Invincible Ignorance

Oct 01, 2005 08:09

Last night, Leigh and I watched a ReplayTV'ed Daily Show from Thursday evening. It ended with an audio clip from Bill Bennett's radio show that, from my search of the Internet this morning, we must have been among the last in America to hear. But in case anyone missed it, Bennett's remarks were that "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your ( Read more... )

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jupiterjenkins October 1 2005, 15:25:59 UTC
This man drove me nuts when
he was Secretary of Education.

One priest I worked for thought
he was wonderful.

Needless to say, this didn't
help my opinion of the priest.

And you have heard of Bennett's
own public vice of gambling.

Oh well I guess that's an
ad hominem comment.

I'm almost sorry.

And right right he doesn't
seem to understand connecting
"black babies" with crime
rate is a classic example
of specious reasoning.

But of course he probably
(almost certainly) supported
Charles Murray's Bell Curve
book that tried to resurrect
the crazy racism of the US
using "Science."

I think this dude is wacko.

But hey it's just my opinion.

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