Ken,
It's always good to get press for Dr. Laura, and bad press furthers fame as
well as good press.
My thing is that Dr. Laura, one of the few anti-feminists that'll poke her
head above the feminists and their coterie of "adoring" male journalists,
tells The Truth about women and men's odd co-existences. She gets trashed
for it by "everyone"---except millions of awesomely grateful men and women.
And, Mister Know-It-All, Dr. Laura herself (in her own defense, of course)
says (my radical paraphrasing here)that if a person quits doing what she's
been doing that is nasty, and she sez so---then if she NOW recommends that
others stop doing similar things, she's not a hypocrite.
All this said in Frank-and-Ernest-Speak by me, the So Unhypocrit,
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: Dr. Morality weds Dr. Laura
> 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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