Bennett v. Beck

Jonah Goldberg, NRO:

I’m proud to be a friend and fan of Bill Bennett’s, but I guess I’m going to disagree with his take on Beck as well. Bill’s point about Beck using his own experience with alcohol is a good one, but I think he overstates it. He may be right that it’s a bad habit, but that strikes me more like an argument to be had within the recovery community than the world of politics. Allusions to “twelve step” culture are commonplace in political discourse, and while they may or may not be over-done from time to time, I don’t know that they rank all that high on the “dangerous rhetoric” scale compared to other language one hears out there, including at CPAC. The audience certainly understood where Beck was coming from.

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