BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Former Education Secretary William Bennett on Saturday blamed the news media for distorting his remarks about aborting black babies, saying he had intended to make “a bad argument in order to put it down.”

Bennett, making his first public speech since the comment aired on his radio show last month, said the meaning of his remark linking the crime rate with black abortions was reversed in many news reports.

“I was putting forward a bad argument in order to put it down,” Bennett said, drawing sustained applause from nearly 4,500 people attending the Bakersfield Business Conference. “They reported and emphasized only the abhorrent argument, not my shooting it down.”
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Arrogant fool.

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