Young Turks: Cenk Slams Ben Stein For Saying Unemployed Are Lazy, Unpleasant

[CherylK]

Run time: 05:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWLTiAFhQs   Posted on YouTube: July 22, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 23122   Posted on DU: July 24, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 961

 
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/20/ben-stein-ui/

[nicky187]

1. For that matter ...

... Ben Stein is pretty unpleasant to be around. Former Nixon staffer and I believe speechwriter.

This is the guy who said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stein

On August 18, 2007, on Fox News Channel's Cavuto on Business, Stein appeared with other financial experts dismissing worries of a coming credit crunch<26>. The lone dissenter was Peter Schiff, who predicted that the mortgage sector would create a crisis leading to massive recession, a view that produced laughter from the other experts. Stein strongly recommended investing in then-troubled financial institutions<26>.

Ben Stein: The credit crunch is way overblown. The are being given away; they're so unbelievably cheap...The subprime problem is a problem, but it's a tiny problem in the context of this economy...It's a buying opportunity, especially for the financials, maybe like I've never seen before in my entire life.

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Peter Schiff: This is just getting started. It's not just subprimes. This is a problem for the entire mortgage industry. It's not just people with bad credit that committed to mortgages they couldn't afford. It's not just people with bad credit who are going to see their home equity vanish... This is going to be an enormous credit crunch...

Neil Cavuto: You must be a laugh-riot at parties.

(LAUGHTER)

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Ben Stein: ...subprime is tiny. Subprime is a tiny, tiny blip.

Peter Schiff: It's not tiny. And again, it's not just subprime. It's the entire mortgage market.

Ben Stein: You're simply wrong about that... Defaults for the whole mortgage market are tiny.

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Ben Stein: I think stocks will be a heck of a lot higher a year from now than they are now.

A year and a month later, in the Global Financial Crisis of September 2008, global stock markets crashed ...

So, thanks for your expertise Ben, you tool.

[The Wizard]

3. If life was fair

the only job Ben Stein could get would be giving blowjobs in dark alleys.

[sasquuatch55]

4. Rich bigot!

Whiney asshole!

[Bitwit1234]

2. This other poster took my words. Stein is one of the "most"

unpleasant persons I have ever seen or heard. I push the mute button when he comes on TV.

[izquierdista]

5. But he's very truthful

When he writes one of his financial opinion pieces, he makes sure to identify it as his at the end with a big B.S.