Ben Stein loses NY Times column over endorsement

[Catshrink]

Ben Stein loses NY Times column over endorsement

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.

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."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_en_ot/us_people_...

buh-bye...

[WCGreen]

1. Stein? Stein? Stein?....

[grantcart]

2. very good -

[truedelphi]

3. Like you say, buh bye. n/t

[tularetom]

4. His 15 minutes were up 20 years ago

[lib_wit_it]

5. Thin Ben Stein's Money!

[Robeysays]

6. i saw this comercial.

it was terrible, just like his acting and views on economics. dude's only famous becasue he sucked so bad in ferris buller's day off.

[Catshrink]

7. Odd thing about that commercial...

the company or website he kept saying was not the one blinking on the screen. I can't remember what either said because I tune him out as much as I can -- I just noticed the inconsistency.

[FatDave]

8. I kind of liked Win Ben Stein's Money

But I didn't realize he was a complete ass hat back then. Then he made that by all accounts awful intelligent design movie? Fuck him.