Gored

Al Gore winning the Nobel Prize for Peace is like the end of a political comedy.  I mean, does he really think that global warming is "the most dangerous challenge we have ever faced"?  You can't make that stuff up.  Whatever one thinks of Gore's claims, the idea that he has done more for world peace in the last year than anyone else on the planet is ludicrous.  I tend to side with P.J. O'Rourke, who once wrote that every year the award should go to the United States military, since they do more for world peace in one day than all the Ben and Jerry's ice cream ever made.  Steven Hayward has it about right:

Parson Al winning the Nobel Peace Prize was as predictable as his Oscar for Best Documentary, and represents the final debasement of a once-prestigious award. It used to be that the award went to people of genuine humanitarian or diplomatic accomplishment, like Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer or Doctors Without Borders. Now it goes to frauds and poseurs like Rigoberta Menchu, Yassir Arafat, the U.N. (three times now, counting Gore’s co-winner, the U.N.’s climate change panel), and Jimmy Carter. About the only way to top this would be to give the next Peace Prize to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.