Next Nobel Peace Prize to Sandra Bullock

by philg

Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize because of his sincere expression of a desire for world peace. I’m excited first because I’m hoping that he will use part of the $1.4 million proceeds to take his Aunt Zeituni off the hands of the taxpayers of Massachusetts (more). Second, I’m predicting that the next prize will go to Sandra Bullock due to her expressed wish for world peace in the movie Miss Congeniality (preceded awkwardly, as cinema fans may recall, by a desire for “harsher punishment for parole violators”). Ms. Bullock will likely have to share her prize with current and former Miss Americas and therefore may not be in a position to relieve the citizens of Massachusetts of the burden of paying for President Obama’s aunt’s apartment.

8 thoughts on “Next Nobel Peace Prize to Sandra Bullock”

  1. I thought I was looking at The Onion when I first saw the headline.

    The world is drowning in hope and wishful thinking right now. I find it quite distressing. For pete’s sake, the seeds of the next economic collapse are being sown right now with extra fertilizer and irrigation. Same with nuclear proliferation.

  2. Why isn’t the Aunt Zeituni story getting more play? Unlike that birth certificate bullshit, this one is true. And the issue of illegal immigrants’ welfare benefits is one that people care about.

  3. If memory serves, right after the 2006(?) Christmas tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Ms. Bullock wrote a check for a million dollars to help out.

    So, I’m afraid she might be overqualified.

  5. Bullock also donated $1M to American Red Cross after 9/11 attack. The tsunami donation was also through the Red Cross.

  6. The obvious point of choosing Obama for the prize is that trying to bring peace to the Middle East and tackling nuclear arms reduction(, etc, etc) are really difficult undertakings.

    If by putting their weight behind him the Nobel Committee manages to help bring about a successful conclusion to either task, that would have been the best spent money in the history of the organisation.

  7. @David:

    How many people have received peace prizes for attempting to bring peace to the Middle East, who had actually already done something in that area, at least negotiating and signing a treaty at least? I guess the 1994 and 1957 prizes at least. And once those people had received their prizes, did peace last?

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