For remarks he made a couple of days ago:

WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.

"The president believes the comments were not appropriate," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.

Bennett, on his radio show, "Morning in America," was answering a caller's question when he took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up.

"But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down," said Bennett, author of "The Book of Virtues."

He went on to call that "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky."

Bennett's method is not the one I would have used to make the point he was attempting, but to try and tar him as a racist - as the Left is doing - is absurd. It would have been more desirable to have used a different example had he had the foresight, which I'm surprised that he did not, to know that the Left is always trying to race bait and that sensitivities are now particularly acute in the aftermath of Katrina, but his remarks taken in full context do not convey a racist intent.

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Extensive analysis over at the Moderate Voice.