I've found that, generally, the 'stupid shit' spoken by (almost) any public figure is often the result of someone else spreading their version of what they actually said, rather than the person themselves. Not always, but often enough.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
