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Shameful Attacks (on Bill Bennett)
NRO.com ^ | 9-30-05 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 09/30/2005 6:24:29 PM PDT by veronica

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1 posted on 09/30/2005 6:24:30 PM PDT by veronica
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To: veronica

Sadly the white house has validated the attacks on Bennett. All the lefty talking heads are making sure that everyone knows that the white house has denounced Bennetts comments.


2 posted on 09/30/2005 6:28:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: veronica

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


3 posted on 09/30/2005 6:30:09 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: cyborg

I still don't understand what part of what he said was wrong?


4 posted on 09/30/2005 6:35:13 PM PDT by justche (The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.)
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To: justche

Figures as much.


5 posted on 09/30/2005 6:35:58 PM PDT by cyborg
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Foot-in-mouth disease...should have thougt through his statements better.

Nonsense! The statements were very well reasoned. The critics fall into two camps: (1) those unfamiliar with the pro-abortion (and racist) position he was criticizing and (2) those who share that pro-abortion position and want to prey on the ignorance of the typical TV viewer to destroy the credibility of pro-life people. The first group, sadly, consists mostly of conservatives. I assume the White House statement was intended to soothe their anxieties.

6 posted on 09/30/2005 6:36:49 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: cyborg
Foot-in-mouth disease...should have thought through his statements better.

No, I don't think so. If you can't speak the truth then the PC "thought police" have won.

Regards,
GtG

7 posted on 09/30/2005 6:36:55 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: cyborg

That didn't answer my question to you, but thanks for responding I suppose.


8 posted on 09/30/2005 6:38:15 PM PDT by justche (The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.)
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To: madprof98

Okay nevermind.


9 posted on 09/30/2005 6:38:24 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

The outrage is false outrage to begin with. It took nearly two full days before someone told the usefull idiots to be outraged.


10 posted on 09/30/2005 6:40:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: cripplecreek
Sadly the white house has validated the attacks on Bennett

Leave the White House out of it. They should have never been asked in the first place, but what they you don't mind carrying the lib media's water yourself.

11 posted on 09/30/2005 6:40:18 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: justche

Basically, he said that some of the black children who are in utero will grow up to be criminals.

Who'da thunk?

I can guarantee that if you aborted every Polish/American baby, the crime rate would drop. Being Polish that is.

No matter who the group is, the crime rate will drop.

Bennett's crime was saying "black" while being white.

Question, would anyone have gotten on Walter Williams for saying this?


13 posted on 09/30/2005 6:41:42 PM PDT by netmilsmom (God blessed me with a wonderful husband.)
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To: cyborg

I don't have anything to say about whatever it was.


14 posted on 09/30/2005 6:42:15 PM PDT by claudiustg (Vote for one Democrat, vote for them all...)
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To: cyborg
Give us Janis Rogers Brown and the Dems will regret mightily this frying of Bennett. Because, this is the turning point. The statement that makes obvious the perfidy of the Democratic party and the awesome evil that has been committed against the Black community by supposed compassion that is actually a more sinister crime than many committed by the most evil souls in history.

The outcome of the "Great Society" has been the wholesale destruction of the Black family and all of the opportunity that Black people where starting to strive for and enjoy in the opening days of the 60's.

This was undertaken to placate and hold the poor in dependency and create a base of dependent people who are afraid of losing their "support". To make people this helpless, they destroyed the families, discredited the fathers, and murdered their children in the millions.

Now with Bill Bennett's comments, the horror of abortion. Of the deliberate Eugenic experiment that has been played out on the Black community is brought to the surface just like the horror of dependency that was exposed in New Orleans.

The Democrats see this as a turning point, but they don't understand that the turning point is that of Black Americans looking to the Republican party for an opening into DIGNITY, THE COURAGE OF FAITH, and INDEPENDENCE.

15 posted on 09/30/2005 6:42:22 PM PDT by dalight
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>>Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, thought much the same thing as Bennett.<<

Apparently you didn't hear the entire call.
Please, you are looking idiotic by posting this.


16 posted on 09/30/2005 6:42:41 PM PDT by netmilsmom (God blessed me with a wonderful husband.)
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To: veronica

This column was one of the most clear presentations of what Bennett said that I have heard all day.

Rush Limbaugh was a waste of airtime on the subject... having already doused himself in stupid juice over the McNabb issue, he couldn't even comment with any specificity as to the premise behind Bennett's moral equation.

I like McCarthy's use of the phrase "ethnic-grievance industry". There are literally people who wake up every days with the sole mission in life to find something that MIGHT be racially offensive.


17 posted on 09/30/2005 6:42:41 PM PDT by Nice50BMG (3 books to read this year: The Bible (God), Bringing Up Boys (Dobson), Winning the Future (Newt))
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To: Tom Swedge
Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, thought much the same thing as Bennett.

Nice try, troll. Did you even bother to read the article?

18 posted on 09/30/2005 6:43:23 PM PDT by Bob
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To: cyborg

I agree. He's so bright and articulate and yet he made his point in the clumsiest way. To qualify the idea of aborting all black babies by saying it would be "impossible, ridiculous, morally reprehensible" doesn't help. That's almost like saying 'but we can't do if for these specific reasons'. Saying it is morally reprehensible is a gross understatement.

Besides, each racial or ethnic group is responsible for some amount of crime, so aborting all babies in any one group would decrease crime. Even his point doesn't make any sense.


19 posted on 09/30/2005 6:43:45 PM PDT by carola
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To: dalight

You may be right, esp. about the true motives of the democrats coming to light.


20 posted on 09/30/2005 6:44:06 PM PDT by cyborg
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