cables and now wikileaks founder julian assange has been nominated for a nobel peace prize. i m not making that up. by a norweigian politician who claims that wikileaks is an important contribution to freedom of speech. so he right? our political panel is here to weigh in. rich lowry is the editor of the national review, ward zuckerman is the publisher of the new york daily noews and u.s. nes & world report. maybe the nobel people are just tired of actually honoring people who were involved in human rights and it s time to do pull another arafat. well, i have to be clear about something here, steve, it s much harder to get a best picture nomination from the academy awards than it is to get nominated for the nobel prize. pretty much anyone can do it. there are 200 a year and assange is kind of slimy anti-americanism has made him the hero for a slice of the so-called international community. so it doesn t surprise me that