You got problems Mike Quinones, and Clancy Imislund, members of the Midtown Cult, Atlantic Group and Pacific Group cults!

As well as the Pacific Group, AG is linked to the abusive Midtown Group. Members now sit among us at more regular AA meetings. They have many tell-tale signs. One is that they call themselves “recovered alcoholics,” referring to the first hundred members of AA who described themselves as such, and forgetting that of those hundred at least 70 died drunk. When they speak at a meeting they always say, “My sponsor has a sponsor who has a sponsor who took him through the Steps as laid out in the Big Book.” They speak of being “God-powered,” of being “an alcoholic of the hopeless and doomed variety,” as if there were any other kind. They openly sneer at the oldest of AA notions—"Just don't drink and go to meetings,"—though for many alcoholics, myself included, that is often all that a newcomer can focus on. They use the phrase, “You’re not really sober if...“ and talk of being “transformed.” (Cue their nickname: “The Transformers.")

The creepiness of this approach came to an inevitable point in 2007, when the Washington Post and Newsweek reported on the Midtown Group—the Washington DC AA group led by Michael Quinones. According to police reports and press interviews, Quinones was a grand-sponsor who strongly discouraged members from seeking psychiatric help or taking anti-depressants. They did, however, encourage underage female members to sleep with middle-aged male members, including Quinones. The group was also known as The Q Group, after their leader. After the allegations came to light, several of the churches hosting their meetings ended their arrangements. It was a shocking story of sexual predation.

A remark from the man who sponsored Quinones was telling. According to the Washington Post, Clancy Imislund, managing director of Midnight Mission in LA, spoke directly about the situation. “There probably have been some excesses,” he said, “but they have helped more sober alcoholics in Washington than any other group by far.” Note that last jab at other AA meetings, and the shrug about what, in his state, would be legally considered statutory rape.

He continued, “It had been an issue [the sexual exploitation of teenage girls] but wherever you have a lot of young, neurotic people, they’re going to cling to each other.” Note the fault of those “young, neurotic people,” also known as newcomers seeking experience, strength and hope.

That Clancy, of course, is the same man who told a trembling newcomer at that packed AG meeting to “Shut up, Bitch.”

Amid all this ugliness, superiority and ego gratification, it’s helpful to return to AA’s history, the implementation of the traditions and concepts to ward off such aberrations of AA and to bear in mind that the founders, while very much human, knew what they were doing.

The last time Bill Wilson visited Dr. Bob, before he died, Bob’s final words to him were, “Let’s not louse this thing up. Let’s keep it simple.”

The people who share what is going on in the world from only one perspective, and never through the eyes of a resident living east of the Bay of Biscay or South of the Yucatan Peninsula

Martin Agronsky — Reporter and host of Agronsky and Company    
Bonnie Bernstein — sports journalist
Carl Bernstein — investigative reporter for the Washington Post, uncovered Watergate with Bob Woodward.
David Brooks — columnist, The New York Times
Morton Dean — CBS News reporter
Benjamin De Casseres — early the century journalist, critic and individualist anarchist
Matt Drudge — founder of The Drudge Report
Giselle Fernández — host of Access Hollywood  
Thomas Friedman — columnist, The New York Times  
Bernard Goldberg — CBS News reporter  
Jeffrey Goldberg — journalist, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the book Prisoners  
Roy Gutman — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best known for his coverage of the war in the former Yugoslavia.
David Halberstam — Vietnam War correspondent  
Seymour Hersh — investigative journalist, uncovered My Lai massacre  
Paul Krugman — Nobel Prize-winning economist and columnist, The New York Times  
Dave Marash — Washington-based anchor of Al-Jazeera's English language    hour news channel.  
Suzy Menkes, fashion journalist  
Edwin Newman — NBC News journalist, Broadway critic, author  
Daniel Pearl — murdered foreign correspondent  
Frank Rich — columnist, The New York Times  
Geraldo Rivera — investigative television journalist and host, now with Fox News  
Steven V. Roberts — Washington pundit and U.S. News and World Report contributor  
William Safire — columnist, The New York Times  
Daniel Schorr — journalist who covered the world for more than    years, last as a senior news analyst for National Public Radio  
George Seldes — World War I correspondent, post-war international reporter and media critic  
Joel Siegel — film critic  
Morrie Siegel — sports writer      
Joel Stein — columnist, Los Angeles Times  
Gloria Steinem — feminist editor and writer, founder of Ms. magazine  
I. F. Stone — left-wing Washington correspondent and investigative journalist, NY Post, PM, The Nation and I.F. Stone's Weekly.  
Jake Tapper — CNN anchor and correspondent  
Mike Wallace — journalist,    Minutes correspondent  
Barbara Walters — media personality, a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), evening news magazines, and on The ABC Evening News, as the first female evening news anchor  
Walter Winchell — investigative broadcast journalist and gossip columnist  
Gideon Yago — MTV reporter  

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