Larry Di Rita, a former Rumsfeld aide who helped set up the program, told Inside the Ring, "It seems to violate the Pulitzer committee's time-honored tradition of awarding the prize before the story is later debunked. This time they at least waited for the debunking to happen first. I look at it as just another laughable reminder that the establishment media are awarding themselves ever more grandiose awards in direct proportion to their increasing irrelevance and desperation."
Every award [Pulitzer, Nobel Peace Prize, Oscar] has become Orwellian. None of these prizes are worth a bucket of spit now.
Grammy for Spoken Word
Grammy Awards of 2009
Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood
for An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
Grammy Awards of 2008
Barack Obama
for The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Grammy Awards of 2007
Jimmy Carter
for Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis;
and
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee
for With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (Tie)
Grammy Awards of 2006
Barack Obama
for Dreams from My Father
Grammy Awards of 2005
Bill Clinton
for My Life
Grammy Awards of 2004
Paul Ruben (producer) & Al Franken
for Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Grammy Awards of 2003
Charles B. Potter (producer) & Maya Angelou
for A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Grammy Awards of 2002
Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman (engineers) & Elisa Shokoff (producer) & Quincy Jones
for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Grammy Awards of 2001
Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) & Sidney Poitier
for The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Grammy Awards of 2000
LeVar Burton
for The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Grammy Awards of 1999
Christopher Reeve
for Still Me
Grammy Awards of 1998
Charles Kuralt
for Charles Kuralt’s Spring
Grammy Awards of 1997
Hillary Rodham Clinton
for It Takes a Village
Grammy Awards of 1996
Maya Angelou
for Phenomenal Woman
Grammy Awards of 1995
Henry Rollins
for Get in the Van
Grammy Awards of 1994
Maya Angelou
for On the Pulse of Morning
Grammy Awards of 1993
Earvin “Magic” Johnson & Robert O’Keefe
for What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS
Grammy Awards of 1992
Ken Burns
for The Civil War
Grammy Awards of 1991
George Burns
for Gracie - A Love Story
Grammy Awards of 1990
Gilda Radner
for It’s Always Something
Grammy Awards of 1989
Jesse Jackson
for Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson
Grammy Awards of 1988
Garrison Keillor
for Lake Wobegon Days