Ben Stein: NYT Snubbed 'Civil Rights Leader' George W. Bush In Selma Photo

[DonViejo]

Actor and former Republican speechwriter Ben Stein said during an appearance Monday on Fox News that he thought the New York Times had snubbed former President George W. Bush, whom he described as a "civil rights leader," by leaving him out of a front-page photo showing a commemorative march in Selma, Alabama.

“I think it was clear liberal bias," Stein said, after "Outnumbered" co-host Harris Faulkner asserted the paper had "cropped" Bush out of the front-page image. "Why else cut him out? I mean, he was a great guy. He was a civil rights leader, an impressive guy in that whole area. Why cut him out except for pure bias?”

Stein further described the New York Times as "an organ of the Democratic Party," adding that when he was a columnist for the paper, there were subjects he couldn't write about or else he'd be "fired instantly."

After conservatives accused the New York Times of cropping Bush out of the image, the newspaper said the version of the photo that ran was not cropped.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. GW Bush was a civil rights leader?

In what alternate universe was that?

[TheKentuckian]

2. Proof one can be batshit crazy and boring as fuck at the same time.

[on point]

3. No one who tortures is a civil rights leader

[Terra Alta]

4. Dumbya was a civil rights leader?

Ben Stein is out of his ever-lovin' mind -- what little mind he has left.

[elias49]

5. I borrowed this chunk of text from another thread - hope I'm not breaking a rule...

but it's ironic. At the moment one op is just below another , and it says:

"A civil rights leader who helped organize the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" procession in Selma, Alabama, refused to participate in a 50th-anniversary commemoration march this weekend because former President George W. Bush was involved, she said in an interview Saturday.

“I refused to march because George Bush marched," Diane Nash, a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, told "NewsOne Now" host Roland Martin. “I think the Selma movement was about nonviolence and peace and democracy, and George Bush stands for just the opposite – for violence and war and stolen elections."

[herding cats]

6. Nah, he was just so far to the Right he wasn't in the picture.

Just like the majority of Republicans when it comes to civil rights. If they could just move to their left they'd be in frame with the rest of us.

[Roland99]

14. DUzy!

[LibGranny]

7. bawahhawaaaha Yer killing me!

[Octafish]

8. The guy who gutted the Voting Rights Act?

The little turd from Crawford who lied America into illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous wars for profit?

That George W Bush?

Forget you, Ben Stein.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Yeah that's the ticket !!

Just like when Shrubya brought cake to New Orleans !!!

[deutsey]

10. Here's her statement

[Lint Head]

11. Hey Ben. GWB is a murderer and their is proof.

There is also proof Ben Stein is an idiot.

[Skittles]

12. that warmongering piece of crap should never have been there

UGH

[Historic NY]

13. Why was he even there...

to make it easier for the Neo-confederates and the Gov. to show up