Al Gore wins major award

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Al Gore has received what is arguably the most prestigious award in the world.

CNN, picking up CNN International, carried the announcement live from Oslo, Norway: "Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize."

Gore said in a statement e-mailed to reporters and bloggers at 5:44 a.m.: "I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis—a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level. My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis."

Predictably, the slackjawed mouthbreathers over at RimJob's are going nuts, though it took 21 posts before someone mentioned Bill Clinton.

And stolen from Monkeyfister:

Call it Al Gore's revenge.

The Nobel Peace Prize he won on Friday was a blow to George W. Bush and his widely criticized environmental policy and will long be savored by the man who lost the bitter 2000 presidential election by a whisker.

The honor was bestowed jointly on the former vice president and the U.N. climate panel for campaigning against the threat of global warming, in a not-so-subtle swipe at Bush, a latecomer to the battle against climate change.

It may also be interpreted as a part of an international backlash not only against seven years of what many see as environmental backsliding under Bush but also against his Iraq war policy and perceived arrogance in world affairs.

"The Nobel Committee's recognition of Vice President Gore shines a bright light on the most inconvenient truth of all -- the selection of George Bush as president has endangered the peace and prosperity of the entire planet," said fellow Democrat John Edwards, a 2008 White House contender.

It was a double slap to the Republican president, marking the second prize to a leading Democratic critic during Bush's administration.

F-retard Republic sets up huge john for its members upon news that the former Vice President won the Nobel Peace Prize.