The "gold medal" has to go to Walter Duranty of the New York Slimes. In the 1930's he covered-up Stalin's genocide and wrote about how wonderful the USSR was. For these apologetics he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/791vwuaz.asp?ZoomFont=YES
Eason Jordan, of course.
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Add Gloria Borger and SEEBS (again) to the list. Newsweek has blown the scandal of the BS network editing Starr's interview so that his answer to one questtion became the answer to a different one to support the Democrat fillibuster of judges out of the water.
Sometimes, late at night, when everyone is sleeping, I try to summon the ghost of McCarthy......