Bennett's blunder
Has Bill Bennett lost his mind?
His stupid and offensive statement, especially coming from someone who's tried to market himself as a purveyor of values, is incomprehensible.
The man once had some credibility. Then came news about his compulsive gambling. Now this.
He's a disaster.
Get lost, Bill.
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I know that bashing Bennett is the activity de jour, but the relevant part of his statement is:
"...would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do,"
Yet no one wants to give him the benefit of quoting him in his entirety.
Seems like taking quotes out of context and making them into something they aren't is a valid journalistic goal these days.
Posted on October 3, 2005 2:25 PM
The link I provided takes you to a transcript with the full context.
I understand the context, but it still didn't make sense for Bennett to say what he did.
Posted on October 3, 2005 2:48 PM
What Bennett said was that such an outlandish solution was absolutely unthinkable...which is pretty clear to me. He didn't advocate or even suggest that it be done, he said that something like that would be absolutely ridiculous. He was making an outlandish statement to illustrate the depth of the problem. What did you see there that I didn't? Sort of like saying that we could solve the illegal immigrant problem by nuking Mexico...too outlandish to even consider, but a statement that shows the seriousness of the problem.
Posted on October 3, 2005 7:30 PM
It's the way he chose to express his outlandish idea that was so ill-advised. He could have said you can abort all male babies to reduce the crime rate. Or abort all babies, for that matter. Or incarcerate everyone between the ages of 14 and 30, whether they've committed a crime (yet) or not. Or created a racial issue, and it was foolish. I doubt he'd do it again.
Posted on October 3, 2005 8:17 PM
I heard an interesting comment by a black journalist the other nite on this subject and he also agreed that the comments were off the mark but he offered a different view from any I have heard here and on other blogs. He made the comment that the intentional comment on abortion of black babies could have been made in a political manner in order to get black voters to think about abortion. Since the Democrats are usually strong backers of abortion rights and bills that pass and the Republicans are against them, he felt it would make sense if the comments were not truely intended to stop and look at the party that they normally supported and question abortion as supported by the Democrats. Hey, it makes sense to me but then I am neither a political journalist nor black. Something new to think about huh.
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