American Jewish Committee owes Bennett an apology

The AJC's press release condemning, thoughtful former education secretary Bill Bennett's "outrageous" remark is itself outrageous, having left out his complete remark which repudiates what AJC is asking him to apologize for!

• AJC's press release:

The American Jewish Committee urges William J. Bennett to apologize for his outrageous assertion that aborting black babies would lower crime rates.

The former U.S. Secretary of Education stated on his radio show, abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

"That is an outrageous and unacceptable remark, whatever spin he seeks to attach to it," said Ann Schaffer, director AJC's intergroup relations program, the Belfer Center for American Pluralism.

What is doubly disturbing is that Mr. Bennett does not seem to understand that it is not only morally reprehensible to consider aborting any babies for economic reasons, as he indicated. It is also morally reprehensible to single out black children in the context of a discussion on crime rates, Schaffer said.

• Now Bill Bennett's completed thought that the AJC conveniently left out:

"...That would be an impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down..."

Is AJC now going to apologize to Mr. Bennett? Well let's not get facts in the way of their agenda.