WaPo Contest: Name the Abramoff scandal

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/08/AR2006010800868.html?referrer=email

It's a Scandal -- and This T-Shirt Proves It

By Al Kamen

Monday, January 9, 2006; Page A17

Loop Fans started submitting entries last week to the In the Loop Name the Abramoff Scandal Contest, confidently assuming there would have to be such a contest.

Actually, we'd thought about having one but decided not to. After all, there was a "Name that Scandal" contest last year, focusing on former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and superlobbyist Jack Abramoff .



By popular demand, In the Loop launches the Name the Abramoff Scandal Contest, offering this valuable prize. (By Julia Ewan -- The Washington Post)




And yet, the new entries were pretty good and the scandal seems to have broadened since then -- along with Jack's waistline. Abramoff's frontal assault on sartorial decency at his court appearance Tuesday was the last straw.

So . . . okay. The Name the Abramoff Scandal Contest will kick off 2006! Names ending in -gate, while not automatically rejected, are frowned upon.

Send your entry -- and rationale -- via e-mail to to [e-mail] or mail to In the Loop, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071. Deadline is midnight Jan. 18. Top 10 winners get a still-rare, highly coveted In the Loop T-shirt. (Shown here for those who doubted their existence.) Entries on background are welcome, but everyone must include telephone numbers to be eligible.

Don't delay.

[jaysunb]

1. Trivialize it....

that's right. Turn it into a joke.

America, America.....

[napi21]

2. Actually I like the contest idea. Unfortunately, all my suggestions

wouldn't be printable.

[TominDC]

3. Republican Business as Usual

not too catchy, though

[jaysunb]

4. heh heh

:evilgrin:

[Hekate]

5. Humor is necessary in these dark times, not trivial at all

Humor cuts the powerful and feared down to human size, and lets us know they can be beaten after all.

The man has gone from being one of the most powerful men in DC to being a laughingstock in the public eye -- and on his way to the Laughing Stocks his legal fate is causing an awful lot of other powerful men a lot of sleepless nights.

I'd love to get a look at the entries in the Name the Abramoff Scandal Contest!

Hekate