Comments on: Nobel Committee gives gift to our shallow culture

By: Enough On Obama’s Nobel | Oh Great! Now What?

Enough On Obama’s Nobel | Oh Great! Now What? — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:36:51 +0000

[...] 2009, mudslide @ 5:32 pm With all the frothing about the Obama Nobel, the best comment comes from Ordinary Gentlemen in a post entitled: Nobel Committee gives gift to our shallow [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:54:09 +0000

Ordinary gentlemen don’t wear hats like the one shown atop this blog. Also, the deadline for nominations to the Nobel committee was February 1st of this year. The award has nothing to do with Obama’s presidency – it is obviously a nod to a renewed emphasis on diplomacy. And no, whether the support is there or not, you have to pull out in a responsible manner. Cleaning up after hawks is messy work that always creates a catch 22 political situation for the follower.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:38:17 +0000

One, to Lester Pearson for initiating the use of UN peacekeeping forces during the Suez Crisis.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:06:34 +0000

Fair point Herb!

By: Herb

Herb — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:25:27 +0000

“the Nobel committee’s silly, indefensible decision”

It may be silly, but the decision is hardly indefensible. If you wanted to form a committee and issue a LOG Peace Prize to whoever you wanted, even someone I deemed unworthy, I might scratch my head and I might laugh and I might disagree with your reasoning, but I’d certainly defend your right to do that.

By: ThatPirateGuy

ThatPirateGuy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:25:47 +0000

It is my fervent wish that someone could invent an airborne agent for distributing shame and deploy it in Brad Woodenhouse’s office. The RNC offices and the offices of every pundit or politcal host.

Maybe if we triggered it everyday their might be some small improvement.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:16:20 +0000

No, this is another rebuke of Obama. If GWB or Cheney were to have received the Nobel, regardless of whether they deserved it, the same people that are outraged would have used this as a validation of the Bush 43 presidency.

By: Jetpacks

Jetpacks — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:16:02 +0000

I blame Bil Gates, Steve Jobs, those punks at Twitter, that weasel who stole Facebook from his college buddies and the Google monolith. And The Onion. And Al Gore. And Chris Matthews. And Sean Hannity. And Keith Olbermann. And Rush Limbaugh. And Ariana Huffington.

It is what it is, an immature Empire on steroids – in premature decline.

By: The Next Outrage is Just Moments Away - JillSusan.com

The Next Outrage is Just Moments Away - JillSusan.com — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:56:37 +0000

[...] Nobel Committee gives gift to our shallow culture by Freddie As many movement conservatives enjoy expressing outrage more than they enjoy sex, eating or the company of friends and loved ones, and as the entire conservative media is devoted to expressing ever-escalating outrage and grievance in the face of this liberal-biased country– you know, the country where they controlled all three branches of government a couple years ago?– the Nobel committee’s silly, indefensible decision to give Barack Obama the Peace prize is a great boon to those self-same conservatives. Is it any different, though, for any of us? Roman Polanski, ACORN, Michael Jackson and McKenzie Phillips are largely meaningless distractions, as well. But then, that’s our culture. That’s MY culture. No one is above the outrage cycle. We have now, in our culture, synthesized the two worst elements of pre-9/11 and post-9/11 media: the pre-9/11 obsession with meaningless bullshit; and the post-9/11 obsession with filling every story with apocalyptic portent and over the top, tween-girl-at-a-Jonas-brothers-concert hysteria. [...]

By: Chris Dierkes

Chris Dierkes — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:29:11 +0000

seconded.