Sunday, October 14, 2007

OpinionJournal - Featured Article

OpinionJournal - Featured Article - Not Nobel Winners

In their efforts to maintain their elitist/leftist sensibilities, the Nobel committee seemingly overlooked these deserving receipients.

"In Olso Friday, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to the Burmese monks whose defiance against, and brutalization at the hands of, the country's military junta in recent weeks captured the attention of the Free World.

The prize was also not awarded to Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders who were arrested and in some cases beaten by police earlier this year while protesting peacefully against dictator Robert Mugabe.

Or to Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam arrested this year and sentenced to eight years in prison for helping the pro-democracy group Block 8406.

Or to Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Uyyouni, co-founders of the League of Demanders of Women's Right to Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia, who are waging a modest struggle with grand ambitions to secure basic rights for women in that Muslim country."


The list is long, distinguished and frankly embarrassing for the committee...were they capable of shame.

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This WashPost editorial seems to ignore their own contributions to this condition. The Post has been just as guilty of burying the lead as the NYT and the other papers who view themselves as the "opinion makers".

While this mea culpa is welcomed, it is a little too late.

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