{"id":474,"date":"2003-08-01T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/474.html"},"modified":"2003-08-01T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T15:54:07","slug":"are-bill-bennetts-gambling-days-over-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/are-bill-bennetts-gambling-days-over-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Bill Bennett’s gambling days over or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all had some fun at Bill Bennett’s expense a few months ago when news broke that he had a moderate gambling problem<\/a> that caused him to lose, according to some reports, as much as $8 million.<\/p>\n

Within days of the story breaking in the news, Bennett quickly doused the public relations fire by announcing he wasn’t going to gamble anymore.<\/p>\n

“I have done too much gambling, and this is not an example I wish to set,” Bennett said<\/a> on May 5. “Therefore, my gambling days are over.”<\/p>\n

Sounds pretty clear, right? No ambiguities there. Bennett gambled a lot, but now his “gambling days are over.” Got it.<\/p>\n

The good folks over at Demagogue<\/a>, however, appear to have stumbled upon Bennett trying to give himself a little wiggle room on the permanence of his no-gambling pledge.<\/p>\n

Bennett was on<\/a> Sean Hannity’s right-wing radio program this week announcing that he was preparing to re-enter the public limelight again after two months of self-imposed exile. On the program, he indicated that his gambling days may not be completely over after all.<\/p>\n

“So, in this case, the excessive gambling is over,” Bennett said. Excessive<\/i> gambling? That’s an interesting qualifier, isn’t it? I mean, “excessive” is an obviously subjective word. If Bennett goes to Vegas and drops a half-million dollars, can he justify his gambling to himself because it isn’t, in his mind, excessive?<\/p>\n

Bennett also said on the radio program, “Since there will be people doing the micrometer on me, I just want to be clear: I do want to be able to bet the [Buffalo] Bills in the Super Bowl.”<\/p>\n

Was this a joke or an indication that Bennett’s gambling days are anything but over? Hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all had some fun at Bill Bennett’s expense a few months ago when news broke that he had a moderate gambling problem that caused him to lose, according to some reports, as much as $8 million. Within days of the story breaking in the news, Bennett quickly doused the public relations fire by announcing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}