A Nobel Laureate speaks ...

Harold Pinter has used his Nobel lecture (via video) to deliver an attack on US foreign policy. A writer at the Guardian describes how the speech "relied on Pinter's theatrical sense, in particular his ability to use irony, rhetoric and humour, to make its point."

The most humorous aspect I found (full text of speech here) was when he volunteered to be a speechwriter for President Bush and came up with this potential TV address:

'God is good. God is great. God is good. My God is good. Bin Laden's God is bad. His is a bad God. Saddam's God was bad, except he didn't have one. He was a barbarian. We are not barbarians. We don't chop people's heads off. We believe in freedom. So does God. I am not a barbarian. I am the democratically elected leader of a freedom-loving democracy. We are a compassionate society. We give compassionate electrocution and compassionate lethal injection. We are a great nation. I am not a dictator. He is. I am not a barbarian. He is. And he is. They all are. I possess moral authority. You see this fist? This is my moral authority. And don't you forget it.'