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

[quaoar]

This from the moralizing asshole Bill "Snake Eyes" Bennett:

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

By E&P Staff

NEW YORK 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."

According to an E&P transcript of the audio of his radio program, Bill Bennett said that the reporters "took classified information, secret information, published it in their newspapers, against the wishes of the president, against the request of the president and others, that they not release it. They not only released it, they publicized it -- they put it on the front page, and it damaged us, it hurt us.

"How do we know it damaged us? Well, it revealed the existence of the surveillance program, so people are going to stop making calls. Since they are now aware of this, they're going to adjust their behavior . . . .on the secret sites, the CIA sites, we embarrassed our allies....So it hurt us there.

"As a result are they punished, are they in shame, are they embarrassed, are they arrested? No, they win Pulitzer prizes - they win Pulitzer prizes. I don't think what they did was worthy of an award - I think what they did is worthy of jail, and I think this investigation needs to go forward. "

[Redstone]

1. Why the fuck would he think we'd care about his opinions?

You're over, billyboy. We're on to your game.

Redstone

[Nomen Tuum]

2. Go back to your leather mistress Billy!

Take your video poker machine with you!

[joemurphy]

7. A link to the website of Bill's muscular Dominatrix:

"Sources say Kinky Bill Bennett is a client of Dominatrix "Mistress Lee". Sources say Ms. Lee's story has been investigated by Josh Green of The Atlantic and Washington Monthly (who exposed Bennett's gambling "problem"), Terry Neal at the Washington Post, and Lloyd Grove at the NY Daily News. Sources say Ms. Lee is willing to confirm her story on the record. The race is on! Who will break the story first?"

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[Vinnie From Indy]

3. When Bennett isn't pissing away millions and getting wax melted

onto his nipples by some Vegas Dominatrix, he still makes no sense.

[Erika]

4. He said reducing American crime

could be achieved by aborting all Black babies.

I have no use for the SOB.

[norml]

5. That's funny, because I think Bill Bennett, and his ilk, should be tried

for war crimes.

They've sold waging wars of aggression, and committing crimes against humanity.

Beware right wing radio clowns!

Though we have the first amendment, that hasn't stopped us from taking part in executing propagandists who've done such things before.

[saltpoint]

6. I'll WAGER that no Pulitzer winner today will be jailed, despite Mr.

Bennett's expression of his desire to imprison anyone who speaks up against the Powermonkeys.

Mr. Bennett, the Third Reich is dissolved. Give it a rest.

[smoochpooch]

8. Hey Bennett, you doucebag,

guess what? Real terrorists aren't stupid. They take precautions to avoid their calls being tapped. They don't need to call anyone outside this country because they operate independently. Anyone that they are listening to with wiretaps is innocent or a wannabe-like the guy who thought he could take down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch. Go fuck G. Gordon Liddy ya bastard!