Bill Bennett: Gambling Hit Pieces Won't Silence Me

[varun]

So can we expect more moralizing from this hypocrite? :eyes:

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/7/31/10819

Conservative ethicist Bill Bennett emerged from a self imposed two month silence on Tuesday to announce that he wasn't going to let inaccurate stories about his gambling habits planted by "people who were trying to take me out" drive him from public life.

"I'm back and I will be more outspoken than ever," Bennett told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity, after accepting full responsibility for the betting brouhaha....

[SpiralHawk]

1. Translation: "Thee is no end to my hypocricy and arrogance"

And you can bet your bippy on that. - Billy BigRoller Bennett

[Q]

2. He could do gambling anonymous seminars...

- This guy has always been a loser. His gambling has nothing to do with it.

[GCP]

3. Will he be "as outspoken as ever" when the WH does its' lies-as-usual act?

Oh, I forgot, the grown-ups are back in the WH.

Silly me.

[duid12]

4. silence

>>Gambling Hit Pieces Won't Silence Me

Yea, but will anybody be listening? Whatever credibility he has is gone...

[NewGaDem]

5. I dunno

Seems to be no limit to what the dittoheads will swallow, as long as it comes from a Republican

[bambo53]

8. Or a professed "Christian"

It never ceases to amaze me at how some of the most despicable, narcissistic, sociopathic fuck ups on the planet absolve themselves of their obnoxious behavior with this excuse.

[LynneSin]

21. Wrong

Bill Bennett wasn't getting a blow job so somehow all these neo-cons will poo-poo this matter and think Bill is still the leader of 'good clean' behavior.

I mean, no one gave 2 hoots that Pat Robertson was preaching against the sins of gambling but owned a racehorse

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20020426.shtml

[FlashHarry]

6. Again, this says it all...

[duid12]

7. pictures

OT: how do you post a picture here? I understand the HTML requirements, but where do pictures get stored? Do I need to have my own storage area? Are there any free places on the web to park and image?

[GregW]

20. You need to find a place to store the pictures ...

The you just paste the URL of the picture ... DU does the rest.

If you are "remote linking" from someone else's website (bad netiquette) just paste the link to their picture.

[bpilgrim]

32. you can park them here... GlobalFreePress.com

http://bbs.globalfreepress.com/coppermine

sign up for an acount then upload :hi:

peace

[muchacho]

9. The Party of Personal Responsibility

I think he means to blaim Britain for his gambling.

[shugah]

10. accepting full responsibility

bennett accepts responsiility, bush accepts responsibility, tenet accepts responsibility, etc. or so they all say. but i wonder what they think "accepting responsibility" means? all they do is say the words. :shrug:

[libtexan]

12. Yeah, and to top it off

how many dumbasses will "accept responsibility" and vote for *. It is "through the looking glass"
at every turn, it seems.

[LizW]

11. Oh, the poor victim

"...planted by 'people who were trying to take me out' (and) drive him from public life."

Waaahhh. :nopity:

[muchacho]

13. a winner

"...planted by 'people who were trying to take me out' (and) drive him from public life."

Sound good to me.

[rock]

14. Ethicist

Excuse me while I guffaw.

[Zero Gravitas]

15. Attn Bill Bennett

your 15 minutes are over, repeat your 15 minutes are over now GO AWAY.

[salin]

16. Notice he says

a) the problem is when the gambling became excessive gambling.

and

b) the days of the excessive gambling are over.

Re: he is still gambling. Sounds like he is in denial. And it sounds like (without some intervention) it is likely to be a continuing story.

[soupkitchen]

17. What else is a sententious blowhard going to do?

Bullshit thy name is Bennett

[yellowcanine]

18. Yawn

Wasn't his "book of virtues" just an anthology of previously published stuff? He didn't "write" anything - just collected and edited. Anyway, what makes him the authority on virtue and taking responsibility? We now know he is a compulsive gambler. Isn' t he also a heavy smoker? It is clear by looking at him that he is a compulsive eater as well. None of this makes him a bad person, just a hypocrite when he starts preaching at everyone else.

[Hand]

25. Yes, he is...

A pack-a-day smoker or worse, if I recall it right, maybe a chain smoker. This raised a few eyebrows when he was drug czar--nicotine junky and all that, don'tcha know.

Matter of fact, our health minister here in Nova Scotia is a pack-a-day lady (actually, probably more), as well as an ex-heroin addict. She says that this doesn't impair her credibility or effectiveness.

Which is true--she hasn't got any of either. Neither does Bennett. Pompous prick.

[JPace]

19. Bill baby reminds me of the pope,

so outspoken on issues while he cannot clean up his own
messy corner.

Hey Bill! We will not overlook your messy corner.
Go away and heal yourself.

[Raster]

22. bennet is still as fat as a hog and still dancin' with one-armed bandits..

...he still smokes like a chimney and now we hear he still lectures like a withered, old, virgin schoolmarm. Memo to BB: GO AWAY!

[ignatius]

23. Maybe he could find work at the Pentagon

inventing future trading on oh, I don't know maybe how many U S soldiers the Iraqis will take out in a week.

Grotesque hypocrite, a poster child for this administration.

[ibegurpard]

24. As far as I know, Bill, it's still a free country and you can say

whatever you like. No one is trying to, nor would they be able to, silence you. However, your credibility what it comes to "moralizing" is worth about as much as your credit in Vegas.

[Fovea]

26. Gambling Hit Pieces Won't Silence Me

But if someone yells 'place your bets' in the back of the room,
I get down to business.

[samsingh]

27. of course not - he's a shameless

hypocrite. repug so redundant

[Bozola]

28. Hey, Bill. don't bet on it. <nt>

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[0007]

29. Nothing worse than a whinny sucker

Wait until he finds out that the folks that made those slots that gave him a bath, may have also made the touch screen voting machines. LOL!

[dfong63]

30. bring him on

i love it. a man exposed as one of the biggest hypocrites in the nation, doesn't have the sense to hide his face in shame. let him continue to speak out, let him continue to be the poster boy for sanctimonious moral scolds, let him continue to an object of scorn. if he wants it so badly. every time he opens his mouth, he'll just be digging his hole deeper.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

31. Wow they really don't like a taste of their own medicine

Well guess what Bill..they won't silence you but people with half a brain know a liar and a double standard when they see one. Less people will be listening. Scream about virtue all you want. It doesn't mean you have any.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

33. "Hit Piece"???

What about the Hit Pieces on Clinton for eight years. What about them Mr. Bennett???
You are full of shit!