Jackson tops 'most foolish' list


Who's the biggest fool of all?

This year, it's Michael Jackson. The singer ranked first in a telephone survey of 1,016 people who were asked in March to name the most foolish American in 2004.

Coming in second: Janet Jackson, making it the first time in the five-year history of the survey that a brother-sister duo has nabbed the top two spots.

The top 10 were:

1. Michael Jackson

2. Janet Jackson

3. Martha Stewart

4. Britney Spears

5. Accused murderer Scott Peterson

6. Kobe Bryant

7. Rush Limbaugh

8. Paris Hilton

9. Rosie O'Donnell

10. George W. Bush

The survey is the brainchild of a New York publicist and conducted with the help of Opinion Research Corp. of Princeton, N.J. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.