Dear Bill,

This is to inform you that you have become a bully pulpit. I have tried to tell you this before but your rules of engagement are too great a hurdle for a non-premium member such as myself. You encourage the misguided to advise you when you stray from your no spin zone. Your instructions are simple; all I must do is give you examples and keep it pithy. You once explained pithy as being a couple of sentences.

Don’t get me wrong, Bill, the last thing I wish is to have my two sentences read on the air. If that were my mission I would merely mention how helpful your book was in raising my children and, of course, my swell no spin jacket which, I might add, has rendered my neighbors downright covetous.

All I seek is to have you mention that something was pointed out to you and that perhaps, just perhaps, you were in error. No need to point out the name of the non-premium member who would dare such impertinence. The only need is to own some of the things you say under the ruse of fair and balanced, the guise of no spin.

I wrote to you about the disparaging remarks aimed at the two security guards arrested in Aruba after Natalie went missing. Even though your channel had reported that their jobs had ended; you shook your head and griped about what kind of guys these were; riff-raff, quitting their jobs, etc. It took me more than two sentences, Bill, worse yet the email went through your employer, not your website.

Early on your violations were more scattered but here lately, Bill, I gotta tell you they have become daily. A while back Aphrodite Jones spent five minutes talking about the tragedy with the lawyers wife in California. A most horrifying crime. Ms. Jones talked of the alleged perpetrators’ mother selling out and testifying against the boy.

I appreciate Ms. Jones. She painted an almost unbelievable picture of the mother. Roll the videotape, Bill. In the end you said “yeah, well his mother’s going to testify against him, he did it” The woman described to you by Ms. Jones! The mother selling out her own son to save her own skin! I can’t help but wonder if any of those premium members caught that as they busily blotted the koolaid from their lips. Fair and balance, Bill? No spin, Bill? Innocent until proven guilty, Bill?

No. None of the above. Just the privileged abuse of a bully pulpit.