Ron Paul Challenges Ben Stein to a Debate
Posted by Benjamin J. Thompson | Filed under Liberty, News
Two men I respect and admire had a little spat on Larry King not too long ago.
Ron Paul, I admire for his merciless grip on economic reality, and his commitment to ending some of the worst policies of Washington. Stein, I respect for his mountainous scholarship and his willingness to say the unpopular in order to defend science from dogmatic theist-haters. Anyway, here’s that exchange:
Ron Paul’s response in a Campaign for Liberty video:
As always, Ron Paul is way too nice. Stein is clearly gobsmacked that anyone could possibly think of terrorists as anything other than psychotic animals, and he can only categorize Paul’s attempt to humanize people we might hate as “anti-Semitic.” I can only explain this in one of two ways:
- He is convinced that terrorists aren’t human. In other words, they have no motivation. They are simply mad dogs that need to be put down.
- He is unable to distinguish between the so-called Israeli “occupation” in the Middle East from the American occupations in several Middle Eastern countries.
It sounds like Stein believes both, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he isn’t so hateful as to subscribe to #1.