Note: I'm in the Pacific time zone and I was watching what they made a point of calling "a west coast edition of Today at 7 am."
So, what I first saw was Meredith and Matt in the studio and then a quick throw to Gregory and this, below.
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If Matt Lauer ever starts a sentence with the words, "Not to be rude here, but ..." leave the room, 'cause nothing nice is gonna be said about you or anyone else.
And Lauer, one more thing, about your being of the mind that this Nobel Peace Prize is a double-edged sword ... first of all, it's a peace prize, would you prefer he won a war prize? And even more more thing ... people who would complain about a President of the United States seeking peace are crazy people not worth our attention.
Since when is seeking peace not a good thing?
And now the biggest thing ... Barack Obama could invent a way that only Republicans would be able to shit $50 bills out their asses and Republicans would complain that they weren't $100 bills.
Give me a fuckin' break. Then Lauer says, "Nobel Prize isn't getting healthcare passed." No one said it was, asshole.
Did you wake up with a smaller penis than yesterday, Matt?
Just for a couple minutes I wanted to enjoy that someone said something nice about the President, who shares my international worldview, and so in turn I felt the world was saying something nice about my international worldview.
Just a couple minutes to enjoy that, that's all I wanted.
And, while all kinds of member of Congress with "R"s after their names are going overseas and breaking that tradition that partisanship ends at our own borders it was nice to see that it wasn't taken too seriously by people you can respect.
And don't get me wrong here, I don't think he really deserves this yet, either. There's still no habeus corpus at Bagram, Gitmo is not yet closed and there's talk of lots more troops in Afghanistan and I mean "Shinseki at the beginning of Iraq"-style numbers.
I think if the Nobel committee could have given the award to the American people who voted for Barack Obama they would have. I think the intention, whether mentioned or not, was to encourage the goals and desires that Obama and his supporters embraced during the campaign.
(I also believe that a country with a long and troublesome history of race relations finally elected an African-American President and that might have had something to do with the decision.)
If that's true, Obama's acceptance of this award as a call to action for all nations to work toward the goals for peace and nuclear disarmament is an appropriate response.
Watch your President humbly accept the honor in the CNN clip after the jump, with thanks to Talking Points Memo and their YouTube acct.
Talking trash about this turn of events, though, is akin to those people in that astroturf group Americans for Prosperity funded by the Koch brothers cheering when Chicago didn't get the Olympics.