October
12th 2009
One of the first things I thought when I heard Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize was that it was going to backfire on him. It is so obviously undeserved that it seemed likely to just hack people off. Well it may be happening.
The Times quotes Bob Lichter, who has tracked themes in late-night humor for 21 years, as saying “it will be telling to see how the comedians treat” the president’s winning the peace prize: Is there now a caricature taking hold of a man more celebrated than accomplished?
“A man more celebrated than accomplished” says it all.
Jeffrey Heath Miller on 13 Oct 2009 at 3:33 am #
This is very true. Just saw a preview for Letterman this evening (Mon., Oct. 12, 2009), from his monologue (it appears): “If I call your name, please come up to the stage to receive your Nobel Peace Prize.”
I honestly thought that the Leader of the Federal Regime would be savvy enough to refuse the award. Shoot, didn’t Hemingway turn his down? If anybody ever earned it in his field, it was Hemingway, I suppose.
mikefromwichita on 13 Oct 2009 at 12:45 pm #
Folks the NPP was another test to see just how much abuse the ordinary folk would accept, probably done for the amusement of mocking us. After all most people swallowed W’s 9/11 WOT lies and does anyone REALLY believe that BHO is a Natural Born Citizen rather than a Usurper????? Of course not yet our response has been nothing more than tepid tea parties. At best we might elect a few smooth talking ‘conservative’ repubs next November, but nothing fundemental will change as it is becoming clear that the average American is a pathetic wretch who loves his/her chains.
Jeffrey Heath Miller on 14 Oct 2009 at 4:45 am #
So, Mike, what is the fundamental change which the times demand? I believe I know the answer, and it does not involve a change in the courtesans and flunkies crouching around the Federal Regime in the District of Columbia.
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Jeffrey Heath Miller on 10 Mar 2011 at 4:05 pm #
Oh … and one more thing. Now that the citizens of Chicago have done the unthinkable and lost a Daley (they may be [have been] sketchy machine polits but Sr. dealt out what was coming to those who deserved it in full in the summer of ’68 and August ’69; additionally, compare the state of the city to, say, ol’ Detroit, reverted to half-pasture since its peak population in the 40′s/50′s), I reckon within my lifetime (I’m a two-pack-a-day Camel man aged 38 with a family history of deadly infarcations) the city by the lake will be rechristened as “Obama”.