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It's Awards Season!

Josh Marshall threw open nominations for The Golden Dukes, a new annual award given for:

great accomplishments in muckiness including acts of venal corruption, outstanding self-inflicted losses of dignity, crimes against the republic, bribery, exposed hypocrisy and generally malevolent governance.

The awards are named in honor of Congressman-turned-inmate Randy "Duke" Cunningham. It's been a heady few years for Muckraking, what with the meta-Abramoff scandal and so much more. But here at TPM we still believe that Duke is the iconic modern scandal. Few so well combine outlandish corruption, national security, sex, and sheer cartoonish ridiculousness.

The awards are broken into six categories:

• Best Testimonial Trainwreck
• Outstanding Achievement in Improbable Forgetfulness
• Outstanding Achievement in Corruption-based Chutzpah
• Best Scandal -- Local Venue
• Best Scandal -- Sex and Generalized Carnality
• Best Scandal -- General Interest

See the nominees here.

Posted by Linkmeister at December 21, 2007 08:28 AM | TrackBack