GORE'S TRIPLE CROWN

“Woman who saved 2500 Jews during the Holocaust given Nobel Peace Prize — just kidding, it’s the guy who emits over a ton of CO2 a year telling us to stop global warming”
-Fark

So who is the man who has won an Emmy, an Oscar, a Nobel Peace Prize, and almost the Presidency of the United States? Vice President Al Gore, the man who made people breath a deep sign of relief in September of 2001 because he wasn't President. He's turned a one- man crusade on global warming into an industry, despite the fact that his information is dated, fallacious, and based on poor science. Yet, when you look over the prizes he's won, this is no surprise.

The Emmy and Oscar awards are given for people who are very successful at making things up and presenting them in an impressive manner. The Nobel Peace Prize has for decades been a joke, with murderous thugs like Yassr Arafat winning. Putting aside the question how, exactly, flying about telling people about global warming is somehow related to world peace, Al Gore's career after Vice Presidency has been far more successful than when in office.

In fact, his efforts to save the world has been far more successful in a public relations sense, at least, than when he actually was in a position of power to do something about it.

The fact that this decision is reached the same week that a High Court judge in England ruled that An Inconvenient Truth is riddled with factual and scientific errors is particularly tasty in its irony.

Various blogs have commented on this, such as at QandO where commenter Harun noted

You know what happened to luxury brands like Yves Saint Laurent that watered down their brand power by licensing it to any old product, like car tires? The brand dies eventually as people realize it has become meaningless.

The Nobel Peace Prize may be esteemed by a whole lot of folks...the kind of folks who think Dan Rather is a middle of the road good ole’ boy.

But slowly and surely, the truth seeps out, attacking the foundations.

Choosing Gore who already has enough accolades is just wankerish, if you ask me. I would bet a whole lot of people start to say, "enough" about Gore, even those who liked the movie.

And, it is interesting that Kissinger got one of these things. I thought he was a war criminal. Perhaps Gore should boycott the awards ceremony in protest.

At Dr Sanity, a commenter named lyle noted:

Prizes and awards that once were given for excellence are now given for political correctness.

Those who love excellence considers this a shame; those who love political correctness consider it a triumph.

Those who are truly mediocre can't tell the difference.

At Hot Air, commenter Jailbones snarked:

At this point in time, the Nobel Peace Prize is more of an insult than an award.

But Gore messing with Hill and Bill’s Grand Scheme will be great fun. Gore views Bill as the sickening lowlife that prevented him from his rightful Presidency. Bill views Al as a silver spoon mental midget who was a nobody Tennessee hick Senator until Clinton turned him into somebody.

Hillary views them both as fat, stupid men who annoy her when she’s hitting on ugly feminist Women’s Studies professors and making plans for a socialist takeover of the gas, electric, telecommunications and auto industries.

This will be Great Fun.

Straight Talk Luigi at Michelle Malkin claimed:

I am an environmental scientist, and I do not like what Al Gore is doing. His new movie has some inaccurate information and he isn’t helping the global warming cause by putting out false info just so he can get back to leading democrat politics. Liberals who do this kind of nonsense only make my job harder because the scrutiny becomes even greater, and it SHOULD. False information should not be tolerated in the scientific community whether it’s Bush Administration pressuring scientists or Al Gore narrating lies.

If I put out the same information Al Gore did and lived the same lifestyle, I would become the laughing stalk of my field. Yep, not even a hug from Leonardo DiCaprio.

Commenter Sergey from Russia responded to Neo-NeoCon's suggestion that many climatologists dispute Gore's version of global warming:

“there’s also no question that quite a few of the same ilk would disagree”

There are lots of those who disagree, namely almost all professional community in Russia. We have as many climatologists here as in the rest of the world, due to importance of this matter to Russian economy and an excellent school of computational mathematics. The notion of “nuclear winter” was introduced by Soviet specialists in computer modelling of climate. The resume of their finding about AGW can be found in a slide-film by Andrey Illarionov, former chef economic adviser of Putin, now in CATO Institute. But their opinions almost unknown in the West, because are published in Russian.

At the UK newspaper Telegraph, they wonder what, exactly, Gore did for world peace, and a commenter named Michael Mates asked:

What on earth is the Nobel Committee going to do when it doesn't have George Bush to kick around any more? One more silly Season, Nobelites, and then you have to think of someone serious. One more failed Democrat in 2008, then it is (I hope) back to the real world.

At the Carpetbagger Report, JRS jr wonders:

Did he fly on a private jet to receive his prize?

At Ken McCracken, Ken noted that the IPCC issued a press release trying to explain why this is remotely related to peace:

Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

Got that? Global warming might cause conflict sometime in the future.

At the Confederate Yankee, a commenter named Mahon noticed that the Nobel committee studiously ignored the fact that the greatest threat to world peace is global islamic jihad, and pointed out an obvious candidate they refused to consider:

If the Nobel Committee were composed of remotely serious people, the prize would go to Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

At Big Lizards, commenter hunter hissed:

The Nobel Peace Prize has become a parody of itself.
From honoring President Teddy Roosevelt, for brokering peace between Japan and Russia, to today, where practiicing terrorists and toadies for tyrants and con artists promoting hysteria, the prize has become tarnished beyond recognition.

At Ann Althouse, commenter bill points out why Gore won't run for president:

People like him, he's invited to all the cool parties, and he wins all the awards. Why throw that away to be attacked nonstop and stabbed in the back by supposed friends for the next year.

He can sit back and be the elder statesman without all the baggage. Like Jimmy Carter without the failed presidency and the desperate need to be respected.

At the Huffington Post, a commenter named lentilina points out why Al Gore is a poor choice for presidential candidate:

If Gore were to get the nomination and run he'd lose.
His run against Bush should not have even been close.
He was running against a complete nobody who had a record of failure and managed to lose.
He couldn't even win Tennessee, his home state.
He picked Lieberman, of all people, to be his running mate. Lieberman has, and had, the personality of a slug.
He couldn't figure out how to debate an opponent as inept as Bush. He compared himself to Goldilocks saying that his first debate was "too hot", the second "too cold" and the third "just right". By that time he was in big trouble.

He is saying some good things now, but he really is rather conservative and if he were running again he would be just as evasive and slippery as Obama and Clinton.

At The Swamp, a commenter named DD pointed out some good that has come from Gore's factually-challenged road show, book, and movie:

Congratulations, Al! The movie and the book had a profound impact on my thinking...I drive the car less, have become a rabid recycler, composter, and just am more mindful about what my personal day-to-day impact is on this planet. The earth is not as tough as we sometimes hear...it's time to put greed and arrogance aside and replace it with the mindfulness and compassion we are truly capable of.

At The Hill's Pundit, commenter DFAL listed a few facts about Vice President Gore:

Facts about Al Gore:

* He tells Americans that they must reduce consumption of energy to save the planet

* He tells Americans that they must buy carbon credits from a company that he is part owner of.

* He owns 3 giant homes, one of which uses 20 times the energy of the average American home.

* He is already rich, but flies all over the world so he can make $100,000 giving 75-minute presentations followed by a teensy 10-minute Q&A.

And you think a man of such enormous hypocrisy should be the President?

These left-wingers are truly unbelievably gullible. They idolize frauds and hypocrites.

The commentary continues around the internet. Daily Kos has almost 400 comments as of this writing, but unlike all the other sites I linked to (other than Huffington Post), there is no dissent, only unanimous cheering and attacks on President Bush for being such a loser for not winning an Oscar.

Just for the record, here are other worthy and notable Nobel Peace Prize winners over the years, courtesy PowerLine:

2005
MOHAMED ELBARADEI (joint winner). He's done such a nice job with Iran.

2004
WANGARI MAATHAI. The Kenyan ecologist peacefully teaches that the AIDS virus is a biological agent deliberately created by the Man.

2002
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America. A true cosmopolitan, he has undermined the foreign policy of his own country and vouched for the bona fides of tyrants and murderers all over the world.

2001
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA.
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General. Among other things, they have respectively served as the vehicle for, and presided over, one of the biggest scams in history.

1994
YASSER ARAFAT (joint winner), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority for his efforts to create peace in the Middle East. He was a cold-blooded murderer both before and after receiving the award.

1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. She is the notorious Guatmalan faker and author, sort of, of I, Rigoberta Menchu.

1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A. Notwithstanding rapes and sex abuse committed by the team in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Congo, still doing fine work all over the world.

1973
LE DUC THO
For the 1973 peace with honor bequeathed to the fortunate people of Vietnam, who were murdered by the hundred thousand when North Vietnam finally took over after centuries of attempts.

Ultimately I have to congratulate Vice President Al Gore for winning this, he's managed to garner all the most respected and honored prizes on earth from people in his social circle except the Pulitzer. The Manhattan cocktail party set will be very impressed.

Meanwhile, I have to admit, he deserves this prize at least as much as fellow nominee Rush Limbaugh. Although Limbaugh has called for a recount, to check for hanging chads.

*Hat tip to Pajamas Media for their helpful roundup that saved me a lot of time.

Al Gore, Nobel Prize