[Mr. Bird]

In 1996 Margaret Carlson reported that Bennett won $60,000 in a single outing in Las Vegas. She was working for Newsweek. Newsweek "broke" this story in May '03. Any questions? It's a hatchet job. If we found out Bennett liked a triple stack of pancakes with a shot of bourbon, would people be incensed, or just confused?

This is a double whammy for Newsweek, because not only did he gamble, he did so with such large sums of money. What an inconsiderate, rich white guy. He could have donated that money to the local food kitchen, rather than use it to entertain himself.

Because it is entertainment, isn't it? In Las Vegas, dropping money in a slot machine has all the moral or amoral equivalence of watching a UNLV basketball game, or the National Finals Rodeo.

And lastly, when are we going to arrest the SCOTUS justices for their weekly poker game????

[cgk]

This is a double whammy for Newsweek, because not only did he gamble, he did so with such large sums of money. What an inconsiderate, rich white guy. He could have donated that money to the local food kitchen, rather than use it to entertain himself

I'm growing tired of people telling the rich how to spend their money - whether it is liberals screaming they shouldn't be rich in the first place and should be taxed more, or people on this very board espousing that Bennett should have given some of his money to "the community." Does anyone know he doesn't give to charity? And if he doesn't, what does it matter?