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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, September 30, 2005

RE: Bennett attempts to explain his bigotry

The video probably works, but I can't get it — the FOX News website may not be Mac-friendly, I don't know.
Yeah, I believe it's in Windows Media Player.


There's really no way for Bennett to run away from his statement. He said what he said; it's perfectly clear what he meant.
Actually, in that interview last night, he didn't run away from his statement, but he told the context he said it in. On his radio show, he took a call from a caller in which Bennett took issue with a hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up (FYI, Bennett was a philosophy professor for years.) He said he was "pointing out that abortion should not be opposed for economic reasons any more than racism ... should be supported or opposed for economic reasons. Immoral policies are wrong because they are wrong, not because of an economic calculation." He pretty much was saying one shouldn't be proposing extremes when discussing the issue of abortion. As Bennett said himself about the hypothesis he put forth, it was "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do."

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