We Love Bill O’Reilly!

Fri 26 Jan 07, 5:35 p.m.

Hi All,

Rex here.

We LOVE Bill! He is a consummate professional. Regardless of the extent to which one agrees or disagrees with his politics (and there is plenty I disagree with!), Bill has has one of the best-organized, best produced, most intelligent news-commentary programs on television, ever! And I agree with his assertion that those who criticize him most harshly, have probably never watched his program. We forgive him the puffed up, self-serving slogans of "no spin" and "fair and balanced". Everybody on television spins, even the "No Spin Zone." On "The Factor", everything spins to serve Bill's "Traditionalist" agenda. So what? Personally, I am smart enough to read between the lines and I do pay attention to the "man behind the curtain", while fully appreciating what O'Reilly can do with interesting topics, well-chosen guest pundits and a fast-paced 60 minutes of air time.

Having said that, we have no use for Mr. Reilly's deliberate campaign to make make "secular" a dirty word, and paint people who identify with the word as involved with some kind of "war", as in Mr. O'Reilly's most recent and very successful book "Culture Warrior." The name of our community proudly begins with the word "secular". It was intentional from our inception. It is a part of "who we are". It means something important, particularly in the context of recovery from addictions. We fly those colors proudly and without apology, and we are not at war with anyone.

Aloha,

Rex
rex [at] secularrecovery [dot] com