Ben Stein: Game show personality, comic actor, and apologist for corrupt presidents

You know Ben Stein, I imagine. If not from his days on Win Ben Stein's Money then from his classic appearances in John Hughes films ("Bueller?....Bueller?...Bueller?"), among others.

But what you may not know is that he was a Nixon White House speechwriter. And once marked the anniversary of Watergate by claiming that nobody could really remember what it had all been about, so it must not have been very important.

Well, he's at it again. To hear him tell it...

"Bush's response has not been unusually bad, but amazingly powerful and swift. "

"George Bush... does not attack those who falsely accuse him of the most horrible acts and neglect. Instead, he doggedly goes on helping the least among us."

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