Nobels loosening?
Wonder if the Nobel outfit is trying to break out of its hard-line Maoist mold?
This year's lit prize goes to Mario Vargas Llosa**, a solid anti-Communist who is still hated by Commies for going apostate. Some previous lit prizes have gone to non-political writers, but the political ones were always loyal Reds.
This year's Peace prize goes to Liu Xiaobo, an anti-Communist dissident in China. Previous peace prizes were always for pro-Commie dissidents in capitalist countries, or even currently powerful Commie rulers like Crazed Sex Poodle and Pasha Obama.
China's response verifies the hypothesis that the Nobel folks have escaped from their previous well-rewarded sycophancy:
"This is an obscenity against the peace prize," Ma Zhaoxu, a foreign ministry spokesman, said in a statement.
Reuters news agency reported that China summoned Norway's ambassador in Beijing on Friday to protest the award.
Indeed this is an obscenity against the long-standing Nobel tradition, which was an obscenity against civilization.
** The BBC pronounces his name "Meddy Oh Vagg Ass Woooo-yosa." BBC has great trouble with foreign sounds: they pronounced the former UN head Boutros Boutros-Ghali as "Buttress Buttress Aaarghrhghrghgrrgh-railey." Sounded like the newsreader and a bulldog were fighting over a tasty bone.