Newsweek Probes Bennett's Gambling Instead of Hillary's 9/11 Lies
While the establishment press won't touch bombshell allegations that U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton claims to have counseled 9/11 victim families in meetings that the families themselves say never took place, Newsweek has launched an investigation into the private gambling habits of private citizen Bill Bennett.
"More than 40 pages of internal casino documents provided to The Washington Monthly and Newsweek paint a picture of a gambler given the high-roller treatment, including limos and tens of thousands of dollars in complimentary hotel rooms and other amenities," the hit piece, posted to the magazine's Web site, claims.
"In one two-month period, the documents show him wiring more than $1.4 million to cover losses at one casino. In one 18-month stretch, Bennett visited a number of casinos for two or three days at a time."
The conservative moralist denies any wrongdoing, explaining that he gambles for relaxation, has "never bet the milk money" and claims to have broken even over the years.
Still, that didn't stop Clinton attack dog James Carville from zeroing in on the report during Friday night's "Crossfire" broadcast. After summarizing the Washington Monthly version of the story, Carville complained to "Crossfire" co-host Bob Novak, "I mean, come on, man. I mean you're telling me that's like the guy don't have a problem? Woo!"
Although media organs of both the left and the right are sure to pick up Newsweek's Bennett attack - especially after it was hyped on the Drudge Report late Friday - even most conservative news outlets have been mum about devastating new charges leveled by a highly credible source against the nation's most celebrated elected Democrat, Hillary Clinton.
Nearly two weeks ago, widely respected publisher-journalist Steven Brill revealed that while researching his new book, "After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era," Mrs. Clinton sought him out to tout her own role ministering to 9/11 victim families in a craven attempt to trash fellow Senator Charles Schumer, and even had her office provide bogus records of the phantom meetings.
"None of it turned out to be true," Brill told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "They gave me documents and phone calls and things like that which just plain never happened."
Brill said Clinton's office attempted to construct "an elaborate story, with an elaborate subtext of memos and phone calls - a long, long story."
Five days later the nation's top Democrat categorically denied the story - and went so far as to attack Brill, who defended the Clintons throughout impeachment, as someone who would lie to sell more books.
In a statement released to the Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, Hillary spokesman Phillipe Reines said, "Brill's accusations are completely false and an obvious last ditch effort to jump-start anemic book sales. It's hard to understand why Mr. Brill would choose to exploit such a horrible tragedy in this manner."
With the exception of O'Reilly and fellow Fox News Channel hosts "Hannity & Colmes," the broadcast media has ignored Brill's bombshell, despite the author's heavyweight reputation as the founder of "Court TV" and "American Lawyer" magazine.
Though NewsMax.com has covered Brill's quotes extensively since the story broke, neither Newsweek nor any other print outlet has deemed the revelations about America's most powerful elected Democrat to be newsworthy.
Within hours of the Newsweek report on Bennett, however, that story was getting heavy play on the ABC Radio network's top of the hour news broadcasts, and was being circulated to top opinion makers on "The Hotline."
While the establishment press won't touch bombshell allegations that U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton claims to have counseled 9/11 victim families in meetings that the families themselves say never took place, Newsweek has launched an investigation into the private gambling habits of private citizen Bill Bennett.
"More than 40 pages of internal casino documents provided to The Washington Monthly and Newsweek paint a picture of a gambler given the high-roller treatment, including limos and tens of thousands of dollars in complimentary hotel rooms and other amenities," the hit piece, posted to the magazine's Web site, claims.
"In one two-month period, the documents show him wiring more than $1.4 million to cover losses at one casino. In one 18-month stretch, Bennett visited a number of casinos for two or three days at a time."
The conservative moralist denies any wrongdoing, explaining that he gambles for relaxation, has "never bet the milk money" and claims to have broken even over the years.
Still, that didn't stop Clinton attack dog James Carville from zeroing in on the report during Friday night's "Crossfire" broadcast. After summarizing the Washington Monthly version of the story, Carville complained to "Crossfire" co-host Bob Novak, "I mean, come on, man. I mean you're telling me that's like the guy don't have a problem? Woo!"
Although media organs of both the left and the right are sure to pick up Newsweek's Bennett attack - especially after it was hyped on the Drudge Report late Friday - even most conservative news outlets have been mum about devastating new charges leveled by a highly credible source against the nation's most celebrated elected Democrat, Hillary Clinton.
Nearly two weeks ago, widely respected publisher-journalist Steven Brill revealed that while researching his new book, "After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era," Mrs. Clinton sought him out to tout her own role ministering to 9/11 victim families in a craven attempt to trash fellow Senator Charles Schumer, and even had her office provide bogus records of the phantom meetings.
"None of it turned out to be true," Brill told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "They gave me documents and phone calls and things like that which just plain never happened."
Brill said Clinton's office attempted to construct "an elaborate story, with an elaborate subtext of memos and phone calls - a long, long story."
Five days later the nation's top Democrat categorically denied the story - and went so far as to attack Brill, who defended the Clintons throughout impeachment, as someone who would lie to sell more books.
In a statement released to the Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, Hillary spokesman Phillipe Reines said, "Brill's accusations are completely false and an obvious last ditch effort to jump-start anemic book sales. It's hard to understand why Mr. Brill would choose to exploit such a horrible tragedy in this manner."
With the exception of O'Reilly and fellow Fox News Channel hosts "Hannity & Colmes," the broadcast media has ignored Brill's bombshell, despite the author's heavyweight reputation as the founder of "Court TV" and "American Lawyer" magazine.
Though NewsMax.com has covered Brill's quotes extensively since the story broke, neither Newsweek nor any other print outlet has deemed the revelations about America's most powerful elected Democrat to be newsworthy.
Within hours of the Newsweek report on Bennett, however, that story was getting heavy play on the ABC Radio network's top of the hour news broadcasts, and was being circulated to top opinion makers on "The Hotline."
