Gore for a speech that condemned the Bush administration's efforts to generate support for the coming invasion of Iraq. In a column in The Washington Post, Kelly wrote Gore's speech was "wretched. It was vile. It was contemptible." He said Gore's speech "was one no decent politician could have delivered" and was "bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies." In 2013, journalist James Fallows, who had worked with Kelly and was close to him, said that Kelly's attack on Gore "was not merely wrong. It was 'dishonest, cheap, low.'" Personal life Kelly met his wife Madelyn Greenberg, a producer at CNN and CBS News, during the 1988 presidential election while they were both assigned to the Dukakis campaign. Later, Greenberg was assigned to the Gulf War and Kelly followed, working on his own reporting project. The couple married in 1991, and had two children. His father, Thomas V. Kelly, was working on a book about his son Michael, but he died June 17, 2010, before its completion. One of his sisters, Katy Kelly, is a former journalist at People magazine and USA Today. She writes the Lucy Rose and Melonhead series of children's books. She has said that her Melonhead character was partly inspired by her brother Michael. Another sister, Meg Kelly, is a screenwriter. Legacy and honors Kelly's legacy remains divided. On one side, he is remembered as a journalist who "stood for truth, and died for his beliefs." But he has been criticized for his vocal support for the invasion of Iraq (which ended in an eight-year insurgency against American troops and the reformed Iraqi forces), an event partially attributed by some to a press perceived as being not critical enough. Combined as it was with his support of Stephen Glass during his scandal, Gawker editor Tom Scocca said that Kelly had the "distinction of an active role in two of the worst failures of journalism in a generation." Scocca further wrote: "It's not simply that Kelly was wrong, nor that he was wrong about important things. It's that he was aggressively, manipulatively, and smugly wrong." The Atlantic Media Company, owner of the publications for which Kelly worked from 1997 to 2003, annually honors journalists with the Michael Kelly Award, which recognizes a journalist for "the fearless pursuit and expression of truth". In 2003 the University of New Hampshire English department established the