Global Warming Fires up a $300,000 Complaint

[The Straight Story]

Global Warming Fires up a $300,000 Complaint


LOS ANGELES (CN) - Actor-economist-political pundit Ben Stein claims he was wrongfully fired from a $300,000 job on a TV commercial because of his view of global warming: that "God, and not man" controls the weather.

Stein, a former New York Times columnist who does commercials in his signature bow tie, glasses and a sports jacket, claims a Kyocera Corp. affiliate breached his contract and wrongfully fired him after it learned of his opinion about climate change.

Then, Stein says, Kyocera and its ad agency "in an astonishingly brazen misappropriation of Ben Stein's persona," dressed up a college professor "as Stein often appeared in commercials (bow tie, glasses, sports jacket)" and had the professor do the commercial as a Ben Stein imitator.

Stein sued Kyocera Mita America, Seiter & Miller Advertising and two of its executives - president Livingston Miller and staff member Grace Jao - in Superior Court. He demands $300,000, the amount he says he was promised to do the commercial.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/13/43019.htm

[FSogol]

1. C'mon Ben, "God, and not man" controls the hiring and firing at Kyocera.