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William Bennett is toast
William Bennett’s “Mourning in America”
Probably not a “racist” but Brainlessness and Arrogance marks his instant demise

Yesterday on his radio show, Mr. Bennett said: “I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you cold abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down...that would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible.” The key word here is “
” as it shows the split second it took for Bennett to realize his career was over and he desperately attempted to redeem himself. It did not work - and he and his sidekick made it worse this morning. to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

Special to the New York Times

By Jeff Koopersmith
(Jeff Koopersmith is the editor emeritus of American Politics Journal)

Every morning I spend from 6 AM to 9 AM listening to Bill Bennett - America’s moralist gambleholic on his new radio show - produced by the neofacist Salem Radio Network. Bennett is one of the most dangerous overeducated men in America and more than most, has constructed the foundation for neonazism among “conservative” Americans.

ABC summed up Bennett’s nitwit remarks truthfully:

“On the Wednesday edition of his radio show, "Bill Bennett's Morning in America," syndicated by Salem Radio Network, a caller raised the theory that Social Security is in danger of becoming insolvent because legalized abortion has reduced the number of tax-paying citizens. Bennett said economic arguments should never be employed in discussions of moral issues.

“If it were your sole purpose to reduce crime,” Bennett said, "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.”
 "That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down," he added.”

The key word here is “
” as is the absolute evidence of the split second it took for Bennett to realize his career was over and his too-late and very desperate attempt to recover and redeem himself by adding the “morally reprehensible” portion of his remarks.

I actually heard him stammer slightly as he added the excusing codicil most likely knowing it would not save his sorry ass.

Of course, it did not work and every liberal in America began a non-stop attack on him, his producers, network, and stations that carry his drivel almost immediately.

I don’t believe Bill Bennett is a racist - however as I pointed out in my book about him - “Corrobillusion,” Bennett although Harvard educated, is just plain donkey stupid.

To illustrate his idiocy, largely based in arrogance, he and his high-pitched radio sidekick made things worse for Bennett this morning - going on the offense rather than simply apologizing for being stupid - not for being a racist. He did neither - and instead his phone screeners produced a non-stop call-in from ridiculous sycophants who embarrassed even Bennett with their shallow defense of his unfortunate statements.



Liberal leaders in the House and Senate have begun to lash out at Bennett and will soon be joined by Leno, The Daily Show and America’s favorite laugh makers. Bennett hasn’t even begun to feel the sting which has driven so many careers into the garbage pail.

Bennett revealed his fear obliquely this morning as he discussed “a walk” he took with his wife and dog yesterday, parenthetically pathetic in that the walk was certainly a personal acknowledgment that Bennett has again threatened his family’s wellbeing and has humiliated them with his arrogant stupidity demonstrated in Las Vegas with his purported millions in gaming losses and the women he reportedly frequented while pretending total loyalty to his “lovely wife” who he oddly refers to as Mrs. Bennett more often than not. During his nonstop pillory of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky’s unfortunate relationship from which Bennett grew wealthy pandering to the dumbest minds in America, most thinking people were not impressed by the his face which appeared - it seemed - 24 hours a day on cable news.

I phoned Donna Wynner this morning and offered to speak to Bennett on the air and to defend him as a racist, but was honest enough to tell his people that I would attack him for being stupid enough to use “aborting Black babies” as one method to decrease the crime rate.

She wrote to Bennett at 6:15 a.m. and, of course, received no reply.

Then I followed with my own email to him warning him that he was digging his grave further and should apologize for being so stupid and naïve while continuing to try and save his neck as an accused racist.

I also cautioned him not to bring on Ann Coulter who was scheduled to defend him - which I think he agreed with since Coulter did not raise her ugly crack head this morning on Bennett’s radio show - at least that I heard. Whether Coulter was smart enough to avoid this sandstorm could be an alternative explanation for her disappearing act, I must say.

Bennett stupidly did appear last night on, of all shows, “Hannity & Colmes” where he attempted to counter Ted Kennedy’s remarks about him by pitifully bringing up the death of Mary Jo Kopechne decades ago at Cape Cod as a reason that Bennett would not listen to Kennedy re morals.

[Let me tell you a hush-hush Mr. Bennett. Ted Kennedy, to my knowledge, was not driving the car that Ms. Kopechne drowned in that night - but that’s another inside story - an aside Bennett might think about.]

To appear on Hannity & Colmes was evidence of Bennett’s understandable and undeniable panic - a terrible mistake as he was playing - again - only to his base of ignorant Americans who worship the high-school drop out Hannity and not to the people who could do him the most harm - Liberals bent on labeling him a racist.

Mr. Bennett pretends to defend himself on moral grounds and to pretend this morning that his (and his wife’s) entire life has been devoted to helping the unfortunate and especially Black Americans. Nothing could be further from the truth. However, claiming his career has been spent attacking Black Americans is just as false. Bennett - most likely because he is such a poor second to his super-lawyer brother - has spent his career as a gold digging professional moralizer - writing books no one reads which bases are intellectually indefensible. He dislikes everyone - White, Black, Brown or red. He is simply a hater.

In fact Bennett, to his buddies, is probably a purse of good laughs - not the intellectual in an ivory tower he would like you to believe. He loves music of all kinds. He loves betting tens of thousands in gaming halls across the world even though he knows he cannot, over the long term, win. He loves the ladies. He loves the booze. And he loves a good joke. Like all Jack-Catholics - Bennett is probably as much fun to spend a lost weekend with as is George W. Bush.

However to suggest that Bennett is a leader - in any sense of the word is absurd. He’s a man echoing the same future outlined in “Death of a Salesman.” - Used up and over-ready to retire.

Mr. Bennett - I have two suggestions for you should you be able to hang onto your radio show even by your fingernails:

1. Get rid of you staff.
2. Get some advice from professionals who know how to build your failing career - not destroy it.

I sincerely doubt you will be able to keep your radio program. Perhaps you should simply retire - although I assume that you took a show - requiring you, at your age, to stumble out of bed at 4 AM, because you needed the money.

This makes me sad.

Posted by: Threretch Angasing4860 2005-09-30
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