{"id":15438,"date":"2009-07-27T23:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T05:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15438"},"modified":"2009-07-27T23:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T05:45:22","slug":"spin-ben-steins-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/spin-ben-steins-funny.html","title":{"rendered":"Spin Ben Stein’s Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so if your essay<\/a> is reprinted in an AFA<\/a> email bulletin from Don Wildmon, it’s probably a sign you’re off the tracks already. You don’t need to actually make a point of proving it.<\/p>\n

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We’ve Figured Him Out <\/h2>\n

By Ben Stein on 7.24.09 @ 9:45AM<\/p>\n

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because the longer the Right has, the more time they’ll have to repeat their lies and distortions to drum up public opinion against what the public really wants: basic health coverage for all, free from insurance company profit-drive bureaucracies and employer-centric restrictions.<\/p>\n

Oh, no, wait, that can’t be it. It’s clearly a sinister plot. I mean, thats the only reason a president would push for legislation to be passed quickly. Like the USA PATRIOT Act. Right?<\/p>\n

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Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because only bad guys are “cunning,” right?<\/p>\n

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The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right. The public was duped. Even though they knew he was an ultra-leftist, they were so … enchanted by him (vs. the last eight years) they ignored the obvious Right choice of John McCain.<\/p>\n

Yes, it was, in fact, a charity election. Too bad you were so kind, America. You should have been a bunch of mean, cruel, cynical bastards. Speaking of which, Ben continues:<\/p>\n

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They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Funny … I’ve read his autobiography, and nothing struck me as particularly anti-white. Do you have any specifics, Ben?<\/p>\n

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They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

 Because, of course, America has been nothing but kind and welcoming and supportive of minorities in general, blacks in particular, from its founding down to the present day. <\/p>\n

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They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is there something specific about his student record, Ben, you have a problem with?<\/p>\n

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They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What’s your definition of “ultra-left,” Ben? Are there some specifics you think the American people ignored? Were they duped, Ben, or were they just “unimaginably kind,” or did they simply decide that his record was good enough?<\/p>\n

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The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right. And being elected president of the Harvard Law Review was clearly just some namby-pamby liberal affirmative action program.<\/p>\n

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Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond na\u00efvet\u00e9, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can tell by the glint in his eye, the way he had his fingers crossed during his oath of office (twice!), and the sinister red glow from his eyes.<\/p>\n

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The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill — a great idea in theory — was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, there were plenty on the GOP side who thought it was an awful <\/em>idea “in theory,” so I’m glad you aren’t toeing the party line, Ben. But in what ways was it a bribe to “Democratic interest groups”? Do tell!<\/p>\n

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Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The DMV is a state function, Ben. I thought federalism and the 10th Amendment were a good <\/em>thing.<\/p>\n

Or, looked at from another perspective, would you rather have a clerk from the DMV telling your doctor what he can and cannot do, or would you rather have a clerk from InsuranceCo, Inc., a for-profit health care conglomerate, telling your doctor what he can and cannot do?<\/p>\n

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The American people already know that Mr. Obama’s plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be — a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whereas under the present system, costs go up and folks are free to crowd emergency rooms or go without health care at all. Yay for freedom!<\/p>\n

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These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course. I have that YouTube recording of her saying, “Hey, Iran, go ahead, build nukes, we’re jiggy with it” already posted at my site.<\/p>\n

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Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because the Democratic Obamacare Plan clearly states, “Thou shallt only go to doctors that we say, and they will all be unqualified illegal immigrant minorities, who will decide to let the elderly die and the white people stay sick.”<\/p>\n

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It will be joined by controls on our lives to “protect us” from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right. It’s Obama against the Scientific Community. Poor scientists! How dare Obama suggest, without any facts or support, that the vast majority of them, believe that human actions are causing climate change? What a terribly socialist, Muslim, Kenyan thing to do!<\/p>\n

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Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right. Which is why he’s pressing for Health Care reform now. Plus, black UN helicopters to herd the dissidents into the slave labor camps built under Denver International Airport!<\/p>\n

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There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let’s see. Socialist? Check. Hater of America? Check. Betrayer of our international interests? Check. Plotter of ruin of the American health care system because he hates America? Check. Foister of global warming myths? Check. Secret assassin of Michael Jackson?<\/p>\n

Well, tune in next<\/em> week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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