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Ben Stein's Diary
Hot Dog
In DC, for Inauguration Weekend.
(Page 2 of 2)
Everyone was polite. I saw my pal Bonnie Carroll, world’s most effective human, head of TAPS. I saw my pal Bill Dean and some of his beautiful girls and his pal Michael Saylor. All charming people.
Everyone was charming but I keep thinking of what Mr. Obama said about gun control. He said we need to do everything possible to keep people from killing our children — and I agree.
But the entity that kills by far the most of our children is abortion. Gun violence kills hundreds. Too many, for sure. Abortion kills MILLIONS. If we seriously love children, let’s stop killing them when they are fully human — i.e., in utero — but also totally helpless and vulnerable.
It is crystal clear at that point that a fetus is a baby is a fetus is a baby. Why do we allow them to be killed at will? It is just plain hypocrisy to think that it is other than homicide to kill a baby. Why don’t we stop the violence against babies?
Why is the lobby against human life so strong? I just don’t get it.
I also wonder why we don’t stand up to the Hollywood violence machine. Just look at coming attractions at any theater. It is all about people using guns to kill other people. That’s what kids are taught to do with their anxiety.
Why don’t we stand up to the video game industry, which coaches young people in mass killing and desensitizes every decent virtue about life and death? It is amazing, really incredible, that when a Newtown happens, we blame guns, which are neither good nor bad by themselves — and don’t even touch the mass culture “killing is kool” Hollywood propaganda machine..
It is amazing that we will make hunters and gun collectors who have never committed a crime seem like menaces — and treat abortionists as folk heroes. What the heck is wrong with us? Well, time to go home and sleep it all off. Bob took us to Five Guys but it was closed. Never mind, It will be open tomorrow. Mr. Obama will have millions cheering him and I will have a great hot dog. A good day.
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Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
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TLP| 1.21.13 @ 8:23AM
Is this supposed to be a joke?
I can't tell if I'm reading Ben Stein's Diary, Margaret Stein's Last Will and Testament, or Frankenstein's Suicide Note.
Who does Bl from Ak have to sleep with around here, to get this Boob off the Show?
It's way past time that this guy was taken to The Dog Track, and left there.
Ya know what I'm sayin?
Aristocat| 1.22.13 @ 1:27AM
Great column, Ben...Thank you for standing up for the babies who are being slaughtered. Obama is the Abortion King.
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 11:36PM
By the way, Ben, "lactation consultants" teach young mothers how to breastfeed properly, and, equally important, how to know if they are not doing so before baby dehydrates.
Their jobs have considerably more social usefulness than yours. Trust me, I'm a Doctor.
TLP| 1.21.13 @ 8:25AM
Why am I not surprised that it's 8:24 and I'm the only one here.
Joellen| 1.21.13 @ 2:59PM
T - it really has to be "Invasion of the Body Snatches" with this dude.
For him to start off his article with "the woman had a horribly annoying whiney voice" is really calling a spade a spade; and
let's not forget his pal "Eliot Spitzer" every time we torture ourselves by reading his truly terrible articles.
Another sign of how the next 4 years are to be.
Jacob McCandles| 1.21.13 @ 8:34AM
"gun violence". That says it all right there.
Kotorokun| 1.21.13 @ 8:56AM
Every time I read one of this bagel-gobbling bastard's columns I am reminded of lampshades, ovens and the creative use of noxious gas.
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.21.13 @ 11:31AM
You are sicko Kotorokun.
RCV| 1.21.13 @ 2:11PM
Indeed. If TAS is going to edit anything out, this should be it.
TLP| 1.21.13 @ 2:28PM
I agree.
Edit RCV's Crap the Hell outta here.
Occam's Tool| 1.21.13 @ 11:22PM
Kotorokun: How 'bout you and this Jew on the ice, minus 20, with K-Bars and see how well you do, eh, Eichmann? Talk big, do little.
Stein is a Hollywood asshole, yes. But you can take your Holocaust refernces and blow them out your ass.
Kotorokun| 1.22.13 @ 5:36AM
Occam, you are indeed a tool. I have no idea what your inchoate babbling is supposed to mean but if it makes you feel less irrelevant then more power to you. By the way, your idiotic post did serve one purpose. It reminded me that I have to buy a new lampshade and pay the gas bill!
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 1:00PM
It means, pussy, you talk big about gassing Jews, but if one came up to you, you'd piss your already yellow pants. Come near my kids, and we'll see who turns into a lampshade, scumbag.
Kotorokun| 1.22.13 @ 3:17PM
You kids? I have no interest in your kids. I wish them all the best in coping with the ordeal of having a pederast like you for a parent but that's as far as it goes.
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 11:37PM
Typewriter commando jihadi catamite Kotokorun. Typical Nazi scumbag. Coward, to boot.
Kotorokun| 1.23.13 @ 6:41PM
Occam the tool, you're ranting again.
CJW| 1.21.13 @ 3:35PM
This is the first time I have seen this name "Kotorokun." It is so over the top that I bet it is a lefty posting it.
Kotorokun| 1.21.13 @ 4:50PM
Thanks to all for their good wishes! Hugs and kisses! XOXOXOXO!
SC| 1.21.13 @ 5:18PM
"This is the first time I have seen this name "Kotorokun." It is so over the top that I bet it is a lefty posting it."
...it is actually so over the top--the first name that really came to mind was--TLP..!!
..WHO doesn't seem to find the comment as offensive, as much to yap about his own censorship--and lame attempt to bash others//
CJW| 1.21.13 @ 9:32PM
kotorokun/SC
Tell Anna your little game is not working.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.21.13 @ 7:35PM
I'm thinking he posted nearly the same remark as "Norman Conquest" about three weeks ago.
CJW| 1.21.13 @ 9:29PM
One of Anna's boys?
Seek| 1.21.13 @ 9:35PM
You are one genocidal freak. The fact that someone like you is even allowed on this site speaks volumes about the decline of the once-great TAS. Go choke on a bagel.
Kotorokun| 1.22.13 @ 5:37AM
I wouldn't eat a bagel if I were starving.
RCV| 1.23.13 @ 5:03PM
Occam - This cretin's nickname seems to pay homage to Kotor, one of the loveliest cities on the Adriatic Sea, but an historic nest of antisemitism. Much to his chagrin, I bet, the Macedonians are recently trying to make amends for their past sins, having just declared Judaism one of their state religions, and announcing plans to assist in the rebuilding of Kotor's historic synagouge.
holmegm| 1.21.13 @ 9:05AM
Oh come on ... this *has* to be a parody. It didn't miss a single Stein-ism.
Or a social media experiment?
Maybe AS is testing some artificial intelligence software. SteinLIZA.
Anthony| 1.21.13 @ 9:10AM
Oh yeah some great day, "millions cheering Obozo" and you stuffing your face with hot dogs.
And you wonder what's wrong with America!!!
TLP| 1.21.13 @ 12:36PM
You spelled "Amerika" wrong.
Bob Grant| 1.21.13 @ 9:38AM
* Creepy interaction with an attractive female stranger:
Met up with a lovely...blonde..."lactation expert" at a sushi restaurant. .........................Check!
* Multiple mentions of Five Guys restaurant...Check!
* Skyfall mention......................Check!
Pretty much standard fare for him.
TLP| 1.21.13 @ 10:55AM
"I cant sure, but I think that the Lovely Blonde may have been Ovulating, as her upright Breasts were heaving, Majestically, under her Cashmere Sweater, which I noticed was Struggling to contain the immenceness of what had to be, the finest Set of Female Flesh Twins that I can only imagine during my slumber."
"As some of you may have already guessed: I had the Breast of Chicken, with a White Cream Sauce."
"I can dream, can't I?"
Bob Grant| 1.21.13 @ 11:19AM
TLP,
You would make a good Bodice Ripper novelist.
JP| 1.21.13 @ 11:52AM
I wonder why Ben just doesn't go out and commit adultery as much as he gushes over women young enough to be his grand daughter? Not a diary entry goes by without Ben ruminating about his erotic needs. And knowing coeds today, finding a hook-up for him wouldn't be difficult. Perhaps then he would stop writing about them. Twenty years ago I used to really enjoy his diary.
TLP| 1.21.13 @ 12:39PM
I'm pretty sure that he's writing these from a Dirty Movie Theatre, in the seat next to Pee Wee Herman.
JP| 1.21.13 @ 1:01PM
TLP,
I just ate lunch. Now I fear it is about to come up. Yuk
Bob Grant| 1.21.13 @ 1:56PM
Is it me or are these entries starting to look more like state's evidence against him in a sexual harassment case and not part of a diary?
For his sake, he better stick with the Five Guy's shout outs and leave it at that.
Cobalt| 1.21.13 @ 2:19PM
"staggeringly beautiful"
"just a knockout"
"Then, to see Skyfall for the 11th time."
When are some of you finally going to figure out that Stein is just "jerking your chain"?
Cobalt| 1.21.13 @ 9:38AM
"Kotorokun| 1.21.13 @ 8:56AM
Every time I read one of this bagel-gobbling bastard's columns I am reminded of lampshades, ovens and the creative use of noxious gas."
This kind of post should be removed. It is offensive, and anti-Semitic.
Kotorokun| 1.21.13 @ 10:30AM
Glad you liked it!
TLP| 1.21.13 @ 12:41PM
This kind of post should be removed. It is offensive, and anti-Semitic.
If I had written it?
I assure you, I would be Banned.
Go figure.
Kotorokun| 1.21.13 @ 4:51PM
You should be banned on general principle you cretin!
Occam's Tool| 1.21.13 @ 11:28PM
Kotokorun: Ice and Knives, little mincer. Ice and Knives.
Kotorokun| 1.22.13 @ 5:38AM
Occam the Tool, if you ever get near a coherent point by all means make it!
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 1:02PM
Ice and knives, you little mincing coward. K-bar---fighting knife,. Northern Minnesota---minus 20. C'mon and take this Jew on, pussy.
Kotorokun| 1.22.13 @ 3:21PM
K-bar, Northern Minnesota, minus 20 (your IQ perhaps?) Aside from all that, whatever are you blathering about?
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 11:38PM
Minus twent degrees. K-bar---fighting knife. Pussy--you.
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 11:41PM
Correction: Temperature: minus 20 degrees. K-Bar---fighting knife. Nazi jihadist fellator catamite: you. Coward: again, you.
I tend to find that Nazis and Jihadists are scumbags and cowards. You want to talk about Ben being an idiot---fine, I grant you that and agree with you. You want to talk about Gassing Ben because he's Jewish--them's fighting words, you mincing little catamite transvestite transexual.
By the way---I'ma Mensan. Your IQ is considerably below mine, Nancy Nazi boy.
Kotorokun| 1.23.13 @ 6:42PM
Once a tool starts talking about how intelligent he thinks he is it's all over for him.
RCV| 1.23.13 @ 7:01PM
"Kotorokun" - Your nickname seems to pay homage to Kotor, one of the loveliest cities on the Adriatic Sea, and a longtime pit of antisemitism. Have your heard, Kotorokun, the Macedonians are now trying to make amends for their past sins, having just declared Judaism one of the official state religions, and announcing plans to assist in the rebuilding of Kotor's historic synagouge. I'm sure you'll be flying over to help. If so, have dinner at Stari Mlini - great atmosphere by the lake, and wonderful food.
Occam's Tool| 1.23.13 @ 8:53PM
Coward comment sticks and holds and chokes.
Lyoncelt| 1.21.13 @ 9:56AM
Ben doesn't get abortion. That means he misunderstands Obama and the Left completely. First off, they don't accept the idea of Natural Right, on which the US was founded. That means they don't believe in Life, let alone liberty or the pursuit of happiness (the definition of Natural Right, granted by the Creator, Nature and Nature's God). That means they believe in tyranny. Very simple. And humans can be killed forthwith by the state, at a whim, which is Obama's idea of "ordered liberty". Humans, in the view of Obama and the Left, are akin to the Elk herd of the Yellowstone, to be culled, managed, etc., per the dictates of the managers of the herd in Washington.
By Obama's definition, and under Roe v. Wade, no fetus is human prior to birth, and possesses no rights whatsoever. In fact, the status of the human fetus under Roe v. Wade is that of property. Roe v. Wade returns us to the state of affairs prior to the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, in that certain humans (pre-born ones) have the status of property, to be disposed of as the owner (mother) wishes. This is the most sacrosanct property right of all in the minds of the Left and Obama, in fact the only unfettered property right they accept.
WaffenSS| 1.22.13 @ 9:57AM
linear thinking, thank you
JMM | 1.21.13 @ 10:08AM
So this guy flies in from the Left Coast with his wife and parks her in the local rest home and goes out for hot dogs.
The next day he and his pal Bob meet three drop dead gorgeous babes, take dinner then back to the rest home after hot dogs at three AM.
What am I missing? Is Mrs. Ben comatose?
Pecos Pete| 1.21.13 @ 10:18AM
Why is Ben traveling to Dictator City to enjoy the coronation? Much better if no one showed up.
Hardcard| 1.21.13 @ 11:02AM
It's party time !!! Let's all celebrate along with benny and dear leader hooray for 4 more years of death, destruction and total control. More Americans are discovered dead in Algeria. obamadindo and his tribe are gearing up for a third term. Party hardy boychik benny, we don't need no stinkin' rights, dear leader knows what's best, no more guns for you come back 4 years.
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.21.13 @ 11:51AM
Jefferson was not a slave driver. Yes, he owned slaves and worked with a system that was depressingly entertwined with the Virginia economy of the late 1700s. And yet, despite all of the evils of the system, Jefferson was kind to his slaves.
RJJ | 1.21.13 @ 1:10PM
Ben, Keep the apartment in the Watergate, It is part of you. I think too many people downsize themselves out of the fun of life. It's expensive but you can't take it with you..........
TNcracker | 1.21.13 @ 2:00PM
I knew from Ben's endless cheerleading for higher taxes on Fox that he had gone off the deep end. I think retirement is a sensible option for him.
roguepoet| 1.21.13 @ 2:28PM
Ben doesn't need to argue political philosophy in order to wage war on the pro-abortion left for his jocular taunting is far more effective from a diarists perspective. He gets the tyranny of the left without the polemical diatribe that typifies much of the ranting held forth here in the comment section. Now let's see: Ben consistently praises the citizens in flyover country from Walmart to MacDonalds and, okay, the rednecks in Idaho, showers our troops with praise, sees the emperor correctly as parading without clothes, honors God, promotes prayer and friendship without judging and has many acknowledged flaws......but the one thing that he will never do is spend time responding to the shriveled up, whining drivel that constantly rears its ugly head here. Ben, if they don't get your attachments to the social sphere and the subtle genius of your playful jaunts into the grand scheme of this world then they will never understand that your spiritual commitment to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness flys higher than the rants of the ideological conformity of the pseudo-right that complains here. But wait......there will be more!
Rhoetus| 1.21.13 @ 7:05PM
We didn't watch the news all weekend as we are sick of all the ObaMao worship. I have only seen Skyfall once but may see it again at an Imax theater.
Kotorokun| 1.21.13 @ 7:19PM
Why is this third-rate actor, fourth rate economist and fifth-rate writer given a column in an allegedly serious publication?
Seek| 1.21.13 @ 9:36PM
Why are you posting here and not on Stormfront or Vanguard National News?
Occam's Tool| 1.21.13 @ 11:29PM
Don't know. But you are a little mincing spreader for Jihadists. Ice and Knives.
Occam's Tool| 1.21.13 @ 11:29PM
Don't know. But you are a little mincing spreader for Jihadists. Ice and Knives.
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 12:29AM
Realize that I greatly respect Mr. Seek. This Kotokorun is a scumbag and a pansy, however, as is Norman Conquest.
Kotorokun| 1.22.13 @ 5:40AM
Occam the Tool, so happy to have upset you so. By the way beanie-boy, you're barking up the wrong tree with this Norman stuff. There, I just smartened up a chump.
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 1:04PM
You know, talking about gassing Jews does upset me, you little mincing Typewriter commando.
But it's made up by the fact that I know you make your living as a catamite for Jihadists.
Kotorokun| 1.22.13 @ 3:24PM
For someone who claims to not be upset you certainly seem upset. Very amusing too. Your grammar is a bit odd though. Typewriter is not a proper noun for example. You're quite welcome for the lesson!
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 11:42PM
Adjective---occasionally capitalize. Odd should have comma behind it. You're welcome for the lesson, scumbag. I did state you upset me, faggot jihadist fellator. You steal oxygen from maggots.
Kotorokun| 1.23.13 @ 6:46PM
You have a tendency to repeat yourself yet you never say anything that bears repeating.
Faggot fellator? Very amusing. Is that what they call you there in the north woods?
That's all for me. See you next week when your fellow yid writes his next moronic column.
Occam's Tool| 1.23.13 @ 8:52PM
Lice ridden scumbag from hell, you remain. Go back to fellating your jihadist buddies.
RCV| 1.23.13 @ 9:56PM
You're about as low as a human being can get, Kotorokun, you Balkan Nazi scumbag.
Butch| 1.21.13 @ 7:58PM
Ben, as a subscriber to TAS since 1990 and someone who has attended one of your lectures, and someone who has your autograph on a TAS "Ben Stein's Diary" piece, I am disappointed that you would travel to DC to honor the inauguration of this traitor. And I really believe you know that's what he is. I would really appreciate your responding to this, but I know you won't.
Rhoetus| 1.21.13 @ 7:58PM
He must be a major donor.
Balducci2| 1.21.13 @ 9:37PM
"I also wonder why we don’t stand up to the Hollywood violence machine" writes the guy who saw Skyfall 11 times.
Wait, what???
hrgfue | 1.21.13 @ 10:12PM
2013 Happy New Year,NFL,NBA
bopberrigan| 1.22.13 @ 5:29AM
Ben, Your ruminations about mingling with the "little people" are getting to be too much. The subject is more appropriate for Vanity Fair.
Occam's Tool| 1.22.13 @ 1:06PM
Again, Obama is a scumbag. The only thing to look forward to is Gold going up to $5,000, possibly. That may allow me to pay off my mortgage.