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Pie-In-The-Face Award

Given Each Week to the Person with the Dumbest Quote


9/29/2000

""I think he would be liberal. I think he would care. I think he would probably want to see me released." -- Mark Chapman, imprisoned for murdering John Lennon 20 years ago, on whether Lennon would want to seem him paroled, quoted in a British newspaper.

9/11/2000

"There's Adam Clymer, major-league asshole from the New York Times." --Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, referring to a reporter at a campaign stop in Naperville, Illinois, when he leaned over to running mate Dick Cheney. (The microphone was on.) "Oh yeah, he is, big-time." -- Cheney's reply "I regret that a private comment I made to the vice-presidential candidate made it onto the public airwaves. I regret everybody heard what I said." -- Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, arriving in Allentown, Pennsylvania, when he was asked about his remark about Clymer. "I won't respond to it. The governor made a private comment to me." -- Dick Cheney, when asked by a television producer if "calling people names" was part of the campaign.

9/1/2000

"Gore Kills Child: Al Gore was arrested today for killing a small child with his teeth."
-- An ABC news internal wire news story, which appeared to have originated at ABC affiliate WFAA in Dallas, listed available images like "Various shots of Gore with dead body" and "a bite with John Carpenter of the Austin Police Dept." A short time later a "Mandatory Kill" alert and retraction was sent out on the wire.

"A recently hired, inexperienced freelancer in our Southwest Regional Bureau [was] training on the computer system. In showing someone else how to write and send a script to the affiliates, this freelancer created a dummy item in an existing lineup, and a dummy script. He then hit the computer key sequence that sent the lineup and the script to our affiliates. This freelancer was fired immediately."
-- Don Dunphy Jr., ABC News vice president of Affiliate News Services, explaining the Al Gore story in a memo to affiliate stations.

8/11/2000

"Breast-feeding is an immoral act. It leaves people with an oral fixation. And the worst part of it is, the child doesn't have a choice."
-- Bruce Spencer, 56, of New York who was among a group of anti-breast feeding advocates at the GOP convention

... So god put milk in mommies for what purpose?

... And you know how the GOP is for choice...

... So just whack off the end of it's pee-pee, and let's get to church already...

8/4/2000

"I thought it was Charles Manson. I don't know whether it's shock art or schlock art. David Lynch should stick to his day job, making movies."
-- New York City Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern on David Lynch's contribution to CowParade NYC 2000, a show that features several hundred fiberglass cows decorated by artists and schoolchildren and displayed on sidewalks around the city. Lynch's featured a severed head with forks covering the body of the cow. (Source: New York Times)

"Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated that they should stand behind their word and show your cow?"
-- David Lynch's response. (Source: New York Times)

... The judges were horrified at the brutality of the piece, then went back to eating their McDonalds hamburgers...



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6/2/2000

"Men will always remain pigs."
-- Sharon Stone, according to "Hollywood Insider" Tom Kummer

"Sometimes something will be hanging out of my nose... for days."
-- Brad Pitt, , according to "Hollywood Insider" Tom Kummer

"Minotauruses are eating the genitals of the moon . . . There are seagulls on the Riviera, slurping ice-cooled gin and tonics."
-- Courtney Love, according to "Hollywood Insider" Tom Kummer

"It's all about entertainment and you know it ... May the force be with me!"
-- Journalist Tom Kummer, who was revealed to have made up all his celebrity interviews for magazines. In Munich, where his interviews were featured as cover stories in a weekly magazine published by the city's respected daily newspaper, the Suddeutsche Zeitung, two editors were fired for their part in publishing the bogus exposes. Kummer called his work "conceptual art" in a letter to his (ex-)editors.

5/19/2000

"She asked, 'Does he have to be a gladiator? Couldn't he be someone who works in the Colosseum?' She was also against the violence."
-- Screenwriter David Franzoni to the New York Daily News on Columbia exec Lisa Henson, who passed on "Gladiator." It ended up at Dreamworks.

5/12/2000

"I'm crazy about him.... He's just the sexiest [bleeping]...creature that every lived...I am madly in love with this man till the day I die."
--Reportedly suicidal actress Angelina Jolie on her new husband Billy Bob Thornton. She's his fifth wife.

5/5/2000

"Just because we've made the choice that we don't want AIDS doesn't mean the party's over. We can still fool around with sex and have a great time. Still shoot up if that's what we're into. We can reduce the chance of getting and spreading HIV by sticking to our decisions and always using condoms and new rigs."

-- A pamphlet, entitled "My Choice. AIDS. Not In This Body," produced by the Canadian AIDS Society as part of a national awareness campaign. It urges young people to practice safe sex and intravenous drug use. (Rigs is street slang for drug use materials such as needles.)

4/28/2000

"Maybe I can have him sit in City Hall and you won't know the difference."
-- New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani at the unveiling of a life-size wax figure of himself at the site of a future Manhattan branch of Madame Tussaud's wax museum.

4/21/2000

"I never thought I'd go into porn, but it's better than modeling. If you model, you have to have sex with the agent, the booker and the photographer. In porn, I only have to have sex with one person, and I get paid for it."
-- Hungarian porn star Mercedes in the premiere issue of Nerve magazine. (Source: New York Post)

4/14/2000

"I absolutely loved it. It reminded me of 'My Fair Lady.' And it was the only movie I've seen that made me want to go out and buy new luggage."
-- John Waters on the film "American Psycho." The main character stuffs his victims into designer suitcases. (Source: New York Post)

4/7/2000

"(He claimed) he needed the money more than his victims did."
-- New York State Attorney General John Panagopoulos, quoting "Sopranos" and "Spin City" actor Thomas Bifalco, who was sentenced to prison after reneging on an agreement to pay restitution to the elderly victims of a stock scam. Bifalco ran a boiler-room operation out of a Wall Street office where he and others used high-pressure sales techniques to sell worthless stock in a shell company called Falcon Marine Inc. (Selling worthless stock? Gosh, I wonder where the "Sopranos" writers got THAT idea this season?)

3/2/2000

"Amazing!"
-- President Clinton, dazzled by a coffee cup screen saver on a monitor during a visit to a computing class in a senior citizens center on Tuesday.

"His only has the presidential seal, and it doesn't move."
-- A White House spokesman, explaining Clinton's apparent fascination with the screen saver.

2/25/2000

"My big invention idea was the vomint. The vomint. Like when you belch and get a little throw-up? You need a mint for that ... Our world is so over-compartmentalized, I think we need a mint for that specific case."
-- David Duchovny on his early business aspirations (source: Maxim).

2/11/2000

"Now I bet he's choking on his words."
Carrie Leigh, ex-girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, commenting on reports that Hef once had sex with well-endowed porn star John Holmes, and the Playboy founder's advice to her to always "think big." (I'll bet he was choking then, too...)

1/28/99

(This week we devote an entire page to George W. Bush, who is giving Dan Quayle a run for his money as the the King of the stupid quote)

"I'm going to win."
-- George W. Bush predicting a win in the New Hampshire primary (rival John McCain won in a landslide).

"I'm all name and no money"
-- George W. Bush, 1986

"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."
-- Texas Gov. George W. Bush, presidential candidate, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Jan. 21, 2000.

"I propose that every city have a telephone number 119 - for dyslexics who have an emergency."
-- Bush being inclusive

"Some say give it [the Federal Budget Surplus] to the taxpayers who pay the bills. That some is George W. Bush."
-- Texas Gov. George W. Bush, presidential candidate, in Sioux City, Iowa, 1/22/00

"Is your children learning?"
-- Bush on education, Jan. 2000.

"Sitting down and reading a 500-page book on public policy or philosophy or something."
-- George W. Bush when asked to name something he isn't good at (Talk magazine, September 1999).

"This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This is what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve."
George W. Bush to several hundred children at an elementary school in Nashua that was celebrating Perseverance Month (not Preservation Month).

"Some people have too much freedom."
-- George W. Bush

"There ought to be limits to freedom."

"I hope to show Hispanics that Republicans do have a heart, but I also want to send a message to people from around the country as to how to pick up the Hispanic vote"

"Food on the family."
-- George W. Bush listing one of the priorities of his future administration.

"The Grecians."
-- George W. Bush on Greek people.

"What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society."
-- George W. Bush, meaning to say "balkanize," not "vulcanize" -- we think -- and something about quotas (Austin American-Statesman 3/23/99).

"... A world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."
-- on "potential missiles launches," South Carolina, Jan. 12, 2000

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself."
-- New Hampshire, Jan. 2000

"I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike. ... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society. ... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked."
--In an interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press, Nov. 21, 1999.

"Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have made."
-- George W. Bush

"Just make sure you put in there, 'He was real tired too.'"
-- George W. Bush on the press reporting his verbal miscues.

Good luck in the coming elections, George -- we comedy writers need you!!!



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