The Knucklehead of the Day award

Today's winner is Japan's Foreign Minister, Taro Aso. He gets the award for the following.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Blond, blue-eyed Westerners probably can't be as successful at Middle East diplomacy as Japanese with their "yellow faces," Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso was quoted by media as saying in a weekend speech.

"Japan is doing what Americans can't do," the Nikkei business daily quoted the gaffe-prone Aso as saying in a speech on Sunday.

"Japanese are trusted. If (you have) blue eyes and blond hair, it's probably no good," he said.

"Luckily, we Japanese have yellow faces."

Dumb comments from a dumb politician. That is all it takes to make Japan's Foreign Minister, Taro Aso, today's Knucklehead of the Day.

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