In my opinion, its the fact that Bill Bennett has a long history of behaving like a complete hypocrite nutjob that makes the public so quick to cut him down. I mean, he says that he qualified the statement (which he did), but we're inclined to believe that he actually meant it because of who it was that said it. How the man still finds himself in the public eye is beyond me, for any media outlet with half a brain knows that he's a lightning rod for extremism and hypocirisy and one rusty screw away from becoming completely unhinged.
This guy has accrued some seriously bad karma and I have no doubt he'll be reborn the daughter of a meth-head in Canoga Park and grow up aspiring to be throat-fucked, head-UPSIDEDOWN on film. That's all I gotta say about that.