Editor's Note: I was surprised Michele Bachmann wasn't considered for this award. Perhaps next year, Michele. Keeep on truckin' and you'll get there.
It was one thing to learn that Gov. Sarah Palin won the Sitting Duck Award this week, a honor granted by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC).
Sarah Palin, Republican Vice Presidential nominee in the 2008 Presidential Election, was voted this year's winner of the Sitting Duck Award at the NSNC Annual Conference in Ventura, California.
Ouch, talk about adding injury to insult!
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won for showing it's hard to put your best foot forward when it's in your mouth. Gov. Palin, nominated by Cynthia Borris, was the subject of much light-hearted commentary, and an easy target for criticism during the election.
This is the person to whom columnists have turned in the last twelve months when he or she is desperate for a topic and has to meet a deadline.
Runner-up is former Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich, for his vigorous hair, his vigorous public defense against abuse-of-office charges and his vigorous post-impeachment celebrity-hood. Who knows where reality shows end and reality begins?? Blagojevich was nominated by Robert Haught.
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) created the Sitting Duck Award, an honor bestowed each year on the crème de la crème of the most ridiculed newsmakers in America. A time-honored tradition within the Society, the award provides columnists with the opportunity to give back to those public figures who have given so much to the newspaper media, and yet asked for so little in return.
The Society does note the proximity of her leaving office the same week as receiving its Sitting Duck Award for 2009, on June 28. In terms of national news coverage, calculated by Internet site "hits," such a conclusion may be inescapable.
The award’s title originates from the fact that certain public figures month in and month out are easy targets — sitting ducks — during the most perilous of times a columnist can face: the slow news day.
“The Sitting Duck Award is an important and beautiful recognition of someone whose world-class folly, villainy or obnoxiousness is a boon to columnists everywhere,” NSNC President and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Samantha Bennett said. “This is our way of saying thanks for the low-hanging fruit.”
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Sarah Palin, Republican Vice Presidential nominee in the 2008 Presidential Election, was voted this year's winner of the Sitting Duck Award at the NSNC Annual Conference in Ventura, California.
Ouch, talk about adding injury to insult!
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won for showing it's hard to put your best foot forward when it's in your mouth. Gov. Palin, nominated by Cynthia Borris, was the subject of much light-hearted commentary, and an easy target for criticism during the election.
This is the person to whom columnists have turned in the last twelve months when he or she is desperate for a topic and has to meet a deadline.
Runner-up is former Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich, for his vigorous hair, his vigorous public defense against abuse-of-office charges and his vigorous post-impeachment celebrity-hood. Who knows where reality shows end and reality begins?? Blagojevich was nominated by Robert Haught.
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) created the Sitting Duck Award, an honor bestowed each year on the crème de la crème of the most ridiculed newsmakers in America. A time-honored tradition within the Society, the award provides columnists with the opportunity to give back to those public figures who have given so much to the newspaper media, and yet asked for so little in return.
The Society does note the proximity of her leaving office the same week as receiving its Sitting Duck Award for 2009, on June 28. In terms of national news coverage, calculated by Internet site "hits," such a conclusion may be inescapable.
The award’s title originates from the fact that certain public figures month in and month out are easy targets — sitting ducks — during the most perilous of times a columnist can face: the slow news day.
“The Sitting Duck Award is an important and beautiful recognition of someone whose world-class folly, villainy or obnoxiousness is a boon to columnists everywhere,” NSNC President and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Samantha Bennett said. “This is our way of saying thanks for the low-hanging fruit.”
Past winners include Ann Coulter, Martha Stewart, The FBI, and former President Bill Clinton, among other notables.
Source: http://www.columnists.com/
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