Former host of Win Ben Stein's Money and Turn Ben Stein On (and also some less important jobs like scriptwriting for Richard Nixon) has been terminated from the New York Times. Specifically, he will no longer be writing his weekly business opinion column. The company took one look at his other job as a spokesperson for FreeScore.com and found it to be a conflict of interest.There are a number of ways this could be spun. No doubt the conservative press will consider this a strike against their cause since they have always pegged the New York Times as a liberal newspaper. I do admit that I find the business practices of sites such as FreeScore.com to be suspect (they advertise as free, but further analysis reveals that one has to pay for their services). Perhaps he should have supported a less sleazy one like Cash4Gold.com.
The following is one of his commercials for FreeScore.com. Judge for yourself whether the Times was justified.
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8-08-2009 @ 7:44PM
trickyric1967 said...
It is getting sad that your website has to show it's political views lately. I come to it to imerse myself in the frivolity of television because I can't stand all the politics you seem to get everywhere else.
thanks for nothing.
sorry I posted in the wrong place befors
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8-09-2009 @ 3:24AM
HD said...
Stein is a headcase who was "Expelled" and with good reason. Here's a sample of Ben's thought process in August 2007:
Ben Stein: ...Subprime is tiny. Subprime is a tiny, tiny blip.
Ben Stein:... Defaults for the whole mortgage market are tiny.
Ben Stein: I think stocks will be a heck of a lot higher a year from now than they are now.
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8-09-2009 @ 7:13AM
Edd said...
I wish this guy would hurry up and go to his fundamentalist heaven already
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8-09-2009 @ 7:29AM
miller980 said...
My, my, my, the bitter libs are spewing again. Wishing someone dead because of their views - pretty classy Edd.
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8-09-2009 @ 7:47AM
C.A. said...
I think some journalists get a raw deal. While I can see this as being a conflict, I hear the "reporters" on the ESPN radio station I listen to constantly do ads. I guess the difference is that they aren't usually sports related.
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8-10-2009 @ 10:23AM
rick cokely said...
This guy is a hack. I remember during that Worlds Stupidest Supermodel show he actually said that "Darfur is the place where there is a lot of hunger problems" as if the main cause of death in Darfur wasn't you know, genocide.
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