May 11, 2010, 1:47 pm On Friday, May 7, 2010, El Paso Inc. “reporter” David Crowder called the live radio talk show hosted by Paul Strelzin on 1150 a.m. and announced, “I am not a Pervert.” He sounded like Richard Nixon who said, “I am not a crook.” Why would Crowder say, “I am not a pervert?” Well for one he is not too smart and secondly he was trying to defend himself vis-a-vis his own words. Crowder had sent me an e-mail at 3:21 a.m. the week before seeking a private meeting with me. The text of the e-mail can be read on the blog before this one. I published the e-mail in the El Diario of El Paso on Friday, May 7, 2010. Talk Show host Paul Strelzin read the e-mail over the air.

During the show, Crowder called in babbling a hundred miles per minute sounding like a nervous nut job on the brink of talking himself right off a cliff. He went on and on about this really exciting” story that he had written for the Inc. about City Representative Carl Robinson not having a Texas Driver’s License, a story actually broken by the El Paso Times.

Then Crowder had to explain why he was e-mailing me at 3:21 in the morning, (the real point of the call) and the more he talked the faster he talked. He was on a rapid verbal vomit by the time Strelzin tried to do him the favor of shutting him down. Crowder ended his call with these words “I am not a pervert.”–How eloquent and brilliant of this wordsmith.

The man was so desperate he had his step-daughter call the show. She sounds like a teenager. She didn’t do him much good, poor girl. In trying to make her step-father’s abnormal behavior look normal, she ended up making him sound even nuttier, depicting him sonambulating around the house watching weird sci-fi movies which apparently inspire him to do strange things. She even said that they needed to drug him and that they had told him to stop watching the sci-fi movies. Crowder sounds like just the kind of guy you want to have around the house with your teenage daughter.

Then Crowder’s wife, Carmen Whiteman, (this would be wife number two), laughing maniacally, called the show saying she had no idea Crowder, her very own husband since all of 2008, had had arrests for DWIs (at least two). But no matter, she also said that the arrests were old, so they don’t count. So which one is it? She knows about the DWI’s, she doesn’t know about the DWI’s? One of the arrests was just two years before she and Crowder married. What does she think is “old?” So much for knowing your mate well before marrying him. So much for checking out the arrest record of a man you will be subjecting your daughter to live with.

Rumor has it that when Crowder left the El Paso Times, his buddies there gave him a breathalyzer kit as a gift. Nice knowing Crowder is out behind the wheel.

In the end, the whole Crowder family sounded bizarre on the radio and Crowder looked even worse than he did before he called Strelzin’s. But Crowder says he is not a pervert, so it must be so.