Weasels, New and Old, Take Top Place as the Fifth Annual Dilbert Weasel Winners are Announced
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
November 2, 2006 (New York, NY) -- For the third consecutive year,
heavyweight Weasels George Bush, Halliburton, the United States and Oil top the
list in the Fifth Annual Dilbert Weasel Awards Poll. Several newbies have also
exploded onto the Weasel winner’s arena including Scientology zealot Tom Cruise,
controversial activist Michael Moore, and alleged steroid using MLB star Barry Bonds.
Over 40,000 Dilbert fans voted on Dilbert.com, pointing and clicking their mouse
on the nominees deserving of the title: Weaseliest in 2006.
Contemplating on this year’s winners, Adams says, “If I were a coiner of phrases
I would say we have identified an Axis of Weasel.”
Want to hear more about what Adams thinks about the Weasel winner outcome?
Log onto http://dilbertblog.typepad.com
and feel free to make comments yourself.
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 invited Dilbert fans to
vote for the weaseliest of 2006 on Dilbert.com.
Winners and runner-ups in each category are:
Weaseliest Pundit/Reporter
Michael Moore
9383
Staff of the NY Times
8831
Ann Coulter
6809
Bill O’Reilly
5788
Rush Limbaugh
5031
Nancy Grace
1701
Sean Hannity
1040
Weaseliest Industry
Oil
13275
Mainstream Media
8401
Tobacco
6754
Health Insurance
4487
Pharmaceuticals
4035
Wall Street
1513
Corn Growers
1065
Automobiles
743
Weaseliest Company
Halliburton
10436
Wal*Mart
8489
ExxonMobil Corp.
5983
Fox News
5958
HP
3564
Sony
3153
Ford
1465
Weaseliest Politician
George W. Bush
15447
Donald Rumsfeld
5216
Hillary Rodham Clinton
4315
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
3842
Ray Nagin
3765
Kim Jong-il
2867
Ted Kennedy
2503
Kofi Annan
1631
Pervez Musharraf
838
Weaseliest Celebrity
Tom Cruise
12520
Michael Jackson
10263
Mel Gibson
7819
Paris Hilton
7558
Charlie Sheen
1926
Weaseliest Sports Person
Barry Bonds
13122
Terrell Owens
8610
Lance Armstrong
3914
Floyd Landis
3714
Zinedine Zidane
3702
Michael Schumacher
3005
Justin Gatlin
817
Weaseliest Organization
Republican Party
13253
RIAA/MPAA
6801
United Nations
5352
ACLU
5229
Hezbollah
4431
Democratic Party
3260
Hamas
1596
Weaseliest Country
United States
9121
North Korea
9110
France
6552
Iran
5034
Israel
3125
Venezuela
2966
China
2316
Pakistan
2022
To read more about Weasel Poll, visit http://www.dilbert.com 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.
