THIS ACTUALLY APPEARED IN "THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH"! HOTT DAMN!!! Good on you, MIKE HARDIN!!!
This blew me away!! Someone saying what I would say, and in the pages of the "Dispatch"!!!
Watch!
The fucking morons will be sending condemnations of his "unacceptable" "political" comments to the "Letters" page!
Take to the streets - Nov. 2nd !!
- Uke Man
COMMENTARY
Bennett’s racist talk of genocide shameful
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
MIKE HARDEN
For the sake of getting to the sad heart of the matter on the comments of William J. Bennett, host of the show Morning in America, could we put aside the issue of party and political bent and talk about the man?
Last week, Bennett said to a national radio audience: "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose — you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
It makes no difference whether the speaker is Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. To insinuate those labels into the discussion muddies the water with cheap distraction and partisanship.
Anyone who would openly ponder racial genocide should be ashamed to draw breath in the presence of the balance of humankind. That such a person should be a national arbiter of rectitude — as opposed to a candidate for grand cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan — is staggering.
Bennett, through self-promotion, managed to elevate himself to the status of czar of public morality, a sort of true north on the compass of virtue.
He has commanded $50,000 a speech to bloviate on personal responsibility and conscience. His books, including The Book of Virtues, have been best sellers. In his view, avarice apparently is one of the lesser deadly sins.
It is time for the American public to speak to Bennett in the only clear language he understands. After all, inasmuch as his comment was racist and malignantly sociopathic, it was also classist.
The world of this nation’s William J. Bennetts is a world of gentlemen’s clubs and gentlemen’s agreements, of country clubs and covenants. In such insular comfort, there is sometimes a disconnect with how the other half lives.
The only way to shake William Bennett to his eyeteeth is to hit him in the wallet. Don’t buy his books. Don’t book his lectures. Don’t give him a soapbox in venues supported by taxpayer money.
On Sunday, Bennett postponed an engagement to speak tonight at the University of Cincinnati, explaining, "The current controversy that has arisen around comments I made on my radio show, based on a willful distortion of what I said, will take away from the serious discussion I want to engage in with the students and community at the University of Cincinnati."
First, it ought be noted that distortion could not possibly have made his comment more noxious than it already was.
That he cannot see that suggests that he moves in a cosmos that views issues of race, poverty, intolerance and crime as nagging little nuisances that ought to be addressed only if they threaten the chronic narcotic satisfaction with the status quo demonstrated by some of those of privilege.
The patrician Betsy Bloomingdale was once asked what she was doing to help with the nation’s energy crisis. She responded that she had directed her domestics not to use the self-cleaning feature on the kitchen ranges during hours of peak power consumption.
Someone at the country club needs to throw an avuncular arm over Bennett’s shoulder and remind him that it is often — and disproportionately — the blacks, along with the poor of all races, who fight the wars that elitists begin.
In the meantime, Bennett needs to burn a little midnight oil with that other "book of virtues," the one he didn’t write, the one that can be found in the top drawers of bedside stands in even the ritziest of hotels.
Mike Harden is a Dispatch Metro columnist. He can be reached at 614-461-5215 or by e-mail.
mharden@dispatch.com
Watch!
The fucking morons will be sending condemnations of his "unacceptable" "political" comments to the "Letters" page!
Take to the streets - Nov. 2nd !!
- Uke Man
COMMENTARY
Bennett’s racist talk of genocide shameful
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
MIKE HARDEN
For the sake of getting to the sad heart of the matter on the comments of William J. Bennett, host of the show Morning in America, could we put aside the issue of party and political bent and talk about the man?
Last week, Bennett said to a national radio audience: "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose — you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
It makes no difference whether the speaker is Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. To insinuate those labels into the discussion muddies the water with cheap distraction and partisanship.
Anyone who would openly ponder racial genocide should be ashamed to draw breath in the presence of the balance of humankind. That such a person should be a national arbiter of rectitude — as opposed to a candidate for grand cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan — is staggering.
Bennett, through self-promotion, managed to elevate himself to the status of czar of public morality, a sort of true north on the compass of virtue.
He has commanded $50,000 a speech to bloviate on personal responsibility and conscience. His books, including The Book of Virtues, have been best sellers. In his view, avarice apparently is one of the lesser deadly sins.
It is time for the American public to speak to Bennett in the only clear language he understands. After all, inasmuch as his comment was racist and malignantly sociopathic, it was also classist.
The world of this nation’s William J. Bennetts is a world of gentlemen’s clubs and gentlemen’s agreements, of country clubs and covenants. In such insular comfort, there is sometimes a disconnect with how the other half lives.
The only way to shake William Bennett to his eyeteeth is to hit him in the wallet. Don’t buy his books. Don’t book his lectures. Don’t give him a soapbox in venues supported by taxpayer money.
On Sunday, Bennett postponed an engagement to speak tonight at the University of Cincinnati, explaining, "The current controversy that has arisen around comments I made on my radio show, based on a willful distortion of what I said, will take away from the serious discussion I want to engage in with the students and community at the University of Cincinnati."
First, it ought be noted that distortion could not possibly have made his comment more noxious than it already was.
That he cannot see that suggests that he moves in a cosmos that views issues of race, poverty, intolerance and crime as nagging little nuisances that ought to be addressed only if they threaten the chronic narcotic satisfaction with the status quo demonstrated by some of those of privilege.
The patrician Betsy Bloomingdale was once asked what she was doing to help with the nation’s energy crisis. She responded that she had directed her domestics not to use the self-cleaning feature on the kitchen ranges during hours of peak power consumption.
Someone at the country club needs to throw an avuncular arm over Bennett’s shoulder and remind him that it is often — and disproportionately — the blacks, along with the poor of all races, who fight the wars that elitists begin.
In the meantime, Bennett needs to burn a little midnight oil with that other "book of virtues," the one he didn’t write, the one that can be found in the top drawers of bedside stands in even the ritziest of hotels.
Mike Harden is a Dispatch Metro columnist. He can be reached at 614-461-5215 or by e-mail.
mharden@dispatch.com
1 Comments:
Hi Tom!
I wanted to post this last night, but the BLOGGEEKS were doing maintenance on the site!
What GREAT words!
Please keep us NON Ohio residents posted on the fallout from speaking THE TRUTH!
Counting down to November 2!
Take Care!
Phyll
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