The liberal news media love to trumpet the importance of the Nobel prizes from Sweden, gushing and fawning over each fellow liberal recipient, as if they were fresh with newly-revealed truth.
Such a scene has repeated itself once again this year, as leftist New York Times columnist and sometime academic Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize for Economics. Well known for blasting President Bush, deregulation of the economy and free enterprise economics, Krugman is hardly the distinguished economic scientist the prize was meant to reward.
More likely, the Swedish socialists behind the award, are trying to inject themselves into the U.S. election in 27 days, by bringing favorable news coverage to their pet nostrums and proponents. If the glory of the Nobel can some how rub off Krugman on to loyal foot soldier Barack Obama, so much the better.
That's why the Nobel prizes have become so hollow and predictable, done less for merit than political correctness.
Even Sweden has had to back away from socialism, as the rampant costs and deficits threaten to bankrupt the country. This doesn't keep the fellow travelers who lavish the Nobel cash on their friends from carrying on.
They are shameless.
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