Right On The Right

YouTube has a habit of censoring ads about Islam, ads about abortion, and now, ads about Al Gore. Michelle Malkin has a post up about an ad made by the Competitive Enterprise Institute criticizing Al Gore. Fair Use, anyone? Here's the banned ad:

President Bush invited former Vice President Al Gore to the White House to congratulate him on his Nobel Peace Prize. This is just interesting given the 2000 election results. Hot Air has the story, and here's a bit of video:

Ok, so Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. In all honesty, this is news that's not that important, but great fodder for commentary. I have about a million different ways I could be insulting the Goracle right now, but about 999,999 of them have already been fleshed out on other websites. So, on to the new angle. How do you win a Nobel Peace Prize? Here's an excerpt:

3. Kill a lot of people, then stop. In 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. Kissinger's CV included the "secret" bombing of Cambodia and the "Christmas" bombing of North Vietnam; just a month before his prize was announced, he was complicit in the coup that installed a brutal dictatorship in Chile. So why did he win? Because he and Tho had reached a truce to end the Vietnam War. Tho wasn't a particularly peaceful man either, but at least he had the common courtesy to refuse the award.

The first two ways to win that Nobel Peace Prize are equally comedic. I suppose if I was a blogger in the 1970s however, I would be angry because Kissinger wasn't doing enough to destroy the North Vietnamese tyrant regime. In almost a perfect parallel to today's conflict, it's administration after administration not doing enough to win the battle. Too bad the stakes are higher this time. To put this all in context, the Goracle won the prize in a unique way. He made a crappy inaccurate movie.

Former Vice President of the United States, Academy Award Winner, Candidate for President, Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Throw all of those out. You can just call him Al. Big fat, lying, manipulative Al. The Goracle, as he's been dubbed by many on my side of the aisle, has received the Nobel Peace Prize. That Prize is a running gag at this point, having been given to the likes of Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter in the past.

The Nobel Prize Website has the pathetic news. Michelle Malkin and Jay from Stop the ACLU have some of the better stuff though. Example? What the Czech President said about climate change:

The author Michael Crichton stated it clearly: “the greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda”. I feel the same way, because global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem. It requires courage to oppose the “established” truth, although a lot of people – including top-class scientists – see the issue of climate change entirely differently. They protest against the arrogance of those who advocate the global warming hypothesis and relate it to human activities.

As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.

Those are some pretty radical and sobering words from a man who leads a nation ravaged by war and communism for years. I support giving this man a Nobel Peace Prize for that amount of clarity. On the serious matter of who deserved the prize, Captain Ed weighs in:

Who else could have won the Nobel prize, if the committee wanted to promote peace and freedom rather than political allies? Well, perhaps they may have considered the hundreds, if ot thousands of monks in Burma who just sacrificed their lives in the pursuit of non-violent regime change. One or more of the people involved in the six-nation talks that has avoided war over North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programs would have also seemed a more germane choice.

Personally, I don't know who should win the prize, mainly because I think war is one of the steps on the way to peace many times. I believe history will prove President Bush and Prime Minister Blair to be peacemakers. The liberal left would have none of that, but perhaps that's why I like it so much.

Former President Bill Clinton and political blogger Andy Ostroy are now predicting that Al Gore will enter the 2008 race. I'm personally in the camp that believes he'll be jumping into the race too, so this is no surprise to me. NewsMax has the story:

Hillary Clinton may be the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, but her husband Bill thinks she’ll likely face stiff competition from a yet unannounced source – Al Gore.

Bill was at a get-together at the apartment of Air America’s new chief Mark Green when political blogger Andy Ostroy asked the former president if he believes Gore is going to run, according to the New York Post’s Page Six column.

"Someone’s got to fizzle,” Clinton answered. "If someone fizzles, then yeah, he could enter the race. He’s got plenty of money, his own money, to do it.”

Ostroy predicts that it will be Barack Obama who fizzles by September, and "Gore will toss his hat into the ring and enlist the junior senator from Illinois as his running mate. An unbeatable ticket.”