In the particular case of Don King, he may not be an idiot, but his fortunes have less to do with his “business sense” as they do with his close ties to organized crime and his own criminal past, I should think.
Well, we’re talking about the biggest idiots of modern times. You foreigners just aren’t really going to amount to much of anything in any category, is all.
Daniel
Er, wouldn’t the true idiots be those of us who helped place these people on their celebrity pedestals?
Isn’t there a difference between people who act stupid and people who really are? It may seem shallow, but as far as I’m concerned anyone who can make massive amounts of money can’t be too stupid.
My nominees for complete idiots are all the Enron executives and all the Woldcom executives.
As for people wasting their potential stupidly how about…
Jimmi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Jim Belushi
“Mama” Cass
How about Yassir Arafat? He had the opportunity to be the George Washington of the Palestinian people, forging a new, democratic, Palestinian state, blazing a path for Arab democracy. Instead, he has continued to instigate bloody war even after Oslo (with no small help from the Israelis), he rejected the best peace he will ever get, and what little authority he does have, he wields like a petty thug. Plus he managed to alientate most of the Arab powers and the US by allying with Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War.
i think the biggest idiots are the lot of the people i’ve heard about in the darwin awards: damn are there some doozies there. but since i assume we’re talking about famous idiots, then here goes:
-george w (maybe it’s just my liberal streak talking, but i don’t get the feeling the guy has any weight at all, it’s just his advisors we’re hearing (not to mention this whole iraq bullshit that the rest of the damn world is against except the white house and some american constituents), plus, the guy passed out eat a pretzel, i mean, come on!
-nixon - damn watergate, man shoulda known better
that’s all i can seriously come up with…i was tempted to put singers and people i just can’t stand up there, but just because i can’t stand them doesn’t make them idiots. can’t think of any foreign ones either, but then again, i don’t think our news programs over here report a lot about the idiocy of particular people in the rest of the world.
I thought this title was retired for all time.
Mohammed Salmeh (sp?)
The guy who rented the van they blew up in the World Trade Towers in NYC in…93?
He went back to the van rental place claiming the van was stolen, trying to get his deposit back.
Twice.
I nominate Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. He tried to light a match right in his seat. It seemingly never occured to him to go into the bathroom, where if people smelled it, they’d assume it was some asshat sneaking a smoke.
What a maroon.
Has no one posted Michael Jackson, or did I just miss it? It would be one thing if he just didn’t care what the public thinks of him. On the contrary, he seems to care greatly, but just doesn’t understand what the public thinks of him. He’s been in an ivory tower all his life.
I second lurker’s nomination.
Cite? Seriously!
He also threatend to kick congress in the crotch, wear a denim suit, and moonwalk if he was kickied out of the house of represenitives. He was kicked out, he did none of those things he said he would.
cite? uhh Local news for the past few days.
I knew he was tripping out; I just hadn’t heard that specific threat. I did hear the moonwalk threat and the kick threat, but not the denim suit or the fart. Hell, who can keep up with this nutsack?
Heh, the only person that voted to keep Trafficant was Condit. Humorous to say the least.
And in this week’s Newsweek and US News, there is a quote about how when he breaks out of jail, he will take a sword like Maximus in Gladiator and stab people in the crotch.
The people of Youngstown must really be bored.
This:
http://www.whiteshoe.org/congress/010507traficant.html
is a list of his most recent one-minute speeches. Pretty loony!
Is this thread following me? Stop coming to the Forum I’m in!!! :mad: Bad Thread! No Soup for you!
OK, upon further research (I was reading from a newspaper article that said that he said it in the committee room) he didn’t direct it at the committee, but at the reporters in the room.
“If you don’t get those cameras out of my face, I’m gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that’ll clear this room!”
But he did threaten to kick opposing counsel in the crotch.
“I want you to disregard all the opposing counsel has said. I think they’re delusionary. I think they’ve had something funny for lunch in their meal, I think they should be handcuffed, chained to a fence and flogged, and all of their hearsay evidence should be thrown the hell out. And if they lie again, I’m going to go over there and kick them in the crotch. Thank you very much.” — Traficant’s closing statement to the ethics panel.
Source: Washington Post
It seems to me that this would be a counter-productive speech for anyone with half a brain.
Oh, and the denim suit quote along with the others, is at Newsday:
“When I go to the floor for the final execution, I’ll wear a denim outfit and go out like Willie Nelson. I’ll be a combination of John Wayne, Will Smith, the ‘Men in Black’ and James Brown. Maybe I’ll do a Michael Jackson moonwalk.”
Christ almighty.
“Beam me up”? WTF??
Wacko.
-Dirty