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Ah, you have to love the predictability of Pravda FOX News Channel. When Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, you KNOW they started scrambling to find ways to diminish him. And Friday, they found their mouthpiece in the conservative NY Sun’s Seth Gitell.
Gitell thinks that the Nobel committee awarded the Peace Prize to the wrong American, arguing that it should have gone to…wait for it…Gen. David Petraeus.
So the general presiding over a horrendous civil war of our own making, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the displacement of millions more, not to mention the deaths of more than 3,800 American troops should be given the Peace Prize???
I don’t think that even Orwell could have imagined FOX News.
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You can’t fix stupid.
“Fox & Friends: If WE could select the Nobel Prize….”
And if David Duke could select the Nobel Prize….but like him fox you can’t so stfu.
I think Fox News is the logical conclusion of Orwell’s model.
Yeah? Well you cant. So STFU!
Makes as much damn sense as Henry Kissinger.
Typical Moran of a ReichWinger buttwipe. Al Gore’s being awarded the Noble Peace Prize was clearly a
travesty. But Genrul ‘Betrayus’ is not the man who should have gotten it!
No!
Only one human on this planet truly deserves this this year and that would be:
The Colossus of the CodPiece
My logic is simple this leader has created the opportunity for a generation of Peace Prizes to be awarded….
Cleaning up
hisour mess.Joe Lieberman in 2008
Can you imagine that 27% of 300m Americans would e sympathetic to this? That’s about 100,000,000 people
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” — Tom Lehrer
Eamon @ 8:
Most of them are one or more of the following: Old, Insane, Ignorant, Evil.
If Faux could pick the Nobel Prize winner…
Oooh, let me guess!
(a) Dubya
(b) Cheney
(c) Josef Goebbels
(d) all of the above
Wow, a head-scratcher for sure!
Laughing - can’t stand up - stop it!! - Stop it I say!! Oh my god . . . you’re killing me … stop it - please - stop it . . . . OMG - I think I peed my pants - please stop . . . .
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Too funny - heard this yesterday. It really stands out for the extraordinary level of WTF!! it reaches. It is COMPLETELY surreal that Faux news would even PRETEND to presume to such self-importance.
Have someone man the phones Ailes - I’m sure the Nobel Committee is desperately trying to reach you for consultation even as I write . . . .
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What possible justification could they use for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to David Petraeus. David Petraeus had nothing to do with what happened in Anbar Province. Are they suggesting that the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded based on a myth, or the product of political spin. If they want to award the Nobel Prize for what happened in Anbar Province, then they should nominate the Sheiks who took the initiative months before David Petraeus took command in Iraq.
C&L: “displacement of thousands more”
I think a bit more research is needed by the C&L staff.
The humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate with the number of displaced Iraqis, both inside and outside the country, rising. Now, an estimated 4.2 million Iraqis are have been uprooted from their homes, with the monthly rate of displacement climbing to over 60,000 people compared to 50,000 previously,
Relief Web
20% of Iraq’s population…not thousands.
Yeah, and the Nobel Prize for science should go to the Discovery Institute.
Watching Faux News is like taking a trip to Opposite World. Up becomes down, left becomes right, and I get so dizzy I almost throw up.
Reich-wingers are claiming that the NPP is fraudulent, yet they think a General should win it? Jebus, reich-wingers really is the party of flawed “logic”.
What in the world makes these idiots think that the rest of the planet has to play along with this anti-Bush equals anti-America? The arrogance is beyond astounding.
It never fails to amaze me. Just when I think the Fox “news channel ?” couldn’t possibly get any dumber they go and prove me wrong… again! :0
Listen to the very end of the clip when they admit on air that Petraeus is a conservative!! LOL. oops
wow. these idiots are beyond parody.
Petraeus for a PEACE PRIZE?!! The riech-wingers have lost ALL their marbles: Martin Luther King, Jr. is probably rolling over in his grave!!!
When I watch videos of Fox News I always get the feeling that something is missing. I finally realized what it is. It’s the “laugh track”. The laughter is what’s missing. (Except my own.) Geebus. What a bunch of maroons.
Restoring order (not really) after you created the disorder is not something to be reward.
Hmmm, and they are upset about conservatives not getting peace prizes… maybe they should examine the conservative view of peace.
This was SO wrong in so many ways. The guy they brought in was wrong - the surge did not do what he said it did. Then, the Fox guys trying to put words in his mouth - and when he said Gore was good - they had to keep trying until he finally bit. If you ever saw that bad movie with Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves where you could see these people were really demons - that’s kind of what the guy on the left reminded me of - the other one just seems generally insufferable
I don’t know if Petraeus deserves a Nobel PEACE Prize, but he certainly deserves an Oscar.
After losing thousands of weapons, which now be in our enemies’s hands, he convinces everyone he’s the one who can win this nonsense.
Roket @ 23:
With coconut?
There’s only been two Generals who have been awarded the Peace Prize since World War II: General George Marshall and Le Duc Tho. Marshall was a tactical genius, proponent of the Marshall Plan and attacked by McCarthy for the Korean War. I some how doubt Fox would want to bring up Tho in comparison to Petreus. In other words, it takes a hell of a lot more for a general to be awarded the peace prize that the mess Petreus has continued to lead.
bmw 528 @ 1:
I prefer we try so they can’t breed.
Incredible. How could anyone think Faux News has any credibility at this point?
BTW, Kucinich 08
Fox plagiarizes. Orwell said it first. War is peace.
Yeah, that’s like given Fox News an Edward R. Murrows award in journalism. LOL!
A Nobel Dispute? There’s no real dispute. They just don’t like it.
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder in my life.
A Nobel Dispute: Should Gore Have Won?
You gotta love the Fox News for sticking with the false controversy/strawman approach. They sure know their audience.
Larry Craig deseved the Nobel.
He was looking for some piece.
BUSH AWARDED THE NOBEL ‘PIECE’ PRIZE
ysbaddaden @ 36:
Nice one,
“Fox & Friends: If WE could select the Nobel Prize…”
It would be known as “The Booby Prize”
miss_kitty @ 39:
And the first winner would be Pamela Anderson.
Is it just me, or have you noticed that even Fox can’t say “fair and balanced” anymore with a straight face. Their use of the word “news” in their name is what Orwell spoke up 60 years ago. Hitler also used the word “news” when he spread his propaganda on German radio and newspapers. But the guest on Fox News are always shouting, the people that don’t agree with us are like Hitler. Is this crazy world?
Jack Canney @ 41:
Larry Craig has a hard time too.
Fux News is all f**ked up! At least they didn’t say cheney/bush!
Bet if Fux News was around in 1942-1945 they would have chosen Hitler - for getting rid of them pesky, christian-hating Jews who were fomenting all that trouble in Germany.
Dennis Kucinich deserves the Nobel Peace prize next year. Just read his speech to the Latino Congresso recently Its amazing!
Here’s a highlight:
…Now the people in the Administration of George Bush better remember their Miranda rights, because when I’m elected President I’m going to see that they are arrested. I’m not kidding here! I want to let you to know something; how I feel about what’s happened to our country. We have been led into a war based upon lies — an unjust a war. We’ve seen our civil liberties taken away because of lies. The President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense are all part of this. They’re going to be held accountable under the law. If someone runs a traffic light, they’ll get a ticket here. There are a million dead Iraqis and almost 4,000 dead American soldiers as a result of this war. Where is the accountability?
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To the Reich…
War = peace.
Yep, give a medal to the General who currently is overseeing our clusterfuck and, who accepted a partisan political appointment to address Congress and present
hisBush’s views of the “success”.agreed: Fire can be a threat to a person’s security and safety.
agreed: Society deserves to have a fire fighting crew that is well trained and provided with the most up-to-date equipment and supplies.
Q U E S T I O N:
What kind of society keeps a Fire Chief that insists on setting more fires just so that his firemen can stay in harms way so that they may have the experience they need to defeat fire to the tune of 3,800 deaths and rising.
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Another highlight from Dennis Kucinich’s speech to the Latino Congresso:
So when I say cancel NAFTA, what I mean is that we go to Mexico and renegotiate a trade agreement. And what are the principles of that trade agreement? That all workers will have the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, the right to strike, the right to decent wages and benefits, the right to a secure retirement, the right to a safe workplace. It will mean prohibitions on child labor, slave labor, and prison labor. It will mean that the air and the water are protected. It is time to have a President of the United States who will stand up for workers, who will stand up for immigrants, who will stand up for working immigrants, who will stand up for those who have documents, who will stand up for those who don’t have documents, who will stand up for human beings. We must realize that there is no such thing as an illegal human being. We need a President who will stand up for the people!
And here’s the link to the entire speech:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27692
Yeah, you can’t, so STFU!!
ysbaddaden @ 40:
The day that Gore was announced winner, I visited Foxnews.com. That story was buried in the entertainment section. The top two main stories of the day were about Anna Nicole-Smith, and Captain America returning with a new uniform. How infantile, juvenille, and disinterested in political discourse is their audience that that becomes a top story?!?
Charles @ 48:
That’s one of the reasons I hated the Captain America TV series of the early 80’s with Reg Brown (I think). They changed his uniform so it looked like he was Evel Knieval’s kid.
That, and you can’t do super-hero shows on tellie if tellie forbids violence.
Oh yeah, why would Anna Nicole Smith return in a new uniform?
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Our current clusterfuck is called Iraq
Our past clusterfuck was called Studio 54.
How about the “Best ass-kissing and propaganda-catapulting to get promoted” prize? I’m sure we can find prizes for the Bushie political appointees without having to lie about it.
Well if they had a Nobel War Prize, the Bushies would have it five years running!
Not to mention Hannity and his cast of retards discussing Al Gore and whether Gore is a hypocrite. At least Gore is trying to be helpful and not just going on tv and radio with a singular purpose to slam and smear people. Jealous much?