Are You Living in Weasel Country? Ouch! The Third Annual Dilbert Weasel Poll Winners Are Revealed

Are You Living in Weasel Country? Ouch! The Third Annual Dilbert Weasel Poll Winners Are Revealed

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

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump, Oil, Halliburton, George W. Bush, the United States, Kobe Bryant and Religious Fanatics all top the list in the Third Annual Dilbert Weasel Awards Poll. Over 43,000 Dilbert fans and devotees to the democratic system voted on Dilbert.com to determine once and for all, who is the Weaseliest in '04.

Scott 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 2004 on Dilbert.com. Winners of the poll are announced by Adams today and the results may surprise some people.

Commenting on this year's poll, Adams says, "The results of the third annual unscientific Weasel Poll are in, and frankly it's a little embarrassing because I belong to one of the winning groups -- America. At least Canada will be pleased."

Winners and runner-ups in each category include:

Weaseliest Media Pundit/Reporter
13123 Bill O'Reilly
11495 Michael Moore
8396 Dan Rather
7971 Ann Coulter
1188 Tucker Carlson

Weaseliest Industry
17999 Oil
8926 News Media
5705 Pharmaceuticals
5249 Law
3169 Insurance
2267 Fast Food

Weaseliest Company
25073 Halliburton
7596 Disney
4981 McDonalds
2010 Fannie Mae
1545 Marsh & McLennan
1211 AIG

Weaseliest Politician
17068 George W. Bush
9565 John Kerry
8920 Dick Cheney
1803 Muqtada Al Sadr
1694 John Edwards
1556 Tom DeLay
1212 Ralph Nader
752 Ahmed Chalabi
570 John McCain

Weaseliest Country
19918 United States
12941 France
4915 North Korea
2289 Israel
1830 Iran
1177 Pakistan

Weaseliest Sports Star
15231 Kobe Bryant
8309 Frank Francisco (The guy who threw the chair at the fan)
7966 Barry Bonds
7438 George Steinbrenner
1987 Shaquille O'Neal

Weaseliest Organization
13192 Religious fanatics
7909 Swift Boat Vets
7099 NRA
6886 United Nations
6027 ACLU
1853 FCC

Weaseliest Celebrities
13125 Donald Trump
11302 Michael Jackson
5406 Paris Hilton
4904 Ashlee Simpson
3190 Janet Jackson
2670 Britney Spears
2427 Eminem



To read more about the Dilbert Weasel Awards, 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 in 65 countries and 25 languages, as well as on the Web at http://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.


Source: Dilbert.com

CONTACT: Ilona Zaks of United Media, +1-212-293-8788,
izaks@unitedmedia.com for Dilbert.com

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