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...finally: "Consider what happened a couple of years ago when Senator William Scott of Virginia was listed in the magazine New Times as the dumbest senator in Washington. Now, New Times has a circulation of about 40. But Senator Scott called a press conferenced to deny it--which made him the dumbest senator...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Art Buchwald: Portrait of a Sometimes Unfunny Man | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

January 1979: In a Penthouse interview he calls Presidential Friend and Adviser Charles Kirbo "about the dumbest bastard I ever met in my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Billy Speaks Up | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...addition, Jarvis has undermined his own cause with wild outbursts of name-calling. He has accused his opponents of "monumental lies" and called the county of San Luis Obispo, where there is strong opposition to the initiative, "the dumbest, crookedest bunch." On one occasion he shouted at a woman heckler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nein on Nine? | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...Manhattan Actor Michael Moriarty is opening in David Berry's play G.R. Point, an equally brutal work about men doing graves registration duty in Viet Nam. Its refrain: "The 'Nam hasn't got any heroes. Dead is dumb, and dead in the 'Nam is the dumbest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Viet Nam Comes Home | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Oklahoma sources report that Ed, who had been cruelly ridiculed as a symbol of the enforced stupidity of the 50s, was despondent in the weeks before his death. But even if "Mr. Ed" was just about the dumbest thing ever to appear in the twisted history of television, we loved it. And we loved Ed, and the carefree horse-sense he espoused. And so, from now on, we will call this space the "Ed column...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Ed (1948-1979) | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

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