another Ben Stein lol opinion

[Johonny]

I was also interested to see that Mr. Carville, a mere lad of 64 (same as I am), has made fun of the age of the Tea Party attendees. He mockingly noted that their average age was - quote - "what, like 72.4 years?" So, now the Democrats don't think the opinions of senior citizens are worth anything more than ridicule? That's a change, too. Not a good one. I have seen other Democratic commentators making mock of the fact that the people at the Tea Parties were overwhelmingly white. So, are we back to saying people's political views only count if you have skin of a certain color or are of a certain race? I don't like the sound of that. The liberal Democrats might want to rethink this. Contempt for the ordinary citizen is just not American. And it does not win elections.


So what's Ben complaining about? Our eye sight? Sorry Ben if the tea party was filled with old, bitter angry and nearly uniformly white people. Many carrying racist signs! Ben doesn't like the sound of the... truth. Ouch. I mean Ben you could have argued that the party drew on more than one small segment of society. Instead you just pointed out, not that the statements weren't true. Just that they aren't convenient... to you. Democratic ideas appeal to more than old, white people that want to return to the 1950s. Including us old, white people that are liberal! Conservatives are expounding on ideals that appeal to only one small segment of society and don't want to even hear from the rest of us, who they have no respect for, and liberals have contempt for ordinary citizens.

You know what contempt is: Saying that an "ordinary citizen" in one that only come in one races, one colors, one religion and one age group. Ben Stein doesn't like that "ordinary citizen" isn't Archie Bunker in modern America anymore. Claiming that those tea parties represented ordinary citizens is an insult, and a racist one at that.

[tularetom]

1. Is there anyone here that wouldn't like to punch Ben Stein out?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

[Mz Pip]

2. Pointing out the obvious

is a bad thing in Ben's mind. Maybe he thought we all wouldn't notice that the overwhelming majority of the teabaggers are white. an inconvenient truth.

His world would be so much better if only while people got to vote. Bummer for him that things have changed.

[jimlup]

3. I unfortunately meet this jerk once.

At the time I didn't realize what an asshole he was. I wouldn't have talked to this slime if I had known.

[Pyrzqxgl]

4. Some of those Tea Party folks (probably most of them) were dopes when they were young!

When I was in college in the 1960's the Young Americans
For Freedom were spewing out the same kind of crap. Always on
the other side of an issue like Civil Rights or The War in
Viet Nam. There are two kind of farts in the world. One's that
provide relief and ones that smell bad. Young or Old that's
mostly the case. Old farts like Ben Stein and his Tea Bagging
Friends have ideas that smell bad, hopfully you & I have the
other kind.

[Zoeisright]

5. I remember Stein in the movie 'Dave'.

Didn't that idiot realize that, in the movie, he was supporting an evil character? Just like in real life.

[Johonny]

6. I think he's just in it for the money

I use to think it was just his character to be passionless. Now I think it's a by product of supporting things that can't possibly excite him.