If Bennett wanted to offer a Swiftian "Modest Proposal', one that would be certain to make folk's skin crawl, if he wanted to suggest something logical but too horrible for his audience to even think without emotional discomfort he would have pointed to the effectiveness of aborting male fetuses or Southern fetuses. He didn't. Elle loco is right " He voiced... the darkest secret wish of all too many (white) Americans". And no one with Bennett's political experience does that innocently. In the light of what Katrina has exposed of America's deep and devastating fears of black people we need to call him on it.

Posted at September 30, 2005 12:49 PM in response to In Defense of Bill Bennett

If Novak was wearing an earpiece and hearing the producer it's possible to imagine an exchange like:
Producer: Bob you have to apologize to the viewers and host for saying `bullshit'. Novak: Just let it go. Producer: Do it ... Novak walks off.
If there was no such communication then `Just let it go' may have been addressed to Ed Henry in the stress addled expectation that Henry's proper response to the preceding scuffle should be to scold Carville for a low blow and ask Novak to finish making his point. It's when Henry followed `just let it go' with a question to Carville that Novak could no longer cope well enough to even continue.
In any case Jon Stewart's line last night sums up Novak's situation brilliantly. `The man is rotting from the inside out.'

Posted at August 5, 2005 3:59 PM in response to Carville Speaks