In the final blow, the exposure of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme made the commission's enforcement staff appear inept at best.
While the decision in the case has not yet come out, the cross-examination video has already been edited and used by anti-vaccine groups to make a highly qualified physician appear inept.
Yet one can actually argue the reverse: that a prime reason why many at Westminster appear inept in regard to nationalist and identity issues is that they operate in a city that has long been quintessentially cosmopolitan.
In this theory, revealing for what it says about how the army is viewed, the generals thought it less damaging to their image at home and, crucially, within their own lower ranks to appear inept, rather than complicit in the killing of an old jihadi ally.
He appears entirely inept to handle sophisticated policy and geopolitical challenges and may threaten to insult the very concept of what it means to be American.
A Trump-Clinton contest, however, is beginning to appear more winnable (particularly as Hillary Clinton appears more awkward and inept).
Often viewed as bright but clumsy loners, children with Asperger syndrome have normal speech but appear socially inept and idiosyncratic, often developing an obsessive expertise in a single subject.
The government appeared equally inept last December, when the rape of a young woman by six men in a moving bus shook the nation and prompted extraordinary street protests.
With lawyers struggling to reach a compromise and the West Indies Cricket Board appearing totally inept, it ultimately took a transatlantic telephone conversation between the two top honchos, Denis O'Brien of Digicel and Sir Allen, to ensure that the match will take place.
Her perpetual blathering on American history and chuntering on serious political issues would have made her appear more inept than Rick Perry and so her consideration was duly considered.
