Is Ben Stein eccentric or insidious?

His throw back fish head tennis shoes aside, Ben Stein, Writer and Jack of all Trades Joker is in the serious business of distortions and dumbing down the political sharpness of those who consider his pronouncements as relevant social polemics, in that mold of polemics as comedy or comedy as polemics.

Ben Stein is a economic elitist whose latest observation on the Sub Prime Rate impact on society and the economy has nothing to do with humor, unless the humor is that of the well placed Machiavellian exploiting the Rothschildian maxim of money is to be made when blood flows in the streets and the chaos of the Sub prime Rate manipulations sure fits the bill of blood flowing in the streets.

Ben Stein is a hold back to the miscues of economics as a Darwinian struggle when it's used as a controlling imperative.

So what is to be made of Pollyannish Stein crowing that the economy is chugging along nicely, the engine that could distortion, despite the daily tumult of jobs lost, bankruptcy reports and blatant energy price manipulations?

Stein reveals his irrelevance when he says 98% of homes are not in foreclosure and that then begs this: so the default of a measly 2% has caused this national and global recession, where the logic of one oil pipe line destroyed in Nigeria, just one, causes voices to go hoarse in the pit on wall street screaming increase, another record for a barrel of oil.

By Apropos