Christmas Anyone? Class? Anyone? Anyone?.....
The fine folks at "Where's Christmas" have latched on to a good video clip of Ben Stein, talking about Christmas. The clip is here with him on CBS’ Sunday Morning, from August of 2006. (Again, tip of the hat to Where's Christmas for the link). What's interesting is Stein's approach to Christmas, given his Jewish faith.
Stein is of course famous for his role in the 1986 John Hughes movie "Ferris Beuller's Day Off". He played the Economics teacher with the monotone voice droning on to a class of disinterested students, calling out the class roll, repeating "Bueller", Bueller". If you're under 30 you will recognize him for his role on Comedy Central's "Win Ben Stein's Money" program. If you're over 50, you'll know that he was a speech writer for Richard Nixon, a post shared with Patrick J. Buchannan. Judge a man by his company we always say!
Stein continues to provide social commentary on typically conservative issues such as Creationism/Intelligent Design and gave a rousing defense to Idaho Senator Larry Craig.
So, check out the clip, and you'll see, that as Principal Rooney's secretary Grace said, "he's a righteous dude".
Stein is of course famous for his role in the 1986 John Hughes movie "Ferris Beuller's Day Off". He played the Economics teacher with the monotone voice droning on to a class of disinterested students, calling out the class roll, repeating "Bueller", Bueller". If you're under 30 you will recognize him for his role on Comedy Central's "Win Ben Stein's Money" program. If you're over 50, you'll know that he was a speech writer for Richard Nixon, a post shared with Patrick J. Buchannan. Judge a man by his company we always say!
Stein continues to provide social commentary on typically conservative issues such as Creationism/Intelligent Design and gave a rousing defense to Idaho Senator Larry Craig.
So, check out the clip, and you'll see, that as Principal Rooney's secretary Grace said, "he's a righteous dude".
posted by SWOC at
4:13 PM
1 Comments:
Thank you for your link, and for your eloquent post.
I didn't think to provide any of Stein's bio (and I never saw Ferris Buehler). I love it when I catch him on the Saturday morning Fox News Business Block programs, where he is a frequent guest. I'm not under 30, but I did see his game show a few times. Since I knew he was a Nixon speechwriter, that must mean I'm close to 50 (next year, in fact). :-)
Merry Christmas!
Todd
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