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8.11.09 @ 6:01AM

Ben Stein has many friends and admirers. The New York Times does not. A special Reader Mail.

EXPELLING THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Re: Ben Stein's Expelled From the New York Times:

Ben Stein's column about his "demise" at the NYT was a delight to read as it was well-crafted, thoughtful, and in his person as in I could hear him saying the words to his keyboard. Please pass along my best wishes and tell him that I will continue to read his thoughts any time and anywhere.
-- John Wilson
Chicago, Illinois

Loved your article from Ben Stein. Wrote the editor at the NY Times. They will lose some of their one hundred subscribers they have left, the thinking ones. I asked the NY Times editor how he liked running a propaganda rag. There was once some integrity in the media, with a desire to report the news, instead of being bought and paid for hacks who sail the American people down the river. Shame on them.

Thanks for the article from Mr. Stein.
-- Jeff Belinski

Having read Ben Stein's piece on his treatment by the minions at the New York Times, I am reminded of the old saying, "When one lays down with dogs, one should not be surprised to wake up with fleas." In this
case, nasty fleas with a taste for Shaq memorabilia on the cheap. I pray for Ben to be delivered from the itching and hurt dealt him by the fleas.
-- Reid Bogie
Waterbury, Connecticut

Fuhgeddaboudit -- it's their loss and soon no one will care what that bunch of intellectually dishonest snobs thinks anyway. The sad story is the loss of any semblance of interest in discovering truths that conflict with liberal ideology by the Times. I'm sure Mr. Stein will go on to better things.
-- Allen Churchill
Mandeville, Louisiana

I love this guy. We need more written by him, not less. Treatment by Times was going to happen eventually -- Darwinists are very vindictive. I pray for them as well.
-- Mike Abel
Auburn, Indiana

Dear Mr. Stein… As I refuse to have the NYT in my house, I was unaware of this contretemps. Congratulations on your emancipation.
-- H. Jensen

You have always been in my opinion a very honest, intelligent person with great insights and perspectives; the New York Times is becoming the opposite in some of their departments.

I would say this will change when they have to get new balanced management to financially save the paper.
-- John Lee

I have enjoyed your work; all of it: writing; TV; Academy Award acting, etc. I am surprised that you would be upset in getting fired by the NYT. That you were there is unusual. You don't need certification from the NYT for me to follow your writings and other work.

Wit and balloon puncturing are not products that the obsolete NYT publishes, especially if you are outside the NYT Canon. You have a brand that out-ranks the NYT certification. Keep selling and producing the Ben Stein brand.

I get the following papers delivered in the morning: NYT, WSJ, FT and of course my favorite, the New York Post. I spend the least time with the NYT. Not just because it slants the news and pushes an agenda, (we are all subject to that) but, also because it does not include news that does not fit the NYT story line. Editing important news out is fatal to a news organization. It is the Internet that I rely on for information. How you can find a way to profit from the wide audience of Internet readers is your challenge. The NYT is of no help there. How about a humorous movie?
Good luck
-- Jim Needham

I have had the good fortune to meet you. We chatted at a dinner in Philadelphia hosted by a Morgan Stanley private equity conference three or four years ago. Because there was an attractive 30-something sitting between us, you may not remember this unattractive 50-something. We mostly discussed your Nixon days (big history fan, here) and you told me you were at the White House when he made his good-bye speech to the staff. What a historical moment.

Anyhoo, I just read your article which got my blood pressure to spike like it always does when the mainstream media reveal themselves. Ditto the posted comments. Good luck in your next adventure.
-- Kent

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (21) | Leave a comment

frost| 8.11.09 @ 7:56AM

Uh, sorry if this semi-private message is gumming up the topics of the day, but, if you’ll pardon a note to Mr. Kessel of Rochester, please – the very same gentleman who alluded to Robert Heinlein the other day.
Having been under the mistaken impression that I’d read ‘most everything he’d written, guess I missed one - perhaps more. Good ol’ IM cited the book “Job” and I am now indebted for the semi-suggestion; I value his opinions, hence it became “a given” that I should investigate further.
Now, if I might possibly return the favor, Lawrence Sanders’ “The Tomorrow File,” a lesser known twist of the “1984” type. An amazing author, Sanders writes silly, fun, escapist stuff, and some real, thought provoking things as well.
Anyway, thank you, sir. Picked up "Job" last night; he just boarded the different cruise ship...

IMKessel| 8.11.09 @ 11:56AM

Frost,

I have to hit the library to return some books (Robert P. Parkers three latest -- great contemporary minimalist/moralist writer.) While there, I will pick up or order up Lawrence Sanders' The Tomorrow File. (Thank you for the suggestion and the kind words.) When the stars are properly aligned, we shall share water. Or so goes the plan.

Ben Stein is a great man and a loyal patriot. Wonderful to see so much love for the little mench.

If one is walking through the forest and finds a watch, one can postulate that it was formed from random but natural patterns or that a watch maker exists. Occam Razor dictates that the simpler choice is the correct one. The universe has been intelligently designed. Who wrote the blue print?

Alan Brooks| 8.11.09 @ 1:31PM

mensch, not mench. c'mon, you're a teacher :)

Alan Brooks| 8.11.09 @ 1:33PM

...even though you're a publik skool guy, you're a real teacher, not a teechur.

Mike McCants| 8.11.09 @ 1:36PM

Ben Stein has always been an ignorant fool. And "Expelled" is what he deserves.

David Govett| 8.11.09 @ 2:09PM

NYT still published? Who knew?

Donald S| 8.11.09 @ 4:47PM

Ben Stein is my hero. The world needs more people like him. He doesn't get it right all of the time, but nobody does. For the most part, he says it like it is. NY Times, you lost another subsciber.

bill allen| 8.11.09 @ 5:13PM

i have read and admired the writing of ben stein for many years and it seems logical that he is no longer associated with the nytimes which i cancelled out last year.it is one thing to have a liberal leaning but another to be dishonest which they certainly are.i read last week that their obituary on walter cronkite contained 7 gross errors which were missed by several editors and printed.and this was an obit on a man who was lauded for always getting his facts straight.the fact that they have insisted on altering columns on an opinion page is disgusting.as is the fact that their left wing opinions pervade the news pages.we will be happy to see them gone.

Solo| 8.11.09 @ 7:20PM

I can't figure out why any intellectually curious person would even read The New York Times--much less write for it.

Welcome back into the sunlight, Ben.

Alan Brooks| 8.11.09 @ 7:30PM

right, and why read Buchanan's AmCon rag either? I think I detest Buchanan more than David Duke-- at least Duke admits he's a neo national socialist.

Counterfeiting US FED| 8.12.09 @ 9:27PM

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From: "Roy Roger"
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:16 GMT
Local: Wed, Nov 28 2007 8:03 am
Subject: OVERVIEW OF THE JEWISH-OWNED FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
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OVERVIEW OF THE JEWISH-OWNED FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

THERE IS NOTHING "Federal" about the Federal Reserve Bank. In other words,
the Federal Reserve is not "federal" and it does not have any "reserves."
The Jewish Bankers, who are masters of deception, own the Federal Reserve
Bank, print money with interest but without any backing, and would like to
keep their "federal" banking cartel a secret.

But the House of Rothschild which owns 57% of the stock of the
privately-held Federal Reserve Bank, is alive and well in North America.
Recently, Reuters News Agency published an article announcing two new
appointees of the Rothschilds' banking interests in North America @
Rothschild Bank Names New North America Heads. And be certain that the
Rothschilds have charged their appointees to act as liaisons with their
fellow Jewish bankers who own the Federal Reserve Bank.

It was Jacob Rothschild II who in a letter to his US agents in 1863 with
regard to establishing a Central Bank in America said: "The few who
understand the system will either be so interested from its profits or so
dependant on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class.
The other class will simply have no comprehension or concern about American
monetary policy."

Here is an historical overview of the makings of the Jewish-owned Federal
Reserve Bank:

* 1791-1811: Rothschilds' First Bank of the United States
* 1816-1836: Rothschilds' Second Bank of the United States
* 1837-1862: Free Banking Era -no formal Central Bank through the efforts of
President Andrew Jackson
* 1862-1913: System of National Banks through the efforts of President
Andrew Jackson
* 1914-Current: Federal Reserve Act effects a consortium of 7 privately held
Jewish banks called the Federal Reserve Bank. The largest share holders of
the bank are the Rothschild's of London holding 57% of the stock which is
not available for public trading.

THE JEW Paul Warburg (1868-1932), came to the United States from Germany in
1902, buying into the partnership of the Jewish owned bank Kuhn, Loeb and
Co. with the financial backing of the Rothschilds.

Paul Warburg was a man with a mission, sent here by the Alfred Rothschild to
lobby for the passing of a Central Banking Law in Congress. On January 6,
1907, the New York Times published an article by Warburg, called "Defects
and Needs of Our Banking System."

In 1908, Sen. Nelson W. Aldrich, (father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr),
and a Rothschild agent, proposed a bill recommending a Central Bank. A
member of Congress for 40 years, Aldrich was the most powerful man in
Congress and was the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

Without going into the labyrinth of the contrivances of the Jewish Bankers
and the Jewish propaganda machine, on October 25, 1914, the formal
establishment of the Federal Reserve System was announced by Congress with
Paul Warburg and the Rothschild ally, J.P. Morgan, at its head