Ben Stein on Obama
By Rachel Paulk | July 24, 2008
In my opinion, Ben Stein's most famous line goes something like "Buehler?... Buehler?..." but his comments on Obama's speech in Germany while on Glenn Beck's show were at the very least entertaining.
Media Matters transcribed the conversation as follows:
STEIN: I want -- I'm glad you brought up this Denver thing. I don't like the idea of Senator Obama giving his acceptance speech in front of 75,000 wildly cheering people. That is not the way we do things in political parties in the United States of America. We have a contained number of people in an arena. Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that's something the Fuehrer would have done. And I think whoever is advising Senator Obama to do this is bringing up all kinds of very unfortunate images from the past.
BECK: Well, yeah, you know what? I've been -- I've been saying that we're headed towards a Mussolini-style presidency forever.
STEIN: Well, I think --
BECK: I mean it's crazy.
STEIN: It's a scary situation. I mean, I think he has to recognize some bounds on his own ego. I understand politicians are politicians because they have ego deficit problems and they try to cure them by having lots of worship and adulation and adoration. But 75,000 people screaming at an outdoor arena, that's just too much. It's just -- it's scarily authoritarian.
BECK: Ben --
STEIN: It's like Juan Peron --
BECK: It's not --
STEIN: -- and Evita.
BECK: It's not gonna make a difference.
Rachel Paulk is an intern at the American Journalism Center, a training program run by Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia.
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Damn witty you are . ~~sarc~~~
Ben Stein in a debate would make you look downright mentally disabled.
So many parrots . So little time.
This isn’t about Ben Stein debating me, touch-hole. It’s about him pulling the Hitler card based on nothing other than the fact that a couple of hundred thousand people went to hear Obama speak.
Yeah, and thousands in Berlin wanted FREE MUSIC, FREE BEER AND FREE BRATWURST when they are out taking care of their daily business too!!
YEAH!!! HOORAY!! SIS BOOM BAH!!Gimmee that beer!!
Even, I who hate any music but classical would stop by for the free beer( or two) and some juicy bratwurst even IF I had to listen to the EGO-MANIC giving a really BORING speech.
Hitleresque, Peron, why…Omaba isn’t the anti-christ, either. He isn’t smart enough but he’s trying hard to be a good impression of that dangerous buffon, mussolini!
I do not plan to vote for either blow-hard this year.
I have other plans.
July 24 at 11:12 pm | #1 | Link
these two apparently thought they were in an arsehole contest.
No clear winner…