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Ben Stein Unloads on Media, Calls Them ‘Unelected Aristocracy, an Effete Corps of Impudent Snobs’

This might’ve been the last invitation to CNN for Ben Stein — the former speechwriter for Richard Nixon, media pundit, and legendary actor in pop culture classics Ferris Bueller’s Day off and American Pie.

Defending Trump’s decision to boycott the correspondents’ dinner, Stein laid into the media for their unrelenting assault on the President — trying, in what he said, to do to him what they did to Nixon.

Stein critiqued the media’s portrayal of Trump was an antisemitic, white supremacist as entirely without merit — deriding them as being seen by the American public as an ‘unelected aristocracy, ‘impudent snobs.’

When defending Nixon’s accomplishments, as ‘bringing more peace to the world than any president in the 20th century,’ it was humoring to see the young CNN host recoil — because MUH Watergate. Nixon is evil incarnate to leftards, as they view him as nothing more than a head in a jar, spewing hateful things — plotting and scheming to undermine civility — when in fact the true record of Nixon is the exact opposite.

 

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31 comments

  1. mr.wiggles

    I think we’re gonna get a BIG move in the market this week.
    Just don’t know if it’s gonna be up or down.

    Warm Regards,
    Mr. Wiggles

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  2. mr.wiggles

    Tonight’s dinner menu:
    -grilled asparagus
    -quinoa/black beans
    -spinach salad
    -rosemary potato wedges

    Drink: craft beer from VT

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  3. moosh

    Nope, you are wrong again, pussyfooting around everything concrete. Wiki a pullback.

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  4. traderconfessions

    Ben Stein? Must have been a slow news day. Thought he was dead.

    Maybe it’s just hard to get past Nixon’s lies, paranoia, criminal acts etc. Other than that.. good guy.

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    • Dr. Fly

      Nixon was an angel compared to Hillary.

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      • cancel19

        True that! Plus 1,000,000,000

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      • traderconfessions

        Think that’s the gin martini speaking or you’re too young to remember those days. Got history book?

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      • bennyhill

        Trump will make HRC look like an angel by the time he is impeached. His blundered Yemen raid was just a taste, he will make Bengazi look like a hang nail,

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    • The Maven

      Ben Stein has always appeared half-dead. See Ferris Bueller classroom scene for detail. Brilliant mind. Ever watch “Beat Ben Stein” or whatever it was called? Dude is a certified genius.

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      • skulduggery

        “Win Ben Stein’s Money”. And it’s where Jimmy Kimmel got his start.

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  5. ironbird

    That is interesting. Ben is a neocon establishment shill, right? The Cuuuuunt News Network is hated by all.

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  6. stockslueth

    I believe Ben is a good guy, he says it like it is.

    Notice how they drop the word “Fake” News Media to just “the Media”?

    The media in general loves to twist words and since Trump is so imprecise you can interpret what he says to almost anything.

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  7. LP

    Squeakiest wheel gets the oil and the media controls the air. Love seeing it all fall apart right now. The idea that someone can own a media outlet and make it lean their way is appalling. I want and support some sort of neutrality oath with teeth.

    Chili nachos and red wine for dinner.

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  8. cancel19

    Ben Stein, a breath of fresh air in a room saturated with MSM fart induced stench, just because Hillary lost in the most spectacular of ways.

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  9. dragun

    oven roasted prime rib med rare, sauteed asparagus in garlic butter, sauteed mushrooms, baked potato, hearts of romaine salad, decanted bottle of 1972 Bertani – Amarone.

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    • The Maven

      1972? Shared Selfie posted to your Dropbox or GTFO

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    • ferd

      …brand brainwashed liquor swillers last night and now we’re hearing from look-at-me conspicuous consumers of wine, etc. When you think about it, not so different from the look-at-me SJWs …just in a different club.

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  10. cancel19

    The Lady and I picked up a bag of little neck clams. We will steam them with white wine after a sauté of cubed pancetta, shallots, capers, olives, red pepper flakes, and onions in a butter virgin olive oil mixture. Then serve them atop of Italian Riscossa Linguines. Heaven on earth after adding more butter and topped with Italian parsley! XD

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    • ferd

      “after a sauté of cubed pancetta”

      Yeeesh, does the lady know you’re gay?

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  11. masteroneass

    It would appear CNN has little brains. Half the country voted for Trump. If this goes on for 4 more years im going to be way sick. Im sick of it already. Childish.

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  12. chuck bennett

    Nixon was into clean water, clean and shit. Such an evil guy

    That dam EPA was created by him to. Traders is right Nixon was a bad dude.

    We should be still in Vietnam fighting right now.

    He won his second term in a ridiculous landslide. I’m sure the Russians helped him. Lastly, he should have just bleached those tapes, that’s what we do now a days.

    Regards

    Chuck Bennett

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  13. skulduggery

    The child interviewing him probably knows little of history, political or otherwise, beyond what her friends tell her.

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  14. rigged game

    Chicken livers fried in bacon grease,
    then sandwiched between slices of
    fresh Pumpernickel rye bread (seeded)
    washed down with Yeungling Lager.

    Beats the snot out of all these steaks.

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  15. jsal56

    Stop calling them “the Left” and start calling them The Bolsheviks.

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