UPDATE: uh oh
The National Review decided to offer congratulations to Dr. Mann, they write:
Honoring Michael Mann’s Nobel Prize
To mark Michael Mann’s Nobel Prize, we bought this full-page ad that ran in today’s Penn State student newspaper.
—Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review.
h/t to WUWT reader Frank K
UPDATE: Proof that it actually ran, here
h/t to Brian Lemon
Mann has absolutely no idea what he’s gotten himself into. These guys are good.
Ouch! That has got to sting!
i believe that we can file this under Rule 5
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating.
good job nro
Looks like Judith got it right, this is going to end in tears Mikey.
Reputation? What reputation?
LOL
As a leading scholar of Mannic behavior, I predict that Mann will resist attempts by his lawyers to amend the complaint. He will insist that he has in fact won the Nobel Prize, and will call the Nobel Committee’s statement to the contrary “bizarre” and “disingenuous”. This will put the lawyers in the real bind (its amazing to me that they didn’t check this basic fact before filing their compliant with the court). In the end, if Mann refuses to allow the lawyers to amend the complaint, the lawyers will have no other options but to withdraw as counsel to Mann.
On a related note, I’m surprised that he student newspaper ran the add. I imagine Mann is working to have the editor removed as we speak.
Awesome NRO.
Me thinks that Mann is a denier… he denied reality when stating that he’s a Nobel laureate. One has to think that there are some at Penn State that believe that Mann is a distraction at best and an idiot at worst. As for me… I’m leaning towards the conclusion that he’s an idiot.
Megakudos to those running the student newspaper at Penn State! They had the guts to do what the administration of that school couldn’t… or wouldn’t.
Ridicule is the antidote to pomposity.
Pamela Gray says:
October 31, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Claiming a Nobel Prize where none has been given is fraud. Not a laughing matter.
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Fair comment but its highly unlikely there will be any successful official inquiry (yet another whitewash – yawn) into Mann several false claims that he received the Nobel Peace Prize. So at least skeptics can have some fun along the way and denting Mann’s huge ego is really good fun.
Re Rigoberta Menchú: While their is some doubt about elements of her story, it seems generally accepted that she was deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize. (other than David Horowitz attempting to label her as a “Marxist terrorist).
Rather a pity they had to use the comparison. Unnecessary.
I like the way they point out how utterly farcical the Peace Prize is anyway. Especially the Rigoberta Menchu bit.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive…
I like it.
The lawyer’s firm who filed this case must feel like fools too, to have taken on such a public case and fallen before they reached the first fence must be very damaging to their reputation. I wonder how much per hour they charge for such ineptitude
Perhaps, Nobel Prize presumption?
Awww, your going to hurt Manny’s feelings again. You meanies.
Heres a link to the digital “hard copy”
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2012/10/31/pdf/10-31-12-daily.pdf
Beauty – [snip]
See Mike? NRO’s not so bad. They didn’t even use the F* word.
Mann thinks the fuss is all about him. He deserves this roasting.
You should have added “Faux-cahontas” (Elizabeth Warren – running against Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senatorial contest who apparently got into Harvard pretending to be a Native American, whose grandfather was guilty of actually shooting a Native American, and to which heritage she has produced no evidence) to the list of prevaricators. She contributed 5 recipes to a book titled, “Pow Wow Chow” , claiming Cherokee origin for these, in which 2 or 3 of the recipes were found to be plagiarized from a French Cookbook.
“The two recipes, “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat” and “Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing,” appear in an article titled “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat,” written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News.”
Like Joe Biden, she may still win that office next Tuesday.
Ouch!
Typicall … The Nobel Peace Prize is not a Nobel Prize! From being something serious, it has evolved into a political tool.
Unlike the real Nobel Prize Committees, which consists of professionally skilled people, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee consists of politically reliable persons appointed by the Norwegian Government, Stortinget. So, the choice of the Peace Prize winner depends on polilitical winds in Norway … (There’s no coincidence that the selection of controversial winners …)
I’m still long popcorn.
ooooohhh…..that’s gonna leave a stain
The Mann effect would appear to be the greater curse on comparison with the Streisand effect. It is true that one should never quarrel with those who buy ink by the barrel.