Howie "the Whore" Kurtz has a preview of (I guess a taped) Russert for this Sunday, featuring that irrelevant moralist slag, Blackjack Bill saying this:
"I'm not a hypocrite. I never got on the soapbox about gambling. I never said, you know, gambling is a terrible thing, people should stop gambling. . . . Did I fall short of my standards by doing too much, by engaging in this at an excessive level? Yes, but that doesn't make my arguments any less good or not. . . .
"I way overdid it. I gambled too much, and I think I gambled too much given who I am and what I do. So I think it was just best to call it quits on that. Somebody who does what I do shouldn't be gambling at that kind of level. I was, it was, it was at a high level. . . . My gambling days are over."
So, Blackjack have you stopped beating the Mrs yet? Just like your gamblings over, right? You're not a hypocrite, just like I'm a powerball winner...
You are such a Putz.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.25.03 at 06:45 PM
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Steely Dan had Bennett pegged years ago: Now you swear and kick and beg us
That you’re not a gambling man ...
Then we find you back in Vegas
With a handle in your hand ...
Yeah you go back, Jack, and do it again
Wheel turning round and round
you go back, Jack
and do it again ...
Bill Bennett should express his thanks for the public intervention that got him to change his gamblin' ways. Now as penance he can tithe what he spent on gambling in the past - to Gamblers Anonymous.
posted by: Shag from Brookline on 07.26.03 at 07:33 AM [permalink]
