Shameful Attacks (on Bill Bennett)

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

[Sir Gawain]

but what they you don't mind carrying the lib media's water yourself.

Your sentence doesn't make sense. In addition it's too bad the White House was the ones carrying the liberal media's water on this matter.

[gogeo]

Look, there's no point in trying to correct people who are, to use the phrase of the day, "stuck on stupid." Bennett made a morally, intellectually, and factually correct argument. Those who are offended reveal more about themselves than about Bennett.


If folks can't follow an intellectual discussion, they should stay on the metaphorical porch.

[Victoria Delsoul]

But Bennett’s obvious point was that crime reduction is not the be-all and end-all of good policy. You would not approve of something you see as despicable — such as reducing an ethnic population by abortion — simply because it would have the incidental effect of reducing crime.

Abortion, moreover, is a grave moral issue in its own right. It merits consideration on its own merits, wholly apart from its incidental effects on innumerable matters — crime rate and social security solvency being just two.

[GOPJ]

BINGO:

That he was right in this seems to matter little. Bennett is being fried by the PC police and the ethnic-grievance industry, which have disingenuously ripped his minor point out of its context in a shameful effort to paint him as a racist. He’s about as bigoted as Santa Claus.

[Black Tooth]

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<<

Ha!

Too bad. Deal with reality buddy.

The White House commented and stated his remarks were "inappropriated".

That's the facts. Don't like it? To bad.

[eddiemunster]

Rush must have received W's memo in time for the show. "Rush, I'm going to bitchslap Bennett today so forget about discussing it in a rational manner. Thanks, W".

[Black Tooth]

Or should I say :The White House commented and stated his remarks were "inappropriate".

[Deb]

All I know is, if Rodney King had been aborted L.A. would be crime-free.

[Black Tooth]

All I know is, if Rodney King had been aborted L.A. would be crime-free.

Or if Ohio wouldn't have grown a Charle Manson, LA would have been better off. Goes the same for Boxer, Grey Davis, From NY, and Tex Watson, Charley's buddy from Texas....

[Black Tooth]

Seems California should have built a large fence.

[JSteff]

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

As usual his statements were well spoken and well thought out. Obviously you did not hear the entire statement or pay attention to the context.

Sad.

[Black Tooth]

As usual his statements were well spoken and well thought out. Obviously you did not hear the entire statement or pay attention to the context.

Does that go the same for the White House and their negative comments?

[Ken H]

Rush must have received W's memo in time for the show.

I thought Rush was pretty strong in his defense, at least in the segment I listened to. Did you have a different take?

[JSteff]

"Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, thought much the same thing as Bennett."

Only she did not say that any reasonable person would find it abhorrent to think that way. Nice try though.

[PISANO]

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

Simply put........he said NOTHING wrong. The PC crowd from the MSM and leftists everywhere just can't handle the TRUTH, especially when it comes from the mouth of a conservative and it has ANYTHING to do with RACE.

By the way I am still trying to find out what FEMA did wrong in NO after Katrina!!!

Neither of us should hold our breath until we find out!

[Black Tooth]

I thought Rush was pretty strong in his defense, at least in the segment I listened to. Did you have a different take?

So Rush went against what the White House said? Have they figured out they're statements are totally conflicting yet?

[justche]

I was actually responding to someone else. I agree with you on both 'wrongs' and agree we shouldn't hold our breath!

[Blzbba]

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


You don't get what's politically wrong with a white man in power discussing the effects of aborting black babies? Why not use 'white babies'? Or 'Christian babies'? Hell, you abort ANY ethnic group of babies and crime rate goes down.

It was an assinine thing for a politician to say.

[andie74]

If you are saying that he believed that the crime rate would diminish were all black babies to be aborted, you are a PIG and do not understand (purposely, I suspect) what he said. He specifically denounced the remark. He did NOT agree with it.

Not only that, Bennett was showing how foolish it is to make arguments against abortion using statements such as 'if the aborted people were around, we'd have more taxation'. That same line of reasoning leads to such reprehensible nonsense as promoting abortion by talking about reducing the crime rate.

This isn't a racist comment. It is merely showing the flaw in the way the argument is being presented. I heard the thing on Tuesday, and didn't think much of it.

[Deb]

If the White House (that's a building, you know) had been presented with all the facts instead of the usual snarky, ambush question from David Gregory or Terry Moran to Scott McClellan at the daily WH briefing, I feel confident said reporters would have been told to "Eat shit, losers...and don't mess with Texas or the presidential buds!"

Now, you can get off this your own self.