Stephen Vincent wrote:
>William Bennett - former Bush Cabinet Secretary of Education or was it
>Morals? - yesterday, on his syndicated radio program -declared that to abort
>Black babies would reduce the rate and cost of crime in the United States.
>
I confess I did not believe you and thought you overreading until I read
the Times. My apologies. It seems that even the White House is
distancing itself from Bennett, who is outdoing Dr. Laura for hypocrisy
bordering on the pathological. From the Times--
> He went on to call that ''an impossible, ridiculous and morally
> reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these
> far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think,
> tricky.''
>
> Responding later to criticism, Bennett said his comments had been
> mischaracterized and that his point was that the idea of supporting
> abortion to reduce crime was ''morally reprehensible.''
>
Given that there was a length documentary on PBS last night about the
1960s, including Vietnam, I can only think of the words applied to both
LBJ and Nixon and reapply them to Bennett even if the context doesn't
perfectly match: "Pull out like your father should have."
Ken
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