She poses a fair question: "Why should we care [about the Nobel Peace Prize]?"
And then veers into absurdity:
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish dynamite tycoon who thought up this whole thing, specifically wanted Norwegians to choose the winner, apparently because Norwegians, being outside the European mainstream, would be less likely to be politically corrupt. The trouble is that Norwegians, being outside the European mainstream, are also more likely to be eccentric.
Followed by a non-sequitar
Norway is a wonderful country, and Norwegians have some of the highest living standards in the world—thanks to their low numbers and their large deposits of oil and gas—
and capped off with some anecdotal evidence
but the last time I was there, I got into an argument with someone about which country was more evil: the United States or North Korea. This being a few years ago, at the height of the Bush terror, you can guess which side the Norwegian was on.
That's all in the first paragraph.
To sum up: Norwegians are too rich and weird too determine Nobel Peace Prize winners; also, she met this viking this one time who thought Bush was an asshole.
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