Here is an article purportedly from Ben Stein. Although I believe Snopes may dispute some of the latter sentences, it really doesn't matter...
Sure it matters. If I take something you wrote and add to it, it isn't yours, and wouldn't be fair to attribute it to you - would it? It would be a lie to attribute it to you.
Ben Stein
is a sharp guy, I've enjoyed his stuff for years. Want some Ben Stein wisdom that
he really did write? Here you go: an op-ed piece published this week in the Alaska Dispatch, where
Ben Stein called Tea Party senate candidate Miller a
"dangerous, stupid clown." http://alaskadispatch.com/voices/tundra-talk/7254-ben-stein-good-old-tail-gunner-joe-millerexcerpt from the article that Ben actually wrote:
The GOP candidate for (much too) high office in Alaska, Joe Miller, who beat the redoubtable GOP stalwart, Lisa Murkowski, in the primary, with major Tea Party help, is a bit reminiscent of Willy Stark. Only stupid.
Joe Miller supposedly is a graduate of Yale Law School, as I am, and I never knew one stupid person at Yale Law, which makes me wonder if Mr. Miller really went there. A Yale Law grad would not have security guards who would for a moment consider "arresting" and handcuffing a member of the Alaska press, Tony Hopfinger, who had the audacity to ask questions about Miller's past transgressions involving computer stuffing of a polling place in an unofficial GOP poll.
A Yale Law grad, especially one supported by the Tea Party, which is all about curbing abuses of power by the government, would not even think of taking away the reporter's video camera, as Miller's guards did. That's what stupid people do. Maybe I am wrong and he somehow slipped through the Ivied doors when they weren't looking. Maybe Miller thinks he is boss of some kind of third world country and his mirrored sunglass-wearing Tontons Macoutes can just bully anyone who gets in his way.
That is not what the Tea Party is all about. It is certainly not what the GOP is about. It isn't even what the Democratic Party is about.
