4.23.2006

Bill Bennett Wants Journalists in Jail and I Wouldn't Mind Seeing Lardass Bennett Go to the Pokey

Ed&Pub also reports that "morality czar" and drunkard/gambler/domme-paying kinky sex slave Bill Bennett still wants Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists to go to jail because they dared to report the truth about President Bush.

From E&P:

Appearing on CNN on Friday morning, before news of the CIA firing arrived, Bennett was asked by John Roberts about his controversial remarks. On his radio show, Bennett had clearly called for imprisonment for the reporters, charging that their reporting was not “worthy of an award” but instead was “worthy of jail."

Bennett on Friday, however, claimed that he had merely wondered “whether they deserved the Pulitzer more, or actually more deserving was a subpoena or perhaps going to jail.”Then he pointed out that former New York Times reporter Judy Miller “went to jail, and I don't know why we should treat these folks differently than Judy Miller.”Robert pointed out the cases were not analogous.

According to the transcript provided by Media Matters, Roberts said, “Judy Miller went to jail for contempt of court…. These people haven't been charged with contempt of court.”