Bill Bennett, your hood pass is suspended.

I saw an article in the Washington Post today about John Roberts and his Chief Justice position being a job for life. I got to thinking that there are some others in the political establishment that have their jobs guaranteed: pundits. Political "experts." Gasbags for hire. People like William Bennett.

You all remember Bill Bennett. Got his start as one of Reagan's back-up singers in the 80's. Carved out a nice niche for himself as an authority on "Virtues." For a while, you might have thought he had a trademark on the word. That is, until he confessed to having lost millions of dollars through his gambling addiction. Sigh. You can't make this shit up.

Bennett made his media Acts of Contrition (fervent apologies on Meet the Press, et al), then was kind of quiet for a while. Until he came roaring back into the spotlight this week. On his radio show recently, during a discussion of the rate of abortions and the declining crime rate, Bennett crawled out on a rhetorical limb and sawed it out from under himself. To quote:

"If (reducing crime) were your only purpose,you could abort every black baby in this
country, and your crime rate would go down."
-see Media Matters

Now, I'm not going to suggest Bill Bennett is racist, but to paraphrase Jamie Foxx, his remarks are a little "race-ish." Only Blacks commit crimes, therefore the best way to reduce crime is genocide. Wow.

Why is anybody still listening to this guy?

Seriously, what does it take to get rid of these guys? I dared think that we were rid of Rush Limbaugh after his scandal. After all, he was just a drug addict that used prescriptions he scammed off of his maid. But here he still is, going strong and offending decent people two years on. I get the feeling that if one of these bozos were caught in a Tennessee motel room snorting coke off the back of an underaged goat, by the next weekend, he'd be sitting comfortably on Fox News Channel.

While you undergo your moments of ostracism, Bill (for Heaven's sake, even the White House came down on you), please consider maintaining what I consider to be a Virtue: silence.