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Serious question
Other than Hank Kissinger and (maybe) Mother Teresa, have conservatives ever liked any Nobel Peace Prize Laureate?
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Other than Hank Kissinger and (maybe) Mother Teresa, have conservatives ever liked any Nobel Peace Prize Laureate?
Johnny Pez said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:43
Maybe Lech Walesa.
Also, nitpick: laureate. Also.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:45
Mother Theresa?
FlipYrWhig said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:45
There was that guy who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine…
Johnny Pez said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:45
And possibly Teddy Roosevelt, depending on how they’re feeling about him at the moment.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:46
Whoops, my fault for poor redenigs kompreehensings.
actor212 said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:51
Muhammad Yunis, the guy who created micro-lending in India.
Elie Wiesel, probably
Sakharov, for sure
Sirius Lunacy said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:53
A serious question requires a Sirius answer and the Sirius answer is Sadly, No!
Rusty Shackleford said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:53
Did Esquivel win for lounge music?
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:54
UNICEF?
El Cid said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:57
Well, maybe if the Nobel Peace Prize committee would start to realize how much more better for peace it is to have the right people starting and maybe finishing some wars, you wouldn’t be giving all these awards to hippies and communists and outside agitators.
cletar said,
October 9, 2009 at 15:58
They liked Menachem Begin, didn’t they? Sharing it with History’s Greatest Monster probably tainted it a little bit, though.
J— said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:00
Retrospectively and depending on context, probably George Marshall.
Michael G. said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:02
But isn’t peace the opposite of war? How could they be for such a wimpy prize? Certainly Republican Jesus wouldn’t like it.
Brad said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:03
J– Marshall? The guy whom McCarthy accused of being a communist? No effin’ way! They hated George Marshall.
The Goddamn Batman Also Has An "Honorable Mention" Ribbon For The Fourth-Grade Halloween Costume Contest (He Went As Spider-Man) said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:04
Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt as long as people don’t remember that he was in favor of regulating big business.
actor212 said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:05
They liked Menachem Begin, didn’t they? Sharing it with History’s Greatest Monster probably tainted it a little bit, though.
That’s no way to refer to Itzahk Rabin!
Sirius Lunacy said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:06
My contention is that, deep down, these people don’t like anybody. Including their own sorry butts.
Ted the Slacker said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:12
Many of the recent winners have been non-white, so I’m gonna go with “no”.
DrDick said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:13
Hell no. They hate peace and liberals and all them there Skandihoovians is socialmalists.
phleabo said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:15
It’s great that he won and all, but has he really done all that much to promote peace on earth? I mean, besides being neither Bush nor McCain, or any of the bellicose retards that pass as politicians in the US?
Did I answer my own question?
histrogeek said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:16
They always sort of liked Soviet and other anti-communist dissidents like Sakharov, Walesa, or the Dalhi Lama. Marshall not so much, between McCarthy and the semi-commie Plan (which is what he got his prize for) he has a stink to him. Begin they like but he got it for agreeing not to kill certain Arabs, the wimp.
Some most conservatives are probably OK with groups like the ICRC, UNRRA, Doctors without Borders, and UNICEF but the loudmouths hate just cus they’re all girly and shit.
So anti-commie- Mostly OK (with the caveat that many are weridos-Scientists, labor leaders, mystics)
Generalized humanitarian- Vaguely OK
Non-repentant war makers looking for a break (Kissinger, Begin)- Mostly OK
Otherwise they hate any peace prize winner until they die, after which they may choose to appropriate them (MLK, Jane Addams, TR, etc.)
FlipYrWhig said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:19
Egad, look at the headshot for this Nobel Peace Prize winner: Fridtjof Nansen, 1922. I can’t tell if he’s Ming The Merciless’s archrival or a friend of Rob Halford’s. Probably both.
The Tragically Flip said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:21
It wasn’t very nice of the Nobel committee to cause hundreds of thousands of new high blood pressure cases amoung the American wingnuts in the middle of a health care reform crisis.
actor212 said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:23
Phleabo,
He stood in the mouth of the enemy and reassured him that America stands ready to move the world forward, got Israel and Palestinian leaders to sit down in the same room and talk, he’s dismantling the nuclear arsenal pointed at Russia’s heart, and he’s opened top level dialogue with Iran by enlisting China and Russia’s help, all in eight months.
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU WANT HIM TO DO???????
(yes, it’s a cut and paste job…)
Falconer said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:25
El Cid: “Well, maybe if the Nobel Peace Prize committee would start to realize how much more better for peace it is to have the right people starting and maybe finishing some wars, you wouldn’t be giving all these awards to hippies and communists and outside agitators.”
This. I couldn’t have stated it so succinctly. Bravo!
Zifnab said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:25
I think they’re generally offended at the idea that some academics in Sweden get to pass judgment with such a big megaphone.
I mean, I don’t think Kissenger getting the Nobel was something anyone on the right really appreciated, except as a tool to rub it in the faces of those damn dirty hippies.
FlipYrWhig said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:25
Conservatives like the early work of De Klerk and David Trimble. Before they sold out and got all peace-y.
a different mikey said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:26
Nansen was cool, a polar explorer who helped Amundsen with his exploits. Nansen’s memoir “In Northern Mists” is rather good.
FlipYrWhig said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:32
Nansen’s memoir “In Northern Mists” is rather good.
“In Northern Mists,” with that hairstyle… Fridtjof Nansen is metal, dude.
Bob said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:34
As left wing as I am I think Obama getting the “Peace Prize” is a tad problematic. The head of the National Security State who is already dragging his heals on Iraq, doubling down on Afghanistan (don’t let his disagreements with McChrystal fool you – he’s gonna expand the war), and continuing the use of rendition/torture.
He ain’t a DFH people. He’s the CiC and damned willing to use the power of our armed forces to expand American hegemony. And whatever that is it isn’t striving for peace.
77south said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:43
Huh, I knew of Nansen’s polar exploits but his career as a politician, biologist oceanographer, and humanitarian sounds a lot more important to me. No wonder they gave him the Peace Prize.
dadanarchist said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:44
What about Teddy Roosevelt?
And they like to re-appropriate icons like MLK, once they are safely dead.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:50
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU WANT HIM TO DO???????
Get me some motherfucking iced tea. Lazy uppity boy still ain’t brung it in yet.
Paul Prudhomme said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:55
Herr WIlly Brandt, perhaps.
DragosaniBOB said,
October 9, 2009 at 16:57
FARK headline sums up the Wingnut strategy pretty well, methinks:
They just forgot the eleventy-billion exclamation marks and the little Naked-Gun style roof light.
tigrismus said,
October 9, 2009 at 17:03
Rabin and Peres?
Did Esquivel win for lounge music?
He got the Nobel Laid Back prize, similar to the Peace prize but it comes with a little cocktail onion.
Citizen_X said,
October 9, 2009 at 17:11
Well sure. I assume he’s got some black metal band with his fellow Norwegianers with an unreadable name and a buncha incomprehensible Norwegian song titles.
You can’t see his neck tats in that photo, too.
secretlysomeoneelse said,
October 9, 2009 at 17:12
Pam channels her inner Jean-Paul Sartre:
<http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/10/obamas-embarrassing-nobel-prize.html
Then, reverting to fantasy:
Anthony said,
October 9, 2009 at 17:15
What about Aung San Suu Kyi?
77south said,
October 9, 2009 at 17:18
Given that Fridtjof Nansen was a polar explorer and subsisted for years off of seal and polar bear meat, I believe he is harder core that any metal band in existence.
Seriously, if Fridtjof Nansen gets a little hungry in the afternoon, what does he do? He kills a freaking polar bear. The largest land predator on earth and the only one that will regularly hunt humans for food.
Breakfast: kill polar bear.
lunch: kill polar bear
dinner: kill seal (for variety)
midnight snack: kill polar bear
What whiny ass punk bitch death metal band can compare to that?
Cap'n Fatback said,
October 9, 2009 at 17:22
Peace has a liberal bias.
John Hughes said,
October 9, 2009 at 17:33
As “secretlysomeoneelse” notes Pam sez:
Which is true, but isn’t it odd of her to think that?
D. Aristophanes said,
October 9, 2009 at 17:41
I heard they were a fan of 1972′s prizewinner:
1972 – The prize money was allocated to the main fund
J— said,
October 9, 2009 at 18:00
They hated George Marshall.
As I said, retrospectively and within certain contexts.
Brandi said,
October 9, 2009 at 18:20
Egad, look at the headshot for this Nobel Peace Prize winner: Fridtjof Nansen, 1922. I can’t tell if he’s Ming The Merciless’s archrival or a friend of Rob Halford’s. Probably both.
What a wonderful face!
Alex said,
October 9, 2009 at 19:47
There was that guy who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine…
He was the one who diagnosed Terri Schaivo as a Mensa using videotapes of her head convulsing and eyes blinking. They loved him.
Wingnuts were also outraged when Bush didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize for invading Iraq for dubious reasons based on faked intelligence, too.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
October 9, 2009 at 21:24
I’m expecting Jack Black and Tim Schafer to share the 2010 Peace Prize for Brütal Legend. Maybe some conservatives can support that.
Smut Clyde said,
October 9, 2009 at 22:05
Wikipedia on Nansen is full of goodness. “Hard core” is way too weak a term for him.
In 1893, Nansen sailed to the Arctic in the Fram [...] which was deliberately allowed to drift north through the sea ice, a journey that took more than three years.
… Including a year of sledging across the ice-cap when he and a mate abandoned the ship and got slightly lost.
77south’s list of his exploits omits “neurologist; pioneer (along with Ramón y Cajal) of the neuron theory”.
But OMFSM Nansen helped Socialists so no love for him:
Dr. Psycho said,
October 10, 2009 at 0:08
I think it would be way cool Internet irony if this comment thread inspired a revival of interest in Fridtjof Nansen.
I think I will go direct some more attention this way….
Edmund Schluessel said,
October 10, 2009 at 16:23
Penn Gillette really likes Norman Borlaug.
McJohn said,
October 11, 2009 at 17:10
Dr. Psycho:
Time for a rewrite of the Chuck Norris manliness memes?