Conservative pundit Ben Stein appeared on Newsmax on Tuesday to discuss the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and challenged the use of the term “unarmed” to describe Brown.
Stein was discussing the shooting with host Steve Malzberg and said the use of the term “unarmed” to describe Brown, who was “apparently on marijuana,” was akin to “calling Sonny Liston unarmed or Cassius Clay unarmed.”
“He wasn’t unarmed,” Stein said. “He was armed with his incredibly strong, scary self.”
Later, when discussing Attorney General Eric Holder, Stein made a guttural noise and said Holder wasn’t concerned about there being a fair trial, aiming instead for a “lynching jury.”
“It’s a very sad state of affairs,” Stein said. “I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it’s just an outrage.”
Stein finished by claiming that in Brown’s case, as well as Trayvon Martin’s, “it’s the very large, so-called victim attacking the policeman who winds up dead.”
“I mean if they didn’t just, would not attack the policeman, if they would just talk to the policeman in a reasonable way instead of attacking the policeman, nobody would be dead,” Stein said.
In fact, Martin was shot by a neighborhood watch coordinator, George Zimmerman, not a policeman.
Watch the video below, courtesy of Right Wing Watch:
What a fucking sack of shit.
Well using his own logic, that would make Ben Stein “unarmed” in the intellectual department.
I guess we have the new conservative meme. Big black guys like Brown are so, so scary that cops are justified in shooting them to protect themselves. And people like Zimmerman, too…
Stein’s an ass. Doesn’t he realize there are racist asses that would hate/fear him for his last name as much as they hate/fear others for their skin tone?
Okay, yesterday, I defended the practice of telling us what crazy people said on Fox today, but I really have to draw the line at learning what crazy people said on Newsmax. I dig that they’re wasting their ad money throwing up ads here, but I have no need to know whatever vile idiocy is boiling off the retort of crazy.
And Ben Stein goes Full Metal Racist over the Michael Brown execution.