"From doing the film, I realized that those images--to me, they are just dumb stupid images but I realize that they have a lot of impact on a young girl's life," he adds.
(Jeffrey Goldberg, writing for TheAtlantic.com, called this statement "almost unbearably stupid. The image isn't anti-Semitic, at least not to anyone who has ever gone to grade school and/or has scrawled on a magazine").
The "Get Stupid" video interlude featured images of disasters throughout the ages along with images of Adolf Hitler and Robert Mugabe.
But, honestly, were there many of us who thought that in this day and age of political sex scandals -- or scandals involving semi-nude self-portraits -- that any elected official would be stupid enough to Tweet images of himself to women he'd never even met and think he wouldn't get caught?
The "caveman" image of a stupid, grunting, hairy, thick-skulled parody of graceful modern humanity has stuck in the public consciousness.
"Neanderthal" conjures an image of a stupid, slouching, hairy beast-man, even though scientists have moved well beyond that concept in their understanding of Neanderthal culture.
You were never the distorted image of a "stupid" person to begin with.
The Islamic State militant group condemned the decision to publish the image as "extremely stupid".
Just the fucking image of my stupid, nerd, gross-ass, disgusting, pitiful MySpace profile made me successfully explode.
The so-called Islamic State, an extremist militant group that operates in Iraqi and Syria condemned the decision to publish the image as "extremely stupid".
