Wild Bill Bennett

September, 2003

And then there is William Bennett. Joshua Green, a former Forum editorial assistant who left for the Washington beat, nailed down rumors that Mr. Virtue, the man who once wanted to hang drug dealers from lampposts, has a love for the slots.Building the indictment, Green cataloged Bennett's more scurrilous sermons. Wild Bill, he noted, has attacked drinking, homosexual unions, swinging, the Ricki Lake Show, liberals, academics, permissiveness and Bill Clinton's behavior in the White House.While t...