Christopher Hitchens Pans Obama's Nobel Prize: Obama Looked "All Moist And Bambi-Like" (VIDEO)

On MSNBC's Morning Joe Christopher Hitchens panned the decision to award to President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, calling it the first virtual award: "It would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture."

Obama should have declined to accept the award, according to Hitchens, while acknowledging that it is indeed an honor. Instead, Obama looked "all moist and bambi-like and to say well, this is terrific, it'll make me try harder, is sort of insipid to a terrible degree."

Co-host Mika Brzezinski countered that she found Obama to be "quite humble" in his acceptance. Hitchens said he meant bambi-ness as "bashfulness and humility, but perhaps I should have been a little less frivolous." However, "the real humble thing to do would be to say I don't deserve it and I'm not going to accept it. I want to be re-considered when I've done something to earn the prize."

Hitchens also called the Nobel peace Prize "terrifically overrated," and let on that he does not harbor high hopes for Obama's Nobel speech in Stockholm, saying most are unmemorable and citing Mother Teresa's acceptance speech as a particularly egregious example.

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Comments

[WhereIsTheTruth]

Am I the only one that thought he looked like he was going to vomit a couple of times?

[suertebennani]

Obama’s Nobel price for Peace 2009 :
Thinkers ( Communists in America ; intellectuals in France ) are so worried, desperate about peace issues, wars, unemployment, financial and social crisis, NATO, coalitions, and they are right to do so.
This award is a strong invite to President Obama, to stay calm and serene in the tough times to come.
People are awarded for great things they do; some receive an award to crown their oustanding career.
With this Nobel price, we have got an award for things we are begged to do.
It's a preventive war, kind of, and this one is good for peace.
mohammed suerte bennani
surgeon and author
casablanca
www.suertebennani.com

[CJWebber]

Hitchens was a loud proponent of the Iraq invasion and the Bush Admin's tactics; does anyone who believes in the correctness of this great wrong have any credibility left? He has none to me. Particularly when he talks about peace.

Hitchens needs to take a shower, put on clean clothes and comb his hair. But perhaps he thinks he is too intellectual for such bothersome things.

[Thebigstick]

Chrisopher Hutchins takes himself too seriously.­.. His often mean-sprited and negative.

[pastorcheryl]

WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!!!!!!!!!!

[StillAmused]

While Hitchens certainly knows "moist", he's clueless to the depth of global damage carried out by Junior and his PNAC Posse. It's understandable that, through his bleary eyes, he sees no tangible, measurable "accomplishment" in Obama's dramatic overhaul of the U.S.' message to the world.

The world, on the other hand, gets it.

[theubermensch]

I do not know what to say about this man anymore. Also, to anyone who may be thinking it to defend Hitchens, he was a Trotskyist, not a Marxist. He also left that thinking behind in the early nineties. He is an atheist who hates European government, while hating Mother Teresa at the same time. He still supports Bush's policies in Iraq, and believes we need to take out Iran. I wonder if he just supports these policies because they could slowly eliminate religion. I am no fan of religion, but his rhetoric in the past few years is disturbing to say the least. A man this smart should not be encouraging this kind of thinking, because he may think he is doing something noble, while actually creating something negative. Who new that a man like Hitchens would support a man like Bush. Now, he is hating on Obama. He Hitchy, put down the scotch and clear the head a little.

[ukulelebailey]

An atheist conservative is someone who doesn't believe in anything but himself. You think conservative Christians are scary? Imagine a conservative who is his own higher power!

[Josh Fechter]

He's not a conservative. He's denied this on a regular basis. In fact, he has insisted that he is a Marxist.

[zola77]

Not at all. He has clearly stated he left his left-wing views behind a few decades ago and turned to conservative politics. He may not be fond of the 'know-nothings' but he is still a neocon apologist.

[TMacChicago]

I watched Hitchen this morning. And later when he piped the same lines to Chris Matthews. He offered a funny line or two, like Obama winning the Nobel was like granting an Oscar for an actor in anticipation of some great work down the line. Mostly what I took from "Christopher's" comments was the adoration he has for his words as they slowly leaped from a tongue that seemed more comfortable sipping a gimlet rather than speaking clearly to a clip-on mic. I am not going to join with the snipers who disparage Obama. Even if the award was simply granted because he is not Bush, that's fine. But the truth is that he is much more. For the dim-witted Republicans who scurry trying to claim occasional (and false) populism to assuage seniors or so-called cultural conservatives not voting their pocket books nuances are lost. No mention is made of the shift in DC's climate, with true diplomats being in positions where diplomacy will be practiced toward the professed goal of peace and respect. Nor is mention made of Obama's constant and consistent efforts to move beyond the red state/blue state dichotomy. Bottom line, I think, is that the world is truly celebrating America's return to the global stage as a leader (and not a bully cooking the books to justify unilateral actions in contravention of the international communities' mores).

[ALittleClarity]

Why is Obama spending the majority of his time traveling to blue states and not red states then?

[jeeperscripes]

I mean Atheist, m'kay???

[jeeperscripes]

Now listen Pattyrenee, Chris, I mean Christopher, was just being moist and Bambi like, jeeperscripes give an ateist a break will ya???

[BlackSwan13]

Well stated Christopher. Hitchens did a great documentary on "mother teresa" and it changed my whole understanding of who she was and how she was a pawn of the pope. It also changed my understanding of Malcolm Muggeridge and his reporting, or lack thereof. I agree that it is crazy to give a Nobel prize for affect instead of effect. It really is degrading for everyone who is seriously involved in the honest endeavor of peace.

[pattyrenee]

Sorry, Chris, it is not Halloween yet. Go home and shower and change.

[realpolitic]

At the end of an interview with Chris Matthews, Christopher Hitchens tells us the way Obama would deserve a Nobel Prize prize and it is not by just keeping Iran from developing enriched uranium for nuclear bombs. Hitchens admits he wants regime change in Iran. Once a neocon always a neocon! After eight years of war without end, Hitchens wants to totally bust the deficits with a new war. As any unthinking neocon. Hitchens thinks Obama would deserve the peace prize by starting a war with Iran. I guess after some booze before noon it makes sense! However, we tried it and it failed! Everyone realizes it, but Hitchens and a few other precious neocons who never saw a war they did not love!

[MacQ]

Hardly a "neocon". He's one of your very own.
Named one of the 25 most influential liberals in the world.

[editorjuno]

By whom, may I ask? Most of the left completely disowned for him for his naive faith in Bush and staunch support of the Iraq invasion, the latter being the litmus test for a neocon in the original PNAC sense of the term.

[zola77]

He has stated time and again he is not left-wing. He used to be, in his youth. Then he turned to the 'dark side'.

[Nathaniel T]

It doesn't strike me as very liberal (and I can bleed from the heart when it's called for) to want to avoid a war just because it'll hurt the budget. Human rights, namely the safety of people in ours and other nations, is the most important tenant of the left, in my opinion. Since there are endless human rights abused inside the country, I think there's reason enough for a regime change. In the world of real politics however, pardon the phrase, you need a foreign threat, such as a charming combination of nuclear proliferation and a pair of fundamentalist Islamic rulers. And how do you suggest we deal with that? A time-out? Talking out our differences perhaps? realpolitik, indeed

[weatherwaxx]

Well, I think President Obama is one fine-looking man, too, but to see Hitchens crushing on him like that is kind of nauseating.

[editorjuno]

I must confess, when I read the phrase "All moist" I immediately figured old Hitch was just disappointed not to have been blessed with the tightly packed porcine intestine of his dreams instead. Oh well -- he's still one helluva fine wordsmith, and obviously not the first of the breed to frequently fall into a fit of boozy buffoonery when interviewe­d....