Actor and former Republican speechwriter Ben Stein said during an appearance Monday on Fox News that he thought the New York Times had snubbed former President George W. Bush, whom he described as a “civil rights leader,” by leaving him out of a front-page photo showing a commemorative march in Selma, Alabama.
“I think it was clear liberal bias,” Stein said, after “Outnumbered” co-host Harris Faulkner asserted the paper had “cropped” Bush out of the front-page image. “Why else cut him out? I mean, he was a great guy. He was a civil rights leader, an impressive guy in that whole area. Why cut him out except for pure bias?”
Stein further described the New York Times as “an organ of the Democratic Party,” adding that when he was a columnist for the paper, there were subjects he couldn’t write about or else he’d be “fired instantly.”
After conservatives accused the New York Times of cropping Bush out of the image, the newspaper said the version of the photo that ran was not cropped.
Watch below, via Fox News. Stein’s comments begin at about the 50-second mark:
h/t Mediaite
