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06/24/08 10:52 AM

#337856 RE: ieddyi #337855

#11.....his middle name is Hussein, lol.
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06/24/08 11:02 AM

#337857 RE: ieddyi #337855

Just love your sources......

Bennett’s hard line on substance abuse and personal morality may seem a tad ironic, in light of the fact that he is a drinker and a former chain-smoker. But more ironic still were the revelations two years ago that Bennett had gambled some $8 million away in the previous ten years. While it’s true Bennett didn’t oppose gambling specifically, Empower America , now part of FreedomWorks, where he was co-director at the time, opposed expanding legal gambling. Bennett also tried to dishonestly weasel his way out of it, by claiming that he had won more than he lost—a virtual (no pun intended) statistical impossibility when you play slots—claiming that he got started gambling by playing bingo in church, and pointing out that he could afford to. This last claim, of course, cuts against his contention that things like homosexuality and casual drug use are harmful to society even when they don’t directly affect anyone, because they create a climate of moral laxity. But apparently that only applies to other people’s behavior.