Ben Stein gets owned, totally.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:20 pm

Win Ben Stein's Mind by Roger Ebert.

-Crissa

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:00 pm

Nice. A little rambling, but a pretty well-done review overall. I would have rather seen him do it on TV, though.

I really enjoyed the eXpelled "viral" rap, but I don't think I'll be seeing the movie.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:08 am

I love eberts sense of humor.

This one is great

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbc ... S/50725001

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:36 am

I fucking hate Ben Stein.

cthulhu · Post by **cthulhu** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:19 am

Who is he, aside from a dick who makes videos about creationism?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:23 am

He's made a lot of money by playing the role of an incredibly boring man.

He was the teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the one who droned about economics, and asked questions in this format...

"Who can tell me X?"

"Anyone? Anyone?"

"X is..."

He also did commercials for Cleareyes.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:06 am

He also wrote Richard Nixon's speeches.

Absentminded_Wizard · Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:09 am

He also does business commentary for Fox News. In that capacity, he's most famous for insisting that the economy and stock market were both strong earlier this year, and that financial companies were great investments.

RiotGearEpsilon · Post by **RiotGearEpsilon** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:22 am

So, basically, he's a tremendous douche-bag in every sense, who vigorously defends intellectually bankrupt ideas long after it's obvious to everyone else that they're useless bullshit?

IGTN · Post by **IGTN** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:43 am

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:He also wrote Richard Nixon's speeches.

Well, yeah, but can anyone even remember now what Nixon did that was so terrible?

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:24 am

All I know about what Nixon did was that he used wiretapping/bugs/other means of spying on his political opponents, may or may not have been the one that helped traffic cocaine into America in order to fund a militia in another country (I'm not sure, was this him?) and also was a firm supporter of stupid drug laws that are currently helping me not get the medication I need. Fuck him, fuck him with a rake.

I like how the article brushes over him covering up a burglary and moves on to focus on how he was all about peace, yet condemns Clinton for lying about an extramarital blowjob. Because obviously, going against the babble of the Bibble is much worse than just stealing shit and covering it up.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 2:56 pm

Nixon was a hypocrite of the worst kind. He made his entire political career out of red baiting and McCarthyism - ruining the political careers and in some cases actually ending the lives of anyone who dared to even consider actually getting rapprochement with dirty socialists (except western European socialists, who are apparently not dirty). He was the one who made the first official diplomatic mission t China because he literally got people killed for just suggesting that China be talked to.

He ended the Vietnam war alright, but only because he personally made it impossible for anyone else to do it. If he hadn't been such an asshole, we would probably not have been there in the first place.

Nixon assisted with the brutal dictatorships and genocides in Chile and East Pakistan.

The Blood Telegram wrote:Our government has failed to denounce the suppression of democracy. Our government has failed to denounce atrocities. Our government has failed to take forceful measures to protect its citizens while at the same time bending over backwards to placate the West Pak[istan] dominated government and to lessen any deservedly negative international public relations impact against them. Our government has evidenced what many will consider moral bankrupt,(...) But we have chosen not to intervene, even morally, on the grounds that the Awami conflict, in which unfortunately the overworked term genocide is applicable, is purely an internal matter of a sovereign state. Private Americans have expressed disgust. We, as professional civil servants, express our dissent with current policy and fervently hope that our true and lasting interests here can be defined and our policies redirected.

Archer Blood, to Richard Nixon wrote:1. Here in Decca we are mute and horrified witnesses to a reign of terror by the Pak[istani] Military. Evidence continues to mount that the MLA authorities have list of AWAMI League supporters whom they are systematically eliminating by seeking them out in their homes and shooting them down
2. Among those marked for extinction in addition to the A.L. hierarchy are student leaders and university faculty. In this second category we have reports that Fazlur Rahman head of the philosophy department and a Hindu, M. Abedin, head of the department of history, have been killed. Razzak of the political science department is rumored dead. Also on the list are the bulk of MNA's elect and number of MPA's.
3. Moreover, with the support of the Pak[istani] Military. non-Bengali Muslims are systematically attacking poor people's quarters and murdering Bengalis and Hindus.

That is why Nixon was a bad man. The fact that he used the EPA as a clumsy extortion tool to demand money from industry for his personal use in exchange for favorable rules regarding pollution is small change compared to his repeated murder of innocent civilians in the name of anti-communism.

-Username17