Friday, October 06, 2006
Ben Stein loses touch with reality
Those of us who choose to live a life less political know Ben Stein as the monotone economics teacher from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, a grey, bespectacled figure reiterating the name "Bueller...Bueller...Bueller" far more times than necessary. The more pop-culture-philic of us might recognize him as the host of short lived Comedy Central enterprises and Visine commercials. Few know him as he truly is: lawyer, author, economist, speechwriter, and political pundit.
Oh, yeah... He's also batshit insane.
In a recent article written for the American Spectator, Stein wades into the moral quagmire of "Foleygate". Rather than blaming the Catholic Church or the Vagina Monologues, as conservative pundits have been want to do of late, Stein takes the high road. He avoids the subject of blame all together, preferring to focus on...what else?...Bill Clinton.
Stein refers to Foley as "a poor misguided Republican man who had a romantic thing for young boys" and describes his behavior as "asking them what they were wearing". (tomayto, tomahto; "what are you wearing", "where do you unload it") He then derides the "party of gays" for coming down on Foley. After all, he was, according to Stein, just doing what gay men do naturally: loving young boys. His evidence for this claim? Apparently gay men love surf movies. Who knew?
Put down that rainbow-colored lynch-rope, reader! There's no need to burn your VHS copies of Bueller or start writing nasty hate letters. Ben has a perfectly legitimate excuse for making defaming, unsubstantiated accusations towards an entire class of people. His "very best friend is gay". Apparently, according to Steinlogic™, it is perfectly reasonable for me to categorically state that white men are obsessed with their small penises, as long as I hang out with my buddy Aaron on the weekends.
Am I missing some kind of inside joke, or has Ben Stein truly lost it?
Oh, yeah... He's also batshit insane.
In a recent article written for the American Spectator, Stein wades into the moral quagmire of "Foleygate". Rather than blaming the Catholic Church or the Vagina Monologues, as conservative pundits have been want to do of late, Stein takes the high road. He avoids the subject of blame all together, preferring to focus on...what else?...Bill Clinton.
Stein refers to Foley as "a poor misguided Republican man who had a romantic thing for young boys" and describes his behavior as "asking them what they were wearing". (tomayto, tomahto; "what are you wearing", "where do you unload it") He then derides the "party of gays" for coming down on Foley. After all, he was, according to Stein, just doing what gay men do naturally: loving young boys. His evidence for this claim? Apparently gay men love surf movies. Who knew?
Put down that rainbow-colored lynch-rope, reader! There's no need to burn your VHS copies of Bueller or start writing nasty hate letters. Ben has a perfectly legitimate excuse for making defaming, unsubstantiated accusations towards an entire class of people. His "very best friend is gay". Apparently, according to Steinlogic™, it is perfectly reasonable for me to categorically state that white men are obsessed with their small penises, as long as I hang out with my buddy Aaron on the weekends.
Am I missing some kind of inside joke, or has Ben Stein truly lost it?
// posted by Jason Seneca @ 6:17 PM 
