Kristol: Gore getting Peace Prize is 'sick'
Former Vice President Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this week to much adulation in the media. However, not everyone is impressed.
Conservative commentators Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer appeared on the program Fox News Sunday this morning and were eager to rain on the environmental activist and, now, Nobel laureate's parade.
"Friday, I felt a warm glow thinking this man had won the Nobel Peace Prize for bloviating about global warming," Kristol said through a snarky grin. "It's a prize given by bloviators to bloviators."
Krauthammer perhaps felt Kristol was letting the prize committee and prize winners off easy.
"Look, let's not forget what the prize is about," he admonished. "Al Gore joins the ranks of Yasser Arafat, the father of modern terrorism, Le Duc Tho, who sign a treaty on behalf of a government that two years later invaded and extinguished the country it signed that treaty with, and the most disgraceful ex-president of the United States Jimmy Carter," another undeserving winner in Krauthammer's view..
Other Past winners Krauthammer didn't mention include Mother Theresa, Yitzach Rabin, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
Juan Williams of National Public Radio mounted a weak defense of the Prize and its most recent recipient before launching into a political analysis of what it might mean for a man who has long wished to be president. Then Kristol had more to say.
"Can I just say something about this wonderfully moving narrative about Al Gore, who Juan likes to Compare to Mother Theresa," the long-time pundit injected. "I haven't noticed Al Gore taking a vow of poverty recently. You know, there's something sick about taking the whole thing seriously."
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