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Al Gore bests this woman

Larrry

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Nobel Committee Bypassed Holocaust Savior for Al Gore
By Noel Sheppard | October 15, 2007 - 12:58 ET

As media do a victory lap over Friday's Nobel Peace Prize announcement, it seems a metaphysical certitude that few Americans are aware of the other 180 nominees for the award besides the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore.

For instance, meet Irena Sendler, a 97-year-old Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.

Hadn't heard of her? Well, don't feel bad, for since the Nobel Committee announced the nominees in February, there have only been 107 reports about Mrs. Sendler being one of them. By contrast, Al Gore and "Nobel" have been mentioned in 2,912.

To put an even finer point on the astounding difference in media coverage, since the nominees were announced, Mrs. Sendler has been referred to in only six newscasts on television and radio, one by conservative Glenn Beck. Gore's Nobel nomination was discussed in 249!

With that in mind, here is Sendler's story - as presented by the Irena Sendler Project, the fabulous brainchild of some students in rural Kansas - which media have deplorably chosen to boycott in favor of championing a wealthy American liberal who made a movie containing egregious scientific falsehoods (h/t NBer mattm):

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Irena Sendler, born in 1910, was raised by her Catholic parents to respect and love people regardless of their ethnicity or social status. Her father, a physician, died from typhus that he contracted during an epidemic in 1917. He was the only doctor in his town near Warsaw who would treat the poor, mostly Jewish victims of this tragic disease. As he was dying, he told 7-year-old Irena, "If you see someone drowning you must try to rescue them, even if you cannot swim." In 1939 the Nazis swept through Poland and imprisoned the Jews in ghettos where they were first starved to death and then systematically murdered in killing camps. Irena, by than a social worker in Warsaw, saw the Jewish people drowning and resolved to do what she could to rescue as many as possible, especially the children. Working with a network of other social workers and brave Poles, mostly women, she smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw ghetto and hid them safely until the end of the war. Sendler took great risks - obtaining forged papers for the children, disguising herself as an infection control nurse, diverting German occupation funds for the support of children in hiding. She entered the Warsaw ghetto, sometimes two and three times a day, and talked Jewish parents into giving up their children. Sendler drugged the babies with sedatives and smuggled them past Nazi guards in gunny sacks, boxes and coffins. She helped the older ones escape through the sewers, through secret openings in the wall, through the courthouse, through churches, any clever way she and her network could evade the Nazis. Once outside the ghetto walls, Sendler gave the children false names and documents and placed them in convents, orphanages and with Polish families. In 1942 the Polish underground organization ZEGOTA recruited her to lead their Children's Division, providing her with money and support. Her hope was that after the war she could reunite the children with surviving relatives, or at least return their Jewish identities. To that end she kept thin tissue paper lists of each child's Jewish name, their Polish name and address. She hid the precious lists in glass jars buried under an apple tree in the back yard of one of her co-conspirators. In 1943 Irena Sendler was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death by firing squad. She never divulged the location of the lists or her Polish underground contacts. At the last moment she was saved by ZEGOTA which bribed a guard to secure her freedom. She still bears the scars and disability of her torture.

God bless you, Irena. For all I know, you saved one of my relatives.

As a post script, I wanted to point out some of the major media outlets in our nation that boycotted her nomination. A search of LexisNexis identified the following: The New York Times; USA Today; The Los Angeles Times; The Chicago Tribune; The San Francisco Chronicle; The Miami Herald; CNN (Beck's report was on CNN Headline News); MSNBC; CBS; Fox News (only Prime Time broadcasts and Fox News Sunday are transcribed).

Obviously, there are many more that ignored Sendler. In fact, as I analyze this further, most of the 107 reports were from foreign media sources, not American ones.

Why might that be?

Please also see Rich Noyes's report concerning media coverage of Gore's coronation.

*****Update: Please see Terry Trippany's great March article about Irena for more information.

—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.


http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/15/nobel-committee-bypassed-holocaust-savior-al-gore
 

Cal

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I wonder if someone would get the Peace Prize if they rescued Democrats, rather than just jews, from being thrown in a gas chamber?
 

Martin Jr.

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A local banker once told me "The little guy does the work, the big guy gets the credit."

It's not what you have done, it's how important you are.
 

Faster horses

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She lost...right...and who won?
A liar gathering money and fame for himself.
She should NOT have lost...she should be upheld as HERO...
Knowing what happened here just makes me ill. :x
 

kolanuraven

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It wasn't just between those 2 people.

Lots of people get nominated for the award and a lot of OTHER people loose. Do you cry for them? I think not.
 

kolanuraven

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Hooks said:
.......rough day on the roof........... :roll:


No...it's done & looks beeeeautiful.


But, the vote was taken and Al Gore won...end of story.



Now wait upon re-reading I see that I just typed something that could apply to a situation several yrs ago...but this time Gore actually got what he won!!
 

Goodpasture

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Faster horses said:
She lost...right...and who won?
A liar gathering money and fame for himself.
She should NOT have lost...she should be upheld as HERO...
Knowing what happened here just makes me ill. :x

Spend a lot of time being ill?

she made a contribution to two or three thousand people (actually less people than the number of Americans dubya has killed in Iraq).

Gore's bringing the issue of global warming to the world in as articulate and professional manner as he has is the precursor to saving the world. What part of that is wrong? and you will have to prove your allegations that gore is a liar. Further, as Senator and as VP, he was already famous. Or are you so negative that you are unable to recognize achievement for it's own sake? Do you have to have achievement couched in right wing talking points?
 

Red Robin

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Goodpasture said:
Gore's bringing the issue of global warming to the world in as articulate and professional manner as he has is the precursor to saving the world.
The Savior of the world is not named Al Gore.
 

Mike

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Critics slam Nobel winnerArticle from: Sunday Herald Sun
October 14, 2007 12:00am
THE award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the UN's top climate panel on Friday has prompted a fresh chorus of criticism from global warming sceptics -- with one dubbing the award "a political gimmick".

The former vice-president has an Oscar for his film on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, and the Nobel prize proved a laurel too far for some of his detractors.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus cast doubt on Gore's contribution to the cause of peace, the ostensible purpose of the Norwegian prize.

In a statement, the climate change sceptic said he was "a bit surprised that Al Gore has received a peace prize because the connection between his activities and world peace are vague and not very clear".

In Norway, the main opposition party expressed its surprise at the decision.

Gjermund Hagesaether, from the far-right Progress Party, said: "We believe it is strange to give the prize to Al Gore for having made a film on climate that is subjective, one-sided and full of one-sided assertions."

In France, a sour note was sounded by a leading French climate sceptic, former Socialist education minister and award-winning geochemist Claude Allegre.

He brushed off Friday's announcement as "a political gimmick", saying: "The amount of nonsense in Al Gore's film! It's all politics, it's designed to intervene in American politics. It's scandalous. There's a presidential election upcoming in the United States, and it's well known that Gore wants to run."

The White House -- which Gore lost to George W. Bush in 2000 after the intervention of the US Supreme Court -- was studiously neutral on the award.

Others queried the Nobel's focus only on climate change.

Bjorn Lomborg, author of A Sceptical Environmentalist, said: "The Nobel Prize committee should have focused on the other great forgotten problems like malnourishment, malaria, the lack of free trade in farming, rather than climate change."

And one of the world's foremost meteorologists called the theory that helped Al Gore win a share of the Nobel prize the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works".

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, spoke to a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina and said humans were not responsible for global warming.

"We're brainwashing our children," said Gray, 78, a longtime professor at Colorado State University. "They're going to the Gore movie and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."

AP
 

aplusmnt

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Goodpasture said:
Gore's bringing the issue of global warming to the world in as articulate and professional manner as he has is the precursor to saving the world.

Seems the scientist that discovered the Ice age threat back 30 years ago, and solved it, saving the world from becoming a frozen Tundra deserves it more. But then again I guess they fixed it so good that 30 years later now we are facing the world over heating. Maybe that is why they never got an award for solving the Ice age problem.

Al Gore getting the Nobel Peace Prize is about as important as my uncle winning the Hot Dog eating prize last 4th of July. Only significance to it is who will go down in history as being the biggest joke of winning this award. Al Gore, Jimmy Carter or Yasser Arafat,

Reagan never got it but Gorbachev did :roll:
Arafat got it but Gandhi never did not :roll:

Al Gore is to stupid to know he should be embarrassed to receive it, and should turn it down.

Importance of the award can be summed up in the fact that Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin all have been nominated for it :roll:

Not to mention what does Global Warming actually have to do with Peace, let alone a flawed theory of Global Warming on top of it.
 
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