| Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| Moroning in America |
What to do with the Bookie of Virtues, Bill Bennett, after he writes a Fristian prescription for exterminating crime by aborting Black babies? Balletshooz says fire the bastard, "don't ask him to apologize." Well, he's already been asked, Mr. or Mrs. Shooz, and he ain't doin' it. Said Bennett to CNN:
"I was putting forward a hypothetical proposition. Put that forward. Examined it. And then said about it that it's morally reprehensible. To recommend abortion of an entire group of people in order to lower your crime rate is morally reprehensible. But this is what happens when you argue that the ends can justify the means," he told CNN.
"I'm not racist, and I'll put my record up against theirs," referring to Pelosi and other critics. "I've been a champion of the real civil rights issue of our times -- equal educational opportunities for kids."
"We've got to have candor and talk about these things while we reject wild hypotheses," Bennett said.
"I don't think people have the right to be angry, if they look at the whole thing. But if they get a selective part of my comment, I can see why they would be angry. If somebody thought I was advocating that, they ought to be angry. I would be angry."
"But that's not what I advocate."
Asked if he owed people an apology, Bennett replied, "I don't think I do. I think people who misrepresented my view owe me an apology." Yes, right. Well while you're holding your breath waiting for the foolish world to apologize to you, Mr. Bennett, could you put down the craps dice for a moment so that I can explain just two things:
1. The problem with what you said is not that you examined a "wild hypothesis" out loud, it's that you appear to believe an equally wild -- and totaly defamatory -- hypothesis: that the existence of crime in the United States is specifically caused by the presence -- the mere presence -- of Black people (such that if no more Black people were born, crime would reflexively be reduced); and
2. The fact that you don't get that makes you an idiot.
Thanks for listening.
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