Emmy Winner and Nobel Laureate – Gore’s still a Fraud
Contrary to all the media gushing, Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize is no more an affirmation of his greenhouse gas beliefs than Yasser Arafat’s 1994 award was a disavowal of Israel’s right to exist. Nor is it any more worthy.
According to the 1895 will of the Prize’s founder, Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, the Peace Prize is to be awarded,
“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.”
Surely, early winners like Red Cross Founder Jean Henri Dunant, U.S President Theodore Roosevelt and missionary surgeon Albert Schweitzer fit that mold nicely. But the award committee has devolved into a political tool of Europe’s left, and has allowed its personal goals to conduct its judgment.
So, worthy or not, Gore’s victory comes as no surprise at all, particularly with the majority of the media serving as his campaign machine. And naming the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change as his co-honoree only serves to further prove that the selection was made with the left’s cause du jour in mind rather than the intentions of Alfred Nobel.
Besides, with Kofi Annan bringing home the gold in 2001, Jimmy Carter in 2002 and Mohamed Elbaradei in 2004, this has been the century of giving those warmongering right wing Americans the what for they so richly deserve. In such grand Bush-bashing tradition, to whom would you expect them to award the prize, Irena Sendler, the 97-year-old Polish Catholic nominated for saving 2,500 Jews during the Holocaust?
Anyway, even were the committee’s motives pure, their recognition of Al Gore’s work “to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change” does no more to “settle” the debate over anthropogenic global warming than did Gore’s recent Emmy award. To the contrary, it’s just another arrow in the eco-maniac quiver they’ll aim at their target of shutting down further discourse on the subject.
Just as both of this year’s Laureates have manipulated public opinion with agenda driven fact manipulation, so, of late, has the Nobel Committee.
Ultimately, Al Gore, the IPCC and the Norwegian commission that chose to honor them are all cut from the same incredulous cheesy cloth.
Marc Sheppard is a technology consultant, software engineer, writer, and political and systems analyst. He is a regular contributor to American Thinker, The New Media Journal, Opinion Editorials and Men’s News Daily. | More from Marc Sheppard
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October 12th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
I am so proud of Al Gore that I will burn a truck tire in his honor!