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October 14, 2005
More Nobel Nuttiness
It isn't only the Peace Prize that is apparently awarded primarily on the basis of anti-American moonbattery. This year's Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Harold Pinter. A 2002 essay subtly entitled "The American Administration Is a Bloodthirsty Wild Animal" gives some insight into this character's mentality.
Following a floridly psychotic diatribe on the evils of America, which he blames for Iraqi babies born with no rectums and even more bizarrely, for the millions of deaths that occurred in Southeast Asia when America withdrew and communists took over, Pinter offers the following analysis of the events of September 11, 2001:
The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state terrorism on the part of America over many years, in all parts of the world.
According to Pinter's brilliant theories, any Islamic terrorism occurring in England is America's fault too — or more precisely, the fault of those who would side with America against terrorism and totalitarianism:
Terrorist attacks are quite likely, the inevitable result of our Prime Minister's contemptible and shameful subservience to America.
A true genius like Pinter recognizes the depth and complexity of any situation. Operation Iraqi Freedom, for example, was motivated not only out of an American desire to "take control of Iraqi oil, but also because the American administration is now a bloodthirsty wild animal."
But this sort of rhetoric is too gentile to earn a guy the Nobel Prize. Pinter could do better, as he proved at London's National Theatre, where he gave a reading of his anti-war poetry inspired by the liberation of Iraq. According to The Guardian, Pinter called the US Government "the most dangerous power that ever existed." For colluding with it, Tony Blair was called a "mass murderer." Pinter refused to acknowledge that President Bush was democratically elected, called Club Gitmo a concentration camp, and announced that when it comes to America,
There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany.
This is what passes for a great mind on the Left. This is the kind of deranged, half-witted scum that is granted hallowed prizes to honor its intellect. If I weren't having so much fun, I could rest my case against the whole suppurating sore known as the Liberal Elite Intelligentsia.
Hat tips: LGF, Ace of Spades HQ, Decision '08
Posted by Van Helsing at October 14, 2005 06:35 AM
Comments
You should read his wonderful poem "American Football":
Hallelullah!
It works.
We blew the shit out of them.
We blew the shit right back up their own ass
And out their fucking ears.
It works.
We blew the shit out of them.
They suffocated in their own shit!
Hallelullah.
Praise the Lord for all good things.
We blew them into fucking shit.
They are eating it.
Praise the Lord for all good things.
We blew their balls into shards of dust,
Into shards of fucking dust.
We did it.
Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.
Delightful stuff. (Via Michelle Malkin.)
Posted by: Leigh at October 14, 2005 08:22 AM
Say what you like about Osama, he's got nothing on Pinter when it comes to psychotic free verse. Pinter needs a good dose of reality. This is the man that berated the wife of a former communist political prisoner for moving to the UK, telling her that she had absolutely no idea of reality if she thought living here was better than living in communist russia.
Posted by: Archonix at October 14, 2005 09:31 AM
If the Nobel Committee loves long awkward silences, they should ask the Democrats how they intend to defeat terrorism.
Posted by: V the K at October 14, 2005 09:41 AM
Why not give the peace prize directly to Osama Bin Laden?
This stuff is so unhinged, only an intellectual could believe it.
Posted by: Steve O at October 14, 2005 11:07 AM
Rick Moran has another take on Pinter, trying to look more at the words and style vs their America-bashing meaning.
Then again, there are those who see Piss Christ as high art.
Arrrrgh.
Posted by: The MaryHunter at October 14, 2005 03:31 PM
"If thats art, I'm a Hottentot." Harry S. Truman
Its probably a good thing Jim Morrison is dead. Otherwise he would be up for a Nobel for his "poetry." Then again, compared to Pinter, Morrison looks like Keats.
There was a time when the Prize went to people like Hemingway, Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Pearl Buck, etc. The Levellers have triumphed. Now any screed that looks like it belongs on the wall of a public toliet, as long as its anti-American, qualifies as great art.
Posted by: phil at October 15, 2005 01:15 AM