Columnist Ben Stein has been fired from the New York Times.
Stein said he was axed because of his criticism of Barack H. Obama and Goldman Sachs. spectator.org/archives/2009/08/10/expelled-from-the-new-york-tim/
Stein, who's written for the American Spectator magazine for a number of years, has been writing a column for the NY Times Sunday Business section for five years or so.
He questioned Obama and the right the government had to fire Rick Wagoner as chairman of General Motors. That column was nixed, Stein said.
Stein also criticized investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, which Stein called "the real power in this country." Those columns did run.
But Stein was recently cut back to one column a month and then was fired for doing some TV commercials for FreeScore. The commercial offered people a week of free access to their credit scores and then required them to pay for further such access.
Stein said he was told this was a conflict of interest because he wrote about finance, even though he never wrote about FreeScore.
Stein also said he was hurt by his narrating and co-writing the movie, "Expelled -- No Intelligence Allowed," which was "a plea for open discussion of the possibility that life might have started with an Intelligent Designer."
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