Ben Stein- Got to love him

Stein didn't say that.

 

like I said, :whooshthingie/]

 

Well what the fuck did he say then? Where does Annes quote start and finish?

 

This is all Stein said:

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few
confessions from my beating heart: I have no
clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on
the cover of People and Us constantly when I am
buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often
ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never
know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are
they? Will it change my life if I know who they
are and why they have broken up? Why are they so
important?

I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I
do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.

Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and
asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just
have no clue who Nick and Jessica are.

If this is what it means to be no longer young,
it's not so bad.

Next confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors
was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little
bit when people call those beautiful lit up,
bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel
threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's
what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say,
"Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are
slighting me or getting ready to put me in a
ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows
that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this
happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all
that there is a manger scene on display at a key
intersection near my beach house in Malibu.
If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me
as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a
Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed
around for being Christians. I think people who
believe in God are sick and tired of getting
pushed around, period. I have no idea where the
concept came from that America is an
explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the
Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved
down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the
idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica
and we aren't allowed to worship God as we
understand Him?

I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old,
too.

But there are a lot of us who are wondering
where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

 

OH, OK. So who wrote the rest?

 

Oh, Ok who wrote the rest?

Don't know where the rest of that came from...it was emailed to me and apparently has been making the rounds in cyberspace since 12/05... I liked it so much I wanted to pass it on. I apologize for attributing the entire comments to Stein..didn't know the last part was added until Sly pointed it out.. . no libel suits, please!!