Self-described Nobel Peace Prize "accredited nominee" Limbaugh: "I don't even know why Gore's qualified for this"
On the March 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, after noting that Ole Danbolt Mjos, the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, reportedly "praise[d]" former Vice President Al Gore's efforts to draw attention to global warming, Rush Limbaugh declared: "I don't even know why Gore's qualified for this. ... I have done more for world peace to promote liberty and freedom than Al Gore has." Limbaugh stated that he is "an accredited nominee this year for the Nobel Peace Prize" and asserted that it was "cheap" that "Gore's over there" in Norway "lobbying" for the award. He later said: "My lawyers at the Landmark Legal Foundation are looking into the possibility of filing an objection with the Nobel committee over the unethical tampering for this award that Al Gore is engaging in." In fact, according to a February 22 Associated Press report, Limbaugh's "nomination" by the Landmark Legal Foundation "appeared to" be "invalid" because the foundation may not have "nomination rights."
According to a March 29 Reuters article, Mjos attended a March 29 speech by Gore in Oslo, Norway, and afterwards "prais[ed]" Gore for advancing a "very important message" on the threat posed by rising global temperatures. Referring to the report, Limbaugh claimed: "Gore's over there lobbying. That's cheap. You're not supposed to lobby for this thing. You're supposed to have dignity. You're supposed to sit back there and let the selection process take its course." Limbaugh then offered himself as a contrast to Gore: "I'm not over there speaking to these people about anything" and asked: "What in the hell's global warming have to do with world peace?"
On February 1, Landmark president Mark Levin sent a letter to Mjos purporting to nominate Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his "nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all mankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin." But according to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, only certain individuals are "qualified to nominate" people for the award: "members of national assemblies, governments, and international courts of law; university chancellors, professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology; leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs; Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of previous years; board members of organizations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize; present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; and former advisers of the Norwegian Nobel Institute." Moreover, only those individuals who are specifically invited by the committee may submit candidates. As Levin made clear in his February 1 letter to Mjos, the organization's nomination of Limbaugh was "unsolicited."
Meanwhile, Gore was reportedly nominated by two Norwegian lawmakers, who the AP reported are "among the thousands of people and groups with rights to nominate Nobel candidates."
From the February 22 AP article:
The 181 nominations received for the 2007 Nobel Peace prize are believed to include former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, a woman who rescued Polish children in the Second World War and two prominent Canadians.
[...]
The deadline for nominations is Feb. 1, but the number traditionally creeps up during the month as late mail arrives or the committee makes its own nominations at the year's first meeting, which this year was on Wednesday.
Apart from deep secrecy, the list of candidates is further clouded by groups announcing nominations that are invalid, either because they arrived too late or because they don't have nomination rights.
This year, that group appeared to include American radio personality Rush Limbaugh and former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali."
From the March 30 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Also, ladies and gentlemen, I'm being forced into taking drastic action. Listen to this: Al Gore won praise -- he was in Oslo yesterday -- he won praise from a man with the power to change lives, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, after he gave his speech -- Gore did -- urging more action to fight global warming. Ole Danbolt Mjos -- if I'm pronouncing that right -- said that Al Gore's speech was "a very important message" after hearing Al Gore, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, say the planet was under threat from the build-up of greenhouse gases mainly caused by humans burning fossil fuels.
Well, Gore's over there lobbying. That's cheap. You're not supposed to lobby for this thing. You're supposed to have dignity. You're supposed to sit back there and let the selection process take its course, but there's Gore over there lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm not doing that. As you know, I'm an accredited nominee this year for the Nobel Peace Prize, and I'm not over there speaking to these people about anything. We submitted our application full of qualifications: the résumé, all of the support materials. We're not going over there trying to influence these people and their votes.
Stein Tonnesson, head of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo said, "I have Gore as a clear favorite here for the Peace Prize. I think the committee will be unable to resist the temptation to add their voice to concerns about global warming."
Objections include that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won only in 2002. It may be too soon for another U.S. Democrat to win. They're going to announce the '07 prize winner in October.
I don't even know why Gore's qualified for this. What in the hell's global warming have to do with world peace?! I have done more for world peace to promote liberty and freedom than Al Gore has.
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LIMBAUGH: My lawyers at the Landmark Legal Foundation are looking into the possibility of filing an objection with the Nobel committee over the unethical tampering for this award that Al Gore is engaging in. This is clearly above and beyond the pale. I mean, this might happen in high school class president elections and so forth, but this is shameless.
It's not just tampering, it's pandering. Al Gore flying off -- look at the carbon footprint. Look at the carbon footprint just to get over there and make a speech. He could have made a DVD in his mansion in Nashville -- outside Nashville -- and sent that, but he flew over there to give a speech about global warming and, of course, the Nobel committee is -- one of the principals there was in attendance and made some very positive comments about this.
Al Gore actually behaving in a way totally opposite that which he recommends in his movie, and they're sitting over there going gaga -- and, to me, this is unethical. This is tampering with the entire process.
So, we're looking into the possibility -- we're considering filing an objection with the Nobel committee over the unethical tampering Al Gore is engaging in, in his quest to win the Nobel Peace Prize awarded in October of this year.
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s'ok, everything Flush does is invalid. We are used to it from the drug-addled gas-bag
Rush, what a jerk. Does not even believe that humans are the cause of gobal warming.
Rush, what and idiot.
SAVE DEMOCRACY, VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT!!
I know how Rush will subvert the voting process! He has let the committee know that he has a secure, unfettered supply of oxy, and he'll keep the committee high, thus deserving the peace prize!!
Rush is hilarious, Olbermann is right, he's a comedian but don't know it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Thoughts;
Dan Grady
LOL, hyperbole morphs into the utterly absurd. :-D
Limbaugh has as much a chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize as Theodore Kaczynsk has.
Should have read "Theodore Kaczynski"
I smell a cage grudge match comin on. Maybe it could go tag-team with Clinton (Bill, that is) and Hannity in the corners.
I can see it now - Rush "The Big Pill" Limbaugh and Sean "Pretty Boy" Hannity vs. Al "El Nino" Gore and Bill "The Cuban Cigar" Clinton. Winner take all grudge match for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Special referee Kofi Annan.
We'll have to stage the big event in the middle of an Iraqi cemetary, so they can be watched by all their victims.
"...nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all mankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin."
This is all a big April Fool's joke, right?
Rush being nominated for a Nobel? Ha!! That's right on up there with Bill O'reilly's claim to winning two Peabody awards!!
Har! This must be infuriating to Rush. The idiot has spent so many hundreds of hours promoting his self-acknowledged greatness, I think he's starting to believe his own BS.
I guess the reinforcement and praise the human colostomy bag gets from his ditto head callers is enough to support his delusions.
He may go completely insane with this.To see Al Gore's speech on an actual subject being praised, and equate that with Gore "lobbying", then to describe his own paranoid propaganda as positive, and act confused as to why actual humans don't recognize his importance, this might send his Oxycontin budget through the roof.
Who the hell actually still hasn't figured out this crap-sack?
You say Gore is lobbying? Rush, you are ASKING the Nobel Prize people to give you an award.
I take that back. You are DEMANDING the award.
When I read or hear something Rush has said, I'm taken back to a memory from my childhood - when I had to shovel out the henhouse on a hot August afternoon: ankle deep in chickenschit and trapped in a cloud of foulness.
Thanks for the memories Rush.
Limbaugh then offered himself as a contrast to Gore: "I'm not over there speaking to these people about anything"
Gee, nobody in other countries is clamoring to fly you over to tell them howe superior America is to everybody else, and how corporations should have all the money because they're not lazy like you poor people?
and asked: "What in the hell's global warming have to do with world peace?"
Indirectly, Rush? Might be a tough connect-the -dots for a simple man like you, but any link between energy sources and war over the past century or so?
Let's take a look at the nominator: Mark Levin
Mark Levin is a radio talk show host, and is like Michael Savage, only Mark Levin hates Michael Savage.
What Media Matters did not report: Mark Levin told a supposed "Liberal" caller to "stick a flag pole up his butt":
http://marklevinfan.com/?p=1996
I don't understand why Media Matters missed this one...
Are you a friend of the Colonel?
Did you go by another name in a former life?
Mark Levin is probably the most obnoxious troglodyte of them all. He's like Gilbert Godfrey without the humor.
I don't think Levin is on MMFA's radar screen.
His voice reminds me of an old SNL actor Tim Kazurinsky character from one of those terrible Police Academy movies.
This tirade is so off-the-charts stupid that I actually believe Rush is trying to be funny, despite the absence of detectable humor.
Rusty,
I think it's pretty obvious Limbaugh is being facetious here. At least this stab at "humor" doesn't include with his usual racist snide remarks...of course Gore is White ;-)
We submitted our application full of qualifications: the résumé, all of the support materials.
Dammed straight. I doubt anyone is more deserving of the award. His treatment of MS sufferers as equals by making fun of them just like anybody else is only scraping the surface. Surely no one would deny that his promotion of his latino cleaning lady to the level of free-market farmacist gives hope worldwide to minorities. His efforts to keep Donovan McNabb from becoming a tool of the elitist media illustrates his dedication to blacks. And nothing could indicate his desire for commerce in other countries more than spreading his personal fortune among the young adult boys in the Dominican Republic.
These constitute merely a snapshot of the good that Rush has done to promote peace in the world, I'm sure there are many more examples. Al Gore couldn't put together a resume that would even remotely equal that of Rush.
Admit it, Neondesert. You've been reading Jonathon Swift. That's un-American enough, but you seem to understand him. Don't you know he's old Europe?
Can we now stipulate that when Olbermann gives Limpbone the gold over this, MMFA doesn't need to cover it?
Swift would not have forgotten to include Rush's advancement of peace by refusing to fight in Viet Nam.
Swift also would have likely included Rush's promotion of understanding between different cultures, such as when he said "When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult ; it's an invitation."
No, I'm hardly a Swift contemporary. I am competent only to observe and admire.
Gore is a student of Jonathan Swift, and especially Gulliver. His favorite charactars were the Yahoos (given his involvement in the success of the internet) and the Houhnhymns (hence his talking like Mr. Ed).
You know, this might have worked as an attack on Gore, if you had contrasted him with someone other than yourself. Turn around and talk about Condi Rice, or Bo Gritz, or Wally Boykin--hell, talk about Sean Hannity! Say he's done more for world peace!
But you compare him to someone who had his lawyers send in a nomination that they weren't qualified to make.--namely, you! Al Gore almost certainly didn't 'submit his nomination' himself--nor did any of the other nominees.
Just you, Rush. Clueless, egotistical, mean-spirited loudmouth.
Well, there's always next year. Get on it; attack some more Parkinsons and cancer victims--whitewash some more cruelties--sneer at some more 'do-gooders'! Yeah, that's the ticket!
Sadly anyone can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Heck even Bush and Blair were nominated. Good thing it is a Peace Prize and also centered in Europe.
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Sorry, Rush . . . I don't believe the Nobel Committee gives awards for multiple marriages or being caught with a controlled substance while on parole . . .
Another fine example of the right-wing tactic of smearing people who are smarter, more competent, and more ethical. I truly believe there is this uproar against Gore because they are SCARED of him and his popularity.
When I need a laugh I tune into Hannity when he whines about Gore's hypocrisy because Gore lives in a huge house.
They fear him because he tells the truth without doing so to propagate his corporate funders goals.
Also Gore is no Republican that will claim to be saving people from a dictator they once supported.
"My lawyers at the Landmark Legal Foundation..."
I didn't know one could self-nominate for Nobel Peace Prize.
There could be an upside--this might persuade the Nobel Committee to give it to Gore, just to spite Limpbutt.
If a life-long terrorist like Yassar Arafat, a man who had no intention of ever making peace with Israel and so brazenly flouted his keffiyeh while making gestures of "peace" .. if a man like that can win a nobel peace prize then let Limbaugh have one as well, give the man two.
Without Arafat there would be no Palestinians left. Get your head out of the sand and look what was really happening in the middle east. The Palestinians are the ones sitting in the ghettos.
What would you do? Sit by and let your people be eliminated? Like what happened to the Jews in Europe? Perversion of history that they now do the same to others.
Though it is a typical hypocrite's ignoriant rebuttal. If the situations were reversed, you would be calling the Palestinians fascists. Probably just more anti-Muslim racism.
Rabin also got the Peace Prize, but I guess murdering Palestinians is ok.
I'm surprised, but maybe not that much, that the reporting on this story, as well as Gore's original "nomination" has escaped the following facts taken directly from the Nobel website:
--Randy Campbell, Santa Barbara, CA.
This world would be a far better place if next year, Rush Limbaugh could be nominated for the Darwin Award....
:-)
Oh, Snap!!!! LOL!!!!
Al is just a spokesman, why should he be nominated?
Martin Luther King was basically a spokesman for the Civil Rights movement and HE won one.
I have much respect for the King. His passion, and sincerity where obvious. You jsut can not tell anymore with these quaks AND former quaks in congress.
Well I agree with you and put Limbaugh in the same pot.
Did anybody tell Rush it isn't the Nobel Pizza Prize?
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Rush is obviously disturbed by the fact that this little practicle joke he and that other loser Mark Levin cooked up is not getting any of the media attention they had hoped for. People are tired of Rush Limbaugh. Many of my friends on the right claim they no longer listen to him because he spends so much time trying to convince everyone just how great he is. His latest attempts to shine the spotlight on himself includes some baseless claim that a "great consensus proves that I am correct almost all of the time."
Only a few weeks ago this same bellicose fecal specimen who pontificates from behind the urine colored microphone was screaming at the top of his lungs that "consensus means nothing more than the lack of leadership," in yet another one of his tired screeds aginst the left. Therefore, by his own declaration, it would appear that Rush has been hoisted to his self proclaimed pinnacle of greatness by pretty much nothing.
"Talent on loan from God?" How embarrassed the deity must be.
I love Rush! He makes me look good and smart and intelligent and kind.
Doesn't the pigman know that his lawyers can't do anything as far as the nominating committee for the Nobel Peace Prize is concerned? How ignorant is he? And what the hell has he ever done for world peace? Talk about crooks and liars.
No anchovies! I spell my name Danger!
Well, Gore's over there lobbying. That's cheap. You're not supposed to lobby for this thing. You're supposed to have dignity. You're supposed to sit back there and let the selection process take its course, but there's Gore over there lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm not doing that. As you know, I'm an accredited nominee this year for the Nobel Peace Prize, and I'm not over there speaking to these people about anything. We submitted our application full of qualifications: the résumé, all of the support materials. We're not going over there trying to influence these people and their votes. That brings to mind O’Reilly’s one person race against Hillary Clinton to sell more books that was chronicled on Sweet Jesus I Hate Bill O’Reilly.com. O’Reilly claimed that Clinton sold more books than he did because she had time to promote her book at bookstore signings as if he did not promote his book to a national TV audience 5 nights a week. Here, Limbaugh acts like he is so above lobbying for the prize while he is promoting his campaign every day across the nation and beyond, even capitalizing more by selling merchandise to highly impressionable audience and claiming foul play when Gore makes a speech. My lawyers at the Landmark Legal Foundation are looking into the possibility of filing an objection with the Nobel committee over the unethical tampering for this award that Al Gore is engaging in. I did not think that Republicans believed in frivolous law suites. Only the Landmark Legal Foundation has the right combination of blinding partisan motivation and flimsy legal insight to file such an objection without laughing.
Rush, Rush, Rush....Delusional Rush...I don't recall the Nobel Prize going to obese drug addicts, or it being a popularity contest for Right Wing nutjobs. You? A peacenik? A lover of peace? A global force for a loving peaceful world?? Bwahahahahahaha! Oh, I hurt myself laughing....Ha!
The Oxycontinmoron being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize is so absurd as to be laughable. The Landmark Legal Foundation is nothing more than a radical group set upon destroying this nations' educational and environmental organizations. Primary funders include the Scafe family and Charles Koch, one of the most notorious polluters in the US. One little known fact is that if you were to pour salt on Mark Levin or Rush Limbaugh, they would turn inside out. For Rush to consider that he has done anything at all to advance peace is clear proof that he is under the influence of one or more medications. The Nobel Prize has 7 categories and 7 prizes. Physics, chemistry, literature, peace, physiology, medicine and economics. If there were a Nobel Prize for racism, divisiveness, lying, misrepresentation, sociopathic behavior, malevolence, shamless opportunism or greed, The Bush Crime Family would STILL beat out Rush for the prize year after year. What Rush fails to understand about the Prize is the those who nominate candidates for ANY of the prizes have been asked for nominations from the Nobel committees. Unsolicited nominations are not considered. For Levin to nominate the Oxycontinmoron is akin to planting a marker on a pile of dog feces in the park.
There's good reason why far righters never win humanitarian awards. It is not in their nature to do anything humanitarian.
I don't know what's more pathetic, the things that come out of this idiot's mouth, or the fact that there are hundreds of people who hang onto his every word.