Nobel Chairman Jagland: Sorry about the confusion

By: randy streu (Diary)  |  October 9th at 06:50 PM  | 

It was a visibly embarrassed Thorbjoern Jagland that gave today’s press-conference.  After an international outcry of befuddlement over the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s awarding of its highest honor to Barack Obama — a man, in a departure from normal Nobel protocal, with absolutely no actual accomplishments in his life — the Committee called the conference to, in the words of one observer, set the record straight. | Read More »