
the prize because, well, global climate change" may induce large-scale
migration and lead to greater competition for the Earth's resources,"
and "there may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars."
(Emphasis ours.)
And Islamic terrorists may give up jihad and sing Kumbaya after
listening to old Cat Stevens records. But that's no basis for
distributing the world's formerly most prestigious prize.
If winning this useless medal prompts Al Gore to get into the
presidential race, which we doubt, the irony will be that the American
people will turn a more skeptical eye to His Smugness than the Nobel
committee did.
The American public won't accept at face value Gore's self-righteous
proclamations or his self-serving predictions of looming global
catastrophy. And Gore has to know that, which is why he will almost
certainly stick to the world of make-believe -- Hollywood and
International Do-Goodery -- where he can pretend to be the great sage
and savior he wishes he really were and left-wing Europeans and
thespians try to convince us he is.
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Gore's+prize%3A+
A+fraud+on+the+people&articleId=c55c0e3e-f569-4b50-83f6-8431bde279dd
____________
Gore's prize: A fraud on the people
Five Norwegians gave a prize to Al Gore, and all the world is supposed
to heed his counsel henceforth. No, thanks.
Alfred Nobel felt horrible about the uses to which his invention --
dynamite -- was put. So he endowed the Nobel Peace Prize and
instructed that it go "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."
Al Gore has done exactly none of those things.
Gore, however, did write a book and make a film about global warming.
He has become the second environmental activist to win the peace prize
in the past four years. Wangari Muta Maathai won it in 2004 for
planting trees.
Thus we have indisputable confirmation that the Nobel Peace Prize is
no longer a serious international award. In 1994 the five Norwegian
politicians who award the prize gave it to the murdering thug Yasser
Arafat. Two years before that they gave it to literary fraud Rigoberta
Menchu, whose autobiography was largely fabricated. (An example: The
brother she supposedly watched die of malnutrition was later found by
a New York Times reporter to be very much alive and well.)
On Friday the prize was given to Al Gore and the International Panel
on Climate Change. Two days before, a British judge ruled that Gore's
film, "An Inconvenient Truth," contained so many errors (read: lies)
that it could be shown in British public schools only if accompanied
by a fact sheet correcting the errors.
The Nobel Peace Prize is worse than a joke. It's a fraud. It is such a
transparent fraud that the five Norwegian politicians who award it
have been reduced to defending their decision by concocting elaborate
rationalizations. This year they laughably claimed that Gore deserves
the prize because, well, global climate change" may induce large-scale
migration and lead to greater competition for the Earth's resources,"
and "there may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars."
(Emphasis ours.)
And Islamic terrorists may give up jihad and sing Kumbaya after
listening to old Cat Stevens records. But that's no basis for
distributing the world's formerly most prestigious prize.
If winning this useless medal prompts Al Gore to get into the
presidential race, which we doubt, the irony will be that the American
people will turn a more skeptical eye to His Smugness than the Nobel
committee did.
The American public won't accept at face value Gore's self-righteous
proclamations or his self-serving predictions of looming global
catastrophy. And Gore has to know that, which is why he will almost
certainly stick to the world of make-believe -- Hollywood and
International Do-Goodery -- where he can pretend to be the great sage
and savior he wishes he really were and left-wing Europeans and
thespians try to convince us he is.
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Gore's+prize%3A+
A+fraud+on+the+people&articleId=c55c0e3e-f569-4b50-83f6-8431bde279dd
