Newsweek Promising New Bill Bennett Information Coming Forward

Newsweek and CNN ^ | May 7, 2003 | Tucker Carlson

[ewing]

On 'Crossfire', Newsweek reporter Johnathan Alter said the magazine was going to be releasing new information that would refute Bill Bennett's assertion that he was a '3-4 times a year high stakes gambler.'

Evidently they have more proof than was disclosed in the article this week that started the story moving.

[ewing]

Did anyone elese see this on the show as well?

[RAT Patrol]

I am wondering why this is news anyway.

[rellimpank]

--reaffirms my opinion that "Newsweak" is the proper spelling--

[Paul Atreides]

It's nice to know that they are alerting the world to Mr. Bennett's gambling habits. It's so much more dishonorable than, say, raping a woman and ruining lives. </sarcasm>

[sinkspur]

Isn't CROSSFIRE on when most people are working?

Alter's a slimy little bastard who's overplaying his hand here.

But, he was one of Clinton's biggest defenders, so none of this is surprising.

[ewing]

I was going to spell it the same way..

[Fraulein]

ping

[2nd Amendment]

I find it hilarious that the left has to trash a one time Education Secretary in order to refute the Klinton self-inflicted litany of Presidential scandals.

[faithincowboys]

ouch, but better than I thought... when I clicked on to this thread I thought they had info on liasons with Vegas hookers or something. Talk about relief!

[Shanty Shaker]

11682 Jonathon Alter, “Degrees of Discomfort – Is Homophobia Equivalent to Racism”.
(buy this paper)
This paper is a review of an article by Jonathon Alter, “Degrees of Discomfort – Is Homophobia Equivalent to Racism”. Newsweek. March 12, 1990. The essay discusses the article and assesses the validity of Alter’s arguments. 4 pgs. 1 source.

Filename: 11682 Degrees of Discomfort.doc
Price: $ 35.80

We can extrapolate from here that philosophical pursuit is the souce of morality.

[GOPrincess]

I'm curious, are any of these casinos opening themselves up to breach of confidentiality lawsuits?

Not that I approve of high-stakes gambling, but the way this whole thing is unfolding seems a bit odd...

[Russell Scott]

Until Bennett comes clean on exactly what he was doing, the liberal media feeding frenzy will continue. For a guy who is so outspoken, his silence only makes him look worse.

[pbear8]

I agree. In the olden days when the mob ran Vegas, the informant would have been 'encouraged' to talk and then driven outside the Clark County line and planted.

Casinos are stupid not to protect their 'whales'. Of course I am a guppy, but I still want my privacy.

[Shanty Shaker]

"I wish the right, which never cared in the slightest about sexual harassment, would stop trying to stretch this into sexual harassment and concentrate on something else." -- Newsweek's Jonathan Alter on CNBC's Hardball, Sept. 22.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

I saw that, it was really kind of sad;

Johnathan Alter said the magazine was going to be releasing ...something even MORE shocking, that's sure to keep this piece that I wrote in circulation more this time. Just keep talking about Bennent and Newsweek. Not only is he not virtueous, he's lying about this, we will reveal that he is Double Secret Lying."

Alter later goes on to say "just you wait, boy is this gonna be explosive. Any time now. Huge this time. Hello? Are we at commercial now? Does anybody watch this Crossfire Carville?"

[GOPrincess]

As someone who admires Bennett and has always found him very smart and articulate, the thing that baffles me is not so much the morality issue but that this gambling is so lacking in *wisdom* -- in terms of both the amounts and him surely knowing that this was going to come back to bite him one year or another. Knowing he *must* have been smart enough to recognize it would one day be an issue, but did it anyway, concerns me -- that it might have been something he couldn't stop.

[Shanty Shaker]

In his recent article, "Clinton on the Couch," Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter enlists Freud and Jung to explain the Monica Lewinsky affair.

If tales of oral sex in the White House are true, Alter asks, why would Clinton risk it all? "Why would he betray his loyal wife and daughter, his indulgent supporters and the dignity of the office he has sought since childhood?"

The answer, it is suggested, lies in the dark recesses of a presidential psyche shaped by a dysfunctional family, an unhappy childhood and a wretched adolescence. As a teen-ager, Clinton was teased for being fat. Now, he's "remedying an early deficit in female attention."




Ok I relax and go to my corner. If you ever begin to listen to Alter again just go to google and do a jonathan alter sex search. No moral platitudes to be found.

[dogbyte12]

Until Bennett comes clean on exactly what he was doing, the liberal media feeding frenzy will continue. For a guy who is so outspoken, his silence only makes him look worse.

Perhaps this shouldn't have been a story, but Bennett is just making it worse. If Bennett's claims that he only gambles 3 or 4 times a year, and that he broke even, are easily proven false, then any further bad press is on him.

You have a choice when these stories come out, you either don't comment, or you spill your guts. Limited, half truth hangouts don't work. None of your business, would have been a much better option then dissembling.

[what's up]

Who cares? Let him gamble as much as he wants; as long as it's not an addiction it's recreation.