{"id":2201,"date":"2004-07-26T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T17:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2201.html"},"modified":"2004-07-26T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T17:11:58","slug":"2004-world-stupidity-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/2004-world-stupidity-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 World Stupidity Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by PWalker<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, President Bush was a big winner at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/news\/artslife\/story.html?id=d779a64c-1f81-46b0-8b75-b77df40ac1a7\">2004 World Stupidity Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush was a dominating presence at the second edition of the awards presented at the Just for Laughs comedy festival. Host Lewis Black, whose biting satire is a highlight of TV&#8217;s The Daily Show, took pride in the recognition the United States received at the awards, saying: &#8220;we are the gold standard.&#8221;<\/Blockquote><\/p>\n<p>My favorite, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stupidityawards.com\/index.html\">the official website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><u>Stupidest Statement of the Year 2004 Winner<\/u>:<br \/>\n&#8220;Major combat operations have ended in Iraq.&#8221; &#8211; President George W. Bush<\/p>\n<p>Nominees:<br \/>\n&#8220;Nick, why does this Chicken of the Sea taste like tuna?&#8221; &#8211; Jessica Simpson<br \/>\n&#8220;YYEEEAARRGHHHHH!!&#8221; &#8211; Howard Dean<br \/>\n&#8220;I do.&#8221; &#8211; Britney Spears<br \/>\n&#8220;It was a wardrobe malfunction.&#8221; &#8211; Justin Timberlake<\/Blockquote><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by PWalker In case you missed it, President Bush was a big winner at the 2004 World Stupidity Awards. Bush was a dominating presence at the second edition of the awards presented at the Just for Laughs comedy festival. Host Lewis Black, whose biting satire is a highlight of TV&#8217;s The Daily Show, took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}