[sport]

It was politics, pure and simple. He got it for who he was, and not for what he did.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Wrong. He got it for WHAT he is.

Not who he is.

[Verginius Rufus]

He got it for not being George W. Bush. It was one of several times when the committee used the prize as a way to insult Bush.

The committee had already discredited itself by several of its earlier awards.