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Oct102009
Nobel Peace Prize Shock: Ahmadinejad Wins!
Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 16:45
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The Desperate Blogger at Salon breaks the real news of this year's prize:
Tehran, October 9 – In a rare appearance during Friday prayers, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, announced that Iran’s Supreme Council has officially declared Mahmoud Ahamadinejad the 2009 Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The 18-member Council voted 26-2 (with 3 abstentions) to certify the election result in an emergency session called amid confusion resulting from the Nobel Committee’s announcement that U.S. President Barack Obama had won the prestigious award.
Saying he was both “humbled and honored” to be chosen, Ahmadinejad, who is only the third Holocaust denier to win the prize, told an adoring crowd estimated at 200,000, give or take a few “British-sponsored troublemakers”, that the announcement caught him “totally off guard”.
“I thank the members of the Nobel Committee for having the courage to overlook all the ‘death to this country, death to that country’ stuff, as well as the ‘wiping Israel off the map’ comments,” the Iranian President said to chants of "Death to Norway!"
“And I thank them for recognizing the modern Iran which, at least officially, has lived and thrived in peace with our neighbors for over 20 years, and further, has done so entirely without homosexuals.”
Ahmadinejad went on to comment about what he saw as the moment’s “most profound irony”, pertaining to the fact that Alfred Nobel, who left an endowment to fund the awards that bear his name, made his fortune as the inventor of T.N.T. “In December, in Oslo, I will most humbly and gratefully accept, on behalf of the Islamic Republic, a medal bearing the likeness of a great man – a great man whose invention sounds like a kid cracking bubble gum compared to what we’ve got in the pipeline…”
When asked for his thoughts on the announcement that Ahmadinejad had received the most votes from the Nobel Committee, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai told E! Network’s ‘The Soup’, “Not so fast.”
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The Desperate Blogger at Salon breaks the real news of this year's prize:Tehran, October 9 – In a rare appearance during Friday prayers, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, announced that Iran’s Supreme Council has officially declared Mahmoud Ahamadinejad the 2009 Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The 18-member Council voted 26-2 (with 3 abstentions) to certify the election result in an emergency session called amid confusion resulting from the Nobel Committee’s announcement that U.S. President Barack Obama had won the prestigious award.
Saying he was both “humbled and honored” to be chosen, Ahmadinejad, who is only the third Holocaust denier to win the prize, told an adoring crowd estimated at 200,000, give or take a few “British-sponsored troublemakers”, that the announcement caught him “totally off guard”.
“I thank the members of the Nobel Committee for having the courage to overlook all the ‘death to this country, death to that country’ stuff, as well as the ‘wiping Israel off the map’ comments,” the Iranian President said to chants of "Death to Norway!"
“And I thank them for recognizing the modern Iran which, at least officially, has lived and thrived in peace with our neighbors for over 20 years, and further, has done so entirely without homosexuals.”
Ahmadinejad went on to comment about what he saw as the moment’s “most profound irony”, pertaining to the fact that Alfred Nobel, who left an endowment to fund the awards that bear his name, made his fortune as the inventor of T.N.T. “In December, in Oslo, I will most humbly and gratefully accept, on behalf of the Islamic Republic, a medal bearing the likeness of a great man – a great man whose invention sounds like a kid cracking bubble gum compared to what we’ve got in the pipeline…”
When asked for his thoughts on the announcement that Ahmadinejad had received the most votes from the Nobel Committee, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai told E! Network’s ‘The Soup’, “Not so fast.”
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