On December 6, O'Reilly interviewed Lori Lipman Brown, the former Nevada state senator and currently the director and lobbyist for the Secular Coalition for America. This was in the wake of the Mitt Romney's speech on "why my Mormon faith isn't a problem."
Brown's interaction with O'Reilly was very good and I think she did a decent job holding her own and representing the rational perspective. She took umbrage with Romney's statement that American's believe in God, pointing out that he completely ignored 30 million plus non-religious (secularist, atheist, and agnostic) Americans.
O'Reilly made the usual ass of himself by creating the ad hominem arguments against those that don't accept his superstitions by referring to them as "whining" several times. Predictably, O'Reilly makes the usual nutjob claims about the U.S. being founded on belief in God, etc., to which Brown successfully counters by pointing out that the United States is not ruled by the Declaration of Independence but, rather, the Constitution, a document which specifically omits talk religious and god-talk by design since those that wanted a secular nation won that argument then.
She also puts him in his place with the "incessant whining" ad hominem by pointing out that 30 million people were excluded and Romney is running for an office that represents all Americans.
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