The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board breezed right past Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize with an eye to next year. And its should-be winners are: Burmese monks. Zimbabwe opposition leaders. A pro-democracy Catholic priest arrested in Vietnam. Co-founders of the League of Demanders of Women’s Right to Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Garry Kasparov and others resisting Russian President Vladimir Putin. The people of Iraq. Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern and the voters of Northern Ireland. Or Chinese bloggers, Egyptian democracy advocates, Lebanese citizens assassinated by Syria and those who help North Koreans escape.
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This is what everyone thought was going to happen when Fox took over. Pathetic.
WSJ was a Conservative rag before Fox took over. Get over it.Gore deserves kudos for his Nobel.He still would have made a lousy president.
How is promoting peace even remotely connected to the hype about global warming. It was stupid to give Gore the ‘peace’ prize specially when there are a lot of people actually trying to bring peace. And they give the Nobel prize to one of the biggest hypocrites in the world. He belches out more carbon with his house and his jet than most of the world and then he preaches to others to reduce their driving. And he gets the peace prize for that. Wow.
I’m trying to think of how a neocon would attack this story if on the other foot.
Nobel Prize winning American snubbed by elite media- WSJ wants America to lose.
Are you seriously criticizing the WSJ?
The WSJ is as serious of journalism as we have today, regardless of whether you agree with their editorial stance or not.
I see the mouth-breathing Gore-haters are out in force this morning.
Must suck to be wrong about everything, and to have the guy who has been right about everything so far be recognized for being, well, right.
Get a life, losers. You’re wrong and the rest of the world hates your sorry, failed asses.
(chortles)
different day, same BS flying back and forth
John Stone, you are STILL insane. Say hey to aaron, will ya?
CF2K, you have it right. The thing about Gore that continues to piss off the wingnuts is that, well…
he continues to be RIGHT about almost everything.
And bush? Eh… not so much…
Rush Limbaugh was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I say Ralph Nader should receive one.
Al Gore repeated his pledge that he would not run for president in ‘08.
Nice job, Repukes.
The most qualified, visionary, and intelligent man of our time doesn’t want to take what you dish out anymore, and who can blame him?
That only leaves the most ambitious.
Well done.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7048370.stm
Former US Vice-President Al Gore has ruled out a late entry into the 2008 presidential race.
In an interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK, he said he would not run for the White House again.
Mr Gore told NRK he wanted to focus on his climate change campaigning, which won him a Nobel Peace Prize last week.
Cap’N,
I know. But look at it this way: given that our national “political” system is completely debased and non-functional, Gore becomes something like a de facto leader of global civil society. Since the issue of global climate change is transnational, it only makes sense to carry out advocacy through a direct appeal to the citizens of the globe.
Given the magnitude of the problem, existing political structures won’t work. This has to be a bottom-up revolution, of citizens demanding responsiveness from their governments. Think of it as ’soft power’ that Gore wields.
As far as CF2K is concerned, Gore is the plebian leader of the globe. It’s up to the rest of us to reclaim the ‘hard power’ apparatuses, in the various nation-states we inhabit, from the corporate entities that have seized them.
Because, after all, what is less democratic than corporate governance, whether exercised in America through media domination, or in China through a state/party apparatus?
“It’s up to the rest of us to reclaim the ‘hard power’ apparatuses, in the various nation-states we inhabit, from the corporate entities that have seized them.”
True enough CF.
But we could also create new “hard power apparatuses” and just wire around the old ones and cut ‘em out of the loop.
Hard to do? Yes.
But building a new house is always easier than remodeling an old one that is falling down around your ears, and is no longer functional.
I’ll bet my money on creativity, should the creative among us chose the “new machines” route. Innovation usually wins the day over endless arm wrestling with the “old” power structures.
And in case it needs to be said, I think DENNIS is the only one willing to look at creative solutions.
Ya say ya want a revolution kfg?
I’m game!
Hmmm . . . you’ve got a point there, CF2K.
Why straightjacket yourself with the White House and its corporate sponsors when you can just run your own TV network — Current — make your own movies — “An Inconvenient Truth” — and set up your own think tank, The Climate Project?
http://www.theclimateproject.org/
Cap’N,
Indeed. In the virtual world, presentation IS reality, and Gore seems to have realized this.
ksfarmgrrl,
Good points. I’m not committed to trying to make old dogs do new tricks. And where possible, I prefer to leave my political enemies pushing against an open door, if you get my drift.
Not to mention, capn, that you can collectively kill lots of old, fat, rich, pasty white guy republicans from high blood pressure.
Every time Gore speaks, a few more wingnuts are in danger of death from stroke.
Agreed CF. I knew the creativity aspect would appeal to you. And even if creative new solutions are developed, we STILL have to dismantle the old machinery at some point.
The scrap metal just takes up too much space…
And yes JR. I got a cutting torch out in the shop!
“And where possible, I prefer to leave my political enemies pushing against an open door, if you get my drift.”
Some wise folks told me in a semiar that “what we resist, persists”.
It would be a good thing for me to remember on this blog too.
Heeeeeee. And dontchya know Gore is laughing his ass off because they WANT him to run so they can use the smear and fear swiftboating against them.
And he is waaaaaay too smart to give them what they want. “floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee”.
Every time Gore speaks, a few more wingnuts are in danger of death from stroke.
Posted by: ksfarmgrrl | October 17, 2007 at 09:52 AM
LOL Good one!
“And teacher says, ‘every time a Republican dies, another gay angel gets their wings.’”
hehehehehehehehhehehhhehhheeeeee!
They want to give the people of Iraq the Nobel Peace Prize? All the people, or just the few who are not fighting and killing? Or maybe the 10 percent who fled their own country out of fear for their lives?
Maybe they should nominate every Iraqi shot in the back of the head, but not the front?
You posters have this thread all wrong. NO! NO! NO!
We are supposed to nominate someone!!!!
Start by nominating the Eagle and WEBLOG.
I would like to start by nominating Kansas for his endurance on the conservative side.
On the liberal side, I’d have to nominate COSMOS for his die-hard never ending stay-the-course position on GW (even though he is wrong).
There ya go guys.
Either nominate or vote.
Come on! This could be fun!
It’s easy. Here I’ll explain. Just do what our do nothing congress has been unable to do:VOTE NAY OR AYE on someone.
We can also nominate someone to act as our do-nothing president and act on any tie votes.
All in favor?
Gore is such a hypocrite. Liberals, he has his own jet and he tell others to go green. Come on, just because he says what you like doesn’t make him great. It is easy to talk but then if your life doesn’t reflect what you stand for then that is hypocracy.
They should have shipped his nobel prize to him instead of belching all that carbon to take him to Norway! Also the herd of reporters who went along with him must have produced enuff greenhouse gases that greenland will now sink two years ahead of schedule.
We can also nominate someone to act as our do-nothing president and act on any tie votes.
All in favor?
Posted by: American Way | October 17, 2007 at 01:11 PM
I would hire specialists utilizing special Hugo Chavez “Dieboldt” voting machines, so I would have the advantage. :)