Conversations with History: Geir Lundestad

[ReginaMisanthropia]

The way the interviewer pronounces his name- ghastly.

What year is this from? Geir's put on some weight since then. He's a very funny man.

[mulhollanddose]

This guy is a fraud.

[ReginaMisanthropia]

Who, Geir? He most certainly is not- I have met the man several times and I assure you he's very intelligent and straightforward with his ideas. If anyone is a "fraud" here, it's that interviewer.

[mulhollanddose]

Regina,

Yes, Geir is a fraud. He is a pompous socialist ass...Giving the Nobel Prize to a con-man who crawled out of the bloody warzone of American ghettos, having done nothing to stop black-on-black crime, is nothing short of fraudulent.

[ReginaMisanthropia]

Oh, I see what your problem is. The Obama thing. I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with giving the Prize to Obama, but that doesn't justify calling Geir Lundestad a fraud. And he didn't decide by himself to award the prize to Obama, he nominated him and the Committee agreed.

[mulhollanddose]

Regina,

Geir put political ideology and propaganda above principle and merit...If that isn't fundamentally fraudulent I don't know what is...If you want to be respected for character and integrity you don't give away a Peace Prize for nothing other than a dogma Geir wants to promote.

[cvb777]

Well, English is of course very important. But I think it is an illusion to think that the international debates in English are also automatically universal. In my experience, these debates are dominated (naturally) by Anglo-Saxon concerns. What is important to an American is not always important to a German - and why should a German write in English then? The value of expressing yourself in your native language is sadly underestimated today.