News videos are now popping up online about the surprise announcement that President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Here are a few of them:
The AP’s asks if the prize will be a boost or bust:
ITTN News:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52b5IHxqHrk&videos=nn7mIClcC_E
Reuters video with Q&A of committee addressing why he won — getting some tough questions about what Obama has actually accomplished to deserve it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPkgC-mPO9c&videos=nn7mIClcC_E
Russia Today’s take on it:
Don Imus on Fox News network:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZaQ9PAY_-o&videos=nn7mIClcC_E
Joe Scarborough is skeptical as the White House’s David Axelrod responds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Aeou1ApW9o
NBC’s David Gregory says this is more about tone than achievement:
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GOP strategist Ed Rolllins says now Obama has to earn it:
Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland explains why Obama won in this CNN report:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.