April
7, letter to Dan Patrick, KPRC Radio (950 AM)
I was listening to your station as I was driving to
the park for a walk with my friend, Dexter.
It was just after 6:00 p.m.,
Sunday, April 6, and you guys were running a national conservative talk show,
live. The talk show host (I don’t know
his name) was a big pro-war rally organizer, so I figured he was pretty
friendly with the government public affairs people, Washington politicians, other media, and so
on.
The talk show host was complaining about some kind of
outrageous reports from an Egyptian newspaper that there were two hundred dead
American soldiers at the Baghdad
Airport. He laughed and said they were crazy rag
heads. He was still laughing when he
went into a commercial break.
When he came back he wasn’t laughing, he was
somber. He said he couldn’t say why, but
he had a feeling that something terrible has happened in Iraq this weekend. Dexter and I reached the park and I was about
to turn off the radio, but before I did he said
another noteworthy thing: He said that
no matter what we found out, we should rally as a nation behind President Bush.
Can you explain any of this?
Eric May