The American Spectator

home
ADVERTISEMENT
Ben Stein's Diary
Print Email
Text Size

Ben Stein's Diary

The Inauguration Left Me Cold

By on 1.24.13 @ 6:11AM

And then along came Hillary.

Monday
Brrrr. It is cold out here in Washington, DC. Other things being equal, I would like to stay in bed. But things are not equal. Fox News wants me to watch the parade and comment on Mr. Obama’s inaugural speech. I forced myself to watch the speech. I did not like it. It was as non-eloquent as a speech could be. He focused on climate change, a subject dear to the hearts of his fans — and more power to them. But since we don’t know for sure what causes climate change, nor how much climate change there has been, nor how to cut down on CO2 emissions on a worldwide basis, I am not sure what he has in mind.

Look, I love the earth as much as anyone. I would sacrifice literally anything to protect it from burning up. But I don’t want climate change to be used as an all purpose cudgel to beat up anyone Mr. Obama wants to beat up for any reason he wishes. We just don’t know what’s going on and until we do, I hate to give up our freedoms over it. And, no, I do not trust scientists who are doing empire building with their arguments pro and con.

I also dislike his having only the vaguest words to say about the debt, a genuine crisis.

Most strange of all, this city is an armed camp for fear of a terrorist attack. Yet Mr. Obama did not even say the words “terror” or “terrorism.” What’s up with that. We are at war with the terrorists and the President doesn’t mention it. Huh?

Well, I talked about that a bit on TV after I had frozen for a long time waiting to go on.

I did get to see Mr. Obama and his bride walk by. Then Joe Biden and his wife, whom the announcer kept calling “Doctor Biden.” I wonder what she is a doctor of. Being middle-aged and sexy, I would say.

The best things about the day, BY FAR, were the happy faces of the black people on the streets. Fine with me. Great. They have suffered terribly and if it makes them happy to have a half-black President, they are well entitled to it. Most of them have probably done a lot more for this country than I have.

Later on, wifey and I put on our glad rags and headed for the Commander’s Ball, the main event. But security kept our car TEN BLOCKS AWAY, so we could not go. It was just too cold to walk that far just to be in an auditorium with 44,000 other people. To think that this shindig was so badly organized that invited guests could not get even close to it… scary thoughts about how government works. Alex was “crushed.” I was relieved.

Wednesday
Now I am in Greenville, SC. I flew down last night. I am here helping our son and his family move here. I had a great dinner at Trattoria Giorgio across from my fine hotel, the Westin Poinsett, last night. Today I had a super luncheon at Nosedive, a cafe in my hotel.

People here look calm and happy and sane. I like it here very much. This town is a gem.

Oh, I forgot to add this part. This morning, I watched Mrs. Clinton testify before a Senate committee about the disaster in Benghazi. It was a dismaying sight.

Mrs. Clinton seemed to me to be making several points:

1.) It wasn’t her fault because it was all handled by people lower down the command ladder than she was. But that’s nonsense. She was in charge before the murders. And she was in charge after the murders and knew Mr. Obama’s team was lying about who did the killing and why.

2.) She cannot be blamed because she felt terrible about the killings and cried. This is not an excuse worthy of a high official of government. She is supposed to be a tough, sensible grown-up about her duties. If she can escape responsibility by crying, what’s next? Saying it wasn’t her fault because her father made her feel bad because she was a girl and not a boy? Blaming her health? What is she smoking or drinking if she thinks that the fact that she cried about the murders in Benghazi lets her off the hook? I once heard her say to Mr. Obama that “hope” is not a plan. Neither is crying instead of doing.

3.) Anyone who attacks her has political and not patriotic motives. But her management of the situation was a disgrace. Senator Rand Paul was precisely right. She should have been fired and more aptly, should have resigned over the lies about the murders. Her behavior in covering up for the killers was political and not patriotic,

It is terrifying that a woman of that level of irresponsibility is seriously in the running for President and will probably win in 2016.

O tempora! O mores!

About the Author

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.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (128) |

Robbins Mitchell| 1.24.13 @ 6:21AM

Well,all this was simply to provide Democrats and the media dweebs an opportunity to lick the skid marks out of Rodham's panties in order to preserve her political viability for 2016...and it seems to have succeeded in large part....and more's the pity for that

Aristocat| 1.24.13 @ 6:34AM

That lying old pro-abortion hag is not going to be elected to anything in 2016.

loulou| 1.24.13 @ 11:03AM

Well, the hag can't seem to be able to stay conscious. Passing out, blot clots, going blind...

Maybe she'll be gone by 2016.

SC| 1.24.13 @ 1:26PM

How VERY "Christian" of you..NOT

I wonder what kind of hag you are, for making such a thuggish comment?

chuck| 1.24.13 @ 9:52PM

We can only hope.

Okay, that's not nice, but I love my country too much to care about being nice to this bag.

And maybe a certain middle-aged black man will have a massive heart-attack in the shower.

Cobalt| 1.24.13 @ 12:38PM

When she was young.

http://playborhood.com/wp-cont.....young1.jpg

Murl| 1.25.13 @ 3:30PM

I still wouldn't touch that ugly thing with your Johnson. She was FUGLY then, and she's just old, senile, pissy, and butt FUGLY now. DO NOT WANT!!!

Jack in Wi| 1.24.13 @ 6:39AM

Hillary will never be President and neither will Biden. I went to 2 innaugerations, Reagan in 1985 and Bush in 1988. I had a great time. I even got to go to 2 presidential galas. Frank Sinatra ran the first one and did a great job. Everyone was there, Dean Martin, Liz Taylor, Jimmy Stewart, Barishnikov, Lew Rawls, Ray Charles, Pearl Baily. For the life of me I can't remember who ran the Party at Bush's innaugeration. I remember Sinatra coming out and singing. He was awful and seemed drunk. Then he said. " I want to sing for my Barbara. " The lights went out at that moment, and when they were on again, Sinatra was gone. Reagan's party was a lot better then Bush's. It was so cold at Reagan's that the outdoor ceremony was cancelled and he was sworn in, in the Capitol rhotunda. I was so far away from Bush's speech that I could barely see the stage.

Frank Drackman| 1.24.13 @ 8:42AM

Jack, and this is coming from an Officially Diagnosed Ass-Burgers/Narcoticistic/Anti-Socialist Personality Disorder Dude...
ITS NOT ABOUT YOU(and I know I'm shouting)
Lets see, you've sniffed Vince Lombardi's farts, Bret Favre's Jock, and I don't even want to think about Prince Fielder...
And maybe you can't remember who was at Bush's party because it was in 1989, not 1988.
And its "Rotunda(you know, from the Latin, "Rotundus")not Rho-tunda(you got Rhoda Morgenstein on the Id?)

Frank "I touch myself" Drackman

Bob Grant| 1.24.13 @ 8:58AM

"Lew" Rawls? "Innageration" ?

Perhaps he was being ironic, like you sometimes.

Jack in Wi| 1.24.13 @ 10:11AM

Bad speller so what? Lou Rawls, was thinking of Lew Burdette.

Frank Drackman| 1.24.13 @ 11:51AM

"thinking of Lew Burdette"
OK, I'm a Baseball fan, had a pretty fair country lefthanded screwball back in the day, but I've never, make that NEVER, N-E-V-E-R
been "Thinking of Rick Burelson(the Rooster)"
thats not just Gay, thats friggin Frankie-goes-to--Hollywood, um bad example,
thats Liberace in a 2-2 gay...

Frank

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 8:28PM

Well, Frank Sinatra will be remembered long after you're gone Cheesehead (Frank was also a vociferous supporter of Israel, aswas his close friend Sammy, of course.)

loulou| 1.24.13 @ 11:06AM

English is a second language for Jacksh*t in Wi.
One can only wonder what his first language is. My guess is Ukraianian.

I wonder if the loser was a waiter back in the 80's?

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 5:15PM

His first language is Arabic.

chuck| 1.24.13 @ 9:53PM

Jack the Jew-hater is our version of "Forrest Gump".

spike59| 1.24.13 @ 9:20AM

Hillary will never be President and neither will Biden.
----------------------------------------
The only thing that's sure to stop Shrillary Cankles from getting into the Oval Office is Joey Plugs-unless ObaMao gives him his blessing, she's a lock for the nomination, and the Clinton family's character assassination machine will fire up, the Race Card will be replaced by the Gender Card, the GOP will nominate a 'moderate conservative' (after a 'circular firing squad' primary season) who will immediately be denounced by the LSM as a wild-eyed racist, sexist, homophobic neocon neanderthal, and so on and so on and scooby dooby doo...

Frank Drackman| 1.24.13 @ 9:41AM

Biden might be President today, you never know.
And Beaner might be President later today, you never know.
And Jack might have sex with a woman.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
OK, somethings you do know.

Frank "100% Kosher" Drackman

Jack in Wi| 1.24.13 @ 10:16AM

Dreck: You have never been with a women in your life. Have an nice Sabbath. Then after that you and Occam can hit the gay night clubs in Tel Aviv. I read in the Israeli press that Tel Aviv is the most gay friendly city in the world. You boys are building the new Sodom and Gommorah in the Holyland. Shalom.

Frank Drackman| 1.24.13 @ 10:24AM

You're right I've never been with a "Women"(Hey, I'M the one who's ESL here) and if Mrs. Drackman didn't peruse this site occasionally I'd tell you about that night in Cologne with 2 El Al Stewardesses....
and you're reading about "Gay Friendly" cities and have the balls to question MY Wilt Chamberlain-esqe game???(you're more Snivel Chamberlain)
And its "Have A nice Sabbath" not "AN" you dumbass, but thanks BTW, and I'm sorry your ancestors killed Hey-Zeuss, blamed it on mine, and tried to wipe us out with the Zyklon B(What, Zyklon A wasn't good enough?)

Frank "Grammar Cop" Drackman

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 5:13PM

Not Gay, Frank. I know you were hoping for some action; sorry to disappoint you. I live in the next state adjoining yours.

"a nice Sabbath," "with a woman" by the way, moron. Frank, your turn to hit the Cheesehead.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 8:47PM

Sorry, that's "not Gay, Jack." Oops, sorry, crap.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 9:03PM

Jack: it's amazing that you can fellate johadists and type at the same time. Perhaps that accounts for your misspellings. I know it accounts for Kotokorum's ramblings.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 9:04PM

Sorry, "jihadists." Bad day. Again, sorry Frank, F you Jack and Koto. I'm hanging this up.

scotchieguy| 1.24.13 @ 2:44PM

Spike, excellent point, but you lowered youself to the level of the childish libs with your descriptions of Hillary, The Prez and the VP. You ruined your take by turning off anyone who otherwise may have been swayed by the insightful logic of your point..

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 8:30PM

Well, sometimes it's hard to understand Jack's comments as his vision is blinded, and his spelling affected, by Islamic Jihadist white fluid across his vision.

This is, after all, a guy who looks up where the most gay friendly cities are.

Anthony| 1.24.13 @ 11:50AM

The media whores are in full Orwellian Clinton protection mode. Today's headline from the AP in today's local rag;
"Clinton confronts lawmakers on Lybia".
Orwell would be rendered speechless.

Darin| 1.24.13 @ 6:37AM

Maybe David Petraeus can make a cameo and say Hillary's testimony requires a willing suspension of disbelief.

Gary B| 1.24.13 @ 11:18AM

Remember all the scandals during the Clinton years? The official response was, "Mistakes were made; steps will be taken." Same thing here. By the time 2016 rolls around, this particular scandal - her latest - will be long forgotten. It'll be up to the mean-spirited Republican candidate to drag it back out again.

drudge ette obama| 1.24.13 @ 6:39AM

I finally had a Five Guys hot dog yesterday after all the mentions in your posts. Mustard, onions and relish were all I put on it. Pretty good. I would buy another.

Hillary was horrible yesterday. She's a master excuse maker & manipulator- but it didn't fly yesterday. She likes the title, but not the work. If she had an ounce of honor, she would have resigned. But we know the answer to that one.

The gift from her testimony was the comment about men deciding to kills Americans - she made no sense there and it was poor judgment. Other gifts were those god-awful photos of this shriveled woman. And she had actually washed her hair - although she needs some root touch-ups - I saw some gray there. Hillary still can't dress, which seems to come with the Democrat women who have held the job. Condi was fabulous, but Albright was classic dowdy with a capital D.

spike59| 1.24.13 @ 6:45AM

...you didn't get the Five Guys fries? Now you need to go back!

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around 'what does it matter?' in the same answer as 'we need to find out what happened'

maybe her brains were pinned down by Bosnian sniper fire....but she did look like she was 'in no ways tahrd'

drudge ette obama| 1.24.13 @ 7:09AM

There was no way that I could have eaten even half of the fries - trying not to look like Hillary or her thighs.....

spike59| 1.24.13 @ 9:22AM

ahhhhh...but 'sharing is caring'...i'd be willing to spring for a a visit to Sweet Frog for half an order of the fries....i need more punches on my "frequent frog" card

Frank Drackman| 1.24.13 @ 8:47AM

OK, I used to give my daughters crap for getting the Five Guys Hotdog, I mean it's like getting a night with Giselle Bundchen and playing chess(she's got a mean King's Indian I hear)..but then I tried one..
HEY-ZEUSS, almost as good as Sex, and unlike Sex, I can drive to a Five Guys anytime they're open.
And they're Kosher too(sorry Jack)

Frank

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 5:11PM

Frank: the burgers are better. For an awesome hot dog, might I suggest The Works, in Morton Grove. They also have the best Gyros in the world.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 9:06PM

Drudge: Chicago sucks in many, many ways---but Vienna's dogs are the best. Better than 5 guys (I do love their burgers, though, and get them when I am in Fargo or Grand Forks).

My favorite hot dog place in Chicagoland is "The Works" in Morton Grove.

Appleby| 1.24.13 @ 6:51AM

Hilary Clinton is about the same age as I am, and I am comforted by the fact that I look much better than she does. She sounded like a peevish crank and you could see "Oh, shut up" on her face the whole time she was on stage.

I did not watch a single word of the whole inauguration. It was difficult to miss -- Canada worships Obama, and the more the Americans dislike him, the more they bow down to him -- but by staying on the Discovery Channel, HGTV and EWTN, it was possible to do. And that parenthetical about the Black Folks being so proud of "their" President would have made Martin Luther King weep. I was also glad to miss MLK Day in Atlanta, by the way. White Folks are not at all welcome at any of the festivities and the predominant shirt is "It's a Black Thing -- You Wouldn't Understand." Oh, and that one with the guy holding the machine gun and it says "By Any Means Necessary." I wonder how many of those were seen this year?

drudge ette obama| 1.24.13 @ 7:21AM

Appleby, my thoughts exactly - yours are better expressed, however.

I watched none of the inauguration - and I flipped to the cooking channels and HGTV stuff. Even polished some furniture.

As a person who did spend MLK Day in the Atlanta area, I can tell you that the mood in the South has changed for the worse. Racial tensions are worse - people are separating more by race. Crime is on the rise..I don't recall this 15 years ago.

Quietly, there is movement to the hills and away from the urban crime centers. Business are locating to the outskirts - mostly Cobb County and Sandy Springs/Perimeter. Georgia Tech students are being robbed routinely - I wouldn't send my child to this great school because the campus and surrounds are not safe. They are hunting grounds for urban criminals. The Atlanta powers - Mayor Reed can't handle the safety and crime issues. He's too busy prepping for better political positions with Obama, I think.

It is sad that things have gone from moderate to bad - I imagine things aren't much different in other places.I remember the riots in the 1960s - I can see it happening again. Soon.

GobBluthe| 1.24.13 @ 12:09PM

Crime is Atlanta is falling just like everywhere else. Atlanta's crime rate is lower today than any year since 1966.

Appleby| 1.24.13 @ 4:08PM

That's not what I have heard from my friends and family that still live there. What drudgette said is closer to the truth. It was not a safe place to live when I left in 1998, and I was actually fired from a job because an anonymous employee said I was a racist. (I knew who it was, but they refused to confirm -- an accusation from a Black person is treated as truth regardless.) I recall sending a little note to the paper that since I didn't take sides in the race war after that, I was doing what a lot of my cohort did and fleeing to Canada. (Frying pan, meet fire...)

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 4:33PM

This biographical stuff does not appear consistent with your claims below, my dear.

scotchieguy| 1.24.13 @ 2:55PM

He is the most divisive president in history, and the worst thing that ever happened to black people in this country only they are too naive to know the joke is on them.

He won't do sqaut for them and hasn't done anything for them in the past because he knows they are dumb enough to vote for him no matter what he does.

Frank Drackman| 1.24.13 @ 8:55AM

You're comforted by the fact you look better than a 60 something broad who wasn't really that attractive in her Hotness Peak years??? I'm sensing somebody needs a BBD(ask Jack what it is)...
MLK day in Atlanta?? Was I the only one who celebrated by shooting a Remington 7600??(Probably)

Frank

Murl| 1.25.13 @ 3:53PM

One of my Dad's friends had this to day about MLK day many years ago..."We should have shot four more of them, then we would have gotten the whole week off."

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 9:22AM

That wasn't an Inauguration. It was a Funeral. The only thing it lacked was the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil, playing in the Backround.

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long long time
Stole many a Man's Soul and Faith
And I was round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of Doubt and Pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands, and Sealed his Fate

Please to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's troubling you
Is the nature of my game

Just as every Cop is a Criminal
And all the Sinners Saints
As Heads is Tales
Just call me Lucifer
Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So of you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste

Indeed.

Kwan| 1.24.13 @ 12:32PM

Thank you for reminding me that one of Hillary and Obama's great leftist heroes was the Marxist Saul Alinsky who dedicated his book "Rules for Radicals" to Lucifer: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.” Seeing how Obama's policies have the country on a bullet-train express to hell this song would seem appropriate. Tim has a good idea here let's see what it looks like. Open Ben's article on a second screen. Start the music on the first screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftZ3UCdTuWQ scroll down to my reply and play Obama's inauguration address on the second screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_4obHFTSK4. Make sure music is louder than speech so that you don't lose your breakfast.

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 1:57PM

Indeed.

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 1:34PM

It's wonderful that you "look much better" than Mrs. Clinton. Maybe if you'd accomplished as much, we'd be impressed.

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 1:57PM

Yeah. All that she's accomplished.

Abused Wife. She's Married to a Rapist, Pathological Lying Serial Misogynist. First Lady. The Rose Law Documents. Cattle Futures. Firing the White House Travel Agents after LYING about Criminal Activities that they did not commit, in order to get her Arkansas Buddies the Jobs. Whitewater. And her latest Achievement: Refusing to send Security to Benghazi, resulting in 4 Americans being Murdered, as well as the 1st US Ambassador being Sodomized and Murdered since 1979.

If I had accomplished ANY OF THESE THINGS, I'd be in a Federal Prison.

And, so would YOU.

You're starting to be a JOKE.

Kilgore Trout| 1.26.13 @ 11:50AM

She's a lying, lefty, lesbo
libtard.

RCV| 1.26.13 @ 11:42PM

With a public approval rating of 67%.

Your next President.

spike59| 1.24.13 @ 2:48PM

could you please list any of these supposed 'accomplishments', aside from getting 4 Americans killed in Benghazi?

Appleby| 1.24.13 @ 4:14PM

Actually I have accomplished a great deal more than Mrs. Clinton ever did or will, and I did it without climbing on the back of a man who was flagrantly and blatantly unfaithful on world wide TeeVee. Appleby isn't my real name (it's a kind of mordant joke -- google "Appleby Mennym" if you want to know it) but you'd know my name if you saw it. And I'm smarter, sweeter and cuter than Hilary even on the way back to the B&B after 36 hours of the 24 Hours of Le Mans which included helping strike a 40-person camp at the end. So there.

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 4:24PM

Nobody wants to know.

Trust me.

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 4:25PM

I actually like you.

That's why I bust your Ovaries all the time.

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 4:24PM

Right....

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 4:27PM

What a great comment.

Why do I think you spent an Hour, coming up with it?

Could it be, because you're an Idiot?

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 4:29PM

I wouldn't have recognized your name, but if that is you, you are an accomplished woman. Not as accomplished as our next President, but quite admirable in your own right.

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 4:53PM

see note above, however

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 8:32PM

What, getting married to an asshole and riding him to political power? Recall the complaint about George Bush being born on 3rd base, and thinking he's hot stuff.

Joellen| 1.24.13 @ 7:11AM

Ben, you truly add to my suffering each day.

Let's start with "the happy black faces, they suffered terribly, they're ENTITLED to a half black President and they have done a lot more for this country than I have.."

You are the problem Ben. The American citizen is not ENTITLED to a President simply because he is half of their race. The current black people have suffered NO MORE than the whites, asians, hispanics, and every other race that calls this country their home; if anything they have made out pretty well in the past four decades due to "social programs".

If you really want to be honest Ben, the black people suffer by the Democrat party, because their Party refuses to acknowledge that they are made in the image of their Lord, and have the ability to strive and be as perfect as the world can allow. But their party says they CANT DO IT without their help. The Democrat party aided and abeted the destruction of the black family; the democrat party destroyed their educational progress; and the democrat party perpetuates their "inability" to get ahead, while other immigrants come, work hard and flourish - how can you explain that Ben!

Yea they suffer and they choose to suffer from their own party's limitation.


As for

Bob K| 1.24.13 @ 8:14AM

Ben ignores Affirmative Action. Blacks have 12% of the nation's population and hold 18% of the Federal Jobs nationally and that percentage is higher in Wash. DC. Blacks comprise 60% of the population of Wash. DC and 64% of the population of Baltimore which is why you see so many of them at presidential inaugurations.

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 9:40AM

I notice he never writes in his Diary from his Homes in Detroit, South Central L.A., Cleveland, Gary, Camden, Newark, Washington Heights, or in the 6th or 7th Districts of D.C. east of the Anacostia River.

But, he was so happy for all of those Smiling Black People who made it possible for this THING to "Finish what we Started".

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 9:41AM

And they Commit 56% of all of the Violent Crimes in the Country.

I'm so glad they're happy.

Aren't you?

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 5:09PM

They suffer because they are uneducated Liberals.

Aristocat| 1.24.13 @ 9:12PM

Good comment by JoEllen...Blacks and the Democrats are kind of like the abused and battered with who stays with her husband because she can't think of anything better...

Anthony| 1.24.13 @ 7:38AM

What a magnificant performance byHillary Clinton. She has learned well from the Sociopath-in-Chief, POS husband of hers.
Bully, bluster, cry, and of course, just plain lie, that's the Clinton style. For this lying incompetent loser to get on her high horse and attempt to lecture a R senator that 'what difference does it make, four Americans are dead!!!" floored me.
Of course, if this R senator had any balls, he would have shouted back, "don't presume to lecture us, yes, four Americans are dead, because of you and Obama"
It was a sickening demonstration by Clinton and the Senate. And now, Clinton can prepare for 2016, instead of wearing an orange jumpsuit.
Washington is more than just broken, it is corrupt to the core. We need to flush this sewer of all this crap.

Butch| 1.24.13 @ 3:32PM

You nailed her, Anthony. Remember "coulda, woulda, shoulda" during her Hillarycare testimony? How she just contemptuously dismissed the question? The "attack" mode --"What difference does it make"--is just a variation on her specialty while testifying under oath: the contemptuous dismissal of the question. The Repubs should have been better prepared.

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 4:28PM

You Nailed Her, Anthony?

Way to go.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 8:35PM

Anthony:

as you know, I attended Maine East High School in Park Ridge, IL, about 20 years after Hillary.

The people I attended school with were the kids of her classmates. They sucked, their moms sucked, and I could see what type of people were Hillary's childhood companions. It was a great vacuum of suckitude. (Except for Harrison Ford)

I left it as soon as I could, and NEVER looked back.

Joellen| 1.24.13 @ 7:42AM

As For Hillary and your comment, anyone who attacks her has political and not patroitic motives
she was in charge and she is responsible for whatever happens under her supervision.
That's not personal Ben, that's called Rightous Retribution.

She can cry, slam her hands on the table, roll her eyes, and pretend that she is suffering along with those families of those who were murdered under her watch.

What is wrong is that after every news report of what transpired we have to hear how John McCain thinks very highly of her and they are friends - If that is so, maybe McCain should have been recused due to "personal" feelings for Hillary!

It's wrong that we have to constantly hear that Hillary is up for president in 2016 - without any futher comments and reminders of all the illegal and heinous activities SHE has been involved in.

It's wrong how you continue to circle the wagons for those like Hillary who continues, like Obama, to fradulently control the reigns of this country, and cause destruction and chaos everywhere they go, and then to have you chastise those who dare to call it out.

It's not politics Ben, its business, and if you dont have the stomach to make sure this republic runs like it should, maybe you should retire, and allow those who wish to take up the challenge to report, not their feelings, but the facts.

Let the American People hear the truth Ben, even when it's "too hard to handle".

Pecos Pete| 1.24.13 @ 8:25AM

Joellen: You are on a roll. Pedal to the metal. I agree with you and drudge ette and Appleby.

Pecos Pete| 1.24.13 @ 8:27AM

4 dead in Benghazi. No one in jail, no one indicted, no one, no one, no one, no one. What does it matter?

spike59| 1.24.13 @ 9:38AM

no, that's not exactly true...there is ONE person in jail: the 'film'maker so thoroughly denounced as the villain by Shrillary even before Ambassador Stevens' body was cold

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 10:04AM

I wonder if Niel Young wouldn't mind coming up with a Song about this, like he did about Kent State when he was with CSNY?

Instead of: "Four dead in O-Hi-O"? It can be: "Four dead in Ben-Gha-Zi".

No soldiers, Al Qaeda's coming
They're totally on their own
Obama says Terror's over
Four dead Benghazi

Gotta get down on the ground
Al Qaeda is Cutting us down
Should've been Evacuated long ago
Hillary knew them
And saw them Killed on the ground
How could She say she didn't know

Repeat first Stanza.

Pecos Pete| 1.24.13 @ 11:00AM

Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!

Anthony| 1.24.13 @ 8:34AM

OBOZO LIED
Obozo lied the ambassador died
It wasn't the video Obama
It was you bragging on Osama.

Four Americans are dead
It was the video Obozo said
Hillary and Rice kept to the lie
How many more Americans must die?

What difference does it make?
So said Hillary, the pretender fake
Through my neglect 4 men are dead
But my ambitions will still be fed

It's important for me to survive
In order for this nation to thrive
2016 will be my hour of glory
Noone will tell the Benghazi story.

CJW| 1.24.13 @ 8:53AM

Pete, Joellen, Anthony

I agree.

It was bad enough we had Bubba ignoring the terrorist threats and attacks such as the 1993 WTC, USS Cole, Khobar Towers, two embassy attacks, etc. while he harassed and groped women for eight years. This led to the Sept 11 attack since the terrorists viewed us as weak.

Then on his way out this lovely couple sold pardons to criminals like Marc Rich for one million, approved by Eric Holder. But it seems the worst part of the Bubba legacy is we have Lady Bubba still around.

But then she is the smartest woman in the world, fighting the vast right wing conspiracy, saving our children, and making $100,000 from a $1,000 investment in cattle futures simply by reading the WSJ.

Pecos Pete| 1.24.13 @ 9:20AM

CJW: The smartest woman in the world was banging her fists on the table yesterday ... throwing a fit when challenged. When all else fails, emote!

And the MSM wants her to be president. Unbelievable!

Norman Conquest| 1.24.13 @ 9:37AM

The MSM have the ear of the great mass of low-information dolts who vote in this country. Watch for the push to overturn the 22nd amendment after 2014. There is so little reason for optimism. It is fascinating, in a grotesque way, to watch a once-great country commit suicide.

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 10:17AM

They are SO going to Hell.

And that reassures me as I live my life, every day. I don't Lie, I don't Cheat, and I don't Steal. It really is the easiest thing I've ever done. I have a more difficult time giving Hardcard the Booby Prize after every Contest (and that's actually pretty easy) than I do being Honest and Truthful.

"What does it profit a man, to Gain the whole world, and lose his Immortal Soul?"

I guess this Couple from Hell will find out, soon enough.

Pecos Pete| 1.24.13 @ 10:58AM

Hardcare Hardcare Hardcare

Norman Conquest| 1.24.13 @ 8:37AM

Finally! A worthwhile column by Stein. Very little about his meals or the attractive women he ogled but quite a bit about the abject absurdity of the times. No masking of his distaste for the purple-lipped pretender in the White House and the hideous Sec. of State this time either. Very good column. Keep it up Stein.

Peppermint Tea | 1.24.13 @ 9:40AM

Yes, Ben was better than usual. What, no ogle-worthy women in the moving crew?

Or did watching Hillary blind his eyes toward the fairer sex?

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 10:20AM

What're ya talking about? Didn't read his story?

He was Mind-Raping Biden's Wife during the whole thing.

Go back and Reread it.

Hardcard| 1.24.13 @ 9:29AM

Hillary ? Biden? the boy king is not going anywhere, he'll need at least 16 more years to complete the transformation. Take a nap benny, we are screwed.

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 10:22AM

Oh, thank God you're way down here and can't see what I wrote about you, up there.

If you value our Friendship?

You won't look up there.

Ever.

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 12:48PM

The Balkan Nazi scum speaks again.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 5:07PM

Kotokorun: your cowardliness is equivalent to your scumbaggedness. I keep remembering something about K-Bars and hypothermia, I forget.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 8:56PM

I don't waste my intelligence on vermin who should be roadkill.

ACT:33. SAT: 1420. PSAT:215. MCAT: 68.

Yup. Mensa. But I'm also a Chicagoan. People who trhreaten me with Zyklon B are scumbags. I could discuss what you are in more graphic detail, but I try to keep my profanity light, you Jihadist Catamite.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 9:01PM

Sorry: "threaten."

RCV| 1.27.13 @ 7:50PM

Spoken like a true Balkan Nazi. You guys have spent the last 1500 years slaughtering each other because this one is a Jew, that one is a Catholic Croat, he's a Serbian Orthodox Christian, and the other guy's a "Mohammadan". You've brought mindless intolerance for differences to a whole new level, and you seem to be h culmination of the entire Balkan culture.

Anthony| 1.24.13 @ 10:31AM

Hillary Lied
Hillary lied, 4 men died
She blustered and cried
To cover why they died

What difference does it make
The media will accept my take
In 2016 I'll not be denied
For my glory they will have died

Pecos Pete| 1.24.13 @ 11:02AM

Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!

TLP| 1.24.13 @ 2:01PM

Don't you mean: Snap, snap, snap, snap?

BackToBasics| 1.24.13 @ 10:32AM

The dems were worried enough about Clinton's testimony on Benghazi that they made the announcment that women could now have combat roles the same day of Clinton's testimony to draw attention away from her.

What a royal joke; she says "maybe" the guys were "out for a stroll" and just decided to grab some rocket launchers and rifles and kill some Americans.

As for "what difference does it make," the dems are always saying such things like if taking guns away saves the life of just ONE person then it's worth it to take them away. If mistaken policy had cost the lives of 4 million instead of 4 would she say, "what difference does it make?"

She has the nerve to say, "what difference does it make" and then goes on to act weepy when talking about receiving their caskets and hugging family members.

loulou| 1.24.13 @ 11:02AM

What does "accepting full responsibility" actually mean? Janet Reno (that fugly freak) accepted full responsibility for killing women and children (!) in Waco yet whe went scot free.

I'd believe Cankles only if she would show her shame for causing the death of 4 Americans by committing hari kari.

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 4:36PM

David Koresh, not the US government, bears full responsiblity for what happened in Waco.

SC| 1.24.13 @ 5:17PM

One can only imagine--with horror- WHAT "Lou-lou" looks like.."fugly freak" would probably not even come close to the hideousness of someone who makes fun of others looks....

loulou| 1.24.13 @ 7:03PM

I don't have cankles like Cankles.
I'm not cross-eyed like Reno.

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 7:34PM

...and you don't have half the intelligence they do.

Hardcard| 1.24.13 @ 11:04AM

pax semper

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 11:53AM

Here's what Hillary should have said in response to Rand Paul: "What did you say? I stopped listening at, 'If I had been President ...".

Ben's really going to hate Hillary's inauguration four years from now!

GobBluthe| 1.24.13 @ 12:06PM

So will you. It will be fun to have a post menopausal old lady as leader. Low energy, numerous senior moments and Jabba the Hut looks

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 12:49PM

Well we've survived thru males with plenty of senior moments, too.

spike59| 1.24.13 @ 2:41PM

"Ben's really going to hate Hillary's inauguration four years from now!"
=======================
not nearly as much as our economy

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 4:35PM

If she does half as well as the Mister did, we'll do pretty well, Spike.

GobBluthe| 1.24.13 @ 12:05PM

I have a sense that Hillary Clinton is this generation's Herbert Hoover. Viewed as brilliant and a no nonsense problem solver before he was elected.

Hillary has all the classic signs of incompetence. She is convinced of her spectacular intelligence. She can convince others of her spectacular skills and intelligence. Yet she is a complete failure. As First Lady, she blew health care, couldnt handle the Travel Office and she was publicly humiliated by her husband. In her 2000 Senate run she ran more than 10 points behind Gore in NY. As SOS she is a buffoon.

I think she will win if she runs. She will be a bigger disaster than Obama.

Kingofthenet| 1.24.13 @ 12:26PM

What Ben said: "The Best thing were the happy faces of the black people on the streets."

What Ben meant: "Would it have hurt them to sing a few Al Jolson tunes?

Bandido| 1.24.13 @ 12:44PM

Look at Hillary. I mean, really really LOOK at her. It's uncanny. She is Rosa Kleb reincarnated, replete with the blade at the toe of her orthopedic shoe. Can we be sure she didn't kick Johnson and Rand Paul?

obadiah| 1.24.13 @ 3:11PM

Clinton is certainly a more convenient target for abuse than Obama these days. The Benghazi dead need to be hung around her neck along with Monica Lewinsky. So what if she's old and sick. Democrats deserve abuse because of the way Obama abused Romney. With smears like "vulture capitalist" that they stole from Newt.

Abusing Hillary is part of the fight against the Climate Change Hoax. Can't do anything about the weather. Unlike the War on Terror that required immediate and total abandonment of all budgetary and constitutional restraints, nothing can be done on weather mitigation until everyone agrees as to the details. There's no urgency on this.

Susan B| 1.24.13 @ 4:06PM

"Dr." Jill Biden, got her degree/s in education. The "College of Education" at almost any university you can name is generally referred to as the "intellectual sewer." As a rule people with these degrees are the most un-educated people you can imagine. Notice who she married - I won't think of even going out with such a clown.

Frank Drackman| 1.24.13 @ 4:23PM

Don't let "Doctor" Right see you mocking "Dr." Jill Bidens Doctor-ness, or you'll have to go into the FBI's COMPP(Creepy Old Man Protection Program).
Oh, you're a Split-Tail....you're safe.

Frank

loulou| 1.24.13 @ 7:08PM

I had no idea Jill's degree was in ed!
She is such a nondescript nonentity I would never have thought to look it up. So mediocre.

I hate it when non-physicians call themselves "Doctor" .

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 7:36PM

Too bad. The woman taught for many years, including disturbed adolsescents at a pyschiatric hospital for five years. Tell us what you've done, loulou, other than make catty remarks about other women.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 8:58PM

Well, I got my MD at age 25, and was boarded by age 32 (have to practice some before you can board).

I'm not impressed by Jill's brains.

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 11:30PM

You know, Occam, you're a smart guy and I like you, but sometimes your sef-puffery is not flattering. Because you did exceptionally well does not lessen the good work done by this fine woman, who also has devoted much time and effort to the support of military families. Give credit where it's due.

Frank Drackman| 1.24.13 @ 4:26PM

Look, I'm not a Statistician, but someone out there figure out the..
1: Annual Mortality Rate of 51 yr old Black Men(Smokers)
2: Annual Mortality Rate of 69 year old White Men(Hair Implants)
Multiply those together, and Volla, you have the probability of a President Boehner(Beaners!!!!!!Beaners!!!!!!!!!!) in 2013....
Probably more likely than a Repubicclown getting elected in 2016, I don't care how great he is, even the Gipper couldn't get 80% of the White Vote...

Frank

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 4:50PM

Jill Biden is a Doctor of Education, one of the easiest Doctorates to achieve.

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 4:54PM

So what?

loulou| 1.24.13 @ 7:10PM

THE easiest doctorate. It is essentially a "bought" degree.

RCV| 1.24.13 @ 7:37PM

She's a teacher, moron. She got degrees not to impress you, but to assist her in what she does, and does very well.

Occam's Tool| 1.24.13 @ 9:00PM

Well, most PhDs I know don't call themselves "Dr." except in the classroom, or in research. An EdD is lower than that, sorry.

Just as Joe Biden was accepted into Law School from the bottom sixth of his undergraduate class.

Marc Jeric| 1.24.13 @ 5:47PM

Hillary Clinton gave her “testimony” on the Benghazi murder cover-up. It was on a par with her grand jury testimony in connection with “the lost paperwork” showing her criminal acts while in Little Rock law office. She then declared 145 times “I don’t recall” and “I don’t remember” in the course of that 2-hour “testimony”. That Benghazi murder by some out-of-control members of the Libyan jihadist government has now been whitewashed forever. But the fact remains that the Arab Spring program designed by Obama to bring jihadist governments to Muslim countries was compromised there for a while.

Rhoetus| 1.24.13 @ 8:21PM

Yes it would have been swell to attend the 1981 Reagan Inauguration- I wouldn't give two cents to attend any of the others. Maybe Rand Paul's Inauguration in 2017 would be an exception.

Rhoetus| 1.24.13 @ 11:01PM

Dear Mr. Stein, The Sec of State is a political appointment and Mrs. Clinton is under the authority of the President. It is congress' responsibility to over see the actions and policies of the State Department. I don't care if Hillary cries or if going after her is politically motivated. It is just part of the checks and balances. She is either a grown-up and takes responsibility or she lies (again) and tries to hide behind her husband or the President who both happen to be men.

Mnestheus| 1.25.13 @ 12:05AM

Ben's credibility continues to suffer as his intelligence decays.

Rhoetus| 1.25.13 @ 8:04PM

Every morning I have hope to hear on the news that Jimmy Carter, Bill and Hillary Clinton have defected to North Korea which is where they belong.

More Articles by Ben Stein

More Articles From Ben Stein's Diary

South Carolina on My Mind

April 30, 2013 | Ben Stein

Dream Sequences

April 26, 2013 | Ben Stein

Just Like a Woman

April 25, 2013 | Ben Stein

Missing So Many

April 19, 2013 | Ben Stein

No End to This Cruelty

April 16, 2013 | Ben Stein

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/01/24/the-inauguration-left-me-cold

ADVERTISEMENT

Latest Headlines

Back in the Fray

Kyle Peterson|93 comments

The IRS Immigration Fraud Scandal

Jeffrey Lord|97 comments

Obama’s Climate of Intimidation

Matthew Sheffield|55 comments

Whither Suburbia?

Steven Greenhut|24 comments

The Woman Who Wrote Liberty Valance

Bill Croke|29 comments

Not Super, But Pretty Good

Aaron Goldstein|17 comments

The Loss of Trust

Thomas Sowell|32 comments

Foreign Policy as Farce

Jed Babbin|88 comments

The Spectacle Blog

Thoughts on New U.S.-Taliban Peace Talks

Aaron Goldstein | 6:34PM

Thank You, Bobby Jindal

Matt Purple | 6:01PM

Buzzfeed Faces $3.6 Million Lawsuit for Copyright Infringement

Kaylin Bugos | 4:55PM

Democrat Dan Maffei Blames Budget Cuts for Girl’s Rape, Mother’s Murder

Robert Stacy McCain | 4:12PM

Pro-Life is Smart Politics

Rich Lizardo | 4:01PM

Gerson, Wehner, and the Losing Old Ways Crowd

Jeffrey Lord | 2:46PM

Are Young People Souring on Obama?

Matt Purple | 2:24PM

Boehner to Enforce Hastert Rule with Immigration Reform

Jordan Gonzalez | 1:10PM

SPONSORED LINKS

FLASHBACK TO: 1995

Clip of the Day

Most Popular Articles

The IRS Immigration Fraud Scandal

Jeffrey Lord | 6.18.13

Foreign Policy as Farce

Jed Babbin | 6.17.13

The Biggest Fool of All

Doug Bandow | 6.17.13

Can Liturgical Music Be Saved?

Patrick O'Hannigan | 6.17.13

Revenge of the Fruitcakes

Peter Hitchens | 6.17.13

Obama's Climate of Intimidation

Matthew Sheffield | 6.18.13

The Mole in Don Draper

James Bowman | 6.17.13

Whither Suburbia?

Steven Greenhut | 6.18.13

ADVERTISEMENT

Home |About |Contributors |Advertise |Donate |Privacy Policy |Contact

The American Spectator Foundation is the 501(c)(3) organization responsible for publishing The American Spectator magazine and training aspiring journalists who espouse traditional American values. Your contributions are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Each donor receives a year-end summary of their giving for tax purposes.

Copyright 2013, The American Spectator. All rights reserved.