Amen, brother! What drives me nuts about this whole phony controversy is that two supposed "news" reporters spent a considerable amount of time trying to nail Bennett, and this is the best they could do. Does anybody seriously think they were only checking to see if Bennett lost too much dough playing video poker, or were they asking if he got a room, and had (ahem) company?
While "Rev." Jesse Jackson was advising Clinton about how to handle the revelation of BJs in the Oval Office, he brought his mistress to the WH while she was carrying his bastard daughter! But no, Bennett's the real hypocrite because he plays too much slots! Did either of those reporters give a rat's about problem gambling before they found out they could point a finger at Bennett?
Don't get me wrong -- I have been among the first in the pool when it came to bashing Trent Lott and Michael Savage for their diarrhea-of-the-mouth episodes, but that is because they said things that were undeniably reprehensible. I would have taken Bennett to task IF he had been preaching against the dangers of gambling, but he never has, and no one, to my knowledge, has ever faulted him for not doing so. He's NOT a "hypocrite." People have been projecting their own values and opinions onto him when they had no right to.