Little Jack Horner, corner, thumb, pie, I . . .

Here’s an amazing bit of Obama coverage you will never find in a U.S. sheet.  It’s in a blog at UK Telegraph, whose D.C.-based Toby Harnden got a presidential email on the day O. got the Nobel Prize — and two more since then, Nobel-dropping indicating he’s not “even faintly sheepish about the award.”

“Surprising and humbling” O. found the news, which he’d got that morning.

“To be honest,” he continued, saying he felt he didn’t deserve it (lie) and the others who got it had “inspired” him, etc. (another lie: nowhere near how Rev. Jeremiah Wright had done so).

“I’ve always thought that when someone starts a sentence with the words “to be honest . . .” it’s a signal they’re about to lie,” said Harnden parenthetically.

A few more “faux-humble paragraphs” and Harnden concluded:

Obama apparently sees the award of the prize as his biggest achievement so far, with the possible exception of his election victory. Well, it sure beats actually doing something.

“All in all,” Harnden found it “a hilarious display of vanity and self-absorption masquerading ineptly as humility and selflessness” and asked,

What does it say about Obama’s character when such an empty symbol means so much to him?

Too much, I fear.

And: Would be delinquent in my duty to humanity were I not to say Instapundit led me to this item.