Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2017 - 02:05 am:
One of my first AOL Screen Names was Alfred E. Neuman. My profile said I was a magazine cover guy. I got Email from stupid women that did not know what Mad magazine was.
I saw recently that this story was untrue because the Nobel committee never says who is in the running for the award therefore nobody would know if she was or not. If true and they didn't consider her then they're just plain idiots!
News announcements at the time reported her name. Even Snopes agrees. There were leaks despite the policy.
I went to the bother to look this up first. Multiple 2007 articles from before Gore was handed the award. They all might be from the same source but it was announced in 2007, not made up later.
But it's good to be sceptical. These kinds of things are often fake and rely on confirmation bias to spread.