Nobel Prizes - Sellout-Political-Bullshit

[ChinaBandit]

Last week, the Nobel committee for literature awarded the 2012 prize to Chinese writer Mo Yan rather than Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The decision has been widely, and rightly, criticized as a travesty. By any measure, Murakami's literary output has been greater, received more acclaim, awards and enjoys far greater readership. The committee even praised Yan by saying his work had a great "halluciongenic" quality. Anyone who has read Murakami would know that he even wins by that charactarization. It's all an insult and international embarrassment.

So, why did it happen?

It's because earlier in the same week Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka was awarded a share of the 2012 prize in medicine for his work on stem cell research.

I smell something rotten in Norway, one that aims for geo-political balance.

The Nobel has now lost all credit. Of course, we knew that several years ago when a certain US President was awarded the Peace prize for, well, what exactly?

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

the Nobel has become political.

it no longer means jack shit.

 

[thør]

I smell something rotten in Norway, one that aims for geo-political balance.

Only the peace prize comes from Norway. Focus on the Swedes.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Only the peace prize comes from Norway. Focus on the Swedes.

Bastards in Stockholm then.

 

[thør]

Bastards in Stockholm then.

Swedes are just Norwegians with a dirty yellow stripe up their back.

(So said my great grandpa)

 

[colddiesel]

Swedes are just Norwegians with a dirty yellow stripe up their back.

(So said my great grandpa)

There were more Norwegians and more Poles at the D day landings than Frenchmen. Umm - and no Swedes!

 

[Liar]

Last week, the Nobel committee for literature awarded the 2012 prize to Chinese writer Mo Yan rather than Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The decision has been widely, and rightly, criticized as a travesty. By any measure, Murakami's literary output has been greater, received more acclaim, awards and enjoys far greater readership. The committee even praised Yan by saying his work had a great "halluciongenic" quality. Anyone who has read Murakami would know that he even wins by that charactarization. It's all an insult and international embarrassment.

Yo, Mo, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but Murakami is one of the best authors of all time. Of. All. Time!

 

[shoulderblade]

What about the Peace Prize for the EU?

As long as we are at it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

They gave Arafat the Peace Price.


It is one big Liberal-Socialist joke...

 

[miles]

What about the Peace Prize for the EU?

As long as we are at it.

Peace - no.

Economics - yes!

 

[miles]

They gave Arafat the Peace Price.


It is one big Liberal-Socialist joke...

And don't forget The Fraud won it for the Peace he was going to bestow upon us.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The only problem is, al Qaeda did not get the memo...

 

[miles]

The only problem is, al Qaeda did not get the memo...

But he has rid the world of AQ!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

But he has rid the world of AQ!

You are right, of course, he shot Osama and killed American citizens with drones...

 

[tactful]

Alfred, has rolled over many times.