Alas Poor Alfred

I’d think if it were but possible to rewrite one’s will after your death, the the Nobel committee would need to find another line of work.  After proving that their peace prize was a sham by awarding to jokers like Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter and this year Al Gore, the committee apparently gives awards in literture to the inarticulate.

MADRID, Spain (AP) – Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were “not that terrible” when compared to attacks by the IRA in Britain. “September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible,” the Nobel Literature Prize winner told the leading Spanish daily El Pais.“Some Americans will think I’m crazy. Many people died, two prominent buildings fell, but it was neither as terrible nor as extraordinary as they think. They’re a very naive people, or they pretend to be,” she said in an interview published Sunday.

I can imagine what Doris Lessing might have been trying to say.  Don’t think she came close expressing anything clearly.  Alas, while Lessing seems have lost her ability to write, Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters, retains his sharp pen:

The Nobel committee has certainly fallen on desperate times, and especially so this year. First they award a peace prize to Al Gore for his global-warming hysterics, apparently because the science committee understood the extent of his exaggerations in An Inconvenient Truth. They awarded the literature prize to British author Doris Lessing, who disqualified herself for the peace prize by claiming that Americans were just too sensitive about having 3,000 murdered by terrorists on 9/11 (via Memeorandum):

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No one has forgotten the IRA and its terrorism, Doris. Talk about naive! Who has forgotten about them? How does Lessing measure the forgetfulness? The IRA has surrendered, thanks to a peace process that has the US as a partner with the British to secure. We’re a good part of the reason that the IRA quit throwing bombs at the British.

Sister Toldjah is back and expressing her high regard for the Nobel committe as well.

Hat tip: Memorandum.