By: E&P Staff Sarah Palin may have her reasons for stepping down as governor of Alaska, but Ben Pollock, secretary of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, insists the NSNC is not to blame. Or thank.
Early last week, Palin received a dubious honor from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists: the Sitting Duck Award, given annually to the person "to whom columnists have turned in the last 12 months, when he or she is desperate for a topic and has to meet a deadline."
?The board of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists takes neither credit nor blame for Sarah Palin's announcement on Friday, July 3, that she will resign as governor of Alaska,? the NSNC said in a statement. ?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.?
Palin, the group said, was nominated for "showing it's hard to put your best foot forward when it's in your mouth.? Impeached Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich finished as the runner-up in the voting.
NSNC President and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Samantha Bennett added, ?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. This is our way of saying thanks for the low-hanging fruit.?
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