Good point. Excatly what segregationists said when MLK won the award.
But see, that would be the opinion of the segregationists. My point was that the committee itself stated that their awarding the prize was meant as a political statement to the Bush administration.
In 2002, after the award was given to Carter, the committee chairman, Gunnar Berge, stated that the award "should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the current administration has taken."