Scott McPherson of The Future of Freedom Foundation:
In a nationally syndicated column, National Review Online editor and prominent conservative spokesman Jonah Goldberg is crying foul over the “wolf-pack of gleeful liberals feeding on [William] Bennett,” following revelations of Bennett’s gambling problem. “Mr. Bennett argues that character matters,” he whined, “but he has never been a huge advocate for invading the privacy of others.”
Really? As the nation’s “drug czar,” Bennett supported massive invasions of people’s privacy through the use of wiretaps, paid informants, “dynamic-entry” search warrants and other paramilitary tactics, erosion of the posse comitatus law, and startling numbers of “asset forfeitures” – a whole host of brutalizing and invasive practices – to insure that people who chose a habit different from his were, in his own words, “imprisoned for long periods of time.”
Goldberg is so far gone, there's no hope of reaching his mind. The fact that he could even write such fantastic fiction indicating that Bennett " has never been a huge advocate for invading the privacy of others" is further proof of his loss of sanity. I used to have high hopes for the boy, as he sometimes has a moment of clarity and I find myself agreeing with him. Now I just hope that Lopez and Co. keep him away from sharp objects and lock up the Liquid Drano. National Review Online has rapidly turned into a colony of lightweights (Goldberg) and bat-shit crazies (Derbyshire), further strengthening my private belief that the men in white coats will soon be at their offices to take them away. It's for their own good really.
Now be a nice boy Jonah and take your medicine.