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Hear Them Roar

The Wonkette left joins the reactors to Ben Stein on Nixon, Felt, and Cambodia. Plus: Throwing Danica’s weight around.
p> STEIN'S THE ONE br> Re: Ben Stein's Deep Throat and Genocide and Reader Mail's Feltgate : /p>

Interesting thought -- without Felt's leaks would Nixon have held on? And if he did, wouldn't that have led to a President Reagan in 1976 and left Jimmy Carter back in Georgia? Ford required the full power of the White House to hold off Reagan in the primaries. Would have an unelected Vice President have had the same power? Without Nixon's removal, would Carter have managed to get the Democratic nomination?

p>Ford ran a late-starting general campaign that still almost beat Carter at the last second. It seems much more likely that Ronald Reagan would have beaten Carter (or any other of the rather weak field of Democratic candidates in 1976). How different would events have been with a President Reagan instead of a President Malaise in the late '70s? br> -- Leonard Speakman br> Hockessin, Delaware /p>

There is no doubt now that Ben Stein is an egregious pandering hack. It is surprising that a magazine that seeks al least to be marginally credible would lend its masthead to such incredible twisted logic and further to use the tragedy of Cambodians in the service of making obviously inaccurate statements.

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