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NY Times Reporter: I Was Fired For Criticizing Obama,
Goldman Sachs
Columnist who compared Obama campaign to Hitler's Nuremberg
rallies is expelled
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A columnist for the New York Times has publicly stated that
he believes he was fired last week simply for criticizing president
Obama and his policies.
Commentator Ben Stein writes in the American
Spectator that the real reason for his dismissal
was not, as the Times indicated, due to a conflict of interest
arising from his role as a spokesperson for credit rating service
FreeScore.com, nor for budgetary issues.
Rather, Stein states, he was "expelled from
the New York Times" due to recent criticism of Obama.
"The two main things, as I see them, were that I started
criticizing Mr. Obama quite sharply over his policies and practices."
Stein writes.
"I had tried to do this before over the firing of Rick
Wagoner from the Chairmanship of GM. My column had questioned
whether there was a legal basis for the firing by the government,
what law allowed or authorized the federal government to fire
the head of what was then a private company, and just where
the Obama administration thought their limits were, if anywhere.
This column was flat out nixed by my editors at the Times because
in their opinion Mr. Obama inherently had such powers."
he explains.
(Article continues below)
Stein added, "By a total coincidence, I was tossed overboard
immediately after my column attacking Obama. (You can attack
Obama from the left at the Times but not from the right.)"
Stein is well known for his controversial 2008 film Expelled,
in which he argued that the scientific theory of evolution
has contributed to the rise of fascism, communism, atheism,
abortion and eugenics.
Stein believes that his commitment to this project also contributed
to his eventual dismissal, following a barrage of hate mail
from those he describes as "neo-Darwinists".
He also cites his questioning of Goldman Sachs' activity as
another reason for his firing.
"I made a new set of antagonists by repeatedly and in
detail criticizing the real power in this country, the "investment
bank" Goldman Sachs, for what seemed to me questionable
behavior. This elicited a mountain of favorable mail but also
some complaints by well-placed persons." he writes
Stein was previously
criticized in 2008 interview after comparing one
of Obama's major campaign rallies to Adolf Hitler's Nazi rallies
at Nuremberg.
Read Stein's full account here.
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