Another Stellar Award from Nobel

Yes, Harold Printer has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

I suppose he may have merits as a writer, but this is another one of those Nobel choices that just make you raise your eyebrows due to the choice being so very very anti-America.

Here are some quotes indicative of his mind set. (From the AP)

"The United States ... is at this moment developing new nuclear systems which it is prepared to use at the drop of a hat. It is totally indifferent to the deaths of others and will murder anyone who gets in its way. It is the most feared, most powerful and most detested nation the world has ever known." --2004

"The invasion of Iraq was an act of state terrorism. So it is Bush and Blair who are in fact the terrorists. I believe they must be arraigned at the International Criminal Court of Justice and tried as war criminals." --2004

"The U.S. is really beyond reason now. . . . There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany." --2003

"The 'rogue state' has -- without thought, without pause for reflection, without a moment of doubt, let alone shame -- confirmed that it is a fully fledged, award-winning, gold-plated monster." --2002

"Let us face the truth, the truth is that neither Clinton nor Blair gives a damn about the Kosovar Albanians. This action has been yet another blatant and brutal assertion of U.S. power using NATO as its missile. It set out to consolidate one thing -- American domination of Europe." --1999, after NATO intervened in Albania

Seems like an educated and reasonable voice to me.

But I suppose I should cut an "Artiste" some slack. Just like the Hollywood left, in this country, I don't think there is any need to assume that they have any clue about the real world.

As to the Nobel Foundation, it makes you wonder why so many of the picks are so vehemently anti-American.