New York Times Gives Ben Stein The Boot, Cites Ethics Violations
By Logan Murphy Saturday Aug 08, 2009 2:00pmFar-right, religious zealot and GOP hack Ben "Larry Craig was framed" Stein has finally been purged from the New York Times:
Ben Stein's TV ads for a scuzzy "free" credit product have finally caught up to him: The New York Times has fired Stein as a Sunday business columnist for violating ethics guidelines.
Stein was pilloried online for his endorsement of the bait-and-switch operation, which offers a free credit score but charges an outrageous $30 per month to see the credit report behind the score. As Reuters blogger Felix Salmon pointed out, consumers can get a free online report under federal law.
The Times' issue, though, is that Stein has violated its ethics policy, which states "it is an inherent conflict for a journalist to perform public relations work, paid or unpaid." Salmon blogged about that issue, too. It's surprising that it hasn't come up until now; Stein has been a regular contributor to the Times for four years, and is quite recognizable to TV audiences. After playing a high-school teacher in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off (R.I.P. John Hughes), Stein went on to host two shows on Comedy Central, including the Emmy-award-winning Win Ben Stein's Money, and a show on VH1. He also frequently appeared in cameo roles on sitcoms like Seinfeld.
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It's all about Ben Stein's money. Fuck you and yours.
Is that if you have Comcast cable and call them for some reason, usually to complain, you have to hear this a-hole answer your call.
Drop cable, read a book instead.
That's only because if you
Drop book
You'll hurt your toes.
Not if you drop it in a prison shower. Then you hurt your ass hole.
Hardee har! What, no youtube video link to go with that clever retort?
Stay classy...
always. classy and clever is my MO.
to the last few Harry Potter novels.
then I wouldn't be able to post here about bitching about the cable would I?
;)
Get clear eyes, wow.
Who deserve to be fired too.
MoDo the Plager?
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Is William the Bloody still employed?
Couldna happened to a nicer Nazi.
Remember that movie he made recently, that the producers said was such a big hit?
Me neither.
He's a jew, he couldn't be a Nazi. A Jewish sell out to the Nazis to save his own hide and for money, this I could see.
That would be a Kapo of some sort.
There were groups of Jews that helped the Nazis, primarily by cleaning up after the mass executions in city streets, but that was probably a survival technique.
I even saw one documentary of a Jewish boy who got away from his town while it was being exterminated, had his identity hidden by a Nazi who knew he was Jewish, basically became a mascot with his own Nazi uniform of the very troop that wiped out his family and town, and because of his perfect "Aryan" appearance ended up in Nazi propaganda movies.
Great.
Beyond brain washing.
The Israelis are using the need for more living space an as excuse to expand their settlements. Sure sounds a lot like what Hitler was saying about lebensraum in the east.
The NYT actually fired someone for potential conflict of interest? Now that's news.
It would be news, although I suspect that's not what happened. Ben got fired because someone complained to the NYT and they had to notice that Ben was helping to steal from people. The Times may las longer than the WaPo but not by much.
Ben Stein is one of the few conservative pundits with whom I've been disappointed to watch his feet of clay coming out in the last couple of years.
Now you too can become President with this Kenyon birth certificate generator.
http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/
Fill in the blanks and you can be whoever you want from where ever you want. And it looks real! I was born in socialist Venezuela.
We're not laughing at you birthers, we're laughing with you. Nah, we're laughing at you.
Earlier today on Kos I found out I was a gay, liberal, hippie, granny but for some reason being a veteran didn't count.
why made you think you opening line was even remotely funny?
[You are generalizing. It's racist. Site Monitor]
He's no good at humor, just a bore. His politics suck, he doesn't give any thought to his one sidedness. He's terrible as a white pimp, Shack has more brains than him and Shacks a friggen basketball player.
Go away Ben Stein....and get off of "Sunday Morning"too, you're like a bad commercial(as opposed to a good commercial?).
Hugh Beaumont
"He's no good at humor, just a bore. His politics suck, he doesn't give any thought to his one sidedness..."
Don't forget, he's also a wingnut creationist.
Is this the guy you want to take any kind of advice from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x01rhPtMLQ
Wow.
W
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! I always thought that was a robot that would pop up on my TV screen and mouth off the latest Repugnican talking points. I have much to learn.
Ha. Ben Stein and his shitty anti-evolution movie that didn't make any money. He has no choice but to do commercials.
My guess is he wanted more money.
Did somebody win all of his?
What is it with conservatards and bow-ties?
And guys named DICK?
This cannot be a coincidence?
Ben lives by the only republican rule that binds republicans together.
Anything for the money! Greed is the only thing these people have in common. Well greed and stupidity!
republicanism is a mental illness!
The 80's movie we never saw, because John Hughes only did sequels about shaggy dogs and abandoned children.
What was he writing for the NYT? Something about how people at academic institutions weren't "free" to fill young minds with complete jibberish? Where people were "persecuted" because they wanted to indoctrinate kids instead of teach?
The NYT finally "got the Red out"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcH-3d-BZn4
I know he's getting up there in years but he sure did sound rough in that commercial. I was wondering if he had a stroke or has developed Parkinsons disease. Frankly, he looks bad. He also sounded bad in the video posted by Waldo at 17:02.
..can cause slurring. Stein's living proof.
I concede - he was one of those people that I had it in my head was an intelligent commentator - until I actually started listening to him and went "This doesn't even makes *sense*? WTF?"
I could have understood if it was illogical, but good rhetoric/propaganda, but the stuff he wrote and said just didn't even make sense in terms of sophistry. To steal a phrase "There's no *there* there . . ."
Jonnan
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