“I can’t recall this fool...”
Alot of things, perhaps, can be said about Ben Stein, but “fool” is not one of those things;
Ben Stein (Benjamin J. Stein) was born November 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C., (He is the son of the economist and writer Herbert Stein) grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended Montgomery Blair High School.
He graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics.
He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970 as valedictorian of his class by election of his classmates.
He also studied in the graduate school of economics at Yale. He has worked as an economist at The Department of Commerce, a poverty lawyer in New Haven and Washington, D.C., a trial lawyer in the field of trade regulation at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., a university adjunct at American University in Washington, D.C., at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.
At American U. He taught about the political and social content of mass culture. He taught the same subject at UCSC, as well as about political and civil rights under the Constitution. At Pepperdine, he has taught about libel law and about securities law and ethical issues since 1986.
I am aware of Ben Stein’s background. Unfortunately, as I said, he appears to have forgotten anything he once knew many years ago and filled his head with the usual Hollywood junk which now puts him IMO in the same category as Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, etc. Perhaps that is what happens when one lives and works in close proximity for a lengthy period of time surrounded by other liberal airheads. That’s the best excuse I can offer for his sounding like a complete fool. In the event that you don’t think he has reached fool status, let me suggest that you listen to his recent appearances on the Sat. a.m. $ programs on Fox instead of citing his credentials from 30+ yrs. ago.