"Barack Obama is the third sitting US President to be given the prize after Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson," The Times captions above image. It figures (see Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism). Kevin Lamarque/Reuters photo.
Vanderleun trumps Drudge on Twitter:
Drudgereport still has Nancy Pelosi up. Guess he's got to sleep sometime... that or he's crafting the headline "WTF!!?"
But what could be more appropriate? As we twittered, while Drudge slept:
PEACE IN OUR TIME. NOBEL COMMITTEE CHANNELS CHAMBERLAIN Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
ROLL OVER, ALFRED NOBEL, and tell Jimmy Carter the news.
Update: Greg Pollowitz twitters:
Breaking News: President Obama has been awarded the Nobel in Physics for his 10th grade science fair project.
Appeasement in our time.
According to sources, the President is "humbled." First time?
Update II: Drudge scores: "OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE" headline and triumphal image paired with "Iran to 'blow up the heart of Israel' if attacked..." So much cognitive dissonance, so little time.
Update III: "No freakin way" rants blog buddy Dan Riehl, whose disarming outspokenness has attracted a BBC World Service radio producer (tune in at 11:30 ET to hear what he has to say). The blogosphere, twittersphere and immediate world are abuzz. We're off to immerse ourselves in the irresistible awfulness of it all!
Ignorant intellectuals are destroying civilization.
Posted by: goomp | October 09, 2009 at 08:30 AM
Never before has one man received so much praise for so little accomplishment! Destroying civilization, making a mockery of those who have honestly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, this incompetent twerp has managed to make Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace prize look almost deserved!
I swear, I'm about to give up on humankind altogether and just hang with cats.
Posted by: Gayle Miller | October 09, 2009 at 09:49 AM
I feel like Alice in a looking-glass world. Sissy, I'm just starting a new blog (very early stages) called The Daily Diligence, where I can keep track of political news, and link to conservative opinions and blogs. My old blog will be changing a bit, eventually. Anyway, I posted a few Nobel links today on the new blog.
Posted by: Amy | October 09, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Is there a reason to pay attention to this "award"?
I thought any reasonably sane person wrote the entire Nobel thing off as a monument to hubris after Yassir Arafat was gifted with one of his very own. (although one wonders if the judges felt it was in their best interests to give him the salve to his pride in order to avoid a messy ending... but I digress).
Once you award a "Peace Prize" to a mass murderer, it, as well as the awarding committee, becomes an object of ridicule as well as casting suspicion on later recipients. Heh.
Posted by: Teresa | October 09, 2009 at 05:01 PM
Jimmy Carter is still a pathetic little knucklehead receiving a peace prize from other knuckleheads
Posted by: Firebird | March 14, 2011 at 09:24 PM