Hey Leftists, Don't Be So Niggardly With Your Integrity

Dennis Prager has a good column examining the complete lack of integrity with which our leftist friends are treating William Bennett. Lots of disingenuous outrage quoted, also the obvious point highlighted in bold below:

What happened is easy to summarize. In response to a caller who said that America "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years," Bennett made the point that one cannot argue against abortion by pointing out anything theoretically positive that could come from either allowing or outlawing abortion. For example, he went on to say, "You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." And he immediately added, for the sake of those who might distort his meaning, that aborting all black babies would be "impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible."

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The Left and the world's news media picked up the dialogue and then announced that Bill Bennett had advocated the abortion of all black babies.

This lie is as intentional as it is complete. Sometimes lies contain a kernel of truth; this one has none. In fact, the irony is that if Bennett's social policies were followed, no black babies would ever have been aborted; they are aborted in great numbers thanks to left-wing social policies.