"Stupidest Statements Awards" of 2006 Announced by Man with Perfect IQ

Wednesday January 3, 10:00 am ET

Tavares, Fla., ―"The Stupidest Statements Awards" of 2006, bestowed upon famous people for their misjudgments and misstatements, have just been announced by Mega Genius^®, "the man with the perfect IQ™." His fourth annual prizes of recognition for what he calls "crash-and-burn lapses in intelligence" by well-known personalities are just for fun.

1. Paris Hilton, “celebutante” and hotel heiress―who revealed to the Los Angeles Times, “The stupid blond stereotype, it was cute for a while, but I’m over that now,” (August 13, 2006)―for her grasp of world affairs, when asked by British GQ magazine if she was a fan of Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the UK: “Tony who? Oh yeah…he’s like your president? I don’t know what he looks like.” August 5, 2006. (Mega Genius: “Do you know how many beans make five?”)

2. Ted Stevens, 82-year-old US Senator from Alaska and chairman of the Senate Committee on Science, Commerce and Transportation, for explaining in a speech how the Internet actually works: “It’s a series of tubes.” June 28, 2006. (Mega Genius: “Like the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.”)

3. Guy Fournier, chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., for his false allegation in Quebec ’s 7 Jours magazine, which resulted in his resignation: “[Translated] In Lebanon, the law allows men to have sexual intercourse with animals, as long as they are females. Doing the same thing with male beasts can result in the death penalty.” September 9, 2006. (Mega Genius: “If I translated Lebanon’s response correctly, it was an offer to treat him like a female animal.”)

4. George W. Bush, US President, for his answer at a press conference when he was asked if the tide was turning in Iraq: “I think―tide turning―see, as I remember―I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of―it’s easy to see a tide turn―did I say those words?” June 14, 2006. (Mega Genius: "Hush! Just lie still until help arrives.")

5. Charles Barkley, Basketball Hall of Famer, for his approach to his gambling addiction, which he told ESPN was a “stupid habit” that he estimated had cost him $10 million: “Do I think it’s a bad habit? Yes, I think it’s a bad habit. Am I going to continue to do it? Yes, I’m going to continue to do it.” May 3, 2006. (Mega Genius: “I will bet $10 million that solution won’t work.”)

6. Andrew Young, civil rights leader and former Georgia congressman, UN ambassador and Atlanta mayor, who was hired to improve Wal-Mart’s image, but then resigned after telling the Los Angeles Sentinel that mom-and-pop stores have been overcharging for “stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables” and that Wal-Mart should cause them to close: “Well, I think they should…. I think they’ve ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it’s Arabs; very few black folks own these stores.” August 17, 2006. (Mega Genius: “For his own safety, he should place himself under house arrest.”)

7. George Allen, US Senator and former Governor of Virginia (whose mother comes from Tunisia), for  his repeated use of a North African racial slur during a political rally―“Macaca” (monkey)―directed at a 20-year-old Virginian native, of Indian descent, who worked for the senator’s political opponent: “Let’s give a welcome to Macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia.” August 11, 2006. (Mega Genius: “…in the 17th century.”)

8. Michael Richards, three-time Emmy Award winning actor who played Cosmo Kramer on the hit TV show Seinfeld, for his onstage racial tirade at the Laugh Factory, in West Hollywood, after a black heckler shouted that he wasn’t funny: “Fifty years ago, we’d have you upside down with a [bleep] fork up your [bleep]! You can talk, you can talk, you’re brave now, [bleep]. Throw his [bleep] out. He’s a [bleep]! He’s a [bleep]! He’s a [bleep]! A [bleep], look, there’s a [bleep]!” November 17, 2006. (Mega Genius: “Actually, it was Michael’s [bleep] that got thrown out.”)  

9. Alan Hevesi, New York State Comptroller, for his allegation in his commencement address, at Queen's College, describing US Senator Charles Schumer, his fellow state politician, in a manner that he later admitted was "beyond dumb," “incredibly moronic,” and “remarkably stupid”: “The man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who will put a bullet between the president’s eyes if he could get away with it.” June 1, 2006. (Mega Genius: “Diplomatically speaking, of course.”)

10. Dave Lenihan, talk show host at radio station KTRS, in St. Louis, for mispronouncing the word coup when praising US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s qualifications for National Football League commissioner: “She loves football. She’s African-American, which would kind of be a big coon…. A big coon! Oh my god! I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that!” March 22, 2006. (Mega Genius: “Can you pronounce the word canned?”)

Mega Genius^® has held memberships in all the major high-IQ societies in the world. He has the highest level of intelligence measurable on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Revised, the most modern and accurate intelligence test of the twenty-first century. His intelligence hits the top of the IQ scale and continues to some unknown and immeasurable point.

The complete list of “Stupidest Statements Awards” of 2006 can be seen at MegaGenius.com. Thirty-four lectures on compact discs are also available there, in which Mega Genius^® explains techniques, that he developed, that people use worldwide to increase their intelligence.

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