Moral Outrage Czar Bennet: Aborting Black Babies Would Lower Crime Rate

[BurtWorm]

According to Media Matters:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006

From the September 28 broadcast of Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America:

CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't -- never touches this at all.

BENNETT: Assuming they're all productive citizens?

CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue.

BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too. I think as -- abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.

CALLER: I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.

BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well --

CALLER: Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate.

BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. But I do know that it's true that 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. That would be 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.

Audio clip:

http://mediamatters.org/static/audio/bennett-200509280006.mp3

[NVMojo]

1. the psychotic shit coming out of the fundie repukes is getting deep

[Erika]

2. I am totally outraged. This is racist beyond belief.

Why didn't he say crime would be reduced if all white babies were aborted. He's a Republican racist *******. This is about the 4th thread tonight on this.

I urge EVERYONE to contact the media and demand this article be brought to attention. This Republican ******* also admitted to dropping 8 mil in gambling.

[mcctatas]

3. I personally would support extremely late term abortions for overgrown

neuorologically underdeveloped freeptard fetuses...up to at least 800 months in the case of bill bennett and pat robertson:evilgrin:

[BurtWorm]

4. That would definitely lower the slime rate.

;)

[opihimoimoi]

5. So would if every white baby is aborted....crime would go down...

what a thing for Bennet to say...Is he sane???

[jobycom]

6. Recommended--not for prettiness, but to expose as much as possible.

He certainly followed in his master's racist footsteps.

[Erika]

7. Other than MSNBC, not one media company has picked this up

We need to press them into seeing how racist the Republicans truly are. Please send the article everywhere.

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. As I suspected. Blech!

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

8. Wow. I'm speechless.

[wiley]

9. One could also argue the other side

That abortions of white babies would decrease or eliminate the crystal meth and oxycontin problems. Far reaching, extensive sxtrapolations are, "tricky". The man and his ilk are a cesspool.

In any case, vote this up. People really need to hear what these Repuke scumbags are saying.

Rove, Blount, Libby - Who is next!

[REP]

10. Who Has Abortions

from http://www.apa.org/ppo/issues/womenabortfacts.html

Who Has Abortions?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2003), the abortion rate was 16 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in 2000. The highest percentage of abortion (52%) was for women under 25 years of age, who were white (57%) and unmarried (81%). Women aged 20 to 24 obtained 33% of all abortions, and teenagers obtained 19%.

Of women who had an abortion, 55% were white, 35% were black, and 7% were of other races. Black women were three times as likely as white women to have an abortion (30 versus 10 per 1,000 women), and Hispanic women were about twice as likely (22 per 1,000 women).

So, he's not only blatantly misrepresenting the data presented in Freakonomics, he has no idea who has abortions (mostly white women).

Gidsh, Mr Virtue lying? I'm shocked, I tell you! Shocked!

[Karenina]

11. ...

[salin]

14. bill and babs (aka "the silver fox") unmasking the party

for the folks in denial that there is still a HUGE deal of racism in this country - and that it is not only tolerated, but embraced, by the top of the republican party.

Sad that so many people, often living in nondiverse places, have stayed in their comfortable "things have changed" denial. These public, obscene proclamations will hopefully shake off some of that denial.

[Nothing Without Hope]

12. related thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2122060
thread title: Bill Bennett: "ou could abort every black baby in this country, and you

This can NOT be tolerated. He can have his opinion but NO ONE should invite him to talk about them, especially in public. There is no excuse for enabling this unspeakable hatemongering. None.

[bos1]

13. www.FIREBENNETT.cjb.net

http://firebennett.cjb.net

[Hubert Flottz]

15. It's part of the "New World Order"...

Race Hygiene: Three Bush Family Alliances

snip...

It started in 1946. The eugenics movement was looking for a way to begin again in America.

Nazi death camps such as Auschwitz had just then seared the conscience of the world. The Sterilization League of America, which had changed its name during the war to `` Birthright, Inc., '' wanted to start up again. First they had to overcome public nervousness about crackpots proposing to eliminate `` inferior '' and `` defective '' people. The League tried to surface in Iowa, but had to back off because of negative publicity: A little boy had recently been sterilized there and had died from the operation.

They decided on North Carolina, where the Gray family could play the perfect host. Through British imperial contacts, Boyden Gray's grandfather, Bowman Gray, had become principal owner of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Boyden's father, Gordon Gray, had recently founded the Bowman Gray (memorial) Medical School in Winston-Salem, using his inherited cigarette stock shares. The medical school was already a eugenics center.

As the experiment began, Gordon Gray's great aunt, Alice Shelton Gray, who had raised him from childhood, was living in his household. Aunt Alice had founded the `` Human Betterment League, '' the North Carolina branch of the national eugenical sterilization movement.more...

http://www.tarpley.net/bush3.htm

This is part of the "Haves" and the "Have More's" "Final Solution"...

[dusty64]

16. Its pretty sad commentary

that these words haven't received any attention. Contrast that with anti-Democratic media spew such as the "Dean scream". Once the "voting" machines are taken care of (I'm being optimistic) and the rethugs are kicked outta power hate radio and the corporate media problem has got to be addressed

[triguy46]

17. Of course, we'd neeevvveeeerrr consider this, heh, heh n/t

[FyurFly]

18. Shouldn't this windbag..

be sitting at a slot machine losing a million or so?

[MidnightWind]

19. So let me get this straight.. . . .

aborting WHITE babies: WRONG. A SIN!

aborting BLACK babies: RIGHT. A "virture".

Thanks for clearing that up for us there Billy-boy. You know maybe prolonged exposure to gambling has made you lose your fucking mind.

[bleedingheart]

20. GRRRRRR!!!!!!

Okay...this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard and the most insensitive and racist thing ...yet the GOP lovers eat this up...

[Solomon]

21. It's what I been trying to tell you all for years. It's a crime to be

black in america period.

[Spike from MN]

23. Now if Bennett's Mom had only had an abortion,

we wouldn't be subjected to the spewage coming out of this guy's mouth. I'd consider that to be a "public service" abortion. Can she get one retroactively?

[Mythsaje]

24. Bennett was a psycho as a drug czar...

nice to know some things never change.

[Sparkman]

25. B's last words"these farout, farreach'g extensive....I think are, tricky"

reveals insincerity in his pathetic refutation attempt.

[Swamp Rat]

26. Here ya go:

[BurtWorm]

27. He's got Jackpot Jungle fever!

:toast: