Ben Stein

Ben “Bueller, Bueller, Bueller” Stein (initials: BS) is a former presidential speechwriter, actor, comedian, and conservative pundit who is best known for using the expertise he built writing the droning, monotonous speeches of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford to do a hilarious send-up of a teacher giving an economics lecture about the Laffer Curve in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He was also the author of the novel Ludes, which may explain his speaking style. Moving right along, he had a television game show where you could win his money, $5,000 of it, by defeating him in a trivia contest. To his credit, he usually (but not always) won. According to evangelicals, his ass is going to burn in hell because he is a Jew, even if he did star in the pseudoscience film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, and once worked for a raging antisemite (Nixon).
Stein has degrees in economics (Columbia University, 1966) and law (Yale, 1970). He was valedictorian of his law school class at Yale. He has been a non-tenured professor of law at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, used to write a weekly column in the New York Times and occasionally gives opinion pieces on CBS News Sunday Morning.
Not much of importance has been heard from him of late; he has lost all respect of freethinkers after his involvement with Expelled.
==Opinions==
Stein is the archetypal neoconservative; he is a Republican,"Why I am a Republican" , a column he wrote for The American Spectator. supporter of "civil rights leader" George W. Bush,"Ben Stein: NYT Snubbed ‘Civil Rights Leader’ George W. Bush In Selma Photo" chickenhawk (somehow equating non-interventionism with antisemitism),Ron Paul and Ben Stein Argue on Larry King Live After Stein Accuses Paul of 'Anti-Semitic Argument' and a free marketer (he is a fan of Milton Friedman).Stein wrote a column for Time commemorating Friedman after he died. 
His opinion of science is as follows:"Science Equals Murder!" ("article" at National Review Online)
It makes you wonder what he thinks of Albert Einstein and all of the Jewish scientists that were responsible for the Nazi brain drain. This is especially nonsensical because Hitler was not what most would call a fan of science, with one writer noting there were "complicated interactions between science and politics in Nazi Germany."How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein’s "Jewish Science" (Excerpt) Hitler was not even willing to reason with the father of quantum mechanics because "Nazi authorities still saw him as Jewish and expelled him from his post at Göttingen University."Hitler’s letter to the father of quantum mechanics
About his old boss he said:
It also makes you wonder what he thinks of Tricky Dick's anti-Semitism.
Stein's economic predictions have recently inspired a phrase of comical derision, Ben Steinery. On the other hand, sometimes he will take a stand for a legitimate moral issue. In what Republican circles would considered unorthodox views, he's in agreement with progressive income tax and capital-gains tax, and has strongly advocated raising taxes on the rich in many recent appearances on Fox Noise, usually to be yelled at by his "interviewer".For example He also favors a single-payer health-care plan.
He was aghast at the way Larry Craig was shunned after his incident in the bathroom, saying that Craig's sexuality was no one's business but his own (which would be totally true if Craig hadn't made it an issue before by moralizing about sexuality). Stein's own sexuality includes asking a lady for very much more than she was willing to, erm, give.Creepy ol' Ben Stein, PharyngulaThe Ben Stein sexting scandal that will make you want to pour Lysol in your eyes, Death and Taxes
Stein endorsed Al Franken in 2008 and Ralph Nader over GOP presidential candidates. He considered voting for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election should Donald Trump have won the Republican nomination, but ultimately ended up voting for him anyway once he was nominated.
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/ive-never-voted-for-a-democrat-ben-stein-flips-support-to-hillary-and-bernie-because-of-trump/
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a45527/ben-stein-will-vote-for-trump-even-though-he-knows-better/
==Ben Steinery==
Ben Steinery is an expression of derision, scorn and mockery coined in a January 2008 column titled "Farewell to Ben Stein" by Wall Street stock analyst and financial blogger Barry Ritholtz.http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/01/farewell-to-ben-stein/ The phrase refers to the many dubious economic prognostications made by Stein.
As declared by Ritholtz: 
Some typical, real-time usages of Ben Steinery include:
==See also==
*Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
*Expelled: Leader's Guide
==References==
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