(Bill) Bennett: Pulitzer Winners Risen, Lichtblau, Priest 'Worthy of Jail'

[Newsjock]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002345921

On his national radio program today, William Bennett, the former Reagan and George H.W. Bush administration official and now a CNN commentator, said that three reporters who won Pulitzer Prizes yesterday were not "worthy of an award" but rather "worthy of jail."

He identified them as Dana Priest of The Washington Post, who wrote about the CIA's "secret prisons" in Europe, and James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times, who exposed the National Security Agency's domestic (a.k.a. terrorist) spy program.

Scott Johnson of the popular Powerline blog also weighed in today, under the heading "The Pulitzer Prize for Treason," declaring "Today's Pulitzer Prize award to the Times brings a new shame to the Pulitzer Prize committee."

[peacebird]

1. they actually REPORTED which makes Bennetts buddy bush look bad.....

[ShortnFiery]

2. That is so wrong ... what a craven hypocrite, shame on CNN

[LSparkle]

3. I think we ought to start a "FIRE BENNETT" campaign at CNN

If O'Really can try to get Keith O. kicked off the air, certainly we can make some noise about CNN getting rid of this * shill.

[rodeodance]

16. Where How do we start.?

[brentspeak]

23. He should be fired from CNN. But he might be quickly hired by ESPN 2

as a color commentator for their "World Series Of Poker".

[leftchick]

4. he must be using major drugs today. I heard him say on CNN

That there are 8,000 generals and basically said the ones speaking out are cowards and traitors. He has lost it!

[regnaD kciN]

5. I guess Bennett must have had some money on another reporter winning?

:evilgrin:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

18. you beat me to the easy joke

..

[Judi Lynn]

6. His time would be better spent back on the slot machines. n/t

[Faygo Kid]

7. Hold High the Banner, Herr Bennett!

Maybe this song sounds familiar. It's got to be on Bill Bennett's
"most played" list. Horst Wessel (da de dum dum, dum de da dum dum dum dum. . .)

Hold high the banner! Close the hard ranks serried!
SA marches on with sturdy stride.
Comrades, by Red Front and Reaction killed, are buried,
But march with us in image at our side.

Gangway! Gangway! Now for the Brown battalions!
For Storm Troopers clear road o'er land!
The Swastika gives hope to our entranced millions,
The day for freedom and for bread's at hand.

The trumpet blows its shrill and final blast!
Prepared for war and battle here we stand.
Soon Hitler's banners will wave unchecked at last,
The end of German slav'ry in our land.

[mumon]

8. Bill Bennett worthy of jail

Trashing the civil liberties of folks with his pork-barrel drug war.

[xchrom]

9. bill ''i never met a bet i didn't like'' bennett?

[TexasLawyer]

31. yes-- if hypocrisy was a crime

this man would be a lifer!

[Rex]

10. Go lose so more money gambling Billy Boy.

Like he has ANY credibility! Bennett is a has-been joke of a man, no more credible than Hannity or Gush.

[Stanchetalarooni]

11. Shameless Shilling Pig!

[madmark]

12. i didn't realize that high limit slots and gluttony results in

journalism and legal expertise. I thought it was no limit poker and vodka.

[lanlady]

13. So spake the bookie of virtue

CNN must be so proud. :eyes::eyes::eyes:

[northofdenali]

14. Jealousy can make you stupid.

Can't it, Billy?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

15. Bennett and Johnson = prize jerks.

[Lindacooks]

17. Sounds like Billy boy had some serious bets on somebody else

taking the prize.

After all, you can bet on anything or everything, can't you?

[allalone]

20. yeah, must have bet on someone else

[niallmac]

19. So Sayeth Mr Video Poker. Mr Video Poker hath spoken eom

[KAZ]

21. Yell at him. (link)

http://www.bennettmornings.com/askbill

I kind of mentioned a "worthy of death" thing, but that's just me. The freeptard should stick with slots.

[brentspeak]

22. Bennett: "The Pulitzer committee is full of craps."

"Er, 'crap'."

[Placebo]

24. Bill Bennet says "Abort black babies and crime will go down"...

and CNN rewards him with a paycheck every 2 weeks.

[depakid]

26. Speaks very highly of CNN

doesn't it?

[alarcojon]

29. Pretty fucked up world we live in

what a pompous ass.

[Voltaire99]

33. There's no reason to watch CNN...

...that I can think of.

But its having a leading member of the American Taliban on its payroll is certainly one reason to boycott it.

[booley]

25. And if we lived in a dictatorship...

...Where things like a paranoid government keeping everything secret, secret detention centers and the government spying on you "Just because' were the norm, then that is probably right where those reporters would be.

Why does Bill Bennet HATE America?

[WhiteTara]

27. isn't this the holier than thou gambler?

The man who can spout virtues, but can't live them?

[Kerrytravelers]

28. The * administration and all their apologists are worth of the Hague.

[Guaranteed]

30. My God. Stephen Colbert lampooned the Repukes tonight in exactly this

manner.

I doubt he even saw that they were doing this, but he said nearly exactly the same things.

The man knows his shit.

[saigon68]

32. Wasn't he the drug Czar once?

[suegeo]

34. Is Bill Bennett a blow hard?

You bet he is.

[drduffy]

35. I'm going to start my own personal, "I'm a traitor too" campain.

Yes, according to such jerks as powerline and Bennett, I AM a Traitor to the Empire. AND I actively pray for the end of the Empire every day.