A reader writes, “Has anyone touched on the fact that the 2009 peace laureate is entertaining the jailer of the 2010 peace laureate?” Oh, yes. Hu Jintao is also the jailer of many, many others who deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, not to mention simple freedom.
Here’s another fact for you: One of the reasons Obama won the 2009 award was his “cooperation with Beijing.” I am quoting the words of the Nobel chairman, in his presentation speech. The next year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee — which is definitely a cooperate-with-Beijing type of body — did not cooperate with Beijing. They did the very opposite.
And that is to the committee’s eternal credit — like the award for 1935 to Ossietzky (a political prisoner of the Nazis) and the award for 1975 to Sakharov (the Soviet Union’s hero physicist-dissident).
I'm all in favor of sending that dirty, little communist to China on a slow boat.
Then, we can send, Hu, next.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAmen, Sean. Well said! Amen! (Is Mark Steyn reading this?)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseChains we can believe in.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIrony.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseConferring it on Arafat rendered the Prize an obscenity.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJust curious: did Obama win because the other choice was Kim Jong Il?
I must be reading The Corner in an alternate universe - maybe the one where Spock has a goatee. Because the Nordlinger posts I'm reading seem to treat the Nobel Peace Prize as something worthy of respect, rather than the white elephant it's been turned into by its awarding to Arafat, Carter, Gore, and - in his first year of office - Obama.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf we disengage, don't make an effort, then we can never bring the prize back to it's ideals. I think Jay's right to agitate for a better prize than it's been.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseweimerrj,
Ah, perhaps. Or perhaps the legitimate awards provide legitimacy to the bogus, politically-oriented awards.
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