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Tom Shales Frontrunner For ADL Award?

DougJ provides the list of winners of the ADL Hubert Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Award. The entire list is pretty remarkable. But this particular recipient caught my eye:

For more than two decades, Charles Krauthammer's brilliant and influential writings have helped frame the shape of American foreign policy," said Mr. Foxman, noting that Mr. Krauthammer coined and developed "The Reagan Doctrine," defined the structure of the post-Cold War in "The Unipolar Moment" (Foreign Affairs 1990/1991) and outlined principles of post 9/11 American foreign policy in his February 2004 Irving Kristol Lecture, "Democratic Realism."

You have to think Tom Shales is the frontrunner for the next award.

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    I'm thinking more along the lines of (none / 0) (#1)
    by steviez314 on Mon Aug 09, 2010 at 08:13:50 AM EST
    Sarah Palin, First Amendment Award, Freedom of Tweets Division.

    wouldnt that be (none / 0) (#4)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Aug 09, 2010 at 01:04:04 PM EST
    Freedom Twits?


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    Was Helen Thomas ever considered? (none / 0) (#2)
    by EL seattle on Mon Aug 09, 2010 at 10:05:08 AM EST
    I wonder if she was ever came close to winning the award at some point over the past, say, 20 years?  I'd think that she would have probably would have fit into the list (until this past year).  But maybe I missed something.

    From the linked story:

    Past recipients of the prize include Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria, Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters, The Wall Street Journal, William Safire, This Week With David Brinkley, George Will, A.M. Rosenthal, The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, CNN, political cartoonist Ranan Lurie, Bernard Shaw, Bob Schieffer, Meet The Press, Bernard Lewis, Floyd Abrams, C-SPAN and, posthumously, slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

    wow (none / 0) (#3)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Aug 09, 2010 at 01:03:33 PM EST
    for some reason I was confusing Tom Shales with Tom Toles.

    glad that was a senior moment.