Ben Stein complains that Obama is "condescen[ding] towards" those who disagree with him

Agreed.

Ben Stein had one good idea in his life; his game show, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Nothing else that he has done or said has any value or accuracy.

Oh, yeah, I saw enough of his evolution bashing movie to know that Ben Stein is a total hack. Religious zealots will do everything in their power to link the Nazis and Stalin's purge to evolution, but they seem to just conveniently forget that Christianity had led the charge of more than a few massacres throughout history, not to mention that Hitler was a Catholic and met with the pope.

But on the subject of condescension: did Stein ever tune his ears into Bush's tendency start drawling when explaining his point to a reporter who'd asked him a tough unplanned question. He sounded as though he were addressing a five-year-old. But Obama's condescending for addressing people like adults and for using grownup words and proper sentence structure. That's not condescension, Ben. It's called intelligence.

Randy

Don't forget his contribution in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Bueller, Bueller, Bueller." Beyond that, I would say he is complete hack and WHY he is on CNN is absolutely beyond me.

He also lost a job with one of the larger newspapers because of a conflict of interest when he made one of those free credit reportdotcom commercials. Ben is smart, but he's also a weasel. He sees President Obama as a threat because of his intellect. People like Ben want to be the only rooster in the barn that the hens look up to.

So true. Remember in Ferris Bueller: "Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?"

"Ben Stein complaining that someone is being condescending????? Wow, that's pretty rich." --bintx

Amen!

That's pretty much what I was thinking.

Very interesting articles. Thank you for posting the link. I also read the Washington Post editorial the embedded link in the Truthout article.

Miz Julia, that was interesting, but this caught my eye.

From the article:

"Of course, it is hard to get things done when "the party of no" filibusters every good idea just to stop progress so they can maybe win an election"

Every "good" Liberal idea..,according to whom? Liberals of course. So if Libs automatically think their ideas are "good" everyone else must agree?? That's a tad condescending right there...or certainly not exactly without bias.

Some Lib ideas stink out the joint. Could it be the so called "Party of No" might at least sometimes filibuster to stop a not so "good" Lib idea?

Ah STHU. You're not fooling anybody. Sheesh.

You know what I love? How clearly terrified you are by the Summit of Doom, leading to all this frantic trolling on your part. Because you, like every other chest-pounding chickenhawk teabagger out there, are at heart a sniveling coward.

i wouldn't say better, but sure as hell a mile smarter and has already schooled lamar alexander. the gop is the one with egg on their faces because they are getting called out for what they, and yourself, invariably are. shills for rich people who don't give a crap about anyone else unless you can make money off them and screw the greater good of the country. forget the love thy neighbor part of the bible, that doesn't exist to you and the rest of your kind. you only care about how the bible comes down against gay people.

So you would take the Bush approach?