Unlike the Oscars, this nomination means squat
February 2, 2007 5:33 PM   Subscribe

Nobel Peace Prize nomination database 1901-1955: In general the Nobel Peace Prize Committee does not reveal the nominations for the prize, and they ask the nominators not to do so as well. However, Rush Limbaugh continues the illustrious nomination of people with questionable merit, including Benito Mussolini(1935), Stalin (1945, '48), and you know who else was nominated? Yeah, that's right, Hitler (1945).
posted by edgeways (33 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Very interesting site, but I'm confused by your description. How is this not revealing nominations?

Sorry if I'm being dense.
posted by roll truck roll at 5:38 PM on February 2, 2007


Rush Limbaugh has not been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
posted by jellicle at 5:39 PM on February 2, 2007


The interesting thing about the rush Limbaugh "Nomination" is that it was simply a press release by Liberty Legal, a right-wing legal group. Liberty Legal isn't qualified to nominate anyone for a Nobel anything so really, their "nomination" carries no more weight then this post.

Oh, and by the way, I hereby nominate Jessamyn for the Nobel Prize in economics. In your face, Edmund S. Phelps!
posted by delmoi at 5:39 PM on February 2, 2007


Oops, I mean "landmark legal" not "liberty legal"
posted by delmoi at 5:40 PM on February 2, 2007


By the way, you know who actually was nominated for a Nobel peace prize? Al Gore. By people who are actually qualified to nominate, and probably have the votes to give it too him.
posted by delmoi at 5:42 PM on February 2, 2007


I remember a heated debate on the blue during the Tookie execution, over the validity of saying he was a Nobel nominee.

From now on, I plan to Godwin all discussions related to the Nobel Prize.
posted by roll truck roll at 5:46 PM on February 2, 2007


Rush's Nobel Mug Shot
posted by homunculus at 5:49 PM on February 2, 2007


Correction: Hitler was nominated in 1939, not 1945. Nomination was by E. G. C. Brandt, member of the Swedish parliament. Apparently Brandt himself tried to withdraw the nomination.
posted by russilwvong at 5:52 PM on February 2, 2007


delmoi: By the way, you know who actually was nominated for a Nobel peace prize? Al Gore. By people who are actually qualified to nominate, and probably have the votes to give it too him.

You know, it wouldn't surprise me if they gave it to him, just because it would be such a wonderfully effective way of giving the current administration the finger. I suspect the Nobel prize committees, being made up of scientists and international peace advocates, would like to do that very badly.
posted by Mitrovarr at 5:53 PM on February 2, 2007


delmoi already said what I came in here to say.
posted by pruner at 5:55 PM on February 2, 2007


Hitler was not in 1945. He is described as nominated in 1939 with the nominator (a single person) withdrawing the nomination by February 1st of that year. Not quite that damning.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 5:55 PM on February 2, 2007


roll truck roll - How is this not revealing nominations?

committee members are free to reveal who they've nominated, but the list of nominees isn't made public for 50 years.
posted by pruner at 5:57 PM on February 2, 2007


What's especially amusing is that it's not all that hard to get nominated for the Peace Prize. According the the Nobel site, "University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes" (among others) are all qualified to nominate, and there are quite a lot of professors in this country. This makes it all the more funny that they apparently couldn't find anyone both qualified and willing to sponsor the nomination.
posted by alexei at 5:59 PM on February 2, 2007


Why even bother posting this garbage? Conservatives fellating Limbaugh, what a shocker.
posted by bob sarabia at 6:06 PM on February 2, 2007


how many rolls of greasy white fat do you have to lift up to fellate rush limbaugh anyway? is it like that tootsie pop commercial with the owl?
posted by quarter waters and a bag of chips at 6:36 PM on February 2, 2007


Stop objectifying Limbaugh.
posted by jouke at 6:43 PM on February 2, 2007


Gladly. Cuz, ewwwww.
posted by Mister_A at 6:52 PM on February 2, 2007


The nomination is not genuine.
posted by eustacescrubb at 7:04 PM on February 2, 2007


"egghead elitists who can't even button their shirts."

That fits Rush pretty well, really.
posted by bob sarabia at 7:21 PM on February 2, 2007


"egghead elitists who can't even button their shirts."

That fits Rush pretty well, really.


Hey, when your housekeeper just dropped off another bottle of oxycontin, there's no need to button your shirt. Sounds like a lazy sunday to me.
posted by crashlanding at 7:42 PM on February 2, 2007


Thanks, pruner. I guess I could have figured that out by reading more carefully.
posted by roll truck roll at 8:10 PM on February 2, 2007


But after the 1973 prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger & Le Duc Tho, I see the Peace Prize as nearly as coveted as the Golden Globe for Best Newcomer.
posted by wendell at 8:35 PM on February 2, 2007


Didn't Kissinger once win the Nobel Peace prize?

What a peaceful man. A regular Ghandi he was.
posted by Afroblanco at 9:13 PM on February 2, 2007


They've been good lately, but that 1973 one really is appalling. What were they thinking? (and the Limbaugh thing is like something O'Reilly would do, and then crow about.)

Their literature prizes have exposed me to so many wonderful authors i would have otherwise never heard of, and i'm really grateful for that. I wish the databases were searchable for all the years.
posted by amberglow at 9:32 PM on February 2, 2007




sorry, delmoi already mentioned Gore.

BTW amerglow I've been wanting to read some Nobel winners, if you have one or two recommendations.
posted by stbalbach at 10:05 PM on February 2, 2007


All I can guess is that 1973 was just a shitty, shitty year for peace.
posted by Afroblanco at 10:28 PM on February 2, 2007


I hereby nominate myself for the Nobel Peace Prize. My press release will be forthcoming.
posted by moonbiter at 4:29 AM on February 3, 2007


I never understood that Peace Nobel going to the guy who illegally fuck-bombed Cambodia in 1969, resulting in its destabilization and the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge (but wouldn't bomb them because that would be illegal and outrageous?).

Why is it that bloodthirsty lunatics who take a miniscule break from their routine are augustly lauded? Once Arafat (as a convenient example) got it, you knew he'd never compromise with Israel because he felt his whole life had been vindicated--he brought peace to his people by getting Israel to beg for a truce.

Why can't the Nobel committee nominate someone for a prize 5 years in the future and wait and see? Dr. King would still have won it.
posted by toma at 5:20 AM on February 3, 2007


Limbaugh and the 'cockroaches'
posted by homunculus at 9:43 AM on February 3, 2007


stbalbach : definitely check out Saramago (especially Blindness, and my fav of his: Baltazar & Blimunda), and Laxness (Independent People--amazing book), and Mahfouz, Marquez, Singer, Gordimer, Naipaul, ...
posted by amberglow at 11:21 AM on February 3, 2007


One of the more interesting and egregious exceptions: Gandhi. He was nominated several times but never won.

An explanation on the Nobel site sheds more light.
posted by ajshankar at 5:20 PM on February 3, 2007 [1 favorite]


Thanks for finding that, ajshankar. Very interesting stuff.

Penn and Teller had an episode awhile ago about Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, and Mother Theresa, exposing the very human, political sides of each of those people. Interesting stuff, if you can wade through Penn Jillette's pushy rhetoric.
posted by roll truck roll at 5:44 PM on February 3, 2007


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