Bill Bennett Lectures the Left on Morals

[LiviaOlivia]

Bill Bennett Lectures the Left on Morals
by catnip
Sat Nov 5th, 2005 at 11:54:45 PM EDT

If you choose to stand on the moral high ground, prepare to be struck down by lightning especially if you are a shameless right-wing hypocrite. Bill Bennett, one of the right-wing’s moral embarrassments and already fried by a couple of lightning bolts himself, has decided that we on the left aren’t outraged enough by the recent leak of the revelations of secret CIA prisons.

Yes - that Bill Bennett – author of The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories who was outed as a problem gambler in 2003 and who, in September, 2005, stated that you could reduce the crime rate if you aborted all black babies.

In the National Review, Bennett writes:

Item: Dana Priest of the Washington Post writes a front-page story on Wednesday headlined, CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons. Pay close attention to the second sentence of the story: "The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents."

"Secret"! "Covert"! So after the press and the Left make a meal of the allegation that people in the White House might have leaked the name of a covert operative, and after we find out that Plame was indeed not a covert operative under the law, the Washington Post — by its own admission — can print classified information that involves covert CIA activity?

This is an outrage.

~snip~

Save your faux outrage, Bennett. If we on the left want lessons about morals, you’re one of the last people we would ever turn to. Why don't you write an article defying Bush and Cheney's torture policies and secret hellholes? Maybe then, we'll listen. Until then, you're just another shill trying to score political points off your dear leader's absolute failure to be a human being with a conscience. That's "conscience", Bennett. Look it up in the dictionary. It's somewhere between "compassionate" and "conservative".

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/11/5/235445/333

[Erika]

1. This is so Faux funny

This jerk talks about aborting Black babies and admits he lost 8 mil to gambling, and he claims to be superior to the left?

[SammyBlue]

9. It's Bill Bennett. You expected anything less.

Bill Bennett's wet dream: He's in Vegas taking Abort Black Babies = Lower Crime Rates for double down against the House's "Full of Shit" card!

[autorank]

2. Wow, that Bill Bennet's taking a real gamble...

:rofl:

[Eric J in MN]

3. Did anyone of the Left say that government secrets should

never be revealed?

I don't think so.

They said that a CIA employee working on wmd shouldn't be outed as an act of vengence.

[unpossibles]

10. again, they don't understand nuance at all

I had a freeper on a local board say something similar (do they get daily newsleters telling the what to think or something?) about how ironic it is that the Left is hypocritical about being mad at the outing of a CIA NOC and about the official acceptance of torture, yet is against the CIA because they use torture.

Not only can the person not understand the difference between something which may happen and it being offically sanctioned, but that just because I disagree with many of the CIA's tactics and uses does not mean I wish one (or more) of their agents to be harmed or to lose her job because of a true political stunt.

Is that so subtle or difficult to understand? It's like the whole support Bush = support the troops BS. I have friends and family who are over there that I care for very much, but that doesn't mean I support Bush or the war (and frankly, neither do they).

[BrklynLiberal]

4. The total brazenness of his hypocrisy leaves me speechless.

:wow:

[punpirate]

5. One of my dreams is that...

... after a lost weekend, Bennett finds himself in the middle of central LA with nothing but his underwear. Not a dime, no cellphone, and nothing but his wits to keep him alive....

[BlueIris]

18. You mean Los Angeles or Louisiana?

I'd rather see him in post-Katrina LA, myself.

[punpirate]

19. I was thinking central Los Angeles...

... lots of people there who wouldn't take kindly about his recent remarks on beneficial eugenics... but, southern Lousiana would do well, too. :)

[thefloyd]

6. Wow

Conservatives scare me simply because of their moral highground belief.

[lebkuchen]

7. If it hadn't been for all the people who suffered and died under the Bush

administration, the last five years wouldn't have lacked for humor.

[upi402]

8. Everyday is opposite day + groundhog day +

propaganda/news day

[Eric J in MN]

11. I wrote about this at SpeakSpeak

in response to your pointing it out:

http://www.speakspeak.org/speak-blog/2005/11/06/there-is-whistle-blowing/

[tsuki]

12. Get the poker chips out of your ears, DeadEye. The prisons

were already being reported in Europe where EU officials are tracking US flights to pinpoint their exact location in former SSRs.

Is Bennett one of the WH's paid journalists?

[funflower]

13. Don't know where Bennett did his legal training, but, according to the

Libby indictment, Plame WAS a covert operative under the law.

(snip)
after we find out that Plame was indeed not a covert operative under the law
(snip)

[Jamastiene]

14. Bill Bennett needs to get his own

act together before he says one word to me. Hey Bill Bennett, bite me.

[xchrom]

15. bill bennett gets all the GOOD drugs!

[mcscajun]

16. Bill Bennett ... Morals. In the same sentence???

:wtf:

I have trouble believing they inhabit the same Universe.

[Vickers]

17. I *loooooove* being lectured by a drunk, racist serial gambler.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

FUCK YOU, BILL!

[Roland99]

20. Was one of the virtues the aborting of black babies? Or gambling? Or...?

[BlueManDude]

21. I love being lectured to by a racist, degenerate gambler.

How these people are still "respected" and asked to give comment on various national issues is baffling.

[DemoTex]

22. Bill Bennett holds court, from his virtuous throne:

[seabeyond]

23. plame wasnt breaking any law, cia torture prisons are breaking law

i know morality, honesty, integrity is a tough one for bennett, but.... this isnt so hard to see, even for him