What do Islam, France, the US Democratic party, News reporters and Microsoft have in common?

Dilbert.com has published the results of the "2002 Weasel awards". A weasel is defined as anyone who is trying to get away with something. 19,000 people voted in the poll, and the winning weasels are shown below:

Weaseliest Religion: Islam with 32% Weaseliest Country: France with 34%, with Saudia Arabia in 2nd at 23% Weaseliest Organization: Democratic Party with 29% of the votes Weaseliest Profession: News reporters with 24% Weaseliest Company: Microsoft with 39%

Those 19,000 people are right on target, I'm impressed by the collective Insightfulness. The link to the poll was found at andrewsullivan.com.

I copy the full results below.

Weasel Awards Poll Results
Dilbert.com
http://www.comics.com/poll/show_results.jsp

The results are in for the first annual Weasel Awards Competition! For the uninformed, a weasel is defined as anyone who is trying to get away with something. 19,000 people voted in the poll, and the winning weasels are shown below.

Weaseliest Organization

Congress 13%
Democratic Party 29%
FBI 4%
Major League Baseball 21%
Republican Party 11%
White House 19%

Weaseliest Profession

Accountants 5%
Advertising executives 4%
Lawyers 22%
News reporters 24%
Oil executives 5%
Politicians 18%
Tobacco executives 17%

Weaseliest Country

France 34%
Iran 1%
Iraq 18%
North Korea 3%
Pakistan 18%
Saudi Arabia 23%

Weaseliest Individual

Gary Condit 19%
"Chainsaw" Al Dunlap 1%
Michael Jackson 10%
Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco) 4%
Kenneth Lay (Enron) 17%
Marie Reine Le Gougne (French Ice Skating Olympic Judge) 18%
Martha Stewart 24%
Sam Waksal (ImClone) 1%
Gary Winnick (Global Crossings) 2%

Weaseliest Company

Arthur Andersen 20%
Enron 18%
Merrill Lynch 2%
Microsoft 39%
Qwest 2%
Rite Aid 6%
Tyco 2%
WorldCom 7%

Weaseliest Religion

Atheism 22%
Buddhism 1%
Catholicism 27%
Hinduism 1%
Islam 32%
Judaism 6%
Protestantism 9%

Posted by David Melle
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