By Eve Conant

The "no comment"—which he really did say—lasted exactly one second.

Then Savage shared some of the disbelief his listeners can expect to hear soon on his show. "This is unbelievable; no one can believe this. What has he done? Has he discovered a cure for brain cancer I don't know about?"

Well, no.

"Is he moving us towards world peace?" he wonders. "Last I checked Ahmadinejad is speeding along with his bomb. If Obama is an antiwar president, why hasn't he pulled us out of Afghanistan?"

Savage's real ire isn't directed at Obama, but at the Nobel committee. Like Rush Limbaugh earlier today, he argues that the prize tells us more about the prize givers than it does about Obama. "We all know what the Nobel Prize committee is ever since Yasir Arafat won. It's a radical leftist front group that hijacked Alfred Nobel's prize."

Nobel created dynamite, and felt really guilty about it, Savage reminds us. But Obama, he says, has moved us toward world peace about as much as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did by appeasing the Nazis. "For a brief moment, there was world peace, and then in the blink of an eye it was over."

Savage was surprised, pleasantly, that many liberal bloggers were also  responding negatively to the news. “Liberals? Liberals don’t like this? Amazing.”   

“This whole thing smacks of comic absurdity.”