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 8, 2005 (New York, NY) - Yet again, the democrats suffer a stunning defeat as seasoned Weasels lead the pack in the latest unscientific and fourth-annual Weasel Poll. For the second consecutive year, George W. Bush beat out a slew of qualified candidates while the White House grabbed top honors for Weaseliest Organization, and USA (which includes Iraq) took first place in the new category of Weaseliest Country. Advocating the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools did manage to climb its way to the top as a Weaseliest Behavior beating out such despicable acts as gas price gouging and downloading music or movies without paying.

Nearly 40,000 Dilbert fans voted on Dilbert.com helping to shape the fate of these hooligans by choosing the Weaseliest in 2005.

Scott Adams will also be airing his thoughts about the freshly picked Weasel winners on his new Dilbert Blog, which fans can access at http://dilbertblog.typepad.com. Launched to enormous success, Adams has weighed in on all sorts of topics on his Blog including what he considers to be his nerdiest moment. Fans are also able to post comments and ask the Dilbert creator all the things they’ve been aching to know.

Commenting on this year’s Dilbert Weasel Award winners, Adams has this to say, “It looks as if the poll results reflect the opinions of many people outside the United States. Now you know why I'm afraid to travel.”

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 individuals and organizations of 2005 on Dilbert.com.

Winners and runner-ups in each category are:

Weaseliest Organization White House 10794  Republican Party 7234  Organized Religion 5792  ACLU 4408  United Nations 4293  Congress 3116  Democratic Party 2704  FCC 1104  Weaseliest Country USA (includes Iraq) 16083  France 7322  North Korea 6766  Saudi Arabia 3859  Iran 2476  Syria 1812  Venezuela 902  Weaseliest Company Oil companies 9639  Halliburton 9571  Fox News 7059  Wal*Mart 6992  New York Times 5953  Weaseliest Profession Politicians 13453  Lawyers 7206  Oil executives 6318  News media 6059  Tobacco executives 5866  Accountants 594

Weaseliest Individual George W. Bush 13059  Karl Rove 4915  Cindy Sheehan (peace activist) 4183  Ray Nagin (Mayor of New Orleans) 3944  Tom DeLay 3051  Tom Cruise 2854  Michael Brown (ex-FEMA head) 2192  Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (Gov. of Louisiana) 1890  Rafael Palmeiro (baseball player suspended for steroids) 1325  Arnold Schwarzenegger 796  Lindy England (Abu Ghraib abuser) 660  Mary Landrieu (Senator of Louisiana) 310  Bill Frist 224  Weaseliest Behavior Advocating the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools 9661  Gas price gouging 7828  Reporting it as "finding supplies" when white people loot 6157  Corporate boards approving CEO pay packages 6149  Politicians blaming other politicians 6131  Outsourcing 2687  Downloading music or movies without paying 864

To read more about Weasel Poll, visit www.dilbert.com and look for the Weasel Poll link.

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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.