Posted on 11/29/2010 6:02:11 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Ben Stein, an actor and former White House official, on Monday became one of the few Republicans to defend convicted Rep. Charles Rangel.
Stein wrote in an op-ed that Rangel (D-N.Y.), who was convicted of violating 11 counts of House ethics rules, built a heroic record of service during his four decades and Congress and Army service in the Korean War.
"Just for me, I hope that history will record that a truly great man, Charlie Rangel, a hero of the first rank, was laid low by trivial, no-account matters, censured by people who mostly have no clue of what true courage, fighting, blood and frostbite mean," Stein wrote on CBSNews.com. "Charlie Rangel does know, and to me, he is still a hero."
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I disagree. I think Ben is honest about his feelings. However, his feelings have taken over his thinking process for the last decade.
Ben Stein is and has always been a RINO douchebag.
Very surprised and disappointed with Ben Stein.
I love Ben Stein, but I’m very disappointed in him on the Rangel issue. Rangel is a first class 14K racist SOB who would sell his kids for political gain. Not every Korean vet (or Vietnam vet, like Kerry) is a hero. A good number of them became traitors and scumbags.
Rangel and McCain are proof that a man can be unbelievably courageous and heroic early in life, and still turn into a corrupt, narcissistic weasel.
LLS
And leftist Moonbat Keith Ellison was the only MN Congresscritter to vote NO on censuring Rangel.
nice company to keep, Ben.
My fav Charle Krauthammer was saying much the same last night.
I still can’t believe it.
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