7.23.2005

mirror, mirror on the wall...

The MORONs are at it again. That is, the Main Organization Revealing Obvious Numbskulls are handing out the annual World Stupidity Awards. Who will be declared Dumbest Of Them All? With W in the running, there is some mighty tough competition.
The United States will face tough competition from Canada on Friday but this time it has nothing to do with hockey or softwood lumber.

The two countries are going head-to-head for top honours at the World Stupidity Awards, where doofuses get their due.

"This is a year where Canada could do very well and, as a Canadian, I'm very excited," enthused Albert Nerenberg, of the Main Organization Revealing Obvious Numbskulls, which organizes the event at the Just for Laughs comedy festival.

"The Canadian government has been nominated in the dumbest government of the year category and this is one year where we feel we've got a chance."

Canada will be vying against the United States, Iran, North Korea and the United Nations for that particular Oscar of idiocy crown.

But Prime Minister Paul Martin has already been outshone by President George W. Bush, who is nominated in three categories - stupidest man of the year, stupidest statement of the year, and stupidity award for reckless endangerment of the planet. Martin didn't get nominated for anything.

Bush dominated last year's awards, taking the stupidest man prize and the award for reckless endangerment of the planet. Nerenberg admitted the organizers do limit the number of categories featuring the controversial Texan.

"He would essentially be nominated in every category had we not interfered," Nerenberg said. "We want to give other people a chance. We just feel some of the other great stupidity in the world would go unrecognized if Mr. Bush was allowed to run rampant. But he is doing very well."
The show's host is no stranger to W's stupidity - he's practically made a career out of it: Lewis Black. Black says of W: "He's always a big one and it just gets worse every day with him. . . . His stupidity is almost on a Hall of Fame level." Almost? Black must have been feeling generous.

John Kerry was also nominated for a MORON award. "He should be," says Black. "What are the chances of finding someone who could actually lose to Bush? I mean, you almost had to search. The Democratic party should have been nominated too."

More info and the full awards categories here. Thanks to ALPF! Welcome back, and I hope you had a great vacation.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I did have a very good vacation.

I was very surprised by the amount of US license plates at every hotel we stayed. We met some American visitors, quite surprised by the temperatures and some comments about the beauty and general cleanliness. There was one particular father of a young family from Tennessee that I talked to at pool side, he said he had always wanted to take his family to Canada on a vacation. They had just come from Niagara Falls and were going to the Toronto Zoo the next day. He expressed that sometimes he wished he could raise his family here instead of "in a general atmosphere of fear and intolerance" as he put it.

I should have pointed him to your site and told him to go for it!!

allan said...

A few recent Bushisms:

"I was going to say he's a piece of work, but that might not translate too well. Is that all right, if I call you a 'piece of work'?"
To Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2005

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

"Well, we've made the decision to defeat the terrorists abroad so we don't have to face them here at home. And when you engage the terrorists abroad, it causes activity and action."
Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way."
Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"Part of the facts is understanding we have a problem, and part of the facts is what you're going to do about it."
Kirtland, Ohio, April 15, 2005

"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make—it would hope—put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see."
Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005

My head hurts.

laura k said...

I was very surprised by the amount of US license plates at every hotel we stayed.

That's really good to hear. Canada's been doing a big tourism push on American TV. Many Americans are uneasy about going abroad right now, so Canada is pushing the "another country, but close to home" angle. I hope it's working.

Re family from Tennessee, that is way cool. I am heartened to hear Americans see what their country has become. It's important.

I wish I could send him the URL too! :)

Anonymous said...

I am not shocked at all by our landing on the MORON list in Canada.

And I'm not referring to the mess that was the sponsorship scandal either.

To date, we are, to my knowledge, the only country on record to charge someone for riding a horse through a coffeeshop drive-thru.

That alone is enough to land us on that list.

laura k said...

Oops, your link reminded me of something I meant to post...