Effusive with praise for George W. Bush's second inaugural address on Jan. 20, Kristol told Fox News viewers that they'd just watched"a very eloquent speech ... one of the most powerful speeches, one of the most impressive speeches, I thinkI've seen an American presidentgive." Appearing on the same network, Krauthammer was no less enthusiastic as he likened Bush to John F. Kennedy and called the speech"revolutionary." But neither pundit mentioned that they'd been advisers who helped to write the speech.
Put Them In Chains Award: Bill O' Reilly
"You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and underminingit," O'Reilly told his national audience on June 20. "And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9/11, is a traitor. Everybody got it? Dissent, fine; undermining,you're a traitor. Got it? So, all those clowns over at the liberal radio network, we could incarcerate them immediately.Will you have that done, please? Send over the FBI and just put them in chains, because they, you know,they're undermining everything and they don't care, couldn't careless."
Mickey Mouse Journalism Prize: Correspondent Mike Barz and ABC
During a Sept. 12 report that aired on ABC's "Good Morning America," Barz explained:"Based on all the smiles on all the faces of the children ... it looks like the magic of Disney is taking hold inChina." It was a very upbeat report about a new Disney-owned theme park -- on a TV network owned by Disney.