Re: Stern AA comment

November 11, 1999

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" md matt " wrote:

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> I don't know if anyone else saw it, but last night on the

Stern E!

> show he put down AA. He was interviewing Alison Eastwood (Clint's

daughter)

> and she mentioned that she used to drink and drug alot when she was

> " younger. " said, 'oh, so you don't drink anymorel.' She

responded,

> 'nope. not anymore. I'm sober one day at a time.' started

laughing

> and said, 'are you an AA freak? Do you have a higher power?' He was

> smirking and being sarcastic. 'yes I do,' Alison responded.

> Then, she admitted she had gotten wildly drunk at the Academy

Award a

> few months earlier! Geez!! So the program works great doesn't it?

Well,

> at least it gives you catchy slogans to tell the public, even when

your

> still getting drunk occasionally. " One day at a time, " except on the

day of

> the Academy Awards.

> Anyway, my point is, I thought it was cool , a media

guy, dared

> to poke fun at AA. And the whole AA freak bit. I've never heard

that said

> on a television show.

> I'm not a big Stern fan. But I liked him last night!

>

> ______________________________________________________

November 11, 1999

Unfortunately, I don't think Stern is taken very seriously. I'm

under the impression that the words " shock jock " were first and most

commonly used referring to Stern. My impression is he's the radio talk show

equivalent of a troll - he'll say anything to get people riled up, whether

it's against mom, apple pie, AA, the pope, or whatever.

But it's at least good that people heard someone putting AA in its place,

and someone else's 'example of sobriety'. Of course, AA'ers will say that

shouldn't have said she was in AA, that she broke her anonymity, and

by admitting that and that she was drunk at the awards, it make it look like

a failure of AA when all AA'ers know that the failure was hers (but if she

HAD stayed sober everyone would give the credit to AA and her higher power).

At 05:41 AM 11/11/99 GMT, MD Matt wrote:

>I don't know if anyone else saw it, but last night on the Stern E!

>show he put down AA. He was interviewing Alison Eastwood (Clint's daughter)

>and she mentioned that she used to drink and drug alot when she was

> " younger. " said, 'oh, so you don't drink anymorel.' She responded,

>'nope. not anymore. I'm sober one day at a time.' started laughing

>and said, 'are you an AA freak? Do you have a higher power?' He was

>smirking and being sarcastic. 'yes I do,' Alison responded.

> Then, she admitted she had gotten wildly drunk at the Academy Award a

>few months earlier! Geez!! So the program works great doesn't it? Well,

>at least it gives you catchy slogans to tell the public, even when your

>still getting drunk occasionally. " One day at a time, " except on the day of

>the Academy Awards.

> Anyway, my point is, I thought it was cool , a media guy, dared

>to poke fun at AA. And the whole AA freak bit. I've never heard that said

>on a television show.

>I'm not a big Stern fan. But I liked him last night!

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November 11, 1999

Unfortunately, I regard Stern as an unmitigated a**hole. His job

consists in debunking things, and so I expect him to do that, and I don't take

him seriously because I don't know if he believes what he says. Often I suspect

he says what he says just to go against the mainstream. It wouldn't surprise me

if a lot of people agreed with me on this one.

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