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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

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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

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, influential politicians such as Kim Jong-il
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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                Weaseliest Celebrity

-- Ann Coulter                            -- Charlie Sheen
-- Bill O'Reilly                          -- Mel Gibson
-- Michael Moore                          -- Michael Jackson
-- Nancy Grace                            -- Paris Hilton
-- Rush Limbaugh                          -- Tom Cruise
-- Sean Hannity
-- Staff of the NY Times

Weaseliest Industry                       Weaseliest Sports Person

-- Automobiles                            -- Barry Bonds
-- Corn Growers                           -- Floyd Landis
-- Health Insurance                       -- Justin Gatlin
-- Mainstream Media                       -- Lance Armstrong
-- Oil                                    -- Michael Schumacher
-- Pharmaceuticals                        -- Terrell Owens
-- Tobacco                                -- Zinedine Zidane
-- Wall Street

Weaseliest Company                        Weaseliest Organization

-- Exxon Mobil Corp.                      -- ACLU
-- Ford                                   -- Democratic Party
-- Fox News                               -- Hamas
-- Halliburton                            -- Hezbollah
-- HP                                     -- Republican Party
-- Sony                                   -- RIAA/MPAA
-- Wal-Mart                               -- United Nations

Weaseliest Politician                     Weaseliest Country

-- Donald Rumsfeld                        -- China
-- George W. Bush                         -- France
-- Hillary Rodham Clinton                 -- Iran
-- Kofi Annan                             -- Israel
-- Kim Jong-il                            -- North Korea
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad                    -- Pakistan
-- Parvez Musharraf                       -- United States
-- Ray Nagin                              -- Venezuela
-- Ted Kennedy


To vote, visit www.dilbert.com now through October 31 and look for the Weasel Poll link.

The Dilbert Blog at http://dilbertblog.typepad.com has been powered by TypePad.

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.
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