The feedback to the developments in Tom Bennett's "Big T's Talk and Variety Show" has been coming in fast throughout the internet and across Fairfield County.

Of the different posts on Bennett, I think my favorite coffee drinker said it best over at Connecticut Local Politics.

CTBlogger has been blogging about Tom Bennet on HatCityBLOG for awhile now. You can view clips from the show on his site. I’ve watched a few of them and I still can’t quite believe Bennett hasn’t been pulled off the air. Obviously this video contains offensive content.

This is a perfect example of how important local blogging is. Without the pressure from CTBlogger nothing would have been done about Bennet’s using the public airwaves to spread hate. Now baby steps are finally being taken and if I’ve learned anything about CTBlogger I know that he won’t rest until Bennett’s show is pulled for good.

You're damn right. Bennett outlandish behavior has been well known to most people in Danbury for years. Supporters of Bennett include high ranking elected-officials, members of the local anti-immigrant group (co-host John McGowan is the Vice President of the organization), and other local access show hosts and all where well aware that Bennett crossed the line several times on his show (all of whom should be ashamed of themselves and have a great deal of explaining to do).

The clips I provided on this site represent an EXTREMELY small portion of the offensive material that went overlooked by supporters of Bennett.

While I promised that I'll respond to some of the outrageous comments from supporters of Bennett who called into Big T's last show, here's a list of comments from around the internet on Bennett's disgusting behavior.

That’s pretty unbelievable - blatantly using a racial slur to describe a critic and speculating about whether he is diseased… It will be a good day when this guy no longer has a megaphone!

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Wow - All this guy needs to do is replace the baseball cap with a hood and he’d fit right in with all the Klansmen who probably make up the majority of his supporters. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black - he’s the one living in his own little diseased, warped world. Carry on, CTBlogger! Nothing makes cockroaches run like shining a light on them!

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Jeez, who would watch this show? I’ve also been following this for a while and it is amazing that he’s still on the air.

Good for CTBlogger for kicking his butt.

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If it were just on the internet, it’d be another thing, but for Comcast to allow that kind of hate speech to brought in to people’s homes?


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I am torn. I am a firm believer in free speech. However, I also believe in the worth of all human beings. The best thing to do with this guy is TURN HIM OFF.

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I live in Derby and I volunteer for the Thompson Campaign. From the start Mr. Thompson who is black has been taunted by bloggers writing as Derby Conservative and Connecticut’s smallest city. Even though the Derby Conservative ( and we know who he is) took down his blog after Mr. Thompson personally contacted the bloggers employer about using company computers to spread racist remarks, he still continues to lurk about town and on other blogs. The campaign has copies of all post daily that are racial in nature and will use them if need be. We also have the Derby Conservatives postings saved as well. The bloggers who exposed this idiot in Danbury should be proud but I wan to make people aware that the Derby Conservative has engaged and still engages in racist, sexist and ethnic insults. My point is that this type of garbage needs to be exposed no matter who it comes from. Thank you to the non-bigots in Derby who have welcomed Mr. Thompson’s candidacy even though the bigots in town ( and we have many) have not.

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Way to go, ctblogger! Glad to see Fairfield County Weekly pick up the story too.
WHOOIE! Ctblogger's done a GREAT job with the documentation.. keep up the good work!

now hopefully Comcast will step up to the plate and do the right thing.

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Wow! This is great work. I've never had Comcast so I've never seen this particular idiot before. I kept hoping he'd have an aneurism before the end of the video. It must be hard living with so much hate. I'm writing my letters to Comcast and FCW now..

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What's the name of his female counterpart? Every once in a blue moon I'll see her on the telly when visiting friends in Danbury.. she's always holding her hands up in exasperation screaming "IMMMIGRANTZZZ!!"

she's this crazy little old lady, reminds me of my grandmother after she lost it, only this one is MEAN.

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Fairfield County Weekly rocks! As usual, the FCW delivers great local reporting. I only wish it were the Fairfield County Daily!

Great work, ctblogger.

Word of the developments in Bennett's case has spread to the YouTube community. You see, Bennett also has quite a following of critics on YouTube who view his home-made videos on the site and they've been following this case with great interest. One particular YouTuber, who goes by the user name PaganWolf02, contacted me about 10 months ago after noticing an earlier post I did on Bennett's show. He's been involved in a bitter back and forth online exchange with Bennett over remarks Tom made about homosexuality (one of his favorite topics). You can watch his reaction to Bennett's retirement announcement by clicking here.

There are some other rather explosive developments in the works, which might include this site being picked up by a national monitoring organization but I've been told under advisement not to discuss any details at this time.