The Limbaugh Nobel Peace Prize

John Berlau at Human Events Online has a letter promoting the candidacy of Rush Limbaugh for the Nobel Peace Prize. He gives the background here:

Early this year, two members of the parliament of Norway nominated former U.S. vice president Al Gore for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. One of the legislators in Norway -- where the Nobel Committee is based -- argued that Gore deserves the prize to be awarded this fall because Gore “has put climate change on the agenda” and “and uses his position to get politicians to understand.”

In response, the conservative Landmark Legal Foundation nominated another American political figure for the prize: syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh. In the letter nominating Limbaugh, Landmark President and fellow radio talk-show host Mark Levin, pressed the case that Limbaugh “gives voice to the values of democratic governance, individual opportunity and the just, equal application of the rule of law.”

In late March, Reuters wire service reported that the head of the committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, appeared to be leaning Gore’s way. After Gore gave a speech on global warming in Norway’s capital city of Oslo, Mjoes joined other audience members in a standing ovation. Mjoes then told the wire service that while he was attending the speech as a private citizen, he thought Gore was spreading “a very important message.” The Reuters story also quoted the head of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo as saying, “I have Gore as clear favorite.”

But in terms of public health issues alone, Limbaugh is more worthy of the prize, argues John Berlau, former award-winning journalist and author of the new book Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health. In a letter shared exclusively with Human Events, Berlau makes the case that due in part to Limbaugh’s correcting of the misinformation on the insecticide DDT, millions may be saved from the ravages of the mosquito-borne disease malaria.

You can read the letter here. Recently the weather channel had the top 100 weather moments in history, and the publishing of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was listed as one of them. They didn't mention the fact that thousands die unnecessarily each year because of that book which effectively got DDT banned worldwide.