101 Dumbest Moments in Business

The year's biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers

Perhaps Michael Richards will be able to find work after all...
15. Wal-Mart, Part 2
Perhaps Michael Richards will be able to find work after all...
Availing itself of PR firm Edelman's deep political connections, Wal-Mart recruits civil rights leader and former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young to chair its company-funded Working Families for Wal-Mart.

In an August interview with an African American newspaper in Los Angeles, Young says the megaretailer "should" displace its urban corner-store competition.

"You see, those are the people who have been overcharging us.... I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans, and now it's Arabs."
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12. Sony

13. Safety Commission

14. Vonage

15. Wal-Mart, part 2

16. 'Anger' bar

17. Alarm One

18. Church-run nursery school
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