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Ben Stein Canned as Speaker at Citigroup for Allegedly Cracking Sexist Joke

Ben Stein Canned as Speaker at Citigroup for Allegedly Cracking Sexist JokeEconomist Ben Stein is one of the country’s most visible libertarians. He‘s a regular contributor to conservative publications and he’s well-known on the conservative and business speaking circuits. And in May he’s scheduled to speak in New York at a Citigroup-hosted event for pension and endowment funds. Or rather he was scheduled. He’s now been canned after a women accused him of making sexist jokes at an event earlier this year.

If you just look at the allegations, the case seems open and shut. Sexist jokes no longer have a place in society. He apparently cracked some. But then you hear this: the woman who made the accusations (via e-mail) admits she couldn’t exactly remember the jokes, so she copied them off the internet, and Stein denies telling them the way she claims he did.

Making things even more interesting? The new vice chairman of Citigroup’s investment bank is Obama’s former budget director, Peter Orszag. He is also scheduled to be a speaker at the May event. And guess who forwarded the woman’s e-mail complaint to the sales executives? Orszag, who is the furthest thing from a libertarian.

“We have decided to present the conference without Mr. Stein’s participation,” Citi spokeswoman Danielle Romero-Apsilos told Bloomberg News.

The accuser, 41-year-old Lynda Villarreal, attended a March event in Dallas where Stein was speaking. According to Bloomberg and the e-mail Villarreal sent to Citi and Bloomberg, one of the jokes involved a woman taking her clothes off on an airplane:

Villarreal’s e-mail to Orszag told of three jokes at the Dallas conference she said were disparaging to women. One joke was about a wealthy man, his wife and his mistress, she said.

Another involved a female airline passenger who, realizing the flight is about to crash, takes off her clothes and asks if there is a man aboard who will “make me feel like a woman,” according to Villarreal’s e-mail, which was also sent to Bloomberg News. A cowboy in a hat removes his shirt, hands it to the woman, tells her to iron it and fetch him a beer.

But that differs from Stein’s account:

Stein, in an interview, said his jokes were mischaracterized and that the company didn’t call him before canceling.

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Ben Stein Canned as Speaker at Citigroup for Allegedly Cracking Sexist JokeStein, a Yale University-educated lawyer and former speechwriter for President Richard Nixon who played the droning high-school economics teacher in the 1986 movie, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” said in an interview that his jokes at the Dallas conference had been incorrectly retold.

“I’ve been in this speaking-gig business for a number of years, I’ve told these jokes before, and I have never gotten one syllable of complaint,” he said. “I don’t think any woman in the world would call me a misogynist. For this woman to say this is just fantasy.”

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Stein, who has written columns for Bloomberg News and appeared as a guest on Bloomberg Television, said in the interview that the joke targeted the man, not the woman, and that in his Dallas telling the woman didn’t remove clothing.

“It’s usually a joke understood to be making fun of a kind of cloddish, dopey guy,” Stein explained to Bloomberg. “When I was finished with this speech, dozens of women in the room came up to me and wanted their pictures taken with me, wanted autographs from me. Dozens of them. I got fan mail from women who had been at the group saying how much they liked the speech.”

Apparently, Stein‘s contract stipulates that he will get paid even if he’s canceled.

As for Villarreal, vice president of business development at Trident Trust, which provides accounting services to hedge funds and private-equity firms, she couldn’t be happier:

“I am delighted that Citi has taken this action,” she told Bloomberg. “It shows their corporate leadership and respect for women in the financial industry as well as their clients.”

I wonder if Orszag is, too.


Comments (148)

  • dirtydog1776
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:28pm

    Another example of how liberals are working to dismantle the Constitution in big and small ways. Stein has been found guilty without a chance of proving his innocence, Obama and his minions must be very happy today.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:46pm

      Ben Stein getting sacked equals dismantling the Constitution? Wow, amazing thought process at work there.

      SimpleTruths  
  • dmann
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:28pm

    Well at least he didn’t call a woman “a mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it”

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  • RodT82721
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:25pm

    So now the attendees at the corp. meeting will be lectured by a bunch of Barry sycophants, while Ben gets paid anyway.

    I don’t think Citi is a winner here, and for sure not those that will attend and be woed by the spectaular orations of Mr. Orzag. Having heard both speak, they might just as well cancel the affair, now that Ben wont be speaking.

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  • Mascoma
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:24pm

    Do you really think Ben Stein cares, I know I don’t.

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  • Lion420
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:24pm

    Stop censoring me for no good reason….isn’t that why you posted this story? You’re ruining what is possibly the best news site around. You can’t sell me the bs about not being on topic…as I am discussing what’s in the story. He’s being censored, because some crybaby didn’t like what he said…just like you creeps.

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  • spirited
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:23pm

    Question: What are the three streets in Chicago that rhyme with ******?
    Answer: Melvina, Paulina & Lunt Street.

    Where was this (alleged) concerned 41-year-old woman Lynda Villarreal (Ms. Vitriol)

    >when Bill Maher called Palin the name that rhymes with the third street???

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  • D0ntTread0nMe
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:23pm

    It’s amazing to me how many times recently we have heard about something being cancelled or someone being ran out of town, or whatever. Simply because ONE PERSON was offended! Get over yourselves people… you DO NOT have the right to NOT be offended! SORRY
    http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com

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  • ares338
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:21pm

    Wow!

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  • Lion420
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:21pm

    Wow…censorship sucks doesn’t it? Maybe the creeps who run the Blaze could figure that out?

    Report Post » Lion420  
  • Vunks
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:20pm

    He is not a Libertarian!

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    • spvz29
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 4:52pm

      VUNKS…Thank you. I can’t believe that no one else picked up on that. He is pure RINO.

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  • Murran13
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:18pm

    I’m a woman and I totally laughed at the airplance joke!!! :) Lighten up people!

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:13pm

    I left Citibank for the same reason and I strongly encourage people with Citibank to close your accounts and find another bank.

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  • etecs
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:12pm

    Bueller……….. Bueller……. Still makes me laugh

    Ben’s always been one of my favorites….. I can’t believe they canned him for a joke that may offended one (feeemale??)

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  • nacilbuper
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:11pm

    Start to listen at 6:30

    http://www.philsgang.com/media/RadioShow/Thu/RadioShow20101209.mp3

    This will make your blood boil.

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    • nacilbuper
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:22pm

      Financial giant Citigroup (C), which received the largest bailout among US banks during the credit crisis, announced Thursday the hiring of former White House budget director Peter Orszag as a vice chairman in its global banking business.

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  • True American66
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:11pm

    I’ve never had a Citibank card…..they are one one the worst ones to have; high interest rates, hidden fees, etc…..they‘re only for people with bad credit and young people trying to establish credit that don’t know better. Seems fitting that they would act this way, goes right along with the liberal mindset get them when they’re young and dumb or just dumb!

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  • smak
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:11pm

    @ Article: He’s now been canned after a women accused of making sexist jokes at an event earlier this year.

    Left out “him.”

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  • freedomweiner
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:11pm

    Allan West just on GB radio.

    WOW ! WOW !! WHEEEEEEEEE !
    I am so impressed.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:43pm

      I pray Allen West runs, that will be the end of the Tea Party and a sure win for Obama.

      Report Post » SimpleTruths  
    • Mandors
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 3:03pm

      Please. Like Obama supporters pray.

      Report Post » Mandors  
  • Quad-rip-legic
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:08pm

    I can’t believe the progressive was actually let go for being a typical progressive.

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:07pm

    When will the PC people realize if you attack everything somebody says, there will be no more speaking events, no more news, no nothing.

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    • YouGoGlenn
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:26pm

      “….When will the PC people realize if you attack everything somebody says, there will be no more speaking events, no more news, no nothing.”

      I don‘t think that’s the case.
      It’ll be like the Daily Show or SNL everywhere…arrested juvenile “humor”…although it certainly will be far less fun if there’s no one expressing unapproved opinions to demonize and ridicule, since character assassination is obviously the most fun thing any good Progressive can imagine.

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    • marine249
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:43pm

      YOUGOGLENN

      its still o.k. to pick on
      whites, men, republicans and tea parties

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    • texasred
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:41pm

      Just read on Hot Air about a musician in England who was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting”. Seems like he was playing a set in a bar when 2 Chinese people walking on the street heard the song coming from the bar, and one was offended and went to a policeman and made a report of racist thuggery. The guy was arrested shortly after his set, at of all places, a Chinese restaurant where he was having dinner. It’s a hate crime to say anything if someone is offended. This is what American will come to. You just can’t make this stuff up.

      I WILL NEVER COMPLY

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:06pm

    Some U.S. citizens seem to be terminally offended.

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    • Guerrino_P
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:24pm

      I couldn’t agree with you more GONZO. Once in a while, it’s good to hear a good joke about kinky sex, dykes, kikes, bible thumpers, rednecks, libs, wops, and wackos.

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    • moreteaplease
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:30pm

      And then they get offended if you don’t offend them in some way so they can rant and rave. It’s a no win situation with people like this woman.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:32pm

      Thanks for your ever valuable input.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:32pm

      @Guerrino_P
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:24pm
      I couldn’t agree with you more GONZO. Once in a while, it’s good to hear a good joke about kinky sex, dykes, kikes, bible thumpers, rednecks, libs, wops, and wackos.

      ………………….and blonds!

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    • Love_Small_Dogs
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:18pm

      “………………….and blonds!” (sic)

      “If I can guess what your ‘real’ hair color is, can I have my sheepdog back? “

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  • Hawt'n'secksie
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:06pm

    A gun probably forced Stein to make these remarks.

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:05pm

    We need to have a war in America to re-establish common sense. It’s a joke and not only that there are two different interpetetions one that ironing and man service is womans work and the other liberal; view could be that texans are living 50 years in the past. If people believe in free speech and ending this Political correctness boycott all these businesses that make moves like these. We need to establish a society where jokes are considered jokes and nothing more.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:34pm

      The liberals have no sense of humor. They take everything personally and retort with rancor.

      Report Post » Showtime  
    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:41pm

      YES! It’s called freedom of speech. PC is duct tape.

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    • Entropy
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:41pm

      I can tell you this, I will not be doing ANY business with Citi for the rest of my life. Lib-Prog goons.

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    • RETORT_WITH_RANCOR
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 5:54pm

      LOL – ROTGML -PMS!!

      Thanks gang

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  • bassist237
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:04pm

    Get over it.

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    • Entropy
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:39pm

      Generally, the only broads with chips on their shoulders big enough to make a joke an issue are the ugly feminists.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 12:59pm

    Geez……………

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    • and to the republic
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:13pm

      Buehler, Buehler, Buehler…….I love Ben but I tell ya he has been on the wrong side of several issues lately on the Saturday morning FOX show he is on…

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on April 28, 2011 at 12:58pm

    Hasn’t everyone already cut-up their citibank credit cards? Why is this taxpayer bailed-out bank still around?

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    • Revere1
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:02pm

      Of course liberal feminists complain about Stein’s jokes, but they never complain about the oppression of women in the Muslim world. http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/02/feminism-explained.html

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    • ISeeDanger.com
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:05pm

      Boycott CitiGroup, NOW…

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:05pm

      So he is terminated for allegedly making jokes the lady cannot remember clearly, and cannot tell how he told them even after copying them off of the internet?

      This smells in so many ways it is not even funny.

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    • Mr. Nice Guy
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:06pm

      I have closed my accounts with them but not actually cut up the cards.

      “Stein‘s contract stipulates that he will get paid even if he’s canceled.” Gotta love that!

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    • MEESHEL
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Huh… too much time on her hands I guess. He gets paid anyway lol.

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    • Insipid
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:07pm

      I cut up my Citi cards and got out of my Citi mortgage about 11 years ago.

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    • ISeeDanger.com
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:08pm

      FUNNY..
      Watch…
      http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-7-2010/peter-orszag-sex-scandal

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    • Showtime
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:13pm

      @ISeeDanger.com
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:05pm
      Boycott CitiGroup, NOW…
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Too late! Already have.
      Totally ticked when they bought the rights to name the stadium “Citi Stadium” with bailout money!

      Report Post » Showtime  
    • banjarmon
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:16pm

      One of the best things a perspn can do is laugh at themself. If the joke is on you Laugh long and hard.

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    • DogWithA_Bone
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:19pm

      Glad to say that I have never had an account with this bank…
      Really lady???
      We have become too easily offended…
      They will change everything for 1 persons issue
      BUT when more than half of America agrees on an issue nothing happens… hmmm…

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:22pm

      Wasn’t he pro-Obama before the elections? Was all over CNN–when I was wondering how such political “intellegentia” could be falling for this guy. Haven’t paid attention to him since.

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    • lewbrown
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:34pm

      I bailed on them over a year and half ago. Now, I get more mail from them than when I was a customer. Thank technology I have a shredder. I don’t even have to open it, just into the machine. Never going back, not in this lifetime.

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    • theonefromabove
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:40pm

      Liberals take a jab at whoever they can.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:42pm

      Once again, we see that liberals have no sense of humor. And once again, wee see how a totalatarian eliminates any opposition. I personally can’t remember any devisating affect of the pollock jokes when I was a kid, let alone stupid blonde jokes. sheesh, get a life

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    • cessna152
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:43pm

      “Bueller… Bueller….”

      I hate PC and glad I dropped Citi idiots years ago.

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:45pm

      .
      Remember when hurricanes were all given women’s names? (never heard of a himmacane anyway)

      Liberal feminist‘s protested that it was unfair that men’s names weren’t also used to name the destructive forces of nature…

      Then a liberal black congresswoman complained, ‘Aren’t black names good enough to be used to name hurricanes too?’

      It’s never enough with liberals – they’ve always gotta be tearing something down. Maybe we should start naming tornados after famous progressives.

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:47pm

      Q. Why does the bride always wear white?
      A. Because it’s good for the dishwasher to match the stove and refrigerator.

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    • Creestof
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:47pm

      I love Ben…in fact I think I will grab a carton of Breyer’s neopolitan ice cream and watch “Expelled” right now in his honor.

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:48pm

      Q. How do you turn a fox into an elephant?
      A. Marry it!

      Report Post » Ari Ben TZion  
    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:48pm

      Q. What is the difference between a battery and a woman?
      A. A battery has a positive side.

      Report Post » Ari Ben TZion  
    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:49pm

      Q: Do you know why they call it the Wonder Bra?
      A: When you take it off, you wonder where her [blank] went.

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:50pm

      Q: Why are there no female astronauts on the moon?
      A: ’cause it doesn’t need cleaning yet.

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:52pm

      A job negotiator and a feminist were in dispute… The feminist was argueing over the different pay scales that her women were receiving…

      Fem: Okay, why are women paid less than men for doing the same job that a man does.
      Neg: It says in the Bible that women are worth less than men.
      Fem: Where does it say that? I don’t think so.
      Neg: Well, you do agree that woman was made from a rib, correct?
      Fem: Yeah, so?
      Neg: Well, there you have it. A rib is a cheaper cut of meat!

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:54pm

      A woman needs only four animals in her life: a mink on her back, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass to pay for it all.

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    • AZfreeman
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:54pm

      So what’s the big picture here? Hey ‘Progressives’, here’s an idea… let’s split the country down political/ideological lines. …that will hasten it’s destruction! That IS your objective…right?

      Conservatives will look for Conservative Corporations and businesses to deal with, and liberals will look for liberal Corporations and businesses to deal with. That will surely end well.

      …rf

      “A house divided will not stand”
      Who is John Galt?

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:54pm

      Most accidents happen at home!
      And the men have to eat them.

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:56pm

      How do you fix a Woman’s watch?
      You don’t. There is a clock on the oven.

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:57pm

      If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first?
      The dog of course. He’ll shut up once you let him in.

      Report Post » Ari Ben TZion  
    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 1:57pm

      What’s worse than a Male Chauvinist Pig?
      A Woman that won‘t do what she’s told.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:01pm

      I keep getting offers at 0% from them, yea right!! I‘m not even looking Citi’s way. Complain about women taking off there clothes??? She probably is a Barrel

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:11pm

      Ben’s got nothing on me!! My favorite Number is 68. lol lol lol

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:19pm

      Given the percentage of people siding with Ben Citigroup just alienated itself from a large percentage of the population. It‘s time to end this PC nightmare and if a Revolution is what it takes I say let’s get it started.

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:20pm

      AriBenTZion
      Yer crackin’ me up. preciate it

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    • Dale
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:23pm

      There was a time, in America, when two witnesses or a trial was required to convict someone. Now one lone report gets Stein canned. Gee I wonder if that will work with boh; eric, i see nothing, holder; ben, i invented electronic printing; or little timmy g.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:31pm

      One more character assasination with no need of proof….yep enter into the brains of mush and it becomes fact!! I wonder how things would be if “public figures” could actually sue for slander? Sorta like reverse the burden of proof to these “nut jobs”!!!

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    • Eric_The_Red_State
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 2:38pm

      BOYCOTT the liberal insanity.

      Defund these baboons

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    • sooner12
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 4:36pm

      ARIBENTZION…..Thanks, I needed that.

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    • bobodu
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 6:45pm

      I paid off and cut up my Citi card when Bush gave them billions.

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 7:54pm

      This is about progressives shutting down a conservative. Period.

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    • Hadituptohere
      Posted on April 28, 2011 at 8:32pm

      no no!! don’t shred the mail you get from citi bank–use their no postage neccesary envelope and mail junk mail back to them on their dime!!!

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 12:05pm

      @Blaze Staff

      “now been canned after a women accused him of ”

      Come on. Seriously guys and/or gals, come on. “A women”?

      You have my email, I have the credentials for editing and writing, drop me a line sometime.

      As to Stein, well, fact is sexist (and any other joke category) *do* have a place in society. We need to lighten up and stop being so damned uptight about everything. I, as a white male, have jokes cracked about me *constantly* across the media and in entertainment. My wife and children, all tow headed types, are the butt of endless “blond jokes”. Do we complain? No, we take it in stride. And somehow, we’re the only ones who are supposed to take it in stride, everybody else gets their little panties in a bunch if somebody even thinks of telling a joke about any other “group”.

      Get over it. Humor is fun. Try it sometime, you might like it.

      Heh, iron my shirt and get me a beer…love it! :)

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    • roachesneverdie
      Posted on April 29, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Very sad state of affairs but Ben’s getting paid is priceless. Now, I heard him on Brian Kilmeade last week and I have heard Ben a few times in recent years and he is anything but conservative. Now that Glenn has educated us on progressives I believe Ben fits the definition of progressive republican based on his insistence on raising taxes on the rich to pay for public programs. He kept pounding away on that issue saying the rich can afford to do it and the govt needs the money! Sorry Ben, I totally disagree with you on this. I enjoy some of his humor and his character in FBDO but he has lost me as a fan.

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