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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (14661)10/10/2005 10:52:37 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Bennett Defends Abortion Remarks

By Rob
Say Anything
October 9, 2005

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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Former Education Secretary William Bennett on Saturday blamed the news media for distorting his remarks about aborting black babies, saying he had intended to make “a bad argument in order to put it down.”

Bennett, making his first public speech since the comment aired on his radio show last month, said the meaning of his remark linking the crime rate with black abortions was reversed in many news reports.
    “I was putting forward a bad argument in order to put it 
    down,” Bennett said, drawing sustained applause from 
    nearly 4,500 people attending the Bakersfield Business 
    Conference. “They reported and emphasized only the 
    abhorrent argument, not my shooting it down.”
>>>

Nice of the media to give Bennett the chance to address his critics nine days after the controversy broke.

And this is hardly Bennett’s first public speech since the original comments were made. He’s spent a significant amount of time addressing the controversy on his own radio show since that time.

sayanythingblog.com

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