Have you heard him talking about the evils of gambling? If not, he's no hypocrit.
This wouldn't show that Bennett is not a hypocrite. It would just show that he's not a total moron. He can happily go through the litany of the other people's pleasures, weaknesses, vices, whatever, and then cry and moan about American freedom, he just happened to skip over his own.
My, that's quite the handy little excuse.
In a little book this slimy lizard authored, entitled The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family, he discusses how we must relearn to "enter judgments on a whole range of behaviors and attitudes." About how "wealth and luxury ... often make it harder to deny the quest for instant gratification" because "the more we attain, the more we want."
Would anyone expect that a man who said that would also be one who routinely "goes through (or 'cycles') several hundred thousand dollars in an evening" (his own description) in Vegas or Atlantic city?
Scum. Nothing but self-aggrandizing scum.
I don't think he condemned gambling, but he's had problems with Self Discipline.
"It was a high level, was a lot of money," he said, and "counting up, has made a difference in our lives."