{"id":14873,"date":"2003-05-06T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/06\/bill-bennett-the-bookie-of-virtue\/"},"modified":"2003-05-06T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-06T11:55:00","slug":"bill-bennett-the-bookie-of-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/06\/bill-bennett-the-bookie-of-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Bennett – The Bookie Of Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d say that whatever moral high horse Bill Bennett sat on has just bucked him off, trampled him, and bitch-slapped him after the revelation that he has lost millions gambling<\/a>. His response? “I play fairly high stakes. I adhere to the law. I don’t play the ‘milk money.’ I don’t put my family at risk, and I don’t owe anyone anything.” This rings very hollow coming from the man who wrote the morality screeds The Book of Virtues<\/i><\/a>, The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family<\/i><\/a>, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals<\/i><\/a>, and Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism<\/i><\/a> and who has preached his brand of conservative morality for years. His comparison of gambling to alcoholism is especially despicable and telling: “I view it as drinking. If you can’t handle it, don’t do it.”<\/p>\n

Well, I’ve got some news for you, Bill: just because you’ve made millions of dollars through your so-called “morality” books and speeches doesn’t mean you can “handle it.” You’re a hypocritical gambling addict, and you’ve just lost any shred of credibility you once had. I am happy to admit that I have a major case of schadenfreude<\/i> here, because he deserves every bit of fallout he gets over this. <\/p>\n

Oh, and I can’t take credit for “The Bookie Of Virtue;” I got it from The Washington Monthly<\/i><\/a>, although I so wish I had thought of it first.<\/p>\n

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I’d say that whatever moral high horse Bill Bennett sat on has just bucked him off, trampled him, and bitch-slapped him after the revelation that he has lost millions gambling. His response? “I play fairly high stakes. I adhere to the law. I don’t play the ‘milk money.’ I don’t put my family at risk, … <\/p>\n

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