Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize Win, Rush Limbaugh, Time Magazine

GNASHING, OR LAUGHING?

Media Monitoring Rush's Reaction To Gore Win







Which matters more to the mainstream media: that their hero (and global polluter) Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize, or that it might annoy talk titan Rush Limbaugh? At the moment, attention may be split right down the middle.

Rather than speculation on your Radio Equalizer's part, or an attempt by El Rushbo himself to crash Gore's party, media elitists really do relish the idea of Limbaugh "gnashing his teeth" upon hearing the news.

UPDATE: here's a fresh example. And another. More.

Of course, at least some of their energy is reserved for salivating over the thought of Gore running for president, even if they doubt he will.

From Time Magazine this morning:

Gore Wins the Nobel. But Will He Run?


For the past year, Al Gore has gone about his considerable business without showing much interest in running for president. While picking up an Oscar and an Emmy, publishing a very smart book and playing host at a global concert for the planet, he's never done more than tease the idea.

And yet all that time, the leaders of the Draft Gore movement have been clinging to a single fervid dream: that Gore would win the Nobel Peace Prize and use it to catapult himself to an eleventh-hour bid for the presidency.

Now the Nobel Committee has done its part, awarding Gore the Peace Prize for being "probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted" to combat climate change, according to his citation. (The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was also a joint winner of the prize.)

And so, after the obligatory spasms of celebration and the equally obligatory gnashing of Rush Limbaugh's teeth, will Americans finally get to enjoy one of the great spectacles in political history, as Gore's ultimate honor levitates him beyond his leading rival, Hillary Clinton, and into the Oval Office?

Nope.

Is Rush gnashing his teeth right now? Our guess is he's thrilled to hear the news, as Gore's win provides fresh opportunities to create parody songs and wonder aloud what an algore candidacy might do to Hillary Clinton's operation.

Actually, Limbaugh was also a nominee, but knew as well as anyone that his chance of getting past the ultra- liberal Nobel committee was somewhere between zip and zilch. As a result, he treated it as a joke from the beginning.

But that didn't stop oddsmakers at Ireland's Paddy Power from including Limbaugh in their Nobel book:

Paddy Power, an Irish oddsmaker, gives Gore 13-8 odds of winning the prize. The bookmaker gives Bono 16-1.

Take all of this with the proverbial grain of salt, as the folks at Paddy Power have Rush Limbaugh (200-1) edging out President Bush (250-1) and Tony Blair (250-1).

In the end, the safest bet in town is that the only teeth- gnashing going on now is taking place over at Hillary headquarters.


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