Droning useless fartsack Ben Stein knows what these Occupy protests are really all about, and he's a-scared! "Writing" for the American Spectator, the never-relevant one-trick TV and movie character says that whatever comes after the Occupy movement will be dictatorship. And then - and then! - he busts a move out of the Sarah Palin/Moonie Times playbook: "How long until the protesters are shouting about 'the Jew blood suckers,' I wonder," Stein parenthesizes, casually denigrating the experience of every Holocaust victim with his cheap, offhanded and misplaced snark.
He later suggests that businesses are like animals: "When they are confident and there's a meal around, they are extremely active." I'm actually with Stein on this - it makes more sense to me than Mitt Romney's creepy belief that corporations are people.
But animals need training before they come into regular contact with people. Especially big powerful animals. Take that Dog Whisperer guy - he can train a lethally strong pit bull to not kill people. What the Occupy protesters are saying is, somebody needs to whisper the shit out of these animals, because they're fucking shit up. (I'm paraphrasing here, obviously.)
Eh, I don't know what the point of this post is. Businesses are not evil, but markets need regulation. Dogs are nice, but you need to teach them not to shit everywhere and eat babies. And I'm fucking sick of conservative twunts implying that liberals are Nazis. Shut up, Ben Stein.
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I used to enjoy his game show. But it's amazing how wrongheaded he's become. Okay, he's always been a conservative (hell, he worked for Nixon), but when he came out for "Intelligent Design" being taught in public schools I thought, okay, he's over the rainbow. He certainly cheapens his own arguments by playing the "Git them dirty Jews" hysteria card. I agreed with his closing paragraphs, though:
"On the way home from the doctor today, though, on the radio news, I heard President Obama dropping the "g" sound at the end of his sentences the way he does when he thinks he's addressing working people. When he thinks he's addressing business people, he keeps in the "g" sound. That's politics. He could be a lot worse.
Just so you know, we don't have anyone who can beat him. Get used to him."
I, too, hate when Obama affects folksiness. He's not folksy and shouldn't play at it. The dropping Gs thing really ruffles my feathers. I hope Stein is right, however, about not having anyone on his side to beat Obama. Disappointing as he often is, he's better than the alternatives.
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