Ben Affleck, who's been popping up all over D.C., spoke his mind to Politico.com at the Huffington Post Ball Monday night. The actor was particularly peeved over Newsweek's coverage of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. "Newsweek, I feel like, is basically culpable for the first [$350 billion]" of the bailout plan, Affleck said. "They did like this hagiography on Paulson. They did that and they made it very difficult - it was one of many factors that made it difficult for people to say . . . hold on a second, what is the difference between now and a week from now? Why can't we examine this more closely? It's the same kind of fear and demagoging that was used to authorize the Iraq War, was resurrected to authorize a piece of legislation which then squandered a lot of our tax dollars - tax dollars, in fact, that we don't have."
--more--" At least his contribution is more than LiLo's.