#bill bennett

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Have you seen any recent photos of Bill Bennett? He always has been incredibly sexy. His body, his voice, his looks and everything. I bet he has an undercover freaky side beneath all that moral high grounding, like the Falwells. 😈😈😈

Not anything recent.

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Two If by Sea (1996)

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Kiss or Kill (1997) Bill Bennett

January 9th 2024

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A Republican who served in the Reagan cabinet, Mr. Bennett told his listeners: ''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.'' After making the point that exterminating blacks would be a most effective crime-fighting tool, he quickly added, ''That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down.'' When I first heard about Mr. Bennett's comments, I wondered why anyone was surprised. I've come to expect racial effrontery from big shots in the Republican Party. The G.O.P. has happily replaced the Democratic Party as a safe haven for bigotry, racially divisive tactics and strategies and outright anti-black policies. That someone who's been a stalwart of that outfit might muse publicly about the potential benefits of exterminating blacks is not surprising to me at all. Listen to the late Lee Atwater in a 1981 interview explaining the evolution of the G.O.P.'s Southern strategy: ''You start out in 1954 by saying, 'N****r, n****r, n****r.' By 1968 you can't say 'n****r' -- that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. ''And subconsciously maybe that is  part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me -- because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'N****r, n****r.'''

Impossible, Ridiculous, Repugnant - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Give this a read. Also, I edited the n*word but it is plain on the site/in the article. 

I knew this anyway but I do feel it’s good to show the truth and remind people sometimes anyway. H/T to my friend Jason.

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Bill Bennett's Official Premier Portrait: Signed

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Uninhabited (2010): No Love for this Film

Uninhabited (2010) is odd. There is literally no love for this film. Even now, the viewers, AKA bums on seats, hate this movie.   Every once in a while you find a film that for some reason has invited lots of vitriol to be heaped upon it. Uninhabited is one of those films. If you type the name into your Google search engine you’ll see what I mean. But, come on guys. Is it really that bad? I’ve…

Uninhabited (2010): No Love for this Film

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Fox News contributor: ‘Exorcists’ and the ‘domain of religion’ should be involved in stopping mass shooters

During a Fox News panel this Wednesday, former secretary of education from the Reagan administration, Bill Bennett, gave his take what’s nee

During a Fox News panel this Wednesday, former secretary of education from the Reagan administration, Bill Bennett, gave his take what’s needed to stop mass shootings in America.

“I think you could strengthen red flag laws. Certainly people need to pay attention to them. It’s hard when parents aren’t doing their job for any red flag to make up for it. Also, the police need to pay more attention, and the schools need to pay more attention,” Bennett told Fox News anchor Bret Baier.

“I’m not sure we are going deep enough,” Bennett continued. “Yeah, I think you need police. You need parents for sure. You need schools. You need to clean up social media. You need all that. But you know, you may need an exorcist, too.”

“Before your audience shakes its head on that, if you look at these boys, these men, these young men, they have deeply spiritual problems. Deeply. Few go into the labyrinthian caves of the internet way down, and I don’t recommend it. It’s ugly stuff,” Bennett said.

“I don’t want to suggest something that would seem farcical to a lot of your audience, but I do think that the domain of religion ought to be involved here,” Bennett continued.

“It’s a deeply spiritual void, I think, that these young men have in their hearts and their souls, and I think it needs to be addressed. And I don’t think we get at it, frankly, with these externalities, as important as some of them may be. And they may be. We need to do it all, but we need to do more.”