Some Nobel Prize awards recognize humanity's best while others recognize our worst.
Michelle Malkin posts on the latest Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Harold Pinter, a figure much beloved by those who hate America while holding as their heroes Stalin, Mao, Che,Arafat and other monsters.
In recent years, Pinter's lavished praise on his now fellow Nobel laureate, Yasser Arafat and "his cause." It's never bothered Pinter that Arafat lured and trained children to turn themselves into human bombs; and then sent them out to explode themselves beside innocents, including other children at play or school.
It's never bothered Pinter that during decades of encouraging and directing terrorism, Arafat grew wealthy through graft while most Palestinian people live in poverty.
You may be asking, "Does anyone or anything bother Pinter?
Yes. Here's a letter he wrote to the Guardian in Nov., 2003 on the eve of a visit by President Bush's to Britain:
Dear President Bush,Pinter's letter is the kind of writing that excites the far-Left and the Nobel selection committee.
I'm sure you'll be having a nice little tea party with your fellow war criminal, Tony Blair. Please wash the cucumber sandwiches down with a glass of blood, with my compliments.
Harold Pinter
Playwright
Pinter is in the tradition of another Nobel literature prize winner, Pablo Neruda.
By 1953 when Stalin died, everyone knew he had killed tens of millions of innocent people. But he remained a revered figure on the far-Left.
A grieving Neruda penned a tribute to Stalin. Here's part of it:
To be men! That is the Stalinist law! . . .Neruda's Nobel was awarded in 1971.
We must learn from Stalin
his sincere intensity
his concrete clarity. . . .
Stalin is the noon,
the maturity of man and the peoples.
Stalinists, Let us bear this title with pride. . . .
I was tempted to end this post with something like: "Whose next for a Nobel, Michael Moore?"
But that wouldn't be fair to Moore, although I don't doubt there are some on the Nobel selection committee who think he shows promise.
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8 comments:
he's being rewarded, as naruda was, for his literary works, not his political agenda.
i'm sorry you're not intelligent enough to distinguish the two.
Let's see a rabid right winger win a Nobel then.
Steve,
Neruda often praised Stalin and the Soviets in his works. The ode I quoted from was one he often said represented him well as a writer.
See my comment now to David.
David,
The committee doesn't award Nobel lit prizes to people who approve of the likes of Pinochet or Milosevic. Those men are facists. The committee would never honor writers who supported fascists.
Stalin, Mao, Arafat. They're all OK with the Nobel lit prize people. That's becasue the liberals and far-Leftist who serve on the selection committee are able to make a big distinction between fascists and the likes of Stalin, Mao, and Arafat.
You, like so many conservatives, can't make that distinction.
So I'm forced to withdraw your nomination to serve on next year's lit prize selection committee.
Thank you both, Steve and David, for commenting.
John
Steve -
I suspect that the Nobel Comm. was intelligent enought to know that all artists are performance artists.
Or do you think the papers would print such a letter from a non-entity? Of course not.
It's all of a piece.
A piece of what is left to the reader.
-AC
Thanks for the explanation John. It is difficult for me to know which mass murderer I am supposed to be for and which I am supposed to be against. How do liberals keep it straight? Can I get a copy of the rule book somewhere? Perhaps with the proper guidance I can become enlightened enough to understand when cursing in a poem is high art and worthy of a grant and when it is simply sophomoric.
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