Attention, Mr. Rosenberg: Five Norwegians are not "the international community"
The debate about whether President Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize is a subjective one. Opinions vary widely.
But other questions have clear-cut answers (also known as "facts); for example: Does "international" mean five people from the same country? No.
M. J. Rosenberg challenged the truth a few days ago when he said, of the Nobel Peace Prize:
"Essentially this award is a statement from the international community that it welcomes the United States assuming, once again, the role of world leader that it discarded eight years ago"
Again, that's incorrect. To call the group that chose the winner of this award the "international community" is like calling a civil war a "global war."
A likely rebuttal would be that the reaction of the international community --not the award itself-- has been one of approval. But
1) Rosenberg referred specifically to the award, not the reaction.
2) Politicians and newspapers (and other media) throughout the world (also known as the international community) are roughly split on this issue depending on their ideologies.
Please be more accurate next time. Thanks
And you assume that the people that select for the award don't get any feedback, they just do the intellectual equivalent of throwing a dart at the names on a dartboard, do you? Your argument is weak, but then, most of your arguments are weak.
October 13, 2009 8:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please provide anything that you possibly can to back up your argument, would you?
Now, go outside and play.
October 13, 2009 8:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Coming from the blogger who for the past few months could not once cite Krugman without mentioning the word "Nobel," the sudden efforts to diminish the prize is, in a term you so eagerly hurl at others, so hypocritical.
October 13, 2009 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink