back when i used to like sports in the good old houston oiler days of “luv ya blue!”, dan patrick was the local sportscaster.  funny little guy.  i remember something about him putting another hat on every time the team won, until he had a stack of hats...or something like that.  i was just a kid and i thought he was funny.

then.  later.  many years later.  (we won’t say just how many!  ) i flipped my radio dial over to the local talk radio program and stumbled upon dan patrick.  amusingly, he had as a host a certain “jon mathews”, who had once been a radio personality on one of the top rock stations in houston.  not that i ever listened to it, as being a teenaged girl, i found the subject matter to be offensive, embarrassing, and utterly moronic.  he apparently decided to continue in that vein as he was one of the most caustic, hateful, mean-spirited, belligerent talk radio hosts that i’ve ever heard.  jon matthews would later be arrested for indecency with a child.  nasty, icky man.

anyways, on to dan patrick.  if jon mathews was caustic, hateful, mean-spirited and belligerent, dan patrick was all of that and more.  i once called his show, after listening to him attack homosexuality by increasingly dehumanizing gays.  my point to mr. patrick was that these were people, they were friends and family members, and in my particular case, my father, so while you may believe that “homosexuality” is wrong, ranting and name-calling is certainly not going to make your point for you and will instead solidify opposition to you.  of course… that would have been my point to mr patrick; however, he responded to me by literally SCREAMING at me over the phone, saying how i shouldn’t even be alive, because my father’s genes were “tainted”, etc.  i’ve often wondered whether or not he considered his behaviour at that moment to be “moral”.  if so, irony meters beware!  nevermind that i was tempted to run around houston spreading my “tainted” genes and making people catch gay   i quit listening to his show after that.  who wants to be subjected to that type of abuse, much less listen to it?

side note: dan patrick is sometimes credited with having “discovered” rush limbaugh. 

i was saddened to see mr patrick win election to the texas senate in 2006.  his district his heavily republican, so it wasn’t entirely unexpected once he announced his candidacy, but it was disheartening to say the least.  to say that mr patrick is “rabidly” right wing is an understatement. 

i’ve been somewhat amused in a “omg, this man is a texas senator, i’m so embarrassed” kinda way by mr patrick’s actions in the senate.  i’d be so very curious to see if the onion’s readership has fallen off in recent years, because the *real* news is even more bizarre than they can print! 

i give you texas senator dan patrick at his, uh...finest

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