Typical creationist. Dumb and/or dishonest. LOL HW
Ben Stein fired by New York Times The guy with the annoying voice who led a crusade against evolution has lost his job with the Grey Lady after taking a job advertising for a financial services company. Apparently, Ben Stein's decision to become a pitchman for freescore.com, a dubious financial services firm, finally put his employer over the edge. Reuters Felix Salmon, who reported the news, has reacted with glee<http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/08/07/ben-stein-finally-expelled-from-ny-times/> . "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," Salmon writes. "And I couldn’t be happier. The reason was his appearance in commercials for (and on the homepage of) freescore.com, a sleazy company which exists only to extract large sums of money from those who can least afford it. "NYT spokeswoman Catherine Mathis confirmed this, 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,'" Salmon continues. Salmon adds: "I’m thinking celebratory Champagne at the Oyster Bar this lunchtime. It is an August Friday, after all. Anybody care to join?" Stein's anti-evolution jeremiad which he co-wrote and starred in, *Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,*was broadly panned by critics and received a just 10% favorability rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a film review website that aggregates critics' takes. *Correction: Stein's 10% film review was on Rotten Tomatoes, not Metacritic. Salmon's first name is Felix, and his last name is Salmon, not Solomon.* -John Byrne This entry was posted on Friday, August 7th, 2009 at 8:33 am and is filed under Uncategorized <http://rawstory.com/blog/category/uncategorized/>. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0<http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/ben-stein-fired-by-new-york-times/feed/> feed. You can leave a response<http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/ben-stein-fired-by-new-york-times/#respond>, or trackback<http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/ben-stein-fired-by-new-york-times/trackback/> from your own site. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
