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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    Ben, you have it all wrong. It was the lizard people that did this injustice to you! Get with David Icke today and learn about the real truth!
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    How do atheists and neo-Darwinists persecute anyone? It's not as though the atheist/neo-Darwin lobby is all that strong. And the creationist documentary should've been all that the Times needed to dismiss Stein, honestly, who reads newspapers and believes in creationism?!
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    Yes, it was the fucking neo-Darwinists, those vile reconcilers of Darwin and Mendel. You might not know it, but they run the planet.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    At the end of the day, Ben Stein's being fired does end up lending credence to the theory that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    Just perusing the comments at the Spectator.
    In general, there only seems to be two types of comments that follow such posts of "why I was victimized": Comments that agrees with the writer and strokes their egos and comments that didn't like the victimizer in the first place so by default the writer was right.
    I would love if someone, who is just an observer, write simply comment: "Ben, you know that's not the case. Stop trippin."
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    I don't care why he got fired, I'm just glad he did. The less people who read, hear, or see his nonsense, the better.
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    08/10/09

    @Dürer's Rhino: Obvs bitter because you did not win Ben Stein's money.
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    08/10/09

    @bytememehard: Has someone followed up to see if any of the winners ever got Ben Stein's money? We need to check this Ben Stein guy out.
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment Edited by hilikusopus at 08/10/09 4:19 PM hilikusopus was starred hilikusopus was unstarred
    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/10/09

    @hilikusopus: Uh, I did. I got about a grand off the guy in 1998. I'm embarrassed to say that he was really nice to me at the time, and I was thinking, "Gee, maybe he's not such a dick." Subsequent events have caused me to revise this opinion substantially.
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    08/10/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: But you'll always have that moment. Credit when credit's due -- although, in the case of this credit report company, the problem is credit when no credit is due.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    My Republican friends assure me that Barack Obama is not only a dictator, but also something they call a "Mumslim."
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    08/10/09


    @SultanaEleusis: They are obviously Democratic operatives. A real Republican would know that it's "muslin".
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    I haven't read the linked articles, but the YouTube shows a mole holding a sign identifying him as a "financial writer". So, it looks like he was trying to trade on his column and therefore, the commercial could imply an endorsement from the NYTimes.

    If Ben Stein can't see the obvious conflict of interest, then all those folks on his old Comedy Central can honestly say, they were beat by an idiot.
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    08/10/09

    @Magister: This dilutes my triumph somewhat.
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    08/10/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Would it make you feel better if you knew it was not a mole but a squirrel in spectacles and a bow tie that held up the sign?
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    08/11/09

    @Atilla the Bun: I don't know. Squirrels are cute, but Mole was in Wind in the Willows. It's a tough call.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    Wow this is the most stupid, baseless allegation I've ever read. Thanks for keeping America stupid, Gawker!
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    08/10/09

    @KenwayLolzordz: THE the most stupid, baseless allegation you've ever read? Don't do all that much reading, huh? Check out Sarah Palen's recent Facebook postings, to start.
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    08/10/09

    @KenwayLolzordz: I think you may need an irony supplement.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    This is grotesquely salacious, but I used to know a fellow who insisted that Ben Stein was a fan of male hustlers. He himself was a male hustler and we were both very, very high at the time so, you know, grain of salt.
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    08/10/09

    @Private Hangnail: All hardcore Republican males are fans of male hustlers.
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    08/10/09

    @intime: All hardcore Republican males are male hustlers. The fucking may be figurative, but still.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    "Also, I have from an uncorruptible authority, that this morning Obama did indeed sneak into my kitchen through the window while my attentions were at my microwave and pee in my corn flakes. My. Corn. Flakes. BroughtToYouByKelloggs(tm)"
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    Gosh, I hope this lack of income doesn't force him to make cutbacks like canceling his cable...oh yeah, he probably gets the Premium Package for free, at both homes.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    Truly, Mr. Stein, how can bad things happen in a universe controlled by an omniscient omnipotent omnibenevolent being?
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    08/10/09

    @iplaudius: Because Obama is the omniscient omnipotent omnimalevolent antichrist who can have NYT reporters fired at will but probably can't get a universal healthcare reform bill passed.
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    08/10/09

    @iplaudius: @Atilla the Bun: Bravo to both of you.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    Hey, if anyone talks to Ben Stein, ask him if it's true, the rumor I once heard, that he wanted a job with Michael Milken long ago but Milken refused him, and then Stein became a big critic of Milken.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to How Barack Obama Got Ben Stein Fired from the Times
    Awww, poor Ben Stein. He's one of the oppressed white males in this country that no one seems to pity anymore. Where's the empathy for the rich white man?
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    08/10/09

    @Experiment626: OT, but Stich rules.
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