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Franken-Stein An Unholy Pairing

Continuing his long, dark sashay from astute, economically conservative Renaissance man to taxophilic left wing eccentric, Ben Stein has just kicked in to Al Franken's Minnesota Senate run.

Stein, an actor, writer, economist and former Nixon speechwriter, has contributed $2,000 to Franken's U.S. Senate campaign. The two men have known each other for about 30 years.

As a former "Saturday Night Live" star, Franken has received scores of contributions from people in the entertainment industry, but Stein's donation doesn't fit into the GOP's talking points about liberal Hollywood elites bankrolling Franken's campaign.

Stein has contributed thousands of dollars to Republican candidates and to GOP committees, such as the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Mmyeah... the AP gets it a bit wrong here, though.  Have I mentioned Stein's long, dark sashay?  Far removed from his Nixon days and having taken since leave of the faculties that once enabled him to see the wisdom of something-D-O-O economics, Stein's leftward drift, while regrettable, is not news.  His contribution to Franken's campaign does nothing to refute the "GOP's talking points about liberal Hollywood elites bankrolling Franken's campaign."  Stein "elite" status is debatable, but he has indeed mutated into something approaching an authentic liberal.  The Hollywood gene, it would appear, is dominant in the long run.

I get the sense from the countless weekend Fox Business Block appearances I've seen him in (did that survive the Fox Business Network launch, incidentally, or are those shows migrating up to channel 194?) that he's a genuinely nice man and certainly a bright, multi-talented one - actor, lawyer, teacher, economist, author, game show host, etc.  Not to mention Clear Eyes spokesman.  It's just so disheartening that he's insisting on adding "irrational Hollywood liberal who supports the political designs of unstable Hollywood liberals" to that CV.

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Franken-Stein An Unholy Pairing

Continuing his long, dark sashay from astute, economically conservative Renaissance man to taxophilic left wing eccentric, Ben Stein has just kicked in to Al Franken's Minnesota Senate run.

Stein, an actor, writer, economist and former Nixon speechwriter, has contributed $2,000 to Franken's U.S. Senate campaign. The two men have known each other for about 30 years.

As a former "Saturday Night Live" star, Franken has received scores of contributions from people in the entertainment industry, but Stein's donation doesn't fit into the GOP's talking points about liberal Hollywood elites bankrolling Franken's campaign.

Stein has contributed thousands of dollars to Republican candidates and to GOP committees, such as the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Mmyeah... the AP gets it a bit wrong here, though.  Have I mentioned Stein's long, dark sashay?  Far removed from his Nixon days and having taken since leave of the faculties that once enabled him to see the wisdom of something-D-O-O economics, Stein's leftward drift, while regrettable, is not news.  His contribution to Franken's campaign does nothing to refute the "GOP's talking points about liberal Hollywood elites bankrolling Franken's campaign."  Stein "elite" status is debatable, but he has indeed mutated into something approaching an authentic liberal.  The Hollywood gene, it would appear, is dominant in the long run.

I get the sense from the countless weekend Fox Business Block appearances I've seen him in (did that survive the Fox Business Network launch, incidentally, or are those shows migrating up to channel 194?) that he's a genuinely nice man and certainly a bright, multi-talented one - actor, lawyer, teacher, economist, author, game show host, etc.  Not to mention Clear Eyes spokesman.  It's just so disheartening that he's insisting on adding "irrational Hollywood liberal who supports the political designs of unstable Hollywood liberals" to that CV.