IS NOTHING SACRED? – AT 9:44 A.M. ET: "Me too" has become "them too." Even the Nobel Prize is sullied. From Sky News:
Carl-Henrik Heldin, chairman of the board of the Nobel Foundation, said in a statement posted on Twitter: "The Swedish Academy [which decides the award] has decided to postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the intention of awarding it in 2019."
The Nobel Foundation said that the "crisis in the Swedish Academy has adversely affected the Nobel Prize".
It will be the first time since wartime 1943 that the prestigious award is not handed out.
Jean-Claude Arnault, a photographer married to one of the members, is at the centre of sexual misconduct allegations.
The prestigious Academy commissioned a law firm to investigate the matter. It found "unacceptable behaviour in the form of unwanted intimacy" from the man had occurred, but that this had not been "generally known" within the Academy, it said.
The Academy has said the investigation would be turned over to law enforcement agencies.
COMMENT: What can one say? And here I thought the Nobel prizes were so pure, so protected against sin and influence.
What do we say to those socialists who have held up Sweden as a role model?
I can't wait for the Nobel Peace Prize. Can you? This year, just to be sure, it is being given by a panel of eunuchs.
I can't go on.
May 4, 2018 |