WHAT DO MEL GIBSON, HAMAS, AND CORN GROWERS HAVE IN COMMON? THEY’RE ALL NOMINEES IN THE FIFTH ANNUAL DILBERT WEASEL AWARDS
Exercise Your Right to Vote for the Weaseliest on Dilbert.com
weasel n: a long-tailed carnivorous mammal.
--Webster's
weasel n: any person or group that operates in that
vast gray area between good ethical behavior and the sort of activities
that might send you to jail.
--Scott Adams
October 3, 2006 (New York, NY) - As autumn brings forth cooler weather, glorious foliage, and football season, it’s also the time when Dilbert creator Scott Adams gets ready to reveal the latest cornucopia of Weasels in his unscientific and fifth annual Weasel Poll. There’s never a shortage of this illustrious breed and 2006 proves to be no different with Weasels in eight distinct categories. This year look for unhinged celebrities like Mel Gibson and Charlie Sheen, influential politicians such as Kim Jong-il and Hillary Rodham Clinton, adrenaline fueled sports stars Terrell Owens and Zinedine Zidane and ginormous corporations including Ford and HP.
Beginning today on Dilbert.com, Dilbert readers can take part in democracy by going to dilbert.com to cast their vote for the weaseliest.
Never one to keep his comments to himself, Adams will be blogging away about the Weasel Poll on his highly successful Dilbert blog which can also be accessed at dilbert.com. Have comments, questions, or snide remarks? Let yourself loose on Adams at http://dilbertblog.typepad.com.
Reflecting on this year’s poll, Adams says, “I feel it's my civic duty to shine the flashlight of shame on the weasels who so desperately deserve it. If I can discourage just one child from becoming a weasel, my life will have meaning.”
Adams created the Weasel Award Poll in 2002 to give his fans a chance to rate some of the wide-spread weasel behavior of the year. Based on the sharp, funny, and frighteningly true theories outlined in his book, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel (HarperBusiness), the Dilbert Weasel Awards Poll invites Dilbert fans to vote for the weaseliest individuals and organizations of 2006 on Dilbert.com now through October 31. Winners of the poll will be announced by Adams on November 2.
Categories and nominees include:
Weaseliest Pundit/Reporter
Ann Coulter
Bill O’Reilly
Michael Moore
Nancy Grace
Rush Limbaugh
Sean Hannity
Staff of the NY Times
Weaseliest Industry
Automobiles
Corn Growers
Health Insurance
Mainstream Media
Oil
Pharmaceuticals
Tobacco
Wall Street
Weaseliest Company
Exxon Mobil Corp.
Ford
Fox News
Halliburton
HP
Sony
Wal-Mart
Weaseliest Politician
Donald Rumsfeld
George W. Bush
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Kofi Annan
Kim Jong-il
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Pervez Musharraf
Ray Nagin
Ted Kennedy
Weaseliest Celebrity
Charlie Sheen
Mel Gibson
Michael Jackson
Paris Hilton
Tom Cruise
Weaseliest Sports Person
Barry Bonds
Floyd Landis
Justin Gatlin
Lance Armstrong
Michael Schumacher
Terrell Owens
Zinedine Zidane
Weaseliest Organization
ACLU
Democratic Party
Hamas
Hezbollah
Republican Party
RIAA/MPAA
United Nations
Weaseliest Country
China
France
Iran
Israel
North Korea
Pakistan
United States
Venezuela
To vote, visit http://www.dilbert.com now through October 31 and look for the Weasel Poll link.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Scott Adams is the creator of DILBERT, the comic strip that now appears in more than 2,000 newspapers, 65 countries, 25 languages and on the Web at www.dilbert.com, which receives over 1.4 million unique visitors per month. His books, The Dilbert Principle, Dogbert’s Top Secret Management Handbook, The Joy Of Work, and The Dilbert Future were all New York Times bestsellers.
ABOUT DILBERT Dilbert, the United Feature Syndicate comic strip, is the most photocopied, pinned-up, downloaded, faxed and e-mailed comic strip in the world. Many readers, particularly those employed at large corporations, are convinced that Adams works at their companies since he conveys corporate inanities so perfectly in his comic strip.
