101 Dumbest Moments in Business

Ah, what a dumb year it was! Fortune chose the absolutely dumbest of the dumb that the gods of fate and humor delivered into our laps - and yours - this past year.

By the Editors of Fortune
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65. Verizon Wireless
Another PR department in the fetal position
Verizon Wireless refuses to distribute text messages from the abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America to people who ask to receive them, citing its prohibition of "controversial or unsavory" content. But after media coverage, the company reverses course, asserting "great respect for the free flow of ideas."
Last updated January 16 2008: 5:51 PM ET
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Mattel [image]
Eli Lilly [image]
Leona Helmsley [image]
Merrill Lynch [image]
Stanley O'Neal [image]
Chuck Prince [image]
High-tech toilets [image]
KFC/Taco Bell [image]
French newspaper Le Monde [image]
Electronic voting machines [image]
Oil spills [image]
Procter & Gamble [image]
Disneyland [image]
Naked Sunday [image]
Bindeez [image]
Microsoft's PR firm [image]
Cocaine energy drink [image]
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds [image]
New Jersey Superior Court [image]
O.J. Simpson [image]
Cartoon Network [image]
Naming rights [image]
Don Imus [image]
Chris Albrecht [image]
Adam "Pacman" Jones [image]
Isiah Thomas [image]
Phil Spector [image]
Keith Richards [image]
Swiss newspaper [image]
James Cayne [image]
Bear Stearns analysts [image]
Jay-Z [image]
Oral B [image]
Summit Products [image]
M&Ms [image]
Best Buy [image]
Judge Roy Pearson [image]
Google [image]
Damien Hirst [image]
Comcast [image]
National Amusements [image]
Pfizer [image]
The Toronto Blue Jays [image]
Bank of America [image]
Serendipity 3 [image]
Johnson & Johnson [image]
John Mackey [image]
The European Union [image]
German screw factory [image]
The Defense Department [image]
Apple [image]
Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome [image]
Japanese arm-wrestlers [image]
Research in Motion [image]
Frank Gehry [image]
Chrysler [image]
Endemol Southern Star [image]
Taco Bell [image]
Radiohead [image]
John Griffin [image]
Sony [image]
Nepal Airlines [image]
Sony [image]
Spain's National Institute of Statistics [image]
Verizon Wireless [image]
Rhode Island Hospital [image]
McDonald's [image]
Thomas the Tank Engine [image]
Exelon Nuclear [image]
Circuit City [image]
TCF Bank [image]
Paris Hilton [image]
Easy-Bake Ovens [image]
Google [image]
Mummified corpses [image]
Jessica Simpson [image]
Jackson Hewitt [image]
The Virginia Tourism Corp. [image]
Hugo Chávez [image]
Juan Carlos [image]
365 Main [image]
One Laptop Per Child [image]
CIBC analyst Meredith Whitney [image]
Southwest Airlines [image]
Singapore Airlines [image]
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal [image]
SkyWest Airlines [image]
Doug Parker [image]
British Airways [image]
Southwest Airlines, Part 2 [image]
Iberia Airlines [image]
Jet Blue [image]
British Airways Part 2 [image]
World Toilet Association [image]
Kitson boutique [image]
WikiScanner [image]
Blogger [image]
Intel [image]
Century 21 [image]
D.R. Horton [image]
Maria Bartiromo
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