Comments on: Ben Stein Still in Running for “Biggest Asshole in America” Title

By: Bob Tallon

Bob Tallon — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:11:30 +0000

Ben Stein

May be a great quick intellect but he reasons from a fundamentally flawed premise.
He thinks himself another Milton Freidman and Alan Greenspan. Any child selling lemonade has more business savvy than these guys. Can you believe these guys think we are actually a free market economy. What jerks. The tax payers bail out Fanny May, freddy Mac, Bears and Stern, Now maybe Leman Brothers. We bail out all the free enterprise idiots and they call it capitalism. Just like we bailed out the S and L’s in the 1980′s . The only ones who are allowed to fail are the working people. The ones who pay federal income tax, social security tax, Medicare , unemployment tax, sales tax, corporate bail out tax. Then these same idiots like to express there views on the entitlements these working bums want after a life time of bailing everyone else’s ass out of trouble. Some how the baby boomers and people with environmental concerns are the ones who caused all these greedy hubris filled idiots to screw up our economy.
They love to blame everyone except the greedy corprocons who have nothing but maleficence and distain for working people. Ben Stein can take his money and eat it.
He represents a poor example for the logic that is true free market economies. Free markets are small businesses and local communities supporting each other’s free trade, not these corporate thieves and their cheerleaders.

By: eldon

eldon — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:31:40 +0000

this post makes me want to punch out ferris buehler.

By: Malle Babbe

Malle Babbe — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:51:44 +0000

Ah, so Benny has found something to do other than make documentaries where he whines about the big mean Darwinists waving their fossils around. You know, he had had a good run as a “Hey, It’s that Guy!” character actor, but then he had to open his big mouth.

By: Sami

Sami — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:52:59 +0000

Seriously.

I’m pretty sure the McCain campaign started this one, regardless; they used her first, after all.

Shut up, Ben Stein.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:22:12 +0000

Okay. It was bad enough that I actually felt bad for Paris when she finally got thrown in jail. Now she does her ad, which almost makes me sort of like her. Then, some fucking, bottom feeding, right wing homunculus puts me in a position where I feel like I have to defend Paris Hilton, I mean Paris Hilton for Christ’s sake, the right in this country has just gone too far.

I say bring back the stocks and get me a bag of rotting cabbages!

By: David D.

David D. — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:16:47 +0000

I’d rather be told who to vote for by a porn star–any porn star, *Ron Jeremy* even–than by Ben Stein.

“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.” But apparently, Ben, we make fun of women who aren’t “even close to being pretty,” whatever that has to do with anything.

Oh and Ben, spending “six years in brutal captivity for defending his country” may be admirable depending on the circumstances*, but it doesn’t make one a more qualified candidate for the presidency.

*If in fact the man in question was tortured at all: http://startnow72.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/john-mccain-did-not-tell-the-truth-about-captivity/