You know how in movies, the bad guy always tells you his nefarious plot in great evil detail?
And how when you're dating, if a guy starts telling you "I'm trouble, baby, I'm trouble..." you're supposed to believe him?
Cue Bill Bennett in the Clinton years. Reed Hundt
says...
When I was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1993-97), I asked Bill Bennett to visit my office so that I could ask him for help in seeking legislation that would pay for internet access in all classrooms and libraries in the country. Eventually Senators Olympia Snowe and Jay Rockefeller, with the White House leadership of President Clinton and Vice President Gore, put that provision in the Telecommunications Law of 1996, and today nearly 90% of all classrooms and libraries do have such access. The schools covered were public and private... At any rate, since Mr. Bennett had been Secretary of Education I asked him to support the bill in the crucial stage when we needed Republican allies. He told me he would not help, because he did not want public schools to obtain new funding, new capability, new tools for success. He wanted them, he said, to fail so that they could be replaced with vouchers,charter schools, religious schools, and other forms of private education. Well, I thought, at least he's candid about his true views.
So keep that in mind if you are tempted to play down his comments about how aborting black babies would reduce
crime. Yes, he wasn't advocating baby-killing, but he sure as hell
was saying that black people commit most criminal acts... and now
we know he also advocates public schoolicide.
