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
Yes, who can forget civil rights leader Dubya’s 2004 Gays Will Homo Marry Puppies and Destroy Civilization Campaign, his first presidential victory? Yup, freedom had to be Heimlich maneuvered out of that one…
And so this becomes the loud outrage festival instead of anyone in the MSM reporting that one of the original organizers of the Selma march wanted nothing to do with this event precisely because Dubya was attending.
Golly Ben, I’m so sorry W didn’t make the picture. Here’s a solution, next time send more than one Republican. That way the liberal media won’t be able to crop any of you racist assholes out of the photo.
Ben Stein is a no-substance fool who has opted to spend his entire life simply being a gadfly.
I once saw Ben Stein give a keynote address before the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce back in early 2005 (long story on how I ended up at that particular event…) Stein opened the speech by saying, “How wonderful is it to have our boy in the White House?” Throughout the speech he referred to Bush not as a President (or as a “civil rights leaders”) but as “our boy in the Whtie House.” Then Stein used up most of his time onstage showing an extended clip from Rocky IV that was meant to demonstrate American exceptionalism and the wonders of the free market, or something. It was… barely competent. Hooray for leadership and conservative work ethic!