A Different Take

on Bill "the Greek" Bennett.

Koopersmith is highly critical of Joshua Green writing the piece on Bennett, saying if Bennett loses eight million dollars in the casinos, that's strictly his business.

I am not so sure I agree with that. The trouble is that Bennett all too easily criticizes others for their failings. Just because he's in denial about his gambling addiction--and face it, when you lose that much cash in the clubs, it's an addiction--doesn't make him more credible. Sure, we should focus our criticism on his intellectual dishonesty rather than his personal excesses. But he shouldn't be given a free pass.

Michael Kinsley puts in his two cents on the matter.