I used to like Ben Stein. I found him humorous and enjoyed his game show. Friends of mine would belittle him and I'd say, "Hey, we need all the funny Conservatives we can get." It didn't even bother me that he was a shameless Nixon apologist, that he doesn't believe in evolution or that I once saw him be pretty darned rude to a sales clerk in a Good Guys electronics shop. Heck, I'd even overlook his track record as an alleged economics authority which, in the early days of the current crisis, consisted of an unbroken string of dead-wrong predictions.
But — I know…you could smell the "but" coming — at some point, he seems to have decided that if he's getting paid enough, he'll do a commercial for anything.