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2005-09-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Threretch Angasing4860 2005-09-30 18:45|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The poster provides no link. I searched the writer's name at the NYT site, and found nothing, going back to 1981. I Googled the writer's name, and discovered him described as, "JEFF KOOPERSMITH is a political consultant, opinion research authority, policy analyst, and self-described 'renegade lobbyist.' " who is fond of "lambasting of Ann Coulter and her ilk," and thinks Michael Jackson was lynched.

I'm afraid I can't give much weight to his opinion, even though the New York Times made Bennett's remark a front page story -- mit picture, yet!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-30 19:17|| 2005-09-30 19:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Appearing with Roy Innis or Allan Keyes would have been a better choice for rehab ... Bennett is no racist, but he did suffer a brain fart not too dissimilar to the over-effusive praising of Strom Thurmond at his birthday party.

Posted by TrentLott 2005-09-30 19:18|| 2005-09-30 19:18|| Front Page Top

#3 damn facts and statistics.... call him a racist and he's toast. Of course, the NY Times, and (retired) ace reporter Fox Butterfield have pondered for over a decade now why the crime rate keeps dropping but the prison population is going up....
Blacks overwhelmingly commit more crimes per capita, that's all he was saying. The facts back that up

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-30 19:25|| 2005-09-30 19:25|| Front Page Top

#4 btw - this pap isn't WOT by any means - page 3 at best

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-30 19:25|| 2005-09-30 19:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Yawn, Page 3 maybe.

Bennet is not freedom frendly, screw him. I don't need the likes of him telling me what I can and can not do as an adult.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-30 19:30|| 2005-09-30 19:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah, a lynching party. The left sure does love to string people up for thought crimes, don't they?

Go read proteinwisdom.com; Jeff's been on a roll about the frightening tendency in modern times to let the lowest nincompoop decide what someone meant, regardless of what the original speaker actually meant.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-30 19:30|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-30 19:30|| Front Page Top

#7 If you read what Bennett said in full context, you will see that this is a smear campaign. But it's the NYT, so you knew that anyway.

Posted by Darrell 2005-09-30 19:31|| 2005-09-30 19:31|| Front Page Top

#8 No link. I recommend deletion.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-30 19:35|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-30 19:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Ima think retch isa brillant poestr

Posted by halfEmpty 2005-09-30 19:36|| 2005-09-30 19:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Of course it's a lynching ... they weren't making a dent on Tom DeLay so they pounce on Bennett. Bob's only sin was making it easy for them.

Posted by TrentLott 2005-09-30 19:37|| 2005-09-30 19:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Here's the real story:
http://www.nationalreview.com/mccarthy/mccarthy200509301104.asp

Posted by Darrell 2005-09-30 19:44|| 2005-09-30 19:44|| Front Page Top

#12 The call is linked here, judge for yourself.

Personally I don't agree with Bennett's social conservatism but he is one of our nation's most intelligent and articulate public spokespersons for the political right. It's no wonder the libs are on the warpath and will do absolutely anything to kill his show (which I recommend as the best political talk radio program bar none).

Posted by AzCat 2005-09-30 19:46|| 2005-09-30 19:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Intelligent? This is his second big strike.

Posted by Speanter Shinegum3548 2005-09-30 19:49|| 2005-09-30 19:49|| Front Page Top

#14 There's a ton of stuff on the Internet about Bennet's foot-in-mouth problem, at Townhall, NewsMax, NRO (and more on the Corner), and half a dozen other places. Several blogs have also entered the fray (too many to list). Basically, Bennett got in trouble for telling the truth, and the politically correct witch hunt is on. Many, many people should be toast, but most of them are the ones attacking Bennett. (Disclaimer: I'm not a friend of Bennett's, I never listen to his show, and I didn't think much of him any time he was in government. He's earned any trouble he's in.)

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-09-30 19:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-30 19:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Intelligent? This is his second big strike.

Intelligent + articular + conservative has always equalled three strikes in the eyes of the left.

Posted by AzCat 2005-09-30 19:52|| 2005-09-30 19:52|| Front Page Top

#16 PIMF.

Posted by AzCat 2005-09-30 19:52|| 2005-09-30 19:52|| Front Page Top

#17 welllllll

he made himself a target of opportunity back when he was preaching virtue and was found to be supping the vice of gambling to the tune of big $. Didn't matter to his attackers that it was his money and he obviously could afford it. Same thing here. He's a target of convenience. WSJ's Best Of The Web has a long take on this today. Good quotes and notes. Bill's right on the money, and no racist

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-30 19:56|| 2005-09-30 19:56|| Front Page Top

#18 WITCH!! WITCH! Stone him! Stone Him!

Posted by hysterical leftie 2005-09-30 21:17|| 2005-09-30 21:17|| Front Page Top

#19 All politics is a coalition - compared to the DemoLefies, however, the GOP-Right as a class are practically virgins, or at least young Ron Howard or the Beaver. As someone whom listens to Bennett many times, and whom was listening on the episode in question, this article is sheer Fifth Column/LeftMedia emotionalist anti-Conservative
hype.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-09-30 21:35|| 2005-09-30 21:35|| Front Page Top

#20 Bennett IMO is not racist. I periodically catch and enjoy his radio program. But there are two problems:

1. Bennett espouses traditional values and thus is in the spotlight by those who are opposed to traditional values.

2. Bennett failed to realize how poisonous the MSM is in stripping out words (from context) in order to fit their own interests. The gambling hubbub should have been a lesson for him about the MSM's interest in damming traditional valued people, particularly Bennett.

3. Bennett and his persona will survive this onslaught by the MSM. He realizes he can't win with the MSM (and he can't), so he is playing to his listening audience and admirers.

4. The fact is, the MSM is at war with conservative, traditional valued people and public figures who espouse them. Bennett, Armstrong, et al, must select their words more carefully because anything they say publicly will and is amplified.

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-30 21:41|| 2005-09-30 21:41|| Front Page Top

#21 oops, four problems

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-30 21:42|| 2005-09-30 21:42|| Front Page Top

#22 This is going to be what we call a 'shitstorm'....

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