But here, he seems to adopt an odd writing style. It's all: I could be wrong, and maybe it's not a good example but ... and maybe it's the wrong comparison, and on the other hand ...
It doesn't sound like he has faith in this article. Maybe he got squeezed by a deadline and just had to dash something off.
“I really do like Ben Stein. His writing is usually clear, and his points are usually ones with which I agree...but”
There’s something the matter with Stein. He’s been acting and thinking strangely. I think he has a brain tumor or his body has been snatched.
Ben went off to college with all the charisma of a hall monitor and the heart of an accountant in search of the perfect econometric; inspired by his father (who was a bigshot economist himself in the employ of one Richard Milhous Nixon) Ben aced his way through all the tough stuff while failing in all the social graces and appeared in full bloom the spitting image of his father before him except for a burning desire to be one of the ‘in crowd,’ to this day the two (or is it three) Steins are at war with the nuts, the bolts and the loose screws that make up the parts bin of politics...
He’s an old horny wolf in a bulging Basset Hound’s baggy body.
But lovable.