(1) John O’Neill. With nothing to gain, John O’Neill took the bullets aimed at the SwiftBoatVets. Roy Hoffman deserves the award, as does Steve Gardner, as do the POW’s who appeared in Stolen Honor. The award goes to O’Neill for calmness under fire from the lunatic ravings of Chris Matthews, Larry O’Donnell and others.

(2) Joseph Newcomer. Not a supporter of Bush, Newcomer took what the blogosphere did at Powerline, LGF, and many other sites, and engaged the hyperdrive. No one on the planet could entertain the thought that the Rathergate memos were real after Newcomer got through with them.

Dinocrat honors these men because of their dedication to truth. The highest value of journalism is truth, and it was found, in the cases of SwiftBoatVets and Rathergate, far away from the institutions which purport to treasure it.

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