WP: CNN Picks Up Bennett After Novak Departs

[DeepModem Mom]

Plus Watts, and Beck? Did it take three wingnuts to replace Novak???



CNN Picks Up Bennett After Novak Departs
Thursday, January 26, 2006; Page C07


A month after losing conservative pundit Robert Novak to Fox News Channel, CNN has signed conservative William Bennett, who just ended a one-year deal with Fox News.

Bennett, a radio talk-show host and the author of the best-selling "The Book of Virtues" and "The Children's Book of Virtues," will contribute to the multi-hour afternoon show "The Situation Room" and other CNN shows.

In competing with top-rated Fox News, CNN hopes Bennett will appeal to conservative viewers. "We look forward to his candid and expressive contribution to our broadcasts," CNN President Jonathan Klein said in a statement.

Last week, CNN announced that it had reached a deal with former Republican congressman J.C. Watts Jr., now a GOP strategist, to provide political commentary. And CNN Headline News has signed conservative radio host Glenn Beck to anchor a new talk show.

Bennett, a former education secretary and drug czar in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, created controversy last year when he said on his radio show that aborting "every black baby in this country" would reduce crime. He later defended his statement, saying he was making a hypothetical argument and was not stating his position....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012502027.html

[Botany]

1. But he has already been vetted by Rove & company.

so what is the problem?

[MADem]

2. I have known about this for a while

WAPO must have had a thin paper today to call this turd news. In fact, if I remember, there was a thread on this here and some of the comments about Bill's habits of gluttony, sloth and avarice were pretty damn amusing!

[boobooday]

3. Help Wanted

We have an opening for a high-level hypocrite. Experience in bald-faced lying, doublespeak, and a highly developed sense of self-righteousness a plus.

Felons and treasonous blowhards encouraged to apply. We are NOT an equal opportunity employer.

[CBHagman]

9. Don't forget the gambling habit.

You've got to read this article, "The Bookie of Virtue." :wow:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0306.green.html

Apparently Bennett has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time. I wonder where the bastard stands on the bankruptcy "reform" legislation that put the screws on all the people who ran up medical bills, got divorced or deserted, or lost their jobs?

[0007]

10. Playing the slot machines is not counted as gambling. It is a badge

of idiocy of the highest order. Much like jacking off a dead man!

[SoCalDem]

14. You meanie.. I love slots.. (and I leave dead men alone)

I won $1700 a few months ago on PENNY slots

[0007]

15. At least you have half the battle won...LOL!

How come most all slots players are quick to tell ya how much they won, but never report what they lose?

Old Chinese Proverb; People who save their pennies have many.

[SoCalDem]

17. Over all I am way ahead.

I budget a certain amount to gamble with (only go to vegas a few times a year).We get free rooms & food and we do not drink.. If I win big, early on, I repay myself and play on their money..

I have lost occasionally when I got stupid, but so far I have won way more than I have lost:)

[0007]

20. I'm a meanie? I was referring to Bill Bennett as a degenerate

and stupid slot player and a rank sucker. Because he doesn't know how to jerk those machines as smartly and energetic as you.

You are a rare exception if you're keeping ahead of the one arm bandit.

[SoCalDem]

23. For a while i got sucked into the dollar slots after I won $1600.00

and then a few weeks later I won over $3000.00 ....It wasn;t long before my "streak" ended, and I switched to the really gimmicky penny slots that you can stop the wheels yourslef.. I have managed to get a 'rythym' going on some of them and win win win..

I played a funky little cartoon-shrimp penny slot and cashed out $955.00... then walked over to a fishing one with a bonus on it.. after 3 or for spins i hit the bonus and played that one out for $790.00..(It went automatic on me and played by ityself for a half hour..there were people lined up watching it)..

then I wnet to another goofy phantom of the opera penny slot and cashed out for $500 on it..

Then I wnet upstairs and left the cash out tickets on the bathroom counter for my husband to see in the morning.. i was awakedn to him saying "HOLY SHIT!"

[boobooday]

21. Rumor was he was also partaking of other services in Vegas

I read that article. It was/is awesome, and really says it all.

But there doesn't seem to be any disqualifying behavior for these guys. They love their felons and their degenerates.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

4. Thank Goodness

Glad they were able to maintain that balanced programming.

I can continue to watch as much as I have for the past 15 months, which is NOT AT ALL!

[tularetom]

5. He was unworthy of FAUX and yet CNN hires him

How much lower can they sink?

[rurallib]

6. Must've missed the stench when Novakula left

so they get Bennet. Ah! Now it stinks good!
Will he have a show on how to gamble? Heard he's good at it.

[wake.up.america]

7. I'm betting Bennet does not last long.

[PATRICK]

8. A miserable failure on the radio

known only for his disastrous handling of his offensive remark. They must have a large legal staff and an even larger coterie of anxiety counselors for nervous sponsors.

[EndElectoral]

11. I hear they put a call into Goerring first....but...he was dead.....

[goclark]

13. Goerring rose from the dead and his name is now Bennett nt

[umass1993]

12. Cha -CHING! eom

[kskiska]

16. There was an embarrassing exchange between Bennett & Wolf

Wolfie felt he had to clear up that little "misunderstanding" when Bennett spoke of aborting all black babies. Bennett obliged and explained again how he was merely using the issue to point out how outrageous it was. Whew! Now that's cleared up once and for all for doubtful CNN vieweers and he'll never have to go there again.

[Placebo]

18. "Abort Black Babies" is now an acceptable ideology it seems.

And I suppose CNN's definition of "fair and balanced" would give that POV a seat at the table but now, say, the radical Green Party? Or Libertarian?

Right.

Nice to know that American Fascism and Racism inches forward a little bit more each day.

[brentspeak]

19. He'd be better being an analyst for ESPN's "World Series of Poker"

[Voltaire99]

22. Slurp slurp slurp!

Mr. Great Books and Drug Gulags is back, eh? Well: so what?

Cable news is a pacifier for infantile America to suck on in between credit card purchases. Whether it's a Bennet or a Novak or an O'Reilly or a Tucker or any interchangeable Right Wing Motherfucker, those who watch such stuff will lap it up; the network ought to provide bibs.

[RazzleDazzle]

24. From blowhard fathead to BIGGER blowhard fathead. Amazing.

[VegasWolf]

25. Bennet. Bad for America, good for the casinos! a literal loser. nt