Wednesday morning Bill Bennett, author of “The Book of Virtues”, took a call on his radio show where the caller inquired about the higher rate of abortions and the dropping crime rate. Bill Bennett replied:

But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

The caller did not mention race at all so why did Bill Bennett make it a racial issue? White people commit far more crimes than black people. Why then, when we talk about crime, does it come to our minds to discuss it in terms of race?

If you want to lower crime, you need to lower poverty. The poverty rate has gone up since George Bush has become President. So has the abortion rate. Both rates dropped under Bill Clinton.

I want to know what the FCC is going to do about Bill Bennett. He is using America’s airwaves to promulgate this point of view.

The FCC is taking Howard Stern off the air because he is indecent. I ask, is what Howard Stern does on his show in jest, more or less indecent than what Bill Bennett was pushing Wednesday in seriousness?