(Photo: AP) "The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that. We know that," he once said at a CNN forum. Later in the speech, he said, "When you've got 80 channels like you do here, people watch whatever they want. And that's the sad thing about it, because the more cerebral, the more complex, the more forward-looking the story is here in the United States, to a large extent the smaller the ratings are."