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Skriven 2007-01-07 21:30:26 av VICTOR REYES (1:123/140)
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Ärende: Good Ole Ben
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-> RC>The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS
-> RC>Sunday Morning Commentary:
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-> RS> Ah yes, Ben "I was one of Nixon's flacks and Nixon could do no
wrong"
-> RS> Stein-
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-> Instead of discussing the ideas in Ben Stein's column, Otto discusses
Ben
-> Stein.

Ben Stein is well on his way to Mark Twain or Ben Franklin levels of
misattributed quotes.

Here's what Mr. Stein actually had to say:
--CHARLES OSGOOD, host: We all have our own thoughts about the holidays.
Here's Ben Stein with his.

BEN STEIN: Here at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my
beating heart. I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. 
I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I'm buying my dog
biscuits. I still don't know. I often ask the checkers at the grocery
stores who they are. They don't know who Nick and Jessica are, either. Who
are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they've
broken up? Why are they so darned important?
I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I don't care at all about Tom
Cruise's baby.
Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I'm a
subversive? Maybe. But I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is
this what it means to be no longer young? Hm, not so bad.
Next confession: I am a Jew and every single one of my ancestors was
Jewish, and it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those
beautifully lit-up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees.
I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what
they are - Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say
'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they're slighting me or getting
ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. I shows that we're
all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.
It doesn't bother me one bit that there's a manger scene on display at a
key intersection at my beach house in Malibu.
If people want a creche, fine. The menorah a few hundred yards away is
fine, too. I do not like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't
think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think
people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around,
period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an
explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't
like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put it another way.
Where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and
aren't allowed to worship God as we understand him? I guess that's a sign
that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering
where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we used to know went
to.
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The rest of the text was added by someone hoping to attach his message to
Mr. Stein's coattails.

Is it OK to lie (even a lie of omission) if that lie spreads "God's Word?"
Inquiring minds want to know
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