{"id":8306,"date":"2006-08-26T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8306.html"},"modified":"2006-08-26T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T14:47:59","slug":"the-oscars-of-idiocy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-oscars-of-idiocy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Oscars of Idiocy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friends at the World Stupidity Awards<\/a> emailed this week to let me know about their fourth annual event, with winners to be announced on Sept. 20.<\/p>\n

There are quite a few noteworthy categories and nominees<\/a>, but I had a few favorites.<\/p>\n

* Stupidest Man Of The Year<\/b> — Donald Thompson (District Judge – a.k.a. Oklahoma Penis Pump Judge); Michael Brown (former director of FEMA); Kim Jong Il (North Korean dictator); Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President of Iran); Dick Cheney (Vice President of the United States).<\/p>\n

* Stupidity Award For Making A Stupid Situation Stupider<\/b> — Mel Gibson offering to urinate on the floor following his arrest for drunk driving; Britney Spears almost dropping her baby after driving dangerously with him twice, and then talking about it on TV; Nick Flynn trips on his shoelaces, falls down a set of stairs and smashes three priceless antique Chinese vases in a museum, Flynn then criticized the museum for not taking better care of its displays; the Bush Administration in Iraq; Deciding not to tell anyone after Vice President Dick Cheney shoots his friend.<\/p>\n

* Media Outlet Which Has Best Furthered Ignorance<\/b> — Danish Newspaper, Jyllands-Posten; The Name Radio Format (Bob, Jack, Tom etc.); Fox News; The Colbert Report; Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

* Stupidest Statement By President George W. Bush<\/b> — “I’m the decider, and I decide what is best”; “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job”; “Peter. Are you going to ask that question with shades on?” to legally blind reporter Peter Wallsten; “Wow! Brazil is big,” after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; “It’s in our country’s interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm’s way.”<\/p>\n

You know, I’d kind of forgotten about the Brazilian one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friends at the World Stupidity Awards emailed this week to let me know about their fourth annual event, with winners to be announced on Sept. 20. There are quite a few noteworthy categories and nominees, but I had a few favorites. * Stupidest Man Of The Year — Donald Thompson (District Judge – a.k.a. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}