How much of a douchebag is Ben Stein?

[Fenris]

I wanted to start a poll, but there really isn't any option beside "gigantor".

On Hardball pimping some anti-liberal bullshit.

[tishaLA]

1. Well, Senator Kennedy

reported for duty to Jane Fonda! Hadn't you heard?

You know, one would hope they'd have better material than that.

[stepnw1f]

2. Another Greedy Grubby Bastard

[Curious Dave]

3. If you could buy a douchebag

at Costco or Sam's Club it would be in the bulk, jumbo economy size. Ben Stein would be a bigger douchebag than that.

[Seabiscuit]

4. "Douchebag" is too good a word for Stein

I think of him more as an over-stuffed cholostemy bag.

[kodi]

34. true, stein gives douchebags a bad name

also, he is a sorry excuse for a economist, and is one who attacked paul krugman a few years back for not understanding economics.

it was so funny and kinda' like calling muhammad ali a sissy.

[flamingyouth]

5. His greatest moment was asking, "Bueller? Bueller?"

So, yeah, there's your answer.:eyes:

[Fenris]

9. "Anybody? Anybody? Anybody?"

"The answer is 'Ben Stein is a douchebag with a mass of the sun.'"

[flamingyouth]

15. LOL - there's our Fen!

Feeling back to his old self!:D

[Fenris]

38. *kiss*

;)

[dogman]

6. War protesters are criminals.

Watergate burglars should have escaped. Morality is simple, hey?

[BillZBubb]

7. Like father, like son

Stein's old man was a lying, crooked, piece of shit in the Nixon administration. The apple didn't fall far from the tree.

[Fenris]

10. The great thing is that you could have been describing either of them!

:D

Benjy wrote Dick's speeches!

[blondeatlast]

28. Beat me to it. nt

[madmax]

13. Tell us more...

what about old man Stein? Man, talk about 6 degrees of seperation.

[CO Liberal]

22. That Was HIM!!!!

Ben Stein was a lying, crooked, piece of shit speech writer in the Nixon administration.

[madmax]

8. Major big....HUGE

Douchebag.

Did you hear him say that if would have been better if the Plumbers hadn't been caught and Nixon "didn't have to lie to cover it up"!!!! WTF!!!

The Iraqi prison scandal must be driving him nuts because they have pictures - or they'd lie that it never happened. That seems to be what he's alluding to regarding Kerry coming back from testifying in front of Congress.

[Momof1]

11. We would of been better off if we didn't uncover Watergate?

:puke: :puke: :puke:

Thats it just put the poor people away for burglary.

[AlCzervik]

12. Liberals hate amercia

Anti-american liberals. thats his line, over and over. he must be hawking something i bet.

[Fenris]

14. A BOOK!

About...how liberals hate America.

[HuckleB]

16. He's a massive one.

And not too bright, either.

Sure, he knows a lot of trivia, but have you ever seen have to actually converse on a talk show? He's a blubbering idiot.

[mwdem]

17. He gives douchbag a bad name,

I've tried not to listen to him. His scumminess goes back a long way.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

18. i see him as more of a sack of shit

[Seabiscuit]

19. You mean Ben "cholostemy bag" Stein?

n/t

[name not needed]

21. Wow. A shitbag that needs a shitbag.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

25. no, i meant a large burlap sack of shit

[Seabiscuit]

44. Wow!

Now that's a PILE worthy of Mr. Stein!

[CO Liberal]

20. Ben Stein is the Standard By Which Other Douchbags Are Measured

-

[tabasco]

23. Typical cowardly pro-war pussy that never wore a uniform.

Mitch McConnel is another that typifies the modern republican. Effete, selfish, uncompassionate. Phil Gramm fits right in. What a bunch of pathetic slugs.

[Lithos]

24. Another DU user said they used to run into Ben every so often

I recall they didn't paint him in the highest regards.

B.S. is definitely a whore.

L-

[flamingyouth]

26. And it's not accidental that his initials are "B.S."

:D

[SemperEadem]

27. he's extremely unprofessional--if he loses an argument

he then curses at the person who stripped him of his non-point. He's a total loser--he can keep his damn money--it probably has kooties.

[fudge stripe cookays]

29. KFOG in San Francisco

has him on from time to time. They call it "Equal Time with Ben Stein."

I love listening to KFOG over the internet, but I have to turn it down while he's on.

"Does anyone know what sort of douchebag he is? Some sort of douchebag. D-E-L douchebag. Deluxe douchebag."

FSC

[burythehatchet]

30. So much so that he transcends the traditional spelling of douchebag

and earns the DOOSHBAG spelling. Reserved especially for the like of Novakula.

[Arugula Latte]

31. He's one of the douchiest douchbags in all of douchebagdom.

I hate to see otherwise intelligent and witty people sell their souls to Satan.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

32. A very, very, very big douchebag. Big. El Douchebag Grande. Muy Grande.

At least I learned that Watergate was a trivial matter and the world would have been much better off, lives would have been saved, etc. if Nixon HADN'T gone down.

Big douchebag. BIG.

:evilgrin:

[Habibi]

33. Saw him on GMA the other morning

or, well, one of those morning ho'-downs. Promoting his book, of course. Said Al Franken was a good friend, and hoped he'd speak at his (Stein's) funeral. Also said that there was a "small" element of infantilism on the right, but the left was all about infantilism. Didn't back up the characterization with any decent analysis, if I remember correctly. Of course, I was at the gym, and dependant on closed captioning.

Heh. Don't these guys realize that anti-liberalism is so . . .so 90s?

[Sabriel]

35. Didn't Cannes award him the Palme d'Ouchebag last year? n/t

[peekaloo]

36. big enough douche bag to cleanse the Grand Canyon.

thrice.

[catzies]

37. I went on his show and won his money. He was nice. Kimmel's a prick.

Yes, I knew he was a Repug before I went on his show.

I'll bet he'd be glad to know this treehugging uber-liberal feminazi took his money and gave it to pro-choice women running for office. :evilgrin:

[victim]

39. Heh

I saw Stein on Craig Kilborne (never paid attn to BS's show) and thought he was did a decent job extemporane-izing (if thats a word) but then Craig's never that funny anyway so maybe anybody would look good in comparison (seriously, my dad watches "kilby" and he *really* needs to get some real writers)

back on point, I think BS did a gag discussing John Madden and tur-ducken culminating with his mother's pheasant+duck = "motherfucken".

I also think he was a Prof at UC Santa Barbara once upon a time (?)

But behind that facade you can tell from his cable appearances and TV commerical(s) hes a big time cock bite.

[catzies]

41. Not UCSB. Pepperdine. Welcome to DU.

:hi:

[newyawker99]

46. Hi victim!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[lanparty]

40. I still want to see the "Franken-Stein" hour ...

... on Comedy Central.

[smirkymonkey]

42. This thread is too funny!

The creativity and humor of people here continues to impress me. :)

But boy, he really is a fucking douchebag, isn't he?

[Cleita]

43. I don't like him and I have had personal face to face dealings

with the man.

[indepat]

45. 100%

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