This is pretty blatant and raw.
Our boy Ben has written one of his yahoo! "personal finance" columns in which he seems to have stolen an idea from Al Franken. Franken famously declared the 1980s the "Al Franken decade." Stein has now declared this downturn the "Ben Stein recession."
This is what I have in mind.
Most people with the responsibility of writing a "personal finance" column would probably construe the adjective "personal" as a reference to the readers thereof. "What can I tell you that will be of some use to you, dear reader, and your financial condition?"
Ben obviously construes the phrase more subjectively. This recession, in particular, is different from other recessions because of the impact it has on me, Ben Stein.
And here's a link to a transcript from back in the day when "Weekend Update" used to carry such analyses.
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