FREEPER POWER NEEDED! Vote in the Dilbert "Weasel" Poll!

Dilbert.com ^ | 9/30/2003 | Scott Adams

[stradivarius]

It's time to vote for the 2003 Weasel Awards. This is your chance to shine the spotlight of public ridicule on the weasels that deserve it most.

Weaselness is a subjective quality, but you know one when you see one, unless that weasel happens to be yourself, in which case you had good reasons for doing what you did. Put the greatest weight on recent weasel behavior. I know that some of you are still angry about the Crusades, but try to put it behind. We want fresh, innovative weasels that did their best work in 2003.

Remember that being a weasel isn't the same as being evil. Serial killers, for example, are evil but they rank low on the weasel scale because they give you exactly what they promise. World-class weasels are people with hidden agendas and cynical motives. They're greedy, selfish, and power-hungry and they think you're not smart enough to stop them. Often they're right, and that's the most annoying thing about weasels.

In the best weasel tradition, this poll is exuberantly, unapologetically unscientific.

Voting will end on October 15, 2003.

Scott Adams

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/shop/html/weasel_poll.html

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(I've indicated below what I believe are the obvious choices with an "X", however as always FReepers are encouraged to exercise independent judgment and wisdom.)

WEASELIEST ORGANIZATION

Congress

White House

Democratic Party

Republican Party

X ACLU

New York Times

Fox News Corporation

Recording Industry Association of America

Organized religion

WEASELIEST COUNTRY

North Korea

USA

Canada

X France

Germany

Saudi Arabia

Iran

WEASELIEST COMPANY

X Freddie Mac

HealthSouth

MCI WorldCom

Kmart

Salomon Smith Barney

Merrill Lynch

Microsoft

Halliburton

WEASELIEST PROFESSION

Accountants

Lawyers

Politicians

X News media

Oil executives

Tobacco executives

WEASELIEST INDIVIDUAL

George W. Bush

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Tom Daschle

Bill Bennett

Sean Penn

Jayson Blair

Michael Moore

Ann Coulter

Al Franken

Bill O'Reilly

Jacques Chirac

Gerhardt Schroeder

Saddam Hussein

Richard Grasso

Charles Schumer

X Yasser Arafat

Ariel Sharon

Jack Grubman

WEASELIEST BEHAVIOR:

X Blaming fast food restaurants for making you fat

Religious extremism

Creating computer worms/viruses because no one will date you

Using cell phones in restaurants

Using speaker phone in cubicle

Driving a Hummer

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Weasel Poll

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Dang forgot new window

[LayoutGuru2]

Dems,France,MCI,Media,Moore,FATsuits

[eddie willers]

Dems,France,K-Mart,Media,Moore,Viruses

[EternalVigilance]

I voted, did you?

;-)

[Redcoat LI]

I read your post,and did the same thing.
I wonder if that stove is hot?I'd better touch it to find out.

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lol!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Thanks for voting!

On October 20th, the 2003 Weasel Awards winners will be announced here on Dilbert.com.

Someone needs to remind me!

[rs79bm]

I voted for Daschole.

[Kerberos]

"Last year a conservative group rallied its troops to bias the poll to serve its own agenda. We applaud that behavior and find it to be in the true spirit of weaseldom."

[wylenetheconservative]

Dems/Lawyers/Daschle/France/FM/Fast Food lawsuits/

I find it interesting that Fox News was a choice for "weasiliest organization" but CNN or PMSNBC were not. A little liberal bias anyone?

[jocon307]

LOL, THIS IS A REAL VOTE PEOPLE.

Choices on all sides, and to ever taste, er rather, distaste. On some questions, it was very difficult to make a choice.

VOTE YOUR HEARTS, VOTE YOUR MINDS, BUT VOTE TODAY!

[Salvation]

Voted

[I'm ALL Right!]

Biased? Yes! Where was Hitlery on that list of individuals?! I was ready to vote for her because of her Rewriting History book.

[dagoofyfoot]

Dems, Iran, MCI, Politicians(Dems), Dashole, Blaming fast food resturaunts for making you fat!

[ETERNAL WARMING]

BTTT Voted for all but the Weaseliest Company....WALMART wasn't on the list.

[Quix]

THANKS.

MAYBE I can give this some thought in my busy-ness.