Ben Stein gets the boot from The NYT

[DaveNay]

Anyone....anyone?

Ben Stein loses NY Times column over endorsement
(AP) – 2 days ago
NEW YORK — Monotone TV personality Ben Stein has been stripped of his Sunday New York Times business column because of his work as a pitchman for a credit monitoring company.
New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis released a statement Friday that said the newspaper decided it would not be appropriate for Stein to pitch for FreeScore.com while writing his column.
An e-mail requesting comment from the former host of Comedy Central's "Win Ben Stein's Money" quiz show was not immediately returned.
Earlier this year, Stein withdrew as the University of Vermont's commencement speaker over complaints about his critical views of evolution in favor of intelligent design.
Stein famously played the part of a monotone economics teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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[bczoom]

I figured the reason for the boot was because he's been Fox News a lot lately.

 

[Deadly Sushi]

The guy is a very fiscal conservative. He is also Jewish. Isnt that a paradox?

 

[Melensdad]

No. Many Jews are fiscally conservative but socially liberal . . . now that is a paradox!

Honestly I have no idea if he is a social liberal or not. But he is certainly one who seems to preach fiscal responsibility.