NEW YORK – Monotone TV personality Ben Stein has been stripped of his Sunday New York Times business column because of his work as a pitchman for a credit monitoring company.
New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis released a statement Friday that said the newspaper decided it would not be appropriate for Stein to pitch for FreeScore.com while writing his column.
An e-mail requesting comment from the former host of Comedy Central's "Win Ben Stein's Money" quiz show was not immediately returned.
Earlier this year, Stein withdrew as the University of Vermont's commencement speaker over complaints about his critical views of evolution in favor of intelligent design.
Stein famously played the part of a monotone economics teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
Ben Stein seems to be suffering from internal anti-semitism. Smart as he may seem, he typifies 1980's retrogression into 1950's McCarthy era "Let me pretend, I'm not Jewish and act all Republican". He was funny for a moment on "Win Ben Stein's Money" and then watching him on other political shows I was horrified to learn what a scumbucket he is. Ben Stein is right up there with the smarmy and scummy as all hell, Dennis Miller: right wing suck ass boy "comic". Dennis Miller was always a creepy fucker and I guess we all now know why.
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