Michelle Malkin’s head go ‘splodey.
Norway—Former Vice President Al Gore says he’s “deeply honored” to be the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Gore — who is in the Bay Area this morning — has been named the winner of the prize for his efforts in the fight against global warming.
He’s sharing the honor with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Gore says he will be donating the proceeds from the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection. The group is a bipartisan non-profit organization working on the climate crisis.
He’s expected to be in Palo Alto today to meet with the group.
Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Academy Award this year for best documentary.
Go ahead and try not running for president, you coy prong. We’ll nominate you anyway.
***Critical Update***
I had about the same reaction as the Commissar – I want Al’s desk.
Don’t need the papers, though. I already have those.
Bonus question – is Al using Mac or PC? The Apple laptops that he used in the movie suggest Mac, so that’s what I will guess. These questions are important, people.
Ned R.
you coy prong
The mental image this calls to mind is a bit…odd.
Mary
I’m listening to Toronto talk radio this morning and laughing. The conservative morning guy has already been whining for several days about the imminent defeat of the provincial conservative party, then about the actual defeat on Wednesday (including the party leader not retaining his seat.) Now he’s whining about how Al got this prize based on a movie “full” of exaggerations. Ah, schadenfreude, is there nothing you can’t do to gladden my heart?
RSA
Eww, gross. I’ve got wingnut spatter all over me.
sashal
If Malkin’s head will explode, that will alone justify the Nobel prize for Al.
As far as running, we already have the winners in the race.
No matter who that will be.
jake
Can he get a second NPP if winning this one causes hordes of fringe loons to go catatonic with fury?
Frank
We should hide in Michelle’s hedges to see how she reacts to this.
Citizen Journalists! To the shrubbery!
Buck
Oh man… that would be like having two Christmases in one year!
Punchy
This will be the day I listen to Rush. I have an odd feeling Limbaugh may have a stroke, on air, in the midst of a 11 minute full-blown rant.
John Hummel
Palo Alto? You know what that means?
Steve Jobs is going to give Al a new iPhone as a “congratulations” gift. A new biodegradable one.
Now, if Al would just run, damn it….
sparky
Oh yeah? Well someone who looked at planet Earth told me he lives in a HOUSE. Probably has a kitchen, too. Bastard.
conumbdrum
I’m playing a drinking game today: a shot for every wingnut I can find who points out the obvious liberal bias of the Nobel committee, citing either
a) the 2005 Peace Prize for Mohamed El Baradei (tried to rain on the neocons’ happy to Iraq), or
b) the Literature Prize from the same year for Harold Pinter (has some kind of unreasonable beef with American imperialism).
I expect to be wrecked by mid-afternoon.
Zifnab
*crosses fingers*
*pops popcorn*
hehe. Yeah, I’ve been spamming “Congratulations Al Gore” on Dan Riehl’s website for shits and giggles. I doubt the posts will last an hour, but it’ll be fun to see the multi-paragraph rant it inspires in him.
Dennis-SGMM
That Al Gore and Jimmy Carter have both won Nobels will be taken by the wingers as proof positive that the Nobel Foundation has a liberal bias.
PaulW
My problem with Al Gore winning the award is the same problem I had with Jimmy Carter winning it a few years ago: it feels more like an F-ck Y– to Bush than an award for geniune accomplishment. It’s not like Gore’s efforts to improve climate change for the better have worked yet, or if you can point to any countries or peoples that have benefitted from his efforts.
As for all the Gore cultists (and yeah, you guys are acting like it), let’s face facts: Gore is not going to subject himself to another year of degrading insulting swiftboating when he can sit back and do voice cameos on Futurama.
whippoorwill
Don’t be alarmed, there is nothing wrong with your hearing. The cacophony of popping sounds you hear are the collective sounds of American wingnut heads exploding. There is no real danger but proceed with caution until it subsides a few days from now.
The Other Steve
Two problems with that.
#1. I don’t know where Michelle lives.
#2. I don’t want to know where Michelle lives.
Billy K
Wingnuts don’t care about this “Peace Prize.” First off, they don’t prize peace. Secondly, it’s one of those “world” kind of things, like the UN.
If they yella nd stamp their feet about it, it’s only because they were going to anyway, and they’re looking for a reason fro their rage today.
Tim F.
The wingers’ problem is that they don’t offer a Nobel War Prize. Although even if they did offer one, the Bushies wouldn’t win it.
The Other Steve
I honestly have to agree.
The only other President besides Carter and Gore to win a Nobel peace prize was Teddy Roosevelt.
And President Roosevelt won the award for negotiating peace between Japan and Russia in 1906.
Also Gore isn’t going to run. Doing so would be divisive within the Democratic party, and turn this global warming issue into a partisan political one.
That being said. I do like hearing all the wingers heads exploding.
rachel
The Nobel committee has gone over the the side of “reality” and “facts.”
jenniebee
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: in the war of ideas, our side – the side of continuing Peace and Prosperity – is winning, and winning big. That’s why the wingnuts are so vociferous, they’re right that the rest of the world doesn’t see things their way. Their loss is not so much their fault, because without doubt they’ve certainly put a lot of effort into it, as it is that War and Ruin were never very popular as concepts to begin with.
Doug H.
One chug for every mention of Yassir Arafat or Jimmy Carter, one shot for every mention of Henry Kissinger, and you’ll be blotto before lunch.
The Other Steve
Oh, I am so repeating that one. LTE here I come!
The Other Steve
Do NOT do this!
Alcohol poisoning is a bad thing.
whippoorwill
Billy K
Your right Billy, but they do care about public relations and image is everything to them. So on that level, with one of their arch-enemies winning, the steam will be pouring out their ears.
Also, since they’ve been in extra crazy mode recently, it will interesting to see if they openly attack the Nobel institution. Hell, if we’re really lucky, they might even launch an all out war on peace itself. What fun that would be.
ImJohnGalt
Wait, wasn’t it just last year when it was revealed that Kissinger was helping to advice the White House? When did he become a bad guy again?
PK
I felt a great sense of sadness when I heard of Gore winning the Noble peace prize. Sadness, that when there was a choice 7 yrs ago between Gore and the halfwit currently occupying the white house, the country went for the halfwit twice. As they say you reap what you sow.
comrad mattski
Thats teh awesomest, I’m heading there right now for a good laugh
les
You may not have noticed, PaulW, but Al Gore is not in a political office; perhaps you helped avoid that awful fate? You would probably argue that IPCC, the co-recipient, hasn’t benefited anyone either. Sadly, no (sorry, John). Gore and IPCC have, in a short period, totally changed the nature of the discussion; King George is even more isolated in his idiot “good faith goals” approach, but even he and the fake scientists getting wingnut welfare can’t pretend climate change is not happening. It’s one of the reasons that 2/3 of the country thinks the USA is going in the wrong direction; in no small amount because of his and IPCC’s efforts, individuals, businesses and states are moving, w/o the idiot rethugs.
Punchy
Bush just announced he’s going to veto this Nobel Prize award.
Perhaps relatedly, Republican Senators just introduced an amendment to condemn the Nobel Committee for gross negligence and endangering the troops.
jnfr
From Salon’s War Room:
Andrew
A flashback to alternative history…
Gore on SNL
Face
Done and done
tBone
Based on the keyboard I’d say Mac. Yet more proof, as if any was needed, that he’s a dirty hippy who hates America.
Dreggas
POTD for the Line in bold.
Gregory
I wonder how much global warming will result from the noxious gasses released when the wingnuts’ heads explode?
Alan
In the picture those are 30″ Apple Cinema Display for which he needs a MacPro to light all three up.
jnfr
Gore’s a member of Apple’s Board of Directors, or was, so I’m sure he’s a believer.
Patrick Stephens
Gore will run as Vice-President. It will be Clinton/Gore 2008. I know it sounds outrageous, but it’s the best move for both of them. Gore blunts Nader for Clinton and he gets to run in 2016…
Ned Raggett
That picture of the desk is impressive but I’m more concerned about THE GIANT FROG ON THE WALL OMG!
(Actually both my dad and my sis would love to have something like that on the wall. I should consider gift options.)
I still can’t over the image of Al Gore as the guy unable to win his home-frickin-state in 2000, which would have settled the election in his favor anyway. Even Mondale won Minnesota in 1984. Anyway, what’s done is done etc.
Gus
Three 30″ Cinema Displays. That’s $5400 worth of displays, though as an Apple board member he probably gets a small discount. I don’t know if he deserves the award, but I agree it’s worth it just for the right wing apoplexy.
Blue Jean
I’m glad somebody else mentioned the giant multicolored frog on the wall. I was beginning to think someone had slipped acid in my orange juice.
Yukoner
I think it’s a giant geko, not a frog.
Jon H
“In the picture those are 30” Apple Cinema Display for which he needs a MacPro to light all three up.”
I think he drives them all directly from HIS GIANT BRAIN.
John D.
Wow, Powerline is smoking crack.
Powerful argument, except for the salient fact that Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in *Chemistry* in 1918 for his synthesis of ammonia from N2 and H2.
Do these fuckers ever not make shit up?
Greg Greene
Mac. Those are pretty clearly Safari windows open on his three (!) screens.
ThymeZone
Yes, but Minnesota is a little different.
How does a guy with that Apple array in front of him win over a state full of people who think the earth is 6000 fucking years old?
Seriously. I imagine they think he is from Mars. Minnesota is at least peopled with citizens who can look at a fossil and figure out what it means. They can’t inspect a bridge or keep from electing an egomaniac like Ventura, but …. the cold keeps them focussed a little.
Rightarded Blogger
No wonder Al Gore’s electric bills are the size of an entire small town…look at all those computer monitors!
Thanks for the photo, which I will immediately use to attack Al Gore on the day he wins the Nobel, on my right wing blog “Iamtruelyfuckingnutz.com”.
(I hope you all enjoy a little satire, but you just watch, that photo will show up on some right wing assclown’s blog along with a Swiftboat attack)
UnkyT
Obviously a mac, cause you would have to be one sick bastard to hook a pc up to those beautiful apple cinema displays.
Rightarded Blogger
P.S., I think I’ll even be a bigger right wing assclown and photoshhop some porn onto those LCD screens. Then I’ll start a right wing blogswarm and email campaign with them!
El Cruzado
Gore has been known to use PCs in the past, but he’s been fully mac-compliant for a while now.
From what I know about Apple employee discounts, he probably gets the high end apple equipment either for free as a member of the board or with a rather steep discount (15% or more is IIRC the standard employee hardware discount up to a yearly hardware limit).
Also I think he’s the second largest influence in the Keynote software design team after Steve Jobs himself. I’m sure Keynote’s pretty transitions are what really convinced us of Global Warming dangers ;)
Finally, I’d rather have him run for his old job, as someone else mentioned already. But better with Obama. From what I know, him and Hillary don’t stand each other much, and going with Obama would both probably put him above Hillary in the primaries and make the argument that he’s too inexperienced to run drop dead.
JPL
Yeah, a Mac. I saw him give his “Inconvenient Truth” speech at UCSD last year, and one of the things he mentioned was that the Powerpoint-like program he was using had a feature he liked taken out – “But there are some advantages to being on the Apple Board of Directors” and he called Steve Jobs and had him put it back in.
El Cruzado
I’ll add, it’s not like he can’t pay full price for Apple’s stuff. The guy’s rotten rich these days (and I have no problem with that).
jcricket
Did Apple give him a special discount because he’s a liberal? I think we should immediately
investigatespeculate wildly and call for an immediate boycott of Apple.eyeball
Hey – check out this cool device that can distinguish between a sentient human and a dummy (mannequin) riding together in the same car. Isn’t a Malkin a form of mannequin (dummy)? How would she read out on this, I wonder?
Also, this would be a good device for instantly ID’ing LOLcon and GOP straw men as they whiz past. I believe a ‘Malkin’ is a scarecrow, come to think of it, which is after all brainless and made of straw.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19523/
Zuzu
“I want Al’s desk”
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Hmm, I dunno. That keyboard placement don’t look so ergonomic.
Perry Como
I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of wingnuts are suddenly crying out in terror.
oregon.guy
My nominees for the Nobel War Prize, 2007:
1) Tamil Eelam Tigers, for ongoing operations in Sri Lanka
2) Russia, for ongoing occupation of Chechnya and parts of Armenia
3) Turkey, for beating the crap out of the “Mountain Turks” (er, Kurds) and possibly invading Northern Iraq later this year
4) Various Iraqi insurgent groups, for tying down 60% of the world’s most powerful army.
5) Rwanda, for successful invasion of much larger neighbor Congo
Rick Taylor
Fantastic. I don’t know who the other nominees were, so can’t say if Gore ought to have won. It’s not unreasonable though; he’s been fighting hard against global warming and I think he’s made a difference in public consciousness. That really is one of the most important issues we face. If only we had a block of citizens that treated it as passionately as the right wing does “Islamofascism”.
Joshua
Don’t you guys realise that Alfred Nobel invented DYNAMITE? Don’t you think it’s more than a BIT hypocritical for the guy who enabled the mass bombing and devestation of 20th Century warfare to offer a prize for “peace”, whatever that is?
I bet Gore drove an SUV to the ceremony, too.
Joshua
Oh, it cut out my fake /wingnut HTML tag closing. So just so we’re clear: That was an attempt at parody. I’m not really that stupid.
grumpy realist
Yay Al!
(Speaking as a tech geek from MIT…but I repeat myself.)
Al Gore run for President? Doubt it. He’s got now one of the highest profiles possible in the international arena. Why give it up attempt to convince a bunch of clueless Americans who still believe that the world is 6000 years old to vote for him?
We’ve indulged anti-intellectualism in the US for far too long. We should have been slapping the creationists and the religious idiots silly (or at least removed them from access to modern technology–a few generations without medicine would do wonders on their reproductive rate.)
Face it–we didn’t keep our religious idiots in the strait-jackets enough. Delebitur America, orietur China.
Punchy
/Blinks thrice…
My god, a post from TZ about Minnesota and no mention of Larry Craig and the Minny airport? :)
RSA
Apparently that post has been deleted. But do the neocons ever give up on fake credentialism? The only “Michael Costello” that the university’s web site turns up is a Research Technician II in the Department of Food Science. “Hey, professor, change out this incubation lamp for me, would you?”
Perry Como
Joshua Says:
It’s okay, every wingnut on this site is a parody. Even if they don’t know it.
Julie
I’m a Wazzu alum and that name made my bs detector go off for some reason, so I googled. He’s this guy.
He also appears to have some hand in the production of the world’s most delicious cheese.*
*(At least, the WSU site lists some of his research as being dairy-focused.)
Pug
Wow, research technician. That’s a very prestigious post. I’ll bet he has at least 30 credits from the local JC.
D-Chance.
Well, Friday is my one and only real “work” day where I’m out from dawn to near dush, and when I saw the blurb on Drudge last night about Gore leaving a Democrat event to head off, I think everyone knew why.
So the confirmation comes early Friday morning, and I decided to see how quickly all the radio talking heads jumped on it whle I’m out running around in my car.
Glen Beck. First words out of his mouth were “Al Gore” and “Nobel Prize”. He then joked he was going to be smashed by the end of the day from all the alcohol he’d be consuming. Within 60 seconds, he’d thrown in the names Mussolini, Stalin, Arafat, and Jimmy Carter. That didn’t take long. /click
Mark Davis (local Dallas guy). Prize now irrelevant. Phony. Joke. /click
Missed the top of Limbaugh’s show, but around 10 minutes in he’s still in “it’s all a hoax” mode. They’re all a bunch of liberals, anyway, bunch of socialists. /click.
I refuse to listen to even two seconds of the Idiot In The Afternoon, Sean Hannity. /no need to click.
You want to know why I’m pissed off at the right enough to say “fuck them all” and boycott all candidates with an [R] in front of their names next year? Crap like this. I wanted to hear or read one, JUST ONE, thing from the right that would go something like this…
Period.
OK, was that all that hard to do?
It IS possible to a) note the event, b) still disagree with them, while still c) congratulating them.
It’s something call grace… something called class… something called good sportsmanship… something called basic human dignity. Something I heard none of, today; and so far, something I have not read on the few righty blogs I’ve visited.
Jon H
jcricket wrote: “Did Apple give him a special discount because he’s a liberal? ”
As others noted, Gore is on the Apple Board of Directors. As such, he gets approximately $50,000 a year and Apple stock options:
Pretty sweet deal. 30,000 shares up front and starting in year 4, 10,000 shares per year at $167/share as of today. I don’t think Gore needed a discount.
Then again, since Apple’s paying him that much I doubt they’d quibble with sending him some free hardware. After all, it is to their benefit for their directors to be familiar with the products. And they’d certainly provide hardware if he had an office at Cupertino.
jcricket
Jobs did buy everyone at apple (so rumor has it) a free iPhone when they released it. So I wouldn’t be surprised if the Directors on the Board also got the occasional freebie.
Again, it’s all about psychological projection with Republicans. They’re the ones who are irrelevant, phonies and jokes, so they accuse everyone else of being the same.
Cain
McCain was saying that Al didn’t deserve it. (Since you were talking about class.. or lack there of) It should have gone to people like the Monks in Burma.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071012/NEWS/71012019/1001/RSS01
At least he did congratulate him.. but kind of lame if in teh same breath he implies that there were better candidates.
cain
The Other Steve
BREAKING: SCOTUS Declares Bush the Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Jon H
“It should have gone to people like the Monks in Burma.”
The Nobels can only go to people who are still alive. (/grim frown)
They already gave Aung San Suu Kyi one, not that long ago. Fat lot of good that’s done.
If another Peace Prize goes to someone in regards to Burma, it’ll probably be to someone who actually gets the junta to step down.
BIRDZILLA
And now that bloated jerk will have a even more bigger ship on his shoulder over his latest undeserved prize. T prepose that all these judges for the oscar and nobel peace prize be sent to some gulag way out somewhere in the deepist part of siberia. And of AL GORES chip on his shoulder its that big block of wood on top of his neck
PK
Birdzilla,
You are a fool!
CalD
I dunno if he’s mac or PC but he should definitely consider going paperless.
D-Chance.
Hey, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Tufdaawg
al gore is all apple all the time. he is on the apple board.
bernarda
Apparently for the experts, it’s a Mac. I can’t tell shit from shinola in these matters. But if Gore really wants to make a statement, he will use a PC with linux Ubuntu(open-source, user/developer supported).