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On Saturday, February 12, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Wowser wrote:

Anybody else see/know anything about this? Is it even true?

WBAP's Mark Davis railed against
Clinton's adultery, then he had his
own midlife crisis. by Leslie Rigoulot

Kathi Davis loves her husband, Mark, the
popular WBAP talk show host who also writes
twice-a-week columns for the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram and hit the big time with a
nationally syndicated Sunday show on ABC
radio. The dark-haired beauty loves him so much
that she is even willing to take him back. The
man who has repeatedly denounced President
Clinton for committing adultery has walked out
on his wife and family. The man who has made a
career of calling hypocrites on the carpet now
stands subject to be called.

"Mark is a decent man who has trouble facing
adversity. His mom and dad died, my brother
died and of course, this," Kathi Davis, 41, said
last week while lightly touching the wheelchair
to which multiple sclerosis has confined her. "He
says he loves me, but this chair is what stands
between us." Strange logic for the man who
took home the highest honor the MS Society
gives, the Hope Award, on May 27, 1999, the
same night that his brother-in-law, Kathi's
brother, was found at the Davis home in
Bedford, dead of a heroin overdose.

Kathi has had multiple sclerosis since she was
16, but almost six years ago, when they moved
to Texas, the MS became more aggressive,
gradually destroying Kathi's ability to walk or
move her arms more than minimally. Mark stood
by her, talking about her on his show, taking
the lead in charity events. That changed last
year. In June 1999 D Magazine did a moving
story titled "The Private Agony of Talk Radio's
Mark Davis," in which his and his family's
previous adversities were detailed. Davis once
again chided Clinton for cheating on his wife.
"Has Davis?" the magazine asked. "No, I'm
clean. I practice what I preach," he answered. It
would appear that shortly after that, he chose
to follow the president's lead in his private life, if
not in his public politics. "First he got a Jag
sports car, started dressing differently, changed
his hairstyle, lost a lot of weight and then tells
Kathi he wants to move out in October. We
knew something was wrong. He totally denied
everything. Only when she confronted him
about knowing [the other woman's] name did
he admit anything," said Sharon Powell, a family
friend. "It's a typical mid-life crisis." "She" is the
younger woman, Lisa Lee, who has been seen
at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, at the
mall, around town with the 42-year-old Mark
and with his 8-year-old daughter, Regina. "I
have told Mark that I don't want her around
Regina," Kathi said. "It was way too early for
that." And Chris, Kathi's 16-year-old nephew
who she and Mark are raising, is critical of his
uncle: "It is like he is the bratty teenager and
I'm the adult."

The man whom his listeners refer to as Mr.
Consistency because he demands that all be
held to the same standard is not being held to
the same standard. Well known for his
anti-Clinton stance, he has frequently said on
WBAP, "You can judge a man by the way he
honors his marriage vows and the way he
treats his wife."

As recently as Dec. 21, 1999, in a Star Telegram
column entitled, "The Williams-Bush lesson: The
past does matter," Davis asked, "What do
Tarrant County Sheriff David Williams and Gov.
George W. Bush have in common? Both feel that
attention to their early adulthood is some
baseless assault, as if voters have no right to
know the complete background of those who
seek important elected offices. They are both
wrong. They both say that what is really
important is the complete story of their lives and
public service, and that chapters from a
quarter-century ago should not be used to
destroy their reputations. They are both right."
While Davis isn't an elected official, he has
certainly set himself up as a very public critic of
hypocrisy on both sides of the political aisle. And
his Dec. 23, 1998, column regarding the
resignation of U.S. House Speaker-elect Bob
Livingston gives a clear idea of how Davis
believes public people should behave: "When
he spoke of his coming service as speaker in
terms of 'would have been' and 'could have
been,' I bolted upright. Was he about to do
what I had suggested he should do in this
column? Was he about to make himself an
example of how public people should be-have
when faced with personal scan-dal? He did and
I thank him for it. What a brilliant contrast he
provides with Clinton, who even after the sharp
censure of im-peachment refuses to
acknowledge most of what he has done."

So who is in denial now? Whose character is
being called into question even as he writes
about the current politics: "The New Hampshire
payoff comes in nine days. That will be the first
primary, and it is a big deal. The Republican
base is very interested in smaller government
but a strong defense, and it is motivated by
character issues." Character issues are
important, especially if one is going to act as the
Lord High Executioner. Using the time delay on
his show at WBAP, Davis has been able to avoid
most listeners' questions about his own
personal actions.

The irony of the situation is that Davis has put
himself and his family into exactly the position
that he condemned Clinton for putting the first
family into. He has put WBAP, ABC and the
Star-Telegram in the same position that Clinton
put his friends, aides and staff into, although no
one with any of those firms would comment for
publication. When the star is lying, someone has
to cover up. When someone asks, "Who is that
woman with Mark?" someone has to answer.
Davis isn't answering; he declined to return four
phone calls from FW Weekly.

For their part, the MS Society is also maintaining
a low profile on Davis' actions. Evelyn Taylor,
director of the Fort Worth Chapter of the MS
Society, said, "This is something that he and
Kathi are going through and not something that
we can comment on."

"I know Mark is not so shallow that it's the
chair," Kathi said. "Through this disease, I have
become a very strong person, very patient
person and luckily a very forgiving person. When
I had Regina, I knew we would always be
together. And I'm still expecting that, unless I
have no choice."

This post has answered a suspicion I've had since I did paperwork (obtained written permissions) required to place an attendant in the home to care for Kathi. Mark was insistent on having the attendant more days than Kathi thought
was necessary. Kathi on more than one occasion made a feeble attempt to object but was ignored by Mark. I found other statements made here to be in line with what I observed in the home that day. Mark picked Kathi up & sat her
on the sofa, etc. I later heard the stories of Mark being seen with a blonde in his red sports car who later was his new wife and then their new baby boy, Ethan. As a Christian, conservative nurse, this crushed me for Kathi but I've been haunted by Regina & Chris. I live in the same neighborhood as the Davis family & often ate at the same restaurants and remember seeing Kathi with Regina on her lap in the wheelchair and Chris & Mark. So many questions that only God knows the answers to. I do pray Regina & Chris are ok. Their lives were touched by tragedies at such young ages..
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