Colin McEnroe Show: There's Lots Of Crying In Politics

OK, let's get this out of the way. I am a manly man. I am, in fact, a mighty oak. But I cry. Occasionally in public.

In fact, I'm pretty sure I have cried on the air twice on the Faith Middleton Show, in the years before I am came to work at this radio station. Faith's technique was to have me read, aloud, something I had written about my son.

The last chapter of my book, "My Father's Footprints" concerns my son, and I have made a public spectacle of myself, repeatedly, by attempting to get through it at public readings -- and on the Faith Middleton Show. About 50 percent of the time I cry or at least achieve a state of profound Ferklemptitude.

But I always think I'm going to get through it. Anyway, as a man, you rarely lose points for that kind of thing because modern public life is about the counter-narrative, about persuading people you are not what you seem to be.

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