Campaign Circus: Joe Miller called a 'clown' (by Ben Stein)

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[roses of sharon]

(CNN) - As Election Day gets closer, the rhetoric gets more intense, interesting and, shall we say, passionate. Here are some things you might have missed.

Miller? Miller? Miller?

Ben Stein - famous for his role in the '80s movie classic "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and his political/economic commentary - took to the pages of the Alaska Dispatch to blast Tea Party-backed Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller, calling him a "dangerous, stupid clown."

[r9etb]

Stein is(or at least was) a big time pro-lifer, and also made a film against the theory of evolution, so I don’t think he hates social conservatives. I have no idea what motivates him, to be honest. Truly an enigma.

From what I've seen, Stein likes to hammer on things that (according to him) ought to bug people. In the actual article, Stein hits Miller on three counts:

1. Miller's bodyguards roughed up and hand-cuffed a reporter and took his video camera.

2. Miller spoke of East Germany as a good example of effective border control.

3. Miller is refusing to answer questions about his past.

Let's grant that Stein may be leaving out context and such ... but if Stein is correct on the basic elements, he's right to be bugged.

[Ken H]

Is he social conservative or just an economic one like lots around here too.

Economic conservative?

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[capt. norm]

Ben Stein has always been an elitist above all else.

[Ken H]

This RINO endorsed, campaigned, and donated to Al Franken.

He's angling for the number two spot on a Franken presidential bid. Vote Franken/Stein in '12 :)

[sportutegrl]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091617/

Here is a link to the Internet Movie Database about Expelled. You can read the reviews. Stein really attacks the establishment’s refusal to consider any theories other than Darwinism, such as Intelligent Design. I liked it. Watch the trailers. You can watch it on netflix, it is on instaplay. I believe that some of the professsors he defends in the documentary are Christian. As to whether he specifically defends the Christian beliefs, one could argue that he is only defending Jewish beliefs. I can’t say for sure.

[eleni121]

Thanks so much.

I am aware of IMDB. But I was hoping for your take.

He doesn’t sound like a person who would support Christian conservatives.

[Wuli]

Stein is something of a political enigma to me; because in spite of how he is generally viewed in the public and by the media, he was the spokesperson in the best produced-for-the-mass-market documentary on the scourge of Liberal political bias and orthodoxy in science - in academia and in academic related research - titled “Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed” (2008).