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The Bennett Libel Divides The Decent Left From The Indecent Left (Dennis Prager Alert)
Townhall.com ^ | 10/04/05 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 10/03/2005 9:56:55 PM PDT by goldstategop

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William Bennett was libeled. Is there really a decent Left any more? The ferocious reaction to a quote taken out of context suggest there's no such integrity on the other side. Otherwise, we'd see true liberals condemn this unfair libel of a good, decent human being.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
1 posted on 10/03/2005 9:57:02 PM PDT by goldstategop
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William Bennett was libeled. Is there really a decent Left any more?

There are few and far between it seems.

2 posted on 10/03/2005 10:08:37 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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Remember, Cronkite said "Americans are too stupid too vote." So, Cronkite said "Blacks are too stupid to vote." Bingo, Gomer, lock him up, case closed.


3 posted on 10/03/2005 10:11:51 PM PDT by Waco
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There is a decent Left? Where?


4 posted on 10/03/2005 10:19:23 PM PDT by TBP
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And, what a surprise, it started at Air America. Despicable scum, all of them. To taint the reputation of an upstanding, intelligent and caring man in this manner is about as low as a human being can get. But then, why would I think they are human beings?


5 posted on 10/03/2005 10:20:25 PM PDT by Rocky (Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
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Of course, the real truth is that Bill Bennett is against infanticide, while most of his detractors are supportive of continued infanticide.


6 posted on 10/03/2005 10:25:31 PM PDT by Maurice Tift
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Remember, Cronkite said "Americans are too stupid too vote."

Don't dismiss Cronkite so quickly.

49 million cast a stupid vote in 2004.

Remember the headline in one of the European papers the day after the election? HOW CAN 49 MILLION AMERICANS BE SO STUPID? or something to that effect? They were talking about Bush voters, of course, but after all the votes were in, the headline did turn out to be true. 49 million people WERE stupid, and voted for Kerry.

I take great satisfaction in knowing the headline was accurate, just a few days early.

7 posted on 10/03/2005 10:33:49 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with really stupid enemies.)
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It is time now for people with integrity on the Left -- and liberal opinion pages -- to show their integrity and defend Bill Bennett against the libel of being a racist who advocated the abortion of all black babies.

It is now time for the sun to set in the east.

8 posted on 10/03/2005 10:34:01 PM PDT by TChad
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Ed Schultz, lol!

Site for the Fargo, North Dakota based syndicated talk show host...

9 posted on 10/03/2005 11:01:00 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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While the article may be true, Mr. Bennett, with all his experience in public life, should have known what the liberal MSM was going to do.

It's like he didn't learn a thing about the MSM from the gambling thing.

When I first heard the snippet on TV, I thought "WTF was he thinking", saying something like that on tape?

I'd fire him just for being colossally stupid and unable to learn, not for what he actually said.

10 posted on 10/04/2005 12:05:26 AM PDT by benjaminjjones
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The real problem I have with his remarks is one that nobody seems to be mentioning to loudly. What he described was genocide. I realize he described it as reprehensible right afterwards, but I'm afraid that's not enough. Genocide is the worst act imaginable. Not simply wiping out a certain person, but annihilating an entire race from the face of the earth is an immoral act without compare.
11 posted on 10/04/2005 12:33:53 AM PDT by fooblier (If you say, "You fool", you will be liable to the hell of fire - Matthew 5:22)
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"What he described was genocide."

Not what he recommended. Big difference. Bill Bennett is pro life! Think about the accusation in that light.

How could a pro-life person be accused of advocating an anti-crime policy of abortion/genocide?

Obviously he can't.

The charges are a Leftist distortion for the indulgent feeding frenzy they thrive on.

12 posted on 10/04/2005 1:06:25 AM PDT by ThirstyMan (Why is it all the dead vote for the Democrat?)
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The Democrats have diluted the credibility of such charges that I really couldn't care less what Bill Bennett said.

It may have been stupid, but it's forgivable when compared to the multitude of the sins of the enemy.

I'm not even interested. I just want to destroy the enemy. Maybe my attitude isn't that great and I'm accepting less? Perhaps, but my thinking is to "thin" the herd AFTER we've driven the rats into the seas and listened to the lamentations of NOW and NARAL.

13 posted on 10/04/2005 2:44:31 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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I listened to that jerk for the first time last summer while I was out west traveling with my wife. We passed through N. Dakota, and I caught his show while trying to get a conservative talk show. Like all libs, he's long on unsubstantiated allegations and vicious criticism and real short on any practical solutions to problems. Just another lib whiner.


14 posted on 10/04/2005 2:44:50 AM PDT by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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I have heard or read no comments on the validity of Mr. Bennett's assertion. Would a reasonable person conclude the crime rate, in the USA, would decrease substantially if all African-American woman were to exercise their freedom of choice? If the answer is yes then, judging by the response to Mr. Bennett's thought experiment, "The American people can't handle the truth." As Jack Nichelson once said.
15 posted on 10/04/2005 3:52:57 AM PDT by Parawan
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There is no argument with 'plain and simple truth.' The numbers of minority offenders in jail/prison back this up. Reduce the overall pool number from whence they come and the number of prisoners has to go down.

I was listening to his program when he posed a hypothetical thought about it and didn't think anything other than as he'd meant it. If the 'hypothetical' turns out to be the simple truth, then the offended parties 'just better put some ice on that', as Slick would say.


16 posted on 10/04/2005 4:09:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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That "49 million" headline was from the t*ssers at the Daily Mirror.


17 posted on 10/04/2005 4:38:29 AM PDT by agere_contra
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" . . . He's out there advocating the murder of all black babies so that we can bring down crime."

Actually, that was Margaret Sanger. And she didn't call it murder, she called it "choice".

18 posted on 10/04/2005 7:58:47 AM PDT by Kenton ("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
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The university's College Democrats president told the Cincinnati Enquirer: "I think it's horrible to say that an entire race of people shouldn't have been born."

This is too rich. An entire race of what? I wonder just what this Dimocrat thinks actually happens to all these "people" who are not born?

Cordially,

19 posted on 10/04/2005 8:13:05 AM PDT by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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I'd fire him just for being colossally stupid and unable to learn, not for what he actually said.

The only people who are colossally stupid and apparently unable to learn are those in the Media who have defamed him. If speaking the truth about abortion killing causes these leftists to reflexively expose themselves as the completely irrational bigots they really are, all the better. If Mr. Bennett worked for you then you would be firing a very savvy person, not based on the truth, but because of your fear of the MSM.

Cordially,

20 posted on 10/04/2005 8:37:09 AM PDT by Diamond (Qui liberatio scelestus trucido inculpatus.)
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