Hollywood Vapidity

"Bueller? Bueller?" A throw away bit in a cheesy teenage movie made this guy a household name. Then he had a little gameshow on Comedy Central called "Win Ben Stein's Money" and a sidekick named Jimmy Kimmel (we wonder whatever happened to Jimmy?). Contestants played for a shot a measly $5,000, but the back and forth between Ben and Jimmy was priceless and Jimmy kept hammering Ben for having worked for Nixon.

Stein is now an author and a writer for a number of conservative leaning publications and wrote an article this past weekend about the Oscars that covers a glaring omission - the US Military at war on foreign soil was not mentioned even a single time. Not in support of and (stunningly) not in ridicule either. It was like they didn't even exist.

• ...not one word of tribute, not one breath, to our fighting men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan or to their families or their widows or orphans. There were pitifully dishonest calls for peace -- as if the people we are fighting were interested in any peace for us but the peace of the grave. But not one word for the hundreds of thousands who have served and are serving, not one prayer or moment of silence for the dead and maimed.

Go read the whole thing. An excellent essay.

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