Those Crazy Supreme Court Justices
Now that we’ve got this Al Gore thread going here, I just want to add this little snippet by Andy Borowitz from today’s Huffington Post:
Just days after former Vice President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on global warming, the United States Supreme Court handed Mr. Gore a stunning reversal, stripping him of his Nobel and awarding it to President George W. Bush instead.
For Mr. Gore, who basked in the adulation of the Nobel committee and the world, the high court’s decision to give his prize to President Bush was a cruel twist of fate, to say the least.
But in a 5-4 decision, the justices made it clear that they had taken the unprecedented step of stripping Mr. Gore of his Nobel because President Bush deserved it more.
“It is true that Al Gore has done a lot of talking about global warming,” wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority. “But President Bush has actually helped create global warming.”
Well, stranger things have happened.
You mean stranger things like Bush v Gore?
yup!
Amy Poehler said almost exactly the same thing on SNL’s Weekend Update segment Saturday night. Is this the chicken, or is it the egg?
probably the egg. Someone was bound to make the comparison.