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The Nobel Prize for Literature. Congratulations to playwright Harold Pinter, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here is one of his lesser-known works from 2003:

Dear President Bush,

I'm sure you'll be having a nice little tea party with your fellow war criminal, Tony Blair. Please wash the cucumber sandwiches down with a glass of blood, with my compliments.

Harold Pinter
Playwright

You can imagine what a shitstorm this would arouse in Wingnuttia if they weren't so focused on their "political capital" being flushed down Cheney's, Rove's, DeLay's and Frist's toilets.

But Michelle Malkin managed to notice, citing the opinion of Laura Bush's aspiring luncheon companion Roger Kimball.

There's only one problem with their arguments: his political opinions aside for the moment, Pinter made a contribution to literature, and they didn't. On the contrary, their entire output and agenda consist of a politics of exclusion that is based on nothing but their opinions. Kimball's predictable rhapsodizing should be considered not art or even criticism but propaganda.

Conclusion: The Nobel Committee did its job admirably.

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