Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Even Glenn Beck didn't go that far during the interview. He just compared Obama to Mussolini. Summary: On Glenn Beck, Ben Stein, while discussing Sen. Barack Obama's plan to deliver his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at Denver's Invesco Field, stated that he did not "like the idea of ...
Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://mediamatters.org/items/200807240001?f=h_latest ---Quote--- Stein is not the first guest on Glenn Beck to compare Obama to Adolf Hitler. On February 22, National Review Online editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg said: "I think one of the things that is decidedly fascistic, or at least just a bad...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
This is the epitome of what is wrong with the Old Guard! The idea of doing something outside the box, not being "contained" and "restrictive" and doing things differently because the old way of excluding everyone but the rich who can afford to take time off work to fly to the convention has worked very well, hasn't it!?[watch video]F. Ben "I worship Crook Richard Nixon" Stein!The adventures of a Liberal...
Fark.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Diogenes: Iwouldhitit: I can't keep it straight--is Obama a secret Muslim terrorist, a radical afro-centric Christian, an expropriating and bloodthirsty communist, a cult of personality fascist, or an effete chardonnay-sipping elitist? I seem to have not adequately suppressed my cognitive dissonance so I really need my reasons for hating him to be non-contradictory.Think of it as the metal equivalent...
Foreign Dispatches (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
First we had some idiot on National Review suggesting that Barack Obama was a Jewish communist, and now it's Ben Stein making a ridiculous comparison to Hitler which any German ought to find deeply insulting. Will the right-wing lunatics please...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday
How else to explain the Campaign 2000 footage? And Cindy’s hair. Download | Play Download | Play Also in this clip: Political hacks Glenn Beck and Ben Stein are frightened that Obama draws large crowds, and liken his appeal to, you guessed it, Hitler and Mussolini. So you’re telling me if John McCain could get more than three people to listen [...]
skippy the bush kangaroo (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
ben stein, best known as ferris bueller's annoying teacher, has been making the rounds on screeching heads cable shows decrying the fact that barack "to the future" obama is going to hold his acceptance speech at invesco stadium in denver. giving a rousing speech to adoring fans, he must be like adolf hitler. via media matters : stein might be right. anybody who has the power to attract 75,000 to listen...
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ben Stein talks about Obama's convention speech . On the July 23 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck, guest Ben Stein, while discussing Sen. Barack Obama's plan to deliver his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at Denver's Invesco Field, stated that he did not "like the idea of Senator Obama giving his acceptance speech in front of 75,000 wildly cheering people" because "[t]hat...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
MSNBC beats on Fox over its 'anti-aging fix' for McCain
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dylan Jovine submits: OPEN: NOVEMBER 2006: An elderly married couple who could pass for caring grandparents are sitting inside a luxurious conference room waiting for a meeting to begin. The man (a Ben Stein look-alike) is whispering to his wife (a Barbara Bush look-alike) in hushed but forceful tones. It's clear they are talking about something important. MAN: There's no way this deal is gonna go...
Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
This time, it was more watchable as Elisabeth seemed more confrontational and Ben Stein weighed in at the end and got in a couple of great points. One of the gals on the show, whose name I can’t recall just now (but who was noted as an Obama supporter) actually compared the modern-day use of the [...]
Free Money Finance (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Here's a piece from Ben Stein that contains many statements with which I agree. I'll list them and give my thoughts as well. However, let's assume we do have a recession. I hope we don't, but we might. What do...
Lone Star Ball (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Full slate of games tonight, so I figured I'd throw up a main-page minors thread.
Here There and Everywhere (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
I love this article, from the July 13 Business Section of the New York Times. The author looks at love from an analytic point of view. Good reading, interesting ideas. Altogether, a delightful and intriguing read. By BEN STEIN Published: July 13, 2008 AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated [...]
