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so Sean Hamilton the producer comes to me and he said listen we got a scheduling problem for tomorrow we don't have a

reporter he said I was hoping you could write a commentary and I said what do you want me to write about

he said well I'm thinking Michael Sam and I said well I haven't really thought about it, but maybe. And he said, or there was a kid from Flower Mound that went to Oklahoma State. And he punched a fan because they called it the N-word. And I said, oh, hell, I've written about that so many times. I don't have anything more to say. And he goes, no, good. I was hoping you'd write about Michael Sam. So I said, well, let me think about it. I don't know exactly how I want to phrase it. So I'm driving home listening to talk radio, and I'm just getting madder and matter and matter because these idiots are just calling up with the most outrageous stuff I've ever heard. I get up the next morning. I'm reading the columns. I'm like, oh, my God,

these homophobic bastards out there. So I get into the station. I said, Sean, I think I got

something. I write it up. Sean's a very, very conservative church-going guy. And I said,

I got it. Come on here. He comes into my office. And again, I promise it is true. He comes in, I read it to him. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's fine. I think that's fine. Fine. Hell, I thought a little bit better than that. I mean, I, you know, I, and so I, I, I think go over to Havana cigar bar, which I did a lot. And I've got my very liberal friend, Judge Erich Moyer, and I've got my, I call him Soso, Brian DeMaris does the Mavericks color. And Brian, I call him Soso because he, and he's, well, I'm a Republican, but I'm socially liberal. And so I give them the highlights. I didn't read the actual commentary, but I give them the

highlights. And the judge says, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that'll work. I think that'll work. And Brian looks at me, he says, no, I think, again, I think that's, I think that's okay. That's okay. So I've got, I read it to three people. And oh, and I read it to Arnold Payne, who's also a very liberal guy, our photographer at

Channel A. And he said, yeah, that'll do.

But no one was like, hey, this is earth-shattering. No, no, nobody. So I, I swear to you, I hit the air thinking, in my mind, I'm thinking, well, there's got some good stuff in here. But apparently not, because I've read it to four different people no one was like whoa

who are inclined to agree with you too yeah yeah and it's i got it'll do it'll work it's okay it's fine

so i read the commentary billy's sons uh every bit as liberal as me if if that's possible

but he's running the camera and he pokes his head around the

camera when I'm done he goes so what do you think the reaction to that'll be I said oh hell I'll

probably get a hundred emails over the next month and 50 of them will love me and 50

of them will hate me and he goes okay yeah yeah I get in my car Sean called you go oh my

god you blew it upon I said said, Sean, I read it.

He goes, well, you didn't read it like that. Which, there might be something to that, but I said, Sean, you heard everything. He goes, no, he said, the whole newsroom's going crazy. Phones are lighting up. I said, but you said it would work. Oh, no, it really went. I get home. So that's that night.

That's that night.

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