The ‘Oscars of Idiocy’

July 8, 2005

How about a little Friday diversion from the usual political news? My friends at the World Stupidity Awards emailed this week to let me know about their third annual ceremony to be held in Montreal on July 22nd. The show will be hosted, appropriately enough, by Lewis Black (of Jon Stewart fame).

There are some nominations, but a few jumped out at me.

* Stupidest Statement of the Year: “Can you handle my truth?” (Britney Spears); “Go F— yourself” (Dick Cheney); “Nooooooooooooo” (Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III); “They never stop thinking of ways of harming America, and neither do we.” (George W. Bush); “That’s hot” (Paris Hilton)

It’s hard not to vote for Bush, isn’t it? How about…

* Stupidest Man of the Year: U.S. Senator John Kerry, Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Columnist Ann Coulter, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Players Association Director Bob Goodenow (Shared), U.S. President George W. Bush

World Stupidity Awards Spokesmoron Robert Spence said Kerry was nominated because “the only time that Bush has been popular during his Presidency was when Kerry was running against him.” Coulter was put in this category, Spence said, because she “is the epitome of the stupid male — bigoted, loud-mouthed and always firing off guns. She’s Attila the Hun in high heels and a sexy pantsuit.” I also liked…

* Media Outlet Which Has Best Furthered Ignorance: Fox News, CBS News, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Newsweek

Considering that there’s empirical evidence to back up the claim, I’d say Fox News has this one wrapped up.

There are some other entertaining topics and nominees this year, so take a look and pick your favorites.

So many tough choices!

I liked the Stupidest Trend of the Year category and would vote for Seeing the Virgin Mary in toast, hamburgers etc… It’s not a new trend, but it’s annoying and won’t go away.

  • Wait, Bush’s quote about harming America was worse than what Cheney said to Leahy? No way.

    And don’t forget Stupidity Award for Reckless Endangerment of the Planet. There’s some great nominees in there. Too close to call.

  • I like this Bush quote:
    “After standing on the stage, after the debates, I made it very plain, we will not have an all-volunteer army.”—Daytona Beach, Fla., Oct. 16, 2004

  • The award is for Stupidist, not worst, statement – GWB wins by a mile . . .

    I had to go with Ann Coulter for stupidist MAN.

    CBS has done more than Fox News to further ignorance because the Fox audience consists of the willfully ignorant to begin with while some of the CBS audience is actually looking for new information . . .

  • “I’m the master of low expectations.”

    GWB, June 4, 2003, speaking to the press aboard AF1

    “And we are making steadfast progress.”

    GWB, June 9, 2003, D.C.

    “There is no doubt in my mind [surprise!] that we should allow the world’s worst leaders to hold America hostage, to threaten our peace, to threaten our friends and allies with the world’s worst weapons.â€?

    GWB, September 5, 2002 at a fundraising dinner.

    (all from Presidential MisSpeak)

  • C’mon. It’s GWB for stupidest man award. Kerry’s
    award should be for best performance in the “Snatching
    Defeat from the Jaws of Victory” category, honoring
    his terrible presidential campaign.

    Also, all top ten finalists for stupidest statement
    should be GWB, and I find it hard to pick a winner.
    I’m still reeling over “Catapulting the propaganda,”
    but I think there are better.

    Ann Coulter may talk like a man, act like a man,
    be just as mean as stupid as any right wing man,
    but she sure doesn’t look like a man!

  • A woman has the gall to say what she thinks and we have to call her a man? Remember how Republicans treated Hillary? Come on.

  • Here are two of my favorites:

    Too many good docs are getting out of the business.
    Too many OB/GYN’s aren’t able to practice their love
    with women all across the country.

    Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies
    will be allies against these hateful few who have no
    conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

    Give that man the Lifetime Achievement Award!

  • Eadie, I think the joke is, not that she speaks out,
    but that she’s as boorish and as insensitive and as simple and as unsophisticated as a man.

    I’ll never forget a piece by Anna Quindlen, when she
    was a columnist for the New York Times, entitled
    “Men are Like Bears, with Furniture.” It was one of
    the funniest, most delightful satires on the male beast that I’ve ever read, and I’m one of them. It
    was brilliant.

  • Or maybe it was “Men Live Like Bears, With Furniture.”
    Same thing. I lost my copy of the column on my move
    from New Jersey to Idaho in 1998.

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