Thanks for the reply. I still wonder why the White House even needed to react to it? All answers or comments could have been deferred back to Bill Bennett. The administration reacted to a nasty rumor and in the process smeared an innocent man.
Concerning Bennett's comment, the landscape is peppered with PC land mines if you are a conservative. If we observed every tenet of political correctness, our side of the aisle couldn't utter a syllable without being slandered as racist. If Bill Bennett felt the need to speak on this issue, let him. I am weary of always having to bow to the totalitarian tendencies of the Left. Besides, once the full transcript of what Bennett said is widely known, this story will disappear. The leftist media mills no longer hold a monopoly on public opinion. To quote Dan Rather - "courage."
Concerning Katrina fallout, I really don't see that as having a lasting effect on the conservative movement. This is especially true since many of the stories of wanton crime are now being disproved. They too will disappear; especially since Blanco was just paid off with a large sack of cash.
"If we observed every tenet of political correctness, our side of the aisle couldn't utter a syllable without being slandered as racist."
Exactly! And this is by design. The Left would like nothing more than to declare the Republican Party and/or Conservatives an outlaw ideology that is a threat to the country...much in the same vein that Germany has done in their country.
The Left's embrace of Political Correctness is nothing more than a tool for them to promote and advance their agenda, unchallenged, by others with opposing views. They have succesfully done this by creating what is essentially an "endangered species" list, made up of victims with so-called grievances. Anyone who dares to deny the demands of these victims via the Democrat Party is immediately demonized...regardless of the facts.
This agenda, which even includes things like Hate-Crimes legislation, is an effort to limit the speech of all those who would dare oppose the Left's idealism. It's ironic that the very people who speak of tolerance and diversity, are themselves, the greatest threat to that which they supposedly promote. It's not even about the Left wanting honest debate anymore; they simply want to outlaw that which they don't agree with.