Re: POLITICAL THREAD -- WTF was Bill Bennett thinking?

Spunky the Tuna wrote:
> I've met WIlliam Bennett and didn't like him (pompous, self-involved,
> ignoramus in my opinion), but I think he's getting a bad rap on his
> recent radio statements about abortion and crime rates. Listening to
> the context of what he said, and his entire statement not just the
> sound bite it created, it sounded to me like he was positing an
> absurd and reprehensible situation in order to point out the
> foolishness of a caller's point. Should he have thought about what
> would be done with his allusion? *** yeah, he's now a professional
> radio puffer, he shoulda known better. Do I think he's a racist
> shithead? Dunno, but I don't think this is the petard upon which to
> hoist him.
>
> Seems a lot like the teacher (in DC?) who was chastised for using the
> word _niggardly_ correctly and accurately in front of a room full of
> ignorami.
>
> And dog knows I'm one of the first around here to pop off about
> racism and racists, so if I can see this is a put up job....

I agree. People are taking his comment out of context, twisting it by
ignoring the hypothetical scenario, and using it to attack him. But that's
politics for you. Bennet should have known better.

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