ENTER Misc AV CONTEST: Foot in Mouth Disease

[JiNX-01]

This week's contest: Famous people who spoke before their brains woke up.

This includes people in the news media, politicians, entertainers and anybody else who has achieved any level of public recognition.

ETA: Voting thread will go up early Tuesday evening. Four days to enter, three days to vote. Lovin' the entries so far...

 

[captcalhoun]

 

[Locutus of Bored]

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I still can't make up my mind over whether he's really this ditzy or if it's all an act.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsFRgIb8mAQ[/yt]

 

[Miss Lemon]

 

[DimesDan]

I still can't make up my mind over whether he's really this ditzy or if it's all an act.

I think it's a bit of both really.

He would make a great PM though, better than the dickhead we have now.

Oh, and my entry:

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

 

[captcalhoun]

^who's that?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Don Imus

 

[CorporalCaptain]

 

[JiNX-01]

^who's that?

Don Imus

I have always wondered what the heck people saw in this jerk.

 

[Showdown]

Kanye West

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^who's that?

Don Imus

I have always wondered what the heck people saw in this jerk.

Luckily for people with sight, he stays mostly on the radio.

But then it's a matter of what people hear in him, which is still a mystery.

 

[JiNX-01]

Still looking for entries. More entries, more vote options.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

It's one of the rare occasions I feel hampered by the language barrier, because I don't think I fully grasp what this contest is about. Or is it really just celebrities who say stupid things?

 

[JiNX-01]

Or is it really just celebrities who say stupid things?

Yes. Anybody who is famous who said something that really offended fans, the public in general or just plain old ticked you off. Politicians, entertainers ... The Pope ... (don't worry about offending him. I doubt he's on TrekBBS).

To help out Miss Lemon and anyone else who might be stumped, I would ask that everybody identify your entries so they can look them up (or better yet, briefly explain why you submitted the entry).

Thank you.
The Management.

ETA: My entry is Rush Limbaugh. He's a raging, obnoxious hypocrite. He has four ex-wives, and yet he has the gall to denounce efforts to permit gays in the U.S. to marry, calling it an attack on the "sanctity of marriage."

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Okay, I'll enter this one, then:

Frank Miller, famed comics writer and artist, creator of "Sin City" and "300", has caused controversy with his Graphic Novel "Holy Terror", and later again, with his open statement on his website where he called the Occupy movement "a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness"[sic].

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Don Imus once said of the Rutgers Women's Basketball team: "That's some nappy-headed hos"

After much uproar, CBS eventually cancelled his show.

It was, of course, not the first controversial thing he said.

 

[captcalhoun]

my entry is David Cameron, the current UK Prime Minister. further comment should be superfluous.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

It's a bit hard to summarize all the things Mel Gibson has said, so just read the controversial remarks section of his wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson#Controversial_remarks