# Mad Magazine's 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2014

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 15, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-magazines-20-dumbest-people-events-and-things-of-2014/707256 "2014-12-15T02:57:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-magazines-20-dumbest-people-events-and-things-of-2014/707256/41 "2014-12-22T04:41:51Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> I want to go meta:
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> Barbara Walters picking Amal Alamuddin Clooney as the Most Fascinating Person of 2014 is mega dumb. Marrying George Clooney makes you fascinating???:dubious:

Taylor Swift was nominated for Woman of the Year for refusing to release her new album on Spotify 😕, and that Tim what’shisname, the a computer company CEO who recently came out also being nominated? :rolleyes: C’mon, those are blips on the news; that’s all.

This is what one American Ebola survivor who isn’t in the magazine thinks of the award. TL : DW - he approves of the decision.

[http://wpri.com/2014/12/11/mukpo-on-time-magazine-bitter-victory-but-deserved-one/](http://wpri.com/2014/12/11/mukpo-on-time-magazine-bitter-victory-but-deserved-one/)

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