https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2007-04-20/467466/

The Best and the Brightest (in Talk Radio)

By Wells Dunbar, April 20, 2007, 12:24pm, Newsdesk

As you may have read, Sen. Dan Patrick didn't take too kindly to our reporting his xenophobic departure from the Senate floor earlier this month, rather than listen to a Muslim imam lead the group in a historic prayer. So much so, apparently, that the chipmunk-faced Silvio Berlusconi of suburbia let loose his radio listeners on the Chronicle, with dozens e-mailing our Lege correspondent, Amy Smith. We printed some of their thoughtful, well-reasoned responses, but due to space, too many pearls of wisdom didn't make the final story. Here are more highlights, in their unedited, uncorrected form.

Ms Smith,
Being a Christian is like being pregnant, either you are or you are not. "Extremes" do not apply.
Amen. – Woody Follis

Shame! Really, you should be ashamed. It is indicative of the mental disease that causes Liberalism in journalists such as yourself. – Bernard Gordon

I find it interesting that the Texas senate can have a prayer to open there session buy my grand childreen can not pray in school. Don't you find that a little hipacritical!!!.
Our country was founded on the christin doctorin and not on the islamic teachings. I am very offended that you allowed this prayer to happen in my house, yes I am a taxpayer and it is my house. Why do you people continue to grovel at the feet of these islamic radicales. All they really want to do is to distroy our way of life and bring us down to there level (13th century) and they make no bones about how they want to do it, they want to kill each and every one of us.
I listen to Dan Patrick and I agree with his thought process, I am not a right wing christin radical, I am a consertive American and I want to see our values and our country move back to the left and I want the PC movement to be distroyed before it distroys our country. – Larry Kestler