Re Bill Bennett of the “Book of Virtues” fame
I can barely find him on the current cultural radar screen. What’s he doing these days? Did the gambling thing effectively end his career as a $ 50,000. a pop celebrity lecturer?
Talk radio- 6-9 AM EST, show is called “Morning in America” & it’s part of the Salem Christian radio network which does Christian music & conservative talk-radio (after Bennett is Laura Ingraham, who is smart, strident, funny & best of all, cuter & saner than Ann Coulter; then is my favorite cultural commentator Dennis Prager, who is an observant non-Orthodox Jew & has been a moderate Democrat slowly turned conservative Republican)
The gambling thing wasn’t devastating as his religion does not condemn gambling (he’s Catholic) & while his Evangelical supporters might, they’re not gonna dump him over that.
He still has his website at www.BennettMornings.com, he still does radio, which is apparently streamed. But new wrintings and articles appear to be slim; on the occassion of Reagan’s death, even his own website only offers a reprint of a 1995 article. He’s definitely keeping a low profile. But as that article you linked pointed out, it’s damned near impossible to be permanently discredited in American culture. Nixon came back, O.J. appears to be coming back – the closest shunned individual may have been Eli Kazan.
You’ve got to give the man savvy for not condemning his own vice in the mass media, as did Rush Limbaugh He avoid the blatant hypocrisy.
Bill Bennett’s radio show is also carried on XM Radio’s* America Righ*t channel:
http://www.xmradio.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=166