re: #992 webevintage

Here’s the deal Republicans.
You don’t cheer when America loses out on the Olympics…it just makes you look bad.
And you don’t boo when the POTUS gets a Nobel Peace Prize, it just reinforces that vague “not really the America First party” meme.
What you say is “what an honor for America” and then let it go.

The Olympics, however, are “awarded” to nations - or at least that’s the perception cultivated by the IOC. The Nobel Prizes, on the other hand, are awarded to individuals, not countries, as the Nobel Committee itself would loudly insist. The criticisms are not of the same kind by any stretch.

In fact, the bulk (not all) of the criticisms in this thread have been directed at the Nobel Committed and it’s flawed decision making processes rather than at the recipient, in contrast to the criticisms leveled following the IOC award to Rio, which were distinctly ad hominem.