Ben Stein has officially lost it
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Aug 06, 2008 8:10pm
So according to political hack Ben Stein, Barack Obama is responsible for the Paris Hilton "response" ad, and the hotel heiress is not merely a socialite party girl, but a bona fide hard core porn star (he knows! he's seen the tape!) and a little "tramp" who "isn't even close to being pretty."
Now, this is perfect. First of all, Paris Hilton was a total nobody party girl in West Hollywood until she and her boyfriend made AND then "someone" SOLD a hard core video of Paris Hilton having sex. So basically, she got her start as a porn star. And she's being trotted out by the media barons to smear John McCain, as brave and patriotic a man as lives in this nation. This little tramp, who isn't even close to being pretty, is belittling a man who spent six years in brutal captivity for defending his country.
Paris, get this: in modern day America, we don't mock people because of things they have done that are unavoidable and not in any way blameworthy. We don't make fun of blacks for being black. We don't make fun of women for having breasts. We don't make fun of old people for being old. This is uncool from any source. It is downright disgusting coming from a porn star -- and not a very good porn star at that (yes, I have seen the tape). And we especially don't like being told how to vote by porn stars. If this is the best the Hollywood pals of Barack Obama can do, maybe John McCain has more of a shot than I thought he did.
Wow. So not only is Ben Stein psychotic and petty, he's a creep, too.
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He's officially lost it now?? Methinks the C & L staff is a little bit behind the times on this one. Ya'll do great work, but still...he lost it around the time he appeared in Ferris Beuller's Day Off, much less before appearing in Expelled.
"belittling a man who spent six years in brutal captivity for defending his country."
Where was Ben Stein when the GOP was smearing and swiftboating John Kerry?
He lost it now? Um.
Ben Stein is a creep because of so many things, not just his inclination to publicly trash girls in the voyeuristic porno tapes he jacks off too.
man when is this dude going to run out on his 15 minutes of fame.........totally bores me to death
Uh, aren't Paris Hilton's parents major GOP donors?
Ben Stein, or B.S. as he is known, is an unrepentant Nixon apologist and criminal as well as a Creationist tool.
His level of morality pales beside a common porn star.
Lol. This is rich. McCain first exploited Hilton, and now she's the bad one?
i bet he's so wanting to give her a spanking right now. bad girl, bad girl!
Why is this moronic doofus being given a soap box?
Oh... it's the American Spectator.
[Never mind.]
Where was Ben Stein when the GOP was smearing and swiftboating Max Cleland?
Contrary to Stein, the tape came out AFTER she was a celebrity, and perhaps only BECAUSE she was a celebrity. Aside from that celebrity connection, the tape only seems like evidence that aliens have sex.
I'm not calling it a comeback but I dont understand why CNN invites this Zionist on to present his anti-Muslim, ant-Arab, anti-Palestinian views all the time.
He reminds me of Liebermann.
After Ferris Bueler, it's been all downhill for this silly little man.
"she isn't even close to being pretty"
Has Ben Stein looked in the mirror? Why is it it seems the ugliest men are always the ones critiquing attractive girls? I've seen north ends of south bound mules that look better than this Ben Stein.
What's that he's wearing on his face btw? Looks like one of those gag glasses with the fake nose and eye brows less the mustache. http://www.123rf.com/photo_2125753.html
Is Stein seriously shooting someone down for their looks? If that's not the shit calling the toilet 'ugly', I don't know what is.
Andrew @ 5:
Might be were.
Ruthless People @ 2:
He was helping. The swiftboaters, that is.
Ben Stein is a self-agrandizing, pseudo-intellectual for whom no one with an once of sense would show one centillia of respect.
And he looks like the corrupt warden from Shawshank Redemption.
Look up "HOLIER THAN THOU" in my new Republican Guide to No New Ideas... and you find Ben Stein, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingrahm, and Bill Bennet. (Hannity just got bumped out of first place.)
Wow. Stein is super-fucking-pissed that the whole negative attack rollout by the McCain campaign got kneecapped and made complete fools of by Paris Hilton.
What can one say but: L O L
Benny doesn't seem to know that McSame attacked Brit and Paris first.
And while I don't like either of them they did nothing to be attacked by him in such a mannor.
I can see why the comments about McCain being old struck a nerve.
from the spectator site: "ben stein is a writer, actor, economist and lawyer"
Writer? : surely that drivel posted by him doesn't count as writing.
Actor? : You're kidding right!!
Economist? : LMAO!!!
Lawyer? : I have no doubt after seeing his show and writing abilities he'd make a fine lawyer and would be in the same strata as say oh, I don't know Dr. Phil? Hope the Dr isn't offended by being lumped with benny boy.
What an asshole! Hilton would never have said anything if McSame did not drag her name into the stew in the first place!
As a disabled Vietnam Veteran what I'd like to know is "what exactly" makes McSame a hero and a super patriot? In my book he's a jet jockey who fucked up, got shot down and then captured . . . and that makes him a hero? It makes him a victim and another just disabled Vietnam Veteran of the Vietnam War, but a hero?
I guess to a blow hard talking head who does not know about the military this asshole sees a hero in McSame in the Repuke world everything is backwards where "lies are truth" and "war is peace!" "Fuckups are heros!"
Ben Stein, irrelevant. Paris Hilton, irrelevant. John McCain, relevant. McCain signed anti American propaganda. He capitulated.
I'm sure the GOP would let nothing stop them from destroying Obama's life if the shoe was on the other foot..
I can hear Hannity already screaming his lungs out.
He's a Traitor, He's a TurnCoat. He's ......UnAmarican.
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Gee he's alive? I thought he was an automaton. By definition I guess he is. His sense of humor rivals a tree stump, but the fact that he reacted at all says Paris must have hit one of his remaining nerves. No not that one!
Okay. By his own admission, Ben Stein has seen the video, but, to be fair, we don't know how many times he's seen it.
He may just be the foremost authority on Paris Hilton's porn activities.
sounds like ben stein was a draft dodger....that's the only way to make sense of his irrational adoration/worship of mccain.......
sheesh...
Ben made sure he got the Paris Porn Tape for himself. Now it was McCain who talked about Paris but Ben feels left of and needs some money. Look he has seen Novak retire so he's looking to take over his jobs. Ben should be careful of the Hilton Family. Now is been looking to pay Ashley for her services of 2500 hour. Ben is like all the rest all talk but check his back ground and you'll find he's just as dirty as his GOP friends. Checking Ben's background he supported Larry Craig and seems Ben is covering up his little secrets. Yes he is married with a child but what's interesting is he married the same woman twice and has two homes. It's getting common for these guys to marry to hide their secrets. It's so easy to just tell the truth and get over it. Now one could question was it Paris or her boyfriend Ben was interested in. I say be proud of who you are.
"We don't make fun of blacks for being black."
Uh, 'scuse me? Isn't race the basic Republican issue now (as it's been since 1968)? Haven't Stein and his ilk already accused Obama of being not black enough, and of being too black (and scary at that!) and "not like us," and blah blah blah? Jeezus, I wish somebody would win all his money so he'd shut up and go back to being stupid in private.
So if Paris Hilton got her career started from porn does that mean McCain got his started through S&M?
Only a fully paid up member of the 'log cabin' Republicans could say "Paris is not pretty"
dumb maybe or pretends to be, but still hot and off the cute scale.
mccain-mclame @ 20:
Of course I know that.
I think we agree completely with each other... not sure why you name me.
Ben Stein is whacked!
But, of course, Dennis Miller is the Cat Stevens of comedy.
I'm sure Paris Hilton is very upset to be spurned by Ben Stein, the guy who tries to trade economic advice for the favors of prostitutes...
On the MSNBC page that opens when I exit HotMail:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/151256
NewsWeek: Don’t Laugh. Paris Is Right.
What Ms. Hilton could teach Messrs. McCain and Obama about our energy crisis.
Huh. Perhaps, as a Canuck, I am just too liberal or progressive to really agree, but...
I think Ben Stein is a tool, yes. His stance against evolution was an embarrassment. Let's face it - he has a brilliant mind. He's a walking thesaurus. And yet all of that is outweighed by his more irrational political beliefs. It's sad.
But that's neither here nor there.
Watching Paris Hilton's sex tape isn't a crime - and this is coming from someone who hasn't even seen it. It's a little slimy to mention it in an op-ed piece, and perhaps that's your problem with him? Otherwise, I don't get it.
American was founded partly by Puritans. Yes. But when can we fully shrug off their loathsome fear of sexuality?
Furthermore, he's right on the money that poking fun at McCain for being the "old guy" is a little lame. McCain is cringeworthy for myriad other reasons, after all. His entire campaign is a joke. Why not start there?
And she was a nobody until her sex tape was 'leaked.' That's really just the truth.
That being said, he's trying to link Obama to Hilton as though her 'advertisement' of sorts was a campaign strategy from his team. No, Ben, she was simply responding to McCain - who brought her into this nonsense in the first place.
And when Ben argued that McCain is "as brave and patriotic a man as lives in this nation"? Yes, that also made me nearly lose my supper.
Still...
Well, I guess what I am saying is that while Ben Stein's political views are almost entirely out-of-touch, he has certainly done worse and while half of what he says is garbage, the other half is pretty true in this case. Let's not get lost ourselves in our own self-righteous left-wing doctrine.
I don't really follow Ben Stein.. but I _do_ know he lost it way before now.
I wrote him off as soon as I found out about his anti-evolution views.
There's just no accepting crap like that. Sure, I can understand it, if the person is ignorant, uninformed, or a religious zealot.
But in the case of a well-educated person like Stein? Well that just tells me the guy has lost all sense of reason.
how do Republicans equate
with dropping napalm on innocent Vietnamese women and children ?
William Dylan @ 10:
What the crap? Can you back this up or are you simply an anti-Semite in denial?
Paris is smarter than Ben Stein.
Who actually produced the Paris Hilton spoof of McCain?
The Obama Campaign? No ...
Click the video to watch the interview:
http://www.kget.com/entertainment/entertainmenttonight/story.aspx?conten...
Meet the Guys Behind Paris' McCain Spoof
Adam McKay: "I had on Air America, the progressive radio station. They kept talking about this McCain ad with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, and I thought, you know, 'Oh my god, they have to respond. There has to be a rebuttal.'
"I called a friend of ours who works at CAA and he was able to hook me up with the agent who knew her. And within 3 hours I was on the phone with her and I don't really know her so I didn't know what to expect or how much of a sense of humor she had. But she right away got the joke and was completely down with it."
Dear C & L:
It's 6:30 on the Pacific Coast and I, like tens of millions of Americans, haven't eaten dinner yet. Why'd you have to go and put the image of Ben Stein watching porn in our minds? It's all I can do to keep my lunch down. I might not be able to sleep tonight.
The thought of a nekkid Ben Stein squeezing one off while staring at a video of Paris having sex is just too horrifying for words.
LibertyWatch @ 23:
I'm a Canadian and all, but I nonetheless wanted to thank you for not only serving your country (even when the faith you placed in its leaders was abused), but specifically for being a proud liberal soldier - something conservatives want us to forget exist. I hope that you receive the medical coverage you need and deserve, what with American healthcare being in the state it's in...
Weren't the repiglicans courtin' a porn star a few years ago...what was her name? Mary Carey or something like that?
So, what...porn stars aren't citizens? Porn stars aren't allowed to have an opinion? Should they not vote either? I wonder who Ben Stein will try to exclude from the public discourse next?
And would it be redundant for me to point out that MCCAIN's PEOPLE brought Paris into the conversation with their craptacular ad in the FIRST PLACE? Republicans are SUCH a lot of bedwetting crybabies. I have no use for any of them.
Right Ben, we don't make fun of blacks for being black. We just say they're "maybe a little too exotic."
Meat @ 39:
An anti-Semite is in no way related to an anti-zionist. One is racist the other a political view. Zionists are fascists who practice genocide on Palestinians.
okay, I read that twice. Isn't McCain the one who brought Paris Hilton into this mess in the first place?
Hey Ben Stein - Who's worse, the young girl who makes a sex tape or the old man who watches it? Regarding appearance - have you checked the mirror?
Notice his closing: "maybe John McCain has more of a shot than I thought he did."
So, before you saw Paris' reply, you didn't think McCranky had much of a shot. Which means, before you saw the Paris' reply, you *actually* made a rational judgement. Bet that hasn't happened for a long time before, and probably not for a long time to come.
My guess is that he loves the Nixon era because Kissinger might just be a touch uglier than Ben. That's a refreshing concept for him.
BennyP @ 32:
I was refering to Ben Stein.
With luck Paris will make a video responding to Stein.
The response is slimey for many reasons but the worst part is the sacrosanct nature of McCain's service. It's as if the fact that he suffered makes all criticism of him and all mocking of him out of bounds. Remember how they smeared General W. Clark over even questioning the relevance of his POW years to commanding an entire empire?
I suppose they think that this point tests well with focus groups... but perhaps it also means they fear that if we do puncture the bubble of saintlyness around the POW years then everything falls apart.
"And we especially don’t like being told how to vote by porn stars." ... but USING porn stars to tell OTHER people how to vote is perfectly OK (the Barack attack ad.)
Or in other terms if women would just allow themselves to be objects, and not start with that nasty talking and thinking and expressing their opinions, then they are welcome, according to Stein, to be part of the political process... or at least to be used by the political process.
mccain-mclame @ 52:
Yeah, man. I figured that out right after I posted.
Silly me.
cheers
Hey guys I just found out that McCain was a POW, I hadn't know that he spent 5 years in a rat hole in North Vietnam, don't you think that give him the right to be president? I mean he was a POW, that should give him the right to send troops to die in a needless war, then to vote against funding their healthcare and education, right? right?
(how many McCain points do I get, I really want a seat on the double talk express)
Ben Stein was Richard Nixon's speechwriter.
Can't get much creepier than THAT.
"This little tramp, who isn’t even close to being pretty, is belittling a man who spent six years in brutal captivity for defending his country."
If she "isn’t even close to being pretty" what were you doing watching her sex tape?
"It is downright disgusting coming from a porn star — and not a very good porn star at that (yes, I have seen the tape)."
I guess Ben knows his porn. Thanks for sharing, you sick old pervert.
Meat @ 36:
Pointing out that someone is a hypocritical windbag of an asshole is not left-wing doctrine. You don't have to have any sort of political doctrine to call a duck a duck.
Bonkers @ 46:
That and the fact that has-Ben is a prostitute for the Repubs.
Loonie @ 17:
I think Bob Gunton was trying to do his best 'Henry Kissinger' in that role, but hey, Stein and Kissinger are both Nixon-loving a-holes.
We're missing the big reveal here.....
"It is downright disgusting coming from a porn star — and not a very good porn star at that"
This almost sounds like a man with an encyclopedic knowledge of porn. Maybe he's a member of Bang Bus and got spoiled?
BennyP @ 48:
And yet, who was it that brought the fact that Stein is a Jew into it? Oh, yes, it was William Dylan, who also compared him to another Jew in politics.
I won't even touch your "Zionists are fascists who practice genocide on Palestianians" rhetoric. That sounds like a line you picked up from a manifesto.
Genocide. Pfah.
Here's a hint: Zionists support the state of Israel and its right to exist. Period. There are a lot of Christian Zionists, even, since Zionism was previously associated with people who believed that Israel is the Holy Land (and in the case of a great many Christians, the birthplace of Jesus Christ).
PS: Don't worry, I'm not a Jew.
McCain Unhinged: The Must Issue for the Obama Campaign
And the "Paris Hilton For President" video did just that - mockingly, teasingly, pleasantly depicted McCain as totally out of touch, as too old to be in touch ..
Oh and what really got to me.. (I should perhaps mention I'm a biochemist, and, need I say that evolution just isn't up for debate) ..
He hates evolution because he's decided to associate it with the Nazi's theories of race.
It's not just the guilt-by-association that bothers me. It's that it's not even true. Modern biology has completely refuted old 'race' theories. Not to mention racist pseudo-sciences like phrenology.
And I just can't stand that. The guy is advocating pseudo-science over REAL biological science on political grounds he's doing EXACTLY what the Nazis did. AND what Stalin did with Lysenko.
Saying "Yes, but my politics are less evil" isn't a very good excuse.
Meat @ 39:
Just so you'll know for the future, Jews (at least the original Israelites) and many Arabs, including the Palestinians are all Semites.
Stein is a more subtle, reserved version of the vile Pat Buchanan.
"Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist and lawyer in Beverly Hills and Malibu."
How do YOU spell e-l-i-t-i-s-t?
Meat @ 62:
Calling someone who speaks out against Zionists an anti semite is like calling someone who wishes to end the genocide in Africa anti-black.
"not a very good porn star at that"... as if, if she WAS a good porn star we might be able to take her more seriously?
Isn't something a little backwards in that insult?
this coming from a man that had his deceased dog stuffed and mounted.
Stein is the one who thought "Expelled" would do better than "An Inconvenient Truth".
He is totally hypocritical. First he says don't make fun of people for who they are, and then he makes fun of porn stars, as if porn stars can't have a brain and an opinion, and are beneath him somehow. He is very racist man from everything I've read by him, and about him.
numfar @ 45:
Theres a whole parade of gay porn stars which have been indoctrinated into various Republican circles,
including Jeff Gannon's midnight forays to the WH, and various gay porn stars lined up at the RNC for photo ops with Coulter, Gingrich et al.
For the supposed party of family values they attract and invite gay celebs to their functions like no other.
No harm in it apart from the Repug hypocrisy of their policys and statements on the public's permissions to be human.
You just know that behind closed doors this guy has *got* to be a total freak! There's probably no limit to what he does.
Ben Stein...Lost it when his assclown pal Tricky-Dicky Nixon did two things:
1) Said "I am not a crook" and started ALL GOP lies all the time...and,
2) Resigned in DISGRACE after Stein tried to write speeches to get him out of hot water AND FAILED! Along with his other assclown buddy Pat Buchanan openly wept as the helicopter flew away...LOL !!!
ALL of these hacks deserve everything they get..hope it hurts...
willie @ 70:
Stein mounted his deceased dog, huh? He must be really desperate. /snark
If John Kerry's heroic service record doesn't count then why should John McCain's lame excuse for a service record? I would say all John McCain has done to work against our soldiers best interests would erase anything good he might have done during his service.
Texas Democrat @ 61:
Great point! Lets ask him about his favorites and why he doesn't love Paris in the Summer.
Say what you like about Paris Hilton, Mr. Stein-- her retort was a thousand times classier than yours. So what does that make you?
I'm liking Paris Hilton better every day. And did Stein see the "porno" tape before or after McCain's ad? If he's so damn perfect, what the hell was he watching it for? Research?
theWalrus @ 67:
"Log cabin elitists for McCain 2008" shouts the banners
This little tramp, who isn’t even close to being pretty...
Sh#t, I thought he was talkin' about himself.
Win Ben Stein's Hypocricy.
Otay @ 76:
It was the only dog that would have Stein as a master...and he was even more obediant when he was stuffed.
Bonkers @ 58:
Perhaps, but I think sometimes we all get caught up in mocking someone simply because they do not share the same beliefs as we do. In this case, Stein is defending McCain, a man he legitimately thinks should be President over Obama.
Anyhow, it's true (and I see this in retrospect a little more clearly) that Stein was being an asshole in several ways (and I highlighted them myself). Still, calling him 'nuts' or a 'creep' seems like a weak and dismissive comeback to me, when we can and should be able to write an eloquent rebuttal that illustrates why he misses the mark.
Ben Stein thinks Paris Hilton is ugly yet cannot resist the temptation to view a sex tape featuring her. Why? What a pathetic creature he is. As loathsome in his own way as the creep who released the tape.
Paris Hilton + Ben Stein = white noise. Notice to all rational, sentient primates. Turn on your cognitive filter/blocker and ignore these popculture tools.
otay @ 76
i would not doubt it one bit although i am not sure of what pose the dog was stuffed into.
i also forgot the link...
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1727/the_life_of_a_hollywood_as...
willie @ 70:
What? He mounted his dog after it was dead? That's doubly sick.
His editorial has a Frank Booth, "Baby wants blue velvet"..."Don't you fuckin' look at me" feel to it.
Poor Ben Stein, watching porn is probably the closest he ever gets to having sex.
Filled with self-loathing, he "confesses" his porn addiction to the world under the guise of attacking Paris Hilton. You can tell he really wants McCain tho'.
sad little man.
willie @ 70:
then the taxidermist got hold of it...
Is Paris paying attention? This is the kind of people she and her family have been supporting.
Meat (#36) there IS something to be said for se