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January 12, 2006

Scalito to SCOTUS and Bennett to CNN

It's official. Liberal democracy is dead. The corporations won.

From the Color of Change:


A few months ago, we demanded that right-wing talk show host Bill Bennett take responsibility and apologize for racist remarks he made on his national radio show. He never did. Now, CNN is preparing to hire him. Please join us in telling CNN to not hire Bennett--that it would be a huge mistake:

In September, Bill Bennett said the following:


I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down.

Bennett's words perpetuated the idea that Black people are part of a criminal class. At the time of Bennett's remarks, we put pressure on the Salem Radio Network -- which distributes his show -- to fire Bennett unless he apologized. He has not apologized, and he has not addressed the racist logic at the core of what he said. Now, only a few months later, it has been reported that CNN is about to hire him. We need your help in putting pressure on CNN. They haven't yet confirmed their decision, and they need to know that hiring Bill Bennett would be wrong. Please join us in asking CNN to reconsider:


Posted by Mike at January 12, 2006 08:27 PM

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