They Acted Stupidly

[RobS]

#1. President Obama:
Obama doesn't regret 'acted stupidly' remark about Henry Gates Jr. arrest




#2. BP's Tony Hayward

"I'd like my life back"


#3. General McChrystal

"'How'd I get screwed into going to this dinner?" demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal"




I'm sure there's more....

[RobS]

#4: Al Gore



Little has been seen of Gore in the past several weeks since confirmed reports of a split with his wife, Tipper, and after allegations surfaced that a 54-year-old masseuse in Oregon reported Gore made unwanted sexual advances toward her in 2006 and accused him of being "a crazed sex poodle."

http://www.sodahead.com/united-state...stion-1076595/

"You guys heard about Al Gore and Tipper splitting up? Everybody is talking about it. Everyone's blogging about this, and now there are reports online that his daughter and her husband are splitting up. I bet this is the one week where Al Gore wishes he didn't invent the Internet." –Jimmy Fallon

"Al Gore and his wife, longtime married couple, are separating. Tipper Gore. And they may get a divorce. Apparently what happened, they experienced global cooling." –David Letterman

"Were you sad to learn that Al Gore and his wife, Tipper — I was. I was a little sad about that. Yeah, according to the report, the two are 'separating amicably after a long process of careful consideration.' You know, even his divorce is boring." –Jay Leno

"Would you have ever guessed that Bill and Hillary would turn out to be Washington's happiest married couple?" –Jay Leno

[RobS]

#5. Tiger Woods


Elin Nordegren Gets $750M, Custody of Kids in Exchange for Silence in Tiger Woods Divorce



Tiger Woods is banned from letting girlfriends near his kids in a divorce deal netting his ex a record $750 million settlement, The [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]Sun[/color][/color] reported Wednesday.
The golfer agreed to keep single women away from daughter Sam, three, and son Charlie, one.
He can bring a new flame into their lives only if he marries her. In return, former wife Elin Nordegren ,30, gets the biggest payout ever seen in a celebrity divorce.
But she can never publicly speak out over his alleged flings with socialite Rachel Uchitel, reality star Jaimee Grubbs, porn queen Joslyn James and up to 17 others.
A pal said: "Elin is desperate to protect the children from the womanizing side of their father.

[John]

That's some expensive hobby Tiger's get there...

[RobS]

#6. Octavio Nasr - CNN's mideast editor.... shows CNN's true color



"Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot,” Nasr wrote.
....

Although described by sections of the Western media as a firebrand-preacher-turnedmoderate, Fadlallah went on record as praising the massacre of eight Israeli students at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem in 2008, according to Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs researcher Shimon Shapira.

“In his sermon during Friday prayers, Fadlallah declared, ‘The heroic operation in Jerusalem proved that the mujahedeen in Palestine are able to hit the Zionists hard.’ His remarks were carried by Hizbullah’s television network, Al-Manar,’” Shapira said in a 2008 article for the JCPA.

In March of that year, Fadlallah told Al-Manar that Israel had “inflated” the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, in an interview translated and made available by MEMRI.

“Zionism has inflated the number of victims in this holocaust beyond imagination.
They say there were six million Jews – not six million, not three million, or anything like that...
But the world accepted this [figure], and it does not allow anyone to discuss this,” the ayatollah said.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=180553

[RobS]

#7: Lindsey Lohan

Although one could argue that 99% of Hollywood acts stupidly, this girl has dug her own ditch, as well as being a product of bad parents:

McNew/Pool
Lindsay Lohan reacts with tears as she is sentenced to 90 days in jail on Tuesday.

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No more excuses - Lindsay Lohan is going to jail. An irate judge sentenced the sobbing "Mean Girls" star to 90 days behind bars Tuesday for violating her probation and branded her a serial liar.
Lohan received no sympathy from L.A. Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel, who found she violated probation on a pair of 2007 DUI busts.
An overwrought LiLo made a weepy last-ditch plea for freedom, bizarrely invoking her charity work with Moroccan children at one point.
"I'm not taking this as a joke," the party-hearty actress said during a rambling speech in which she broke down twice.
"It's my life. It's my career. I've learned."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/20...xzz0t0WeF3 2U

[RobS]

oh well, guess it's no surprise:

CNN Editor Fired for Saying She Has "Respect" for Hezbollah Cleric

Originally Posted by RobS

#6. Octavio Nasr - CNN's mideast editor.... shows CNN's true color



"Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah?s giants I respect a lot,? Nasr wrote.
....

Although described by sections of the Western media as a firebrand-preacher-turnedmoderate, Fadlallah went on record as praising the massacre of eight Israeli students at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem in 2008, according to Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs researcher Shimon Shapira.

?In his sermon during Friday prayers, Fadlallah declared, ?The heroic operation in Jerusalem proved that the mujahedeen in Palestine are able to hit the Zionists hard.? His remarks were carried by Hizbullah?s television network, Al-Manar,?? Shapira said in a 2008 article for the JCPA.

In March of that year, Fadlallah told Al-Manar that Israel had ?inflated? the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, in an interview translated and made available by MEMRI.

?Zionism has inflated the number of victims in this holocaust beyond imagination.
They say there were six million Jews ? not six million, not three million, or anything like that...
But the world accepted this [figure], and it does not allow anyone to discuss this,? the ayatollah said.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=180553

[RobS]

Nominated for #8: Eric Holder



too many ongoing issues to cite just one.

civil rights. manhattan trials. AZ lawsuit.

we'll see.

[RobS]

#9: Mel Gibson

clearly.

[RobS]

#10 is ongoing. Could be Robert Gibbs or Charles Bolden...depending on who you believe...



White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]NASA[/color][/color]
Administrator Charles Bolden must have misspoken when he told Al Jazeera last month that one of his top priorities is to reach out to Muslim countries.
"That was not his task and that's not the task of NASA," Gibbs said.
Bolden, though, said last month in the interview that it was President Obama who gave him that task. He made a similar claim in February.
The White House also backed up Bolden last week when his remarks first stirred controversy. A White House spokesman last Tuesday said Obama wants NASA to engage with the world's best scientists and that to meet that challenge, NASA must "partner with countries around the world like Russia and Japan, as well as [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]collaboration[/color][/color]
with Israel and with many Muslim-majority countries."
NASA last week walked back Bolden's claim that Muslim outreach was the "perhaps foremost" plank of his mission, saying that Bolden was merely talking about his "outreach" responsibilities and that space exploration is still NASA's No. 1 job.

But Gibbs on Monday appeared to deny that Bolden was asked to focus on Muslim outreach at all.

Asked whether Bolden misspoke, Gibbs said: "I think so."

[RobS]

#11 - Secretary of Agriculture - Tom Vilsack



Although Obama seems to finally have "gotten religion"

"VILSACK ?JUMPED THE GUN? ON SHERROD -- The president told Elisabeth Leamy, ?Good Morning America? consumer correspondent, who interviewed him yesterday on Wall Street reform, that Agriculture Secretary Vilsack ?jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles. ? I've told my team and I told my agencies that we have to make sure that we're focusing on doing the right thing instead of what looks to be politically necessary at that very moment. We have to take our time and, and think these issues through. ? If there's a lesson to be drawn from this episode, it's that rather than us jumping to conclusions and pointing fingers at each other, we should all look inward and try to examine what's in our own hearts.? "

I just about spit my coffee all over my monitor when reading this line !!

[RobS]

#12 - Robert Gibbs... again



"Finally, he wrapped it up: “And then you should ask Mr. Limbaugh — I don’t know what kind of car he drives, but I bet it’s not an F-150.”


The F-150 truck, we should note, is made by Ford, which didn’t get federal rescue funds.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/0...rush-limbaugh/

[RobS]

#13 Obama... again



"When President Bush announced the troop surge in January 2007, Senator Obama opposed it, saying, “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.” Even a year later, when evidence mounted that the surge was working, Senator Obama continued to push for retreat (“phased redeployment”) and again expressed his doubts about the prospects for President Bush's strategy.

Only in mid-July of 2008 did the Obama campaign scrub criticism of the surge from its website.

By turning to the architect of the Iraq surge, Gen. David Petraeus, to save the war in Afghanistan, President Obama is acknowledging — if only implicitly — that he was quite wrong about the Iraq surge and that President Bush was right."

[John]

Yes, cause the sectarian violence is all gone now