Katie’s Beer

Saint Paul, contributor to one of my favorite blogs, Fraters Libertas, gets kudos for digging deeper as he provides a list of contributors to Minnesota native, Al Franken’s, campaign.  He writes:

And, finally, the most painful discovery of all.

Ben Stein - $1,000. Legendary Ferris Beuhler actor, game show host, and brilliant conservative. Former speech writer for Richard Nixon and columnist for the American Spectator and Yahoo Finance, among other outlets. One of the finest writers around on politics, economics, and culture, as demonstrated in this listing. In particular, he’s one the most articulate and persuasive speakers advocating the pro-life stance in the country.

And he’s giving money to Al Bleeping Franken? A guy who’s never found a liberal position on abortion he didn’t like (as shown by the $5,000 contribution he also received from something called Washington Women for Choice.) How in the world can Ben Stein be supporting Al Franken?

Rather than engage in rank speculation, I have chosen to utilize the most powerful tool in the Internet journalist arsenal, the email interview. And believe it or not, Stein wrote me back. The disturbing transcript follows: 

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