Comedian Andy Borowitz details the process used by the Nobel Peace Prize committee in selecting Pres. Barack Obama as the 2009 winner.

Nobel insiders revealed that the President’s “beer summit” at the White House put him over the top.

“The committee was definitely split down the middle right up until the end,” said Agot Valle, a Norwegian politician and member of the five-person Nobel committee. “Some of them were still quite upset about that nasty business with the Somali pirates.”

But, according to Ms. Valle, “someone brought up the beer summit, and we all agreed that that was awesome.”