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Conservatives don’t much care for intelligence, especially Nobel Prize winners. Or civil rights. They’d like them not to exist. So, I imagine there are smiles around Cons’ breakfast tables this morning while reading this news about the wife of a Nobel prize winner in China being forced out of her home for talking to the media about the prize. Even more pleasing for the toast and coffee sippin’ Conservatives is that television has been blacked out from covering the news. The ideal Conservative world exposed.

SHANGHAI — Police forced the wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to leave her Beijing home Friday night, in a bid to stop her talking to foreign media crowded outside her apartment block.

It was part of China’s “damage control” efforts that began with blacking out television coverage Friday when the announcement came that the jailed Chinese rights activist is this year’s Nobel Peace laureate.

Only satellite television, of course. No Chinese stations were even covering the news that China had won its first ever Nobel Prize.