BEN STEIN: I Was Fired From NYT For Criticizing Obama

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In a previous post on ChicoBrosbane.com about Stein firing from the New York Times the reasoning was for his participation in a commercial ad for FreeCreditReport.Com – However, Stein is now laying the cause of his firing on President Obama and his criticizm of Obama’s policies on The Fox News Channel. Over the recent months, Stein has gone so far over the top when making appearances with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity, that he had to see this coming. If he didn't then he is truely a dumb as he looks,






Ben Stein, who was fired last week as a New York Times columnist over the appearance of conflict of interest arising from his role as a spokesperson for credit rating service FreeScore.com, took to the American Spectator Monday to explain why he thinks he was "expelled from the New York Times."

In particular, Stein hinted that it was not his endorsement of FreeScore.com that proved problematic for Times editors, but his recent criticism of President Obama.
Stein wrote that he was informed that budgetary issues had forced the paper to cut his column to once every four weeks, but that he believes two other issues played prominently in his dismissal:

But the two main things, as I see them, were that I started criticizing Mr. Obama quite sharply over his policies and practices. I had tried to do this before over the firing of Rick Wagoner from the Chairmanship of GM. My column had questioned whether there was a legal basis for the firing by the government, what law allowed or authorized the federal government to fire the head of what was then a private company, and just where the Obama administration thought their limits were, if anywhere. This column was flat out nixed by my editors at the Times because in their opinion Mr. Obama inherently had such powers.
Stein added, "By a total coincidence, I was tossed overboard immediately after my column attacking Obama. (You can attack Obama from the left at the Times but not from the right.)"

Stein also dismissed the notion that his role as a spokesperson for FreeScore.com presented a conflict of interest for his role as a columnist.
"Of course, there was no conflict of interest," he wrote. "I had never written one word in the Times or anywhere else about getting credit scores on line. Not a word."
Read Stein's full account here.







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Ben Stein Fired From NYT Column Over TV Commercial

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Frequent Fox News guest and prodaganda peddler Ben Stein has been fired from his Sunday column at the New York Times. The termination comes in light of Steins appearance in television commercials for FreeScore.com, a company Reuters Blogger Felix Salmon described as "a sleazy company which exists only to extract large sums of money from those who can least afford it." The company offers customers a free credit score but charges them substantially to actually review their credit report.

Last month, Salmon advocated for Steins firing from the New York Times saying that "Stein has become a predatory bait-and-switch merchant, dangling a “free” credit report in front of people so that he can sock them with a massive monthly fee for, essentially, doing nothing at all." and that the people who take him up on this offer will be those who can least afford it.

"The level to which Stein has now sunk is more than enough reason -- as if the case for the prosecution weren't damning enough already -- for the NYT to cancel Stein's contract forthwith. It's simply unconscionable for a newspaper of record to employ as its "Everybody's Business" columnist someone who is surely making a vast amount of money by luring the unsuspecting into overpaying for a financial product they should under no circumstances buy."




NYT spokeswoman Catherine Mathis confirmed Steins termination, telling Gawker that “Ben Stein’s fine work for us as a columnist for Sunday Business had to end, we told him, after we learned that he had become a commercial spokesman for FreeScore, a financial services company.

In his blog at Reuters, Felix Salmon did a little chest pounding by posting: "You’ll forgive me if I take some small measure of credit for this one: after something in the region of 35,000 words of the Ben Stein Watch, the world’s worst financial columnist has finally been fired from the New York Times. And I couldn’t be happier." - Neither could I.
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