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When I first saw it posted on a friend's Facebook profile, I thought it WAS an Onion headline:
"Obama fails to win Nobel prize in economics; Commentary: Michael Moore, Timothy Geithner also passed over"
Instead, it was MarketWatch's assistant managing editor Tom Bemis skewering the absurdity of our latest Nobel-laureate while shedding light on our fearless leader's real accomplishments. The piece continues :LONDON (MarketWatch) --In a decision as shocking as Friday's surprise peace prize win, President Obama failed to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Monday.
While few observers think Obama has done anything for world peace in the nearly nine months he's been in office, the same clearly can't be said for economics.
The president has worked tirelessly since even before his inauguration to wrest control of the U.S. economy from failed free markets, and the evil CEOs who profit from them, and to turn it over to wise, fair and benevolent bureaucrats.
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Other surprise losers include celebrity noneconomist and filmmaker Michael Moore; U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; and Larry Summers, head of the U.S. national economic council.
It is unclear whether the president will now refuse his peace prize in protest against the obvious slight to his real achievements this year.
Well played, Marketwatch, well played indeed.
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