Shameful Attacks (on Bill Bennett)

NRO.com ^ | 9-30-05 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[Texas Songwriter]

No! Sanger tried to empliment the planned destruction of the black race with her little tool, Planned Parenthood.

Bennett has, for all of his life, stood against abortion, and stated clearly that the example he gave would be morally reprehensible.

Why do you keep repeating lies? Look at what the man said.

[Palladin]

Note to Bill Bennett:

THINK before you SPEAK!!!

[TheForceOfOne]

I think political correctness brought us to this point. In the political arena it isn't so much as what was said as who said it. With the likes of Charlie Rangel and others getting a free ticket to say the most stupidest racial comments they can dream up it is beyond hypocritical to attach Bennett for what was nothing more than poorly chosen words is discussion about a book.

It is an entirely separate issue when you start talking about who commits the crimes and how to rectify that situation and surely know one who listened to the entire discussion with Bennett can say he wish the death of black people as a cure to ills of society.

Bennett is not a racist and he didn't become one with this moveon.org/Soros generated hit piece taken out of context. When will we learn to stop believing the propaganda of the MSM and the talking points of the left?

Moveon.org posts this garbage each day and all the liberal news outlets run with it as fact. Talking points for the day, and just listen to the talking heads and they always repeat the same phrases on any given day as if it was scripted and emailed to all Democratic outlets of propaganda.

Why are Conservatives held to a higher level of scrutiny and mistrust on what we say when that measuring stick doesn't apply to Liberals at all?

We had better be careful or we will play right into the hands of Liberals who wish to cast the right as corrupt and evil and if the do we will suffer at the 2006 & 2008 elections and the rats will gain new undeserved power.

[eeriegeno]

Bennett said absolutely nothing wrong! He was speaking from the heart, using known statistics, and basically saying how wrong abortion is!

Ted Kennedy called Bennett a racist. And I loved Bennett's response to that (paraphrasing), "I will not answer to Teddy Kennedy, a man who may have been responsible for a woman's death, who should not be in the US Senate!"

Once again, the liberal media will twist things to make things appear what they are not! And Teddy Kennedy gets away with spreading his liberal disease once again?

[Palladin]

...or he could have said "If you abort every female baby, the cellphone companies would go out of business"...


(Ducking for cover)

[Ken H]

"Iwan is wight next to Iwaq."

Good one!

....our PC human resources director found it racially offensive, and I got consoled.

Nice of her to extend her sympathy:)

(If she wasn't so do-able, I'd be pissed...)

You know the Ann Coulter Rule...

[Blessed]

>Note to Bill Bennett:

THINK before you SPEAK!!!<

Note to Palladin.Rather presumptious to presume you have the intellect to pass judgement on anything Bill Bennett says.

[Brian_Baldwin]

I haven't agreed with the White House on some important things of late, i.e. Bush isn't protecting our border(s) and such, but I got to agree with Bush on this one.

I stand by what I posted on this forum in a previous item a few hours ago regarding Bennett:

It's true the left-wing will use this to fan the fires of hatred, and that is exactly why what Bennett said was so dumb. And it's convoluted besides.

The way he said it was tortuous, and then what he added to it (no doubt because he suddenly realized he said something sort of really dumb) was just as tortuous. I mean, abortion isn’t the number one issue with me but if abortion is something that is an important issue, especially if you are pro-Live (and I am), then you got to wonder why anyone would even look for an excuse or any positive benefit from it such as reduced crime.

Actually, with all the illegal aliens invading us from Mexico and Grand Theft Auto going out of control as a result, I wonder if crime really is down – certainly more abortions among the black community would be offset by the invasion as far as crime is concerned. And, saying such abortion would reduce crime is way of a stretch – yes, black men commit crime way out of proportion from their population, thus a “higher rate”, over all crime statistics depend on the crime. I mean, most homosexual rape of little boys is by Caucasian men, and for that matter I believe most child stalkers and child rapists are Caucasian men as well, but I am not sure.

So, yes, Bennett probably wasn’t saying what he said in a racist vein, but it can sure sound like it to some ears.

Real dumb, Bennett. Thanks for helping the conservative movement with this stupid remark.

VOTE FOR ARNOLD SECOND TERM

[loveliberty2]

This attack on Bill Bennett by shameless Democratic leaders and their "talking heads" and "hangers-on" like Alan Colmes reveals their intellectual shallowness and inability (or unwillingness) to carry on a debate on the precise premise Dr. Bennett was discussing.

Perhaps their reluctance is based on facts which such a discussion might reveal. For instance, a visit here and clicking on the "Editorials" tab, then "Mar2005," would provide shocking and little-known information for many average Americans--information that might provoke consternation and alarm for some. A discussion, with footnotes, on the same subject may be found here.

One would think that, in their eagerness to criticize a scholar like Bennett because he is seen as a strong advocate for life, principled individuals would be ashamed to hang their pettiness and ignorance out there, as wash on a clothesline, for all to see; therefore, one must conclude that they are, indeed, too shallow and uninformed to debate him on the issues he chose.

[luvbach1]

Of course, everyone knows that blacks don't commit crime at a rate disproportionate to their percent of the population. So why did B use them in his example of an outrageous and completely hypothetical abortion proposal that he would never embrace?

[goldstategop]

What funny is liberals being judgmental about Bennett. These are the same people who are for a non-judgmental society. But its okay to throw the first stone at conservatives - every one knows they're evil and deserve to fry.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[veronica]

This attack on Bill Bennett by shameless Democratic leaders and their "talking heads" and "hangers-on" like Alan Colmes reveals their intellectual shallowness and inability (or unwillingness) to carry on a debate on the precise premise Dr. Bennett was discussing.

Mental midgets having a knee-jerk reaction.

[TASMANIANRED]

100% wrong.

[luvbach1]

Sadly the white house has validated the attacks on Bennett.

This can only give the "criticism "legs." Reminds me of when President Bush called border watchers vigilantes. How many conservatives need to be skewered by the POTUS before his "conservative credentials" need be questioned? Given the reigning "gotcha" climate, Bennett should have avoided that particular hypothetical. The way he immediately tried to mitigate it showed he may have foreseen the firestorm to come.

[DB]

That's easy.

The left doesn't feel alive unless it outraged at something.

If nothings available they have to event it.

[loveliberty2]

"Note to Bill Bennett: THINK before you SPEAK!!!"

Please!!!!

Doesn't anyone recognize the fact that he did and does think before he speaks, and that is precisely the problem.

Thinking, understanding context, taking into account context, and having intelligent debate, while remaining on the subject, are things that the Far Left either will not, or cannot, do!

Let's be certain we are not guilty of the same fault.

[veronica]

The left doesn't feel alive unless it outraged at something...

They are a smug, mean, bunch of losers.

[luvbach1]

Foot-in-mouth disease...should have thought through his statements better.

He did, but right after he said it. That's why he went out of his way to explain it.

[Graybeard58]

Did you hear Bennett on H&C last night when he blasted drunk fat ted, saying he had no right to lecture anyone on morality, because kennedy caused the death of a young woman and that kennedy shouldn't even be a U.S. Senator?

It did my heart a world of good.

[luvbach1]

Yes, big head Ted, always seems out of place as a moral arbiter.