Shit, Ben Stein is a dick!

Even from this side of the Atlantic I can see he's a moron.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/24/weve-figured-him-out

Check out the dittoheads lining up to agree.

Why malign dicks? What have dicks ever done to you?

:puke: Can't stand him

He's made funny commercials. Well folks, making money from funny commercials does NOT mean the person is either good or a lefty. This is a case in point.

:hi:

People don't always distinguish between a person's beliefs and their personality or other traits.

Penn Gillette, of Penn & Teller is very amusing, but another right leaning jackass on many issues.

I ceased watching any movie with him in it. I don't want to put my money where right wing a-holes graze.

It's our country..not their facist playground.

I have to assume Teller is as well...their show Bullshit skews right along those lines.

But I've seen PG on several news shows and he seems to tilt more Republican than Democrat when on those shows.

try exercising your freedoms by walking down my street and spouting your bullshit

People with money get to buy what they want, weather it be health care, information dispersal, politicians, or anything else, regardless of any other factors.

... written well and wittily by opponents a left-winger could respect and debate with.

Not any more. It's now well and truly in the Neo-Con camp ... as, I increasingly fear, is Tory leader David Cameron.

Bad as Blair was, our Bush/Cheney era may yet be to come ...

The Skin

PS Sorry! Thought this was from the BRITISH Spectator. My bad.

Comments still apply though ...

Or once did. Nowadays, he seems able only to repeat the shit others have made up, as in his pimping of that creationist movie.

He is awful. Makes Glenn Beck sound sane.

What a pig.

he is a right-wing scumbag.

Who used the same image in her screed from Breitbart of a clerk from motor vehicles. (Please wear special anti-ignorance protection when clicking this link: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/07/07/ignorance-is-bliss/ ).

If we accept the premise that Ms. Jackson has arrived at her epiphany regarding what Obama-care would look like on her own, (she posted 7/7) I can only surmise that Mr. Stein has decided that Jackson is brilliant and agrees with her ten thousand percent. I'm not sure what it means when a person with his background comes to the same conclusion as an erstwhile comeienne with a botched peroxide lobotomy. Perhaps it means he knows the language to appeal to the absolute lowest (and in his smug opinion--common--although he's mistaken) denominator.

Leaving aside all the unfounded generalizations regarding his opinion of Obama's "ultra-leftism" and his ridiculous Glenn Beck-like assertions regarding Obama's racial sentiments, I'd like to address that in regards to his on, absolutely fake assertion about Obama's "total zero of an academic record". Surely Mr. Stein is not aware of Obama's background. If it is fine for Stein to make assertions about President Obama's mind--let me make one about his--

He's sssssoooooooo fucking jealous. Really sick with it. Probably hurts. I've come to the conclusion that Stein has bigotry against the genuinely smart since he started shilling for creationism. He adores the ignorant and wants to tell them things. But he knows deep down, the smart just aren't as easily sold, and it galls him.

Is he completely blind to the corporate bureaucracy that currently makes health decisions for milliions of Americans under managed health care plans? (Could Visine fix it?) He must have heard of such things, but to his mind, if such bean counters get a corporate paycheck to cut off a woman from coverage for getting another test that her doctor deems necessary, why, they they are denying coverage in the name of FREEDOM! Whereas anyone managing a government program is obviously a Red Communist apparatchik who would deny coverage based on dark motives only known to the party elites who fax rationing mandates down to his cubicle.

(Why didn't we all see that? Hmm, I guess because it's a batshit crazy way of looking at things.)

In other words, Ben Stein is a huge waste of space spewing ignorant nonsense. It's the same kind of ignorant nonsense you'd get out of a Glenn Beck or a Victoria Jackson--but because he's Ben Stein, someone (a dumb someone, but someone nonetheless) might take him more seriously, and fail to notice that half his article is made-up shit Stein might believe in, and the other half is made-up shit Stein probably knows better than.

And...he sucks. That is all.

"... active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future"

Uh, no, Ben, that's what your buddy, psychopath GW Hoover did. We're still in the middle of your buddy's 2nd Great Depression, remember?

"Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do."

No, Ben, you ignorant slut. That's what we have now with your current system. That's what's happening NOW with righting/for-profit/unregulated/pro-death health insurance. I believe psychologists call this "projection". Seek help now, Ben.

This is pretty crude.

I lost all respect for him when he made "Expelled", it was a creationist wedge propaganda movie. It flopped badly at least.

on Fox's Cavuto on Business, Stein claimed Obama was an "angry black man." This is standard Republican fare: it's huff-n-puff -- nonsense which hopes to gain credibility by having people take it seriously enough to argue with it

Obama beautifully cut off the racist Republican attack in May 2008: I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible

... he just thinks the people who listen to him are, and they'll believe this vile nonsense. He's shamelessly manipulating them.

It's still beyond my why and how ANYONE takes this guy seriously.

who lives to piss on the Democratic Principles of America.

Fuck him if he can't take it.

'nuff said.