Columnists 'Honor' Rumsfeld With Sitting Duck Prize

By: Dave Astor Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld won this year's Sitting Duck Award as an easy target for columnists.

He received the "honor" from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists during its June 11-13 conference here. One reason? Rumsfeld's ability to "duck questions with nonsensical answers." For example, Rumsfeld once said: "As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know."

Sitting Duck runner-up was Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio personality who railed against drug use while being an addict himself.

Last year's winner, disgraced domestic doyenne Martha Stewart, received only one vote this time around.