I just watched Caroline Kennedy, co-founder, Profiles in Courage Award, try to explain to Jon Stewart how the Profile In Courage Award came about…I say try, because she used the phrase, “I think we…”, lots of ums and ers…. If I am not mistaken, she really she know what the reasons were for her family starting these awards 17 years ago, after all, it was her, John, Jackie, and Ted.

So this year, the winners are Congressman John Murtha, “for speaking out against the war in Afganistan”…I believe she meant Iraq..and Alberto Mora,

whose civilian position accorded him a rank equal to that of a four-star general, soon came to learn that the cruel and abusive practices of United States military interrogators at Guantanamo were the result of significant policy shifts at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Over the next three years, Mora waged a campaign inside the Bush Administration to prevent military and civilian leaders from codifying any policy that might implicitly or explicitly sanction the mistreatment of Guantanamo detainees as part of the war on terror.

Past winners:

Carl Elliott, Sr. (1990)

Charles Weltner (1991)

Lowell Weicker, Jr. (1992)

James Florio (1993)

Henry Gonzalez (1994)

Michael Synar (1995)

Corkin Cherubini (1996)

Charles Price (1997)

Nickolas Murnion (1998)

Peacemakers of Northern Ireland (1998)

Russell Feingold (1999)

John McCain (1999)

Hilda Solis (2000)

Gerald Ford (2001)

John Lewis (2001)

Kofi Annan (2002)

Dean Koldenhoven (2002)

Public Servants of September 11 (2002)

Roy Barnes (2003)

David Beasley (2003)

Dan Ponder, Jr. (2003)

Paul Muegge (2004)

Sima Samar (2004)

Cindy Watson (2004)

Joseph Darby (2005)

Shirley Franklin (2005)

Bill Ratliff (2005)

Viktor Yushchenko (2005)

Here is a link to the coverage of the actual awards ceremony

2 Responses to “And The Profile In Courage Awards Go To Murtha and Moro”

1. Robert
   June 5, 2006 - 10:55 PM on June 5th, 2006

   Looking down the list of recipients we come to Kofi “food for oil” Annan. Now there’s a real profile in courage; courage to be honest and truthful, uphold the utmost in integrity, really take a stand. Yeah, there’s a real hero there of the highest order. Almost as bad as Yassar AraRat getting the Nobel Peace prize. When that happened, I knew the Nobel peace prize was finished as something of true value.

   Now giving this one to murtha must have been a real tough choice. You’ve also got Turban Durbin in the running, Chapatraitor “Abu Ghraib” Kennedy, and last but in no way least, John “attacking women and children in the middle of the night’ Kerry. Each and every one of them was more than eligible for the Liberal bootlicker award, I mean the “Profile in Courage”.

2. snowy egret
   June 6, 2006 - 07:51 AM on June 6th, 2006

   Looks more like profiles in treason then corage:mad:

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