[hiramknight]

Ouch! Engage brain before putting mouth into gear.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Hard to imagine a good context for that statement.

Unless it started with "If you were a liberal, and supported abortion for any reason, and had no moral standard, you might say something like this:"

[Travis McGee]

Immediately after Bennet said this, he added something like, "Of course it's absurd and evil and could never happen," etc.

Too late. He's done. He was pretty weak as a talk host anyway. Not funny, hemming and hawing.

Sorry Bill, this one, you will not recover from. That's the nature of the media beast. "Aborting all the black babies to reduce crime" will haunt you forever.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Probably something like this: Did Roe v. Wade Abort Crime?

[Always Right]

My guess is someone made a comment like how abortion has helped lower crime rates, and Bennett was just making a snide comment. It is hard to tell, but I am certain that absurd comment was a response to something equally dumb.

[COUNTrecount]

Probably from this book.

[RexBeach]

Mr. Bennet should remain at the blackjack tables and away from microphones...if he truly said all that. If he did, he should be ashamed. If he didn't...next!

[Mamzelle]

This comes, I believe, from the "Freakonomics" assertions that the reason we have lowered violent crime is that the violent criminals were aborted over twenty years ago.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I heard this, and the context was a caller who said that if abortion hadn't resulted in millions of children not being born over the past 32 years, we'd have many more people working, paying taxes, and it would be easier to adequately fund social security. Bennett said that a problem with that argument was that not every child born would have been in a position to make equivalent contributions. He asked, how many abortions occur among single mothers, or among people in poverty; implying, I guess, that they would be more likely to be unemployed than gainfully employed and contributing. Then he asked, sort of rhetorically, if you aborted all the black babies, would that result in a decrease in crime. A poor choice of words and poor example, but then Bennett does go off on tangents sometimes.

[JasonSC]

"If you really wanted to lower the crime rate - even though that would be horrendous and unthinkable, would be to abort all of the African Amercian babies."

Definitely smoking something.

[sauropod]

I surmise that Bennett was referencing the National Criminal Victims Survey that the DoJ maintains. That survey shows that black on white crime vs white on black crime is about 50 times more likely on a per capita basis.

Stupid comment nonetheless.

[stuartcr]

I didn't know he was pro-choice!!

[ArmstedFragg]

Robert's did not play enough of the tape to allow what Bennet was talking about to be fully understood in context

Of course not! We're talking Rick here....

[sauropod]

IT may be that the NCVS was referenced by Freakonomics.

[RegulatorCountry]

"Of course it's absurd and evil and could never happen," etc.

Not so absurd. It's being touted as a benefit of Roe v. Wade. And, the rate of abortion is greater among black women than any other ethnic group.

Margaret Sanger is laughing from hell.

[Petronski]

I'd love to hear the context that would make that statement somehow reasonable. I cannot imagine what he could have been thinking.

[Petronski]

I'd love to hear the context that would make that statement somehow reasonable. I cannot imagine what he could have been thinking.

[Calpernia]

I would like to lower corruption. So let's abort all democrats.

[wideawake]

He waas responding to a fraudulent study put out a couple of years back in some scientific journal about the crime rate being down because so many black children were aborted.

Bennett was most likely referencing this repulsive study and his criticism of it was decontextualized.

[GregoTX]

Im confused, I thought abortion was a good thing, no matter what the reason is. Infact, there has been people attempting to pass laws preventing people from speaking out against abortion. I was told there was no wrong reason for getting an abortion. So now we finally have a wrong reason for abortion. And the wrong reason would be if someone is a goofy racist, condones abortion for goofy racist reasons.
Interesting pile of garbage from both the racists and the abortionists.