The Next Nobel
New York Sun Editorial
October 10, 2007
Vice President Gore is being mooted for the Nobel Peace Prize, but our nominee is General Petraeus. This is only a slight departure from our annual editorial calling for the Norwegians to award the prize to GI Joe. We've been advancing that idea ever since reading about it in an essay by Neil Kressel, a professor in New Jersey. It has seemed to us that the American GI is the greatest force for peace in the world today, and we say that without the slightest bit of irony. GI Joe and GI Jane always go overseas for reasons not of conquest but of liberation, to secure the hope of democracy, and always with the intent of returning home.
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5 comments:
ridiculous. but look at the bright side: at least it wasn't bono.
only question i have is whether al gore has ever divested himself of his occidental petroleum holdings.
The newest South Park rips Bono pretty good.
Hello hello Yeah yeah yeah yeah!
and katiecourics as a unit of measurement...brilliant!!!
So here's why the nobel peace prize is so truly meaningless and purely political.
The prize came down to 2 people. algore who made a fake documentary, and Irena Sendler who risked her own life and saved 2500 children from the holocaust and put their names and locations in a jar that she buried in her neighbors back yard so that families could find their children after the war was over.
algore should be ashamed to even accept the award.
Psst... 2500 children? Thats nothing, Al Gore has saved the planet dude.
Agree with all of you with regard to Gore. Absurd choice. He did sweet fuck-all to promote peace. A phonus-balonus documentary? Whom did that save exactly?
But, because I'm a leeeeeberal, my choices were:
1) PRES. ALVARO URIBE, so right wing he makes the Aurora look communist, yet he bit down hard and called a halt to the proxy war along the Venezuelan border potentially saving 1000s of lives and with POW exchange DEFINITELY saving 200.
2) SCOTT RITTER
3) ADM. WILLIAM FALLON
You kidding about Petraeus, right? I'd give it to Rove before I'd give it to Petraeus. At least Rove showed some secret honor. He politically had to do all this shit but ultimately wanted none of it.
The right pun wasn't "betray-us"; it was PET-ray-us. Bush's PET. Rest obvious.
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