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...used the example of a candidate pausing during a debate. A magazine writer could describe this as "being reflective," but on television, a candidate pausing for more than a few seconds looks like a "dimwit," he said...
...wish I could offer George W. Bush some advice about how to fend off efforts to portray him as a dimwit, but even Dan Quayle rejected the only slogan I came up with when he had a similar problem: "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House." Political pundits are warning us that the public is in danger of seeing all the presidential candidates as caricatures--McCain as a hothead, for instance, and Gore as a manlike object and Forbes as a terminal dork. Just who might be responsible for leaving the voters with these impressions...
...sure you guys probably get this a lot, so I apologize for asking this, but how did you guys come up with your band name? I read on the Internet that it means "Dimwit Reproductive Monkey" in Welsh...
...largely of Robbie, wired and miked like a walking Radio Shack, attempting to bribe judges while antsy G-men tape the seductions from parked vans. The distinguished targets come from all walks of life and can be sympathetic inversions of stereotypes. Judge Barnett Skolnick is an elderly, good-natured dimwit who spouts stage Yiddish. Sherman Crowthers is a massively built black jurist who paralyzes attorneys with his battering intelligence. Exaggerated characters? Yes. Caricatures? Never...
...crisis from Central Casting: exquisitely timed, high profile but manageable, with an identifiable villain--an unsympathetic power utility worthy of the mayor's scolding, warring self. "This isn't a natural disaster. It's a man-made disaster," he barked. Only a dimwit wouldn't realize "that in the summer, it gets hot." He's keeping score: "We had nine arrests last night. In '77 there were 850 fires set, thousands of arrests and over $100 million in damages...