So, now Barack Obama has been awarded the Heisman Trophy... At least, that's the headline of a satirical news story being forwarded like mad on Facebook. And, for those who missed it, here's Fred Armisen's take from the opening of this week's "Saturday Night Live." Forget about Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter and other right-wing lunatics. We can guess what they have to say before their mouths even move. But it's not just the "usual suspects" who think the Nobel Peace Prize is a joke. Let's start with a relatively sane conservative. And, no... there aren't a lot of them. But consider this column by Peggy Noonan, the former Republican speechwriter who coined the phrase "Morning in America" for Ronald Reagan. Noonan calls the Nobel decision "absurd" to the point it has seriously devalued a meaningful award. "He doesn't have a body of work; he's a young man; he's been president less than nine months," Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal. "He hopes to accomplish much, and so far--nine months!--has accomplished little. Is this a life of heroic self-denial, of the sacrifice of self for something greater, of huge and historic consequence, of sustained vision? No it's not. Is this a life marked by a vivid and calculable contribution to the peace of the world? No, it's not." But, if you want to dismiss Noonan as too partisan, we can forget about her, too. How about Thomas Friedman? He's pretty liberal. Writes for The New York Times even. He's won three Pulitzer Prizes and likes Obama. So, what's Friedman think? Pretty much the same thing as Peggy Noonan, if this column is any indication: "The Nobel committee did President Obama no favors by prematurely awarding him its peace prize. As he himself acknowledged, he has not done anything yet on the scale that would normally merit such an award — and it dismays me that the most important prize in the world has been devalued in this way." Just in case Thomas Friedman isn't quite liberal enough -- a.