I sat in a car last night with husband who must have some form of talk radio on. It was Mitch Albom, a long time broadcaster on WJR out of Detroit. Albom has written some good books, “Tuesdays with Morrie”, which was also made into a movie. He’s always been a Liberal, but I forgot how much disdain he has for President Trump until I liste…
I sat in a car last night with husband who must have some form of talk radio on. It was Mitch Albom, a long time broadcaster on WJR out of Detroit. Albom has written some good books, “Tuesdays with Morrie”, which was also made into a movie. He’s always been a Liberal, but I forgot how much disdain he has for President Trump until I listened to him last night. The whole monologue, and I can’t even call it journalistic opinion was on the indictments coming out of Florida on the Trump raid. He and his cohort’s elitist disdain and snarky jokes taken as truth because it was reported by the media as such, about finding classified documents hidden in a bathroom at Mar-a-lago shows just how low we have sunk in any kind of media integrity. The fact that they made jokes about how stupid it was to try to fool the FBI by hiding documents in a bathroom proves how incompetent he is. Then they proceed to have a DA on from some western district who describes how serious these “obstruction of Justice” charges are, and that the Trump appointed judge who ruled some of the stuff inadmissible was overturned by a 3 panel set of Republican judges, so absolutely no bias there.
That these people can believe the most absurd accusations after all this country has been through is beyond belief. How does anyone trust anything about the DOJ any longer and it’s police arm, the FBI?
Of course, these new indictments were timed to come out just as crusty, old Chuck Grasley was revealing the Biden bribery scandals. It is a certainty. And the propaganda media ran with it, on all sides and ignored Biden. Root canal? More likely hiding out from questioning.
As you certainly know as a Michigander, Mitch Albom started out as a very talented, even gifted if I can use that word, sports writer with the Free Press back in the day. My Dad worked at the Freep and Mitch's residency there (along with Richard Guindon, Bob Talbert, and others) was a source of deep pride during what was once a true battle of hearts and minds between the Detroit News and the Free Press. Both were great papers when journalism was still a thing.
Mitch has written some good books and sold a lot of them and he's a smart guy. Sadly, he's evolved over time into just another a leftist ideologue (in a progressive's clothing). The last time I heard anything from Mitch, it was a very pro-Whitmer screed during the peak of her administration's COVinsanity.
Sadly, Mitch still carries a lot of weight, particularly in Michigan. His opinion on Trump and a lot of other issues is reflective of liberal intelligentsia thought in the affluent Detroit suburbs, Lansing, Flint, and in Ann Arbor, the places that spawned Michigan's transition from a republican state in the Bill Milliken mold to its evolution into Massachusetts on the Great Lakes.
I am from mid Michigan, two hours north of Detroit. I often forget that Liberal rules in the Detroit area, though I don’t believe it is as strong as the media wants us to believe. Yes, Albom was considered a premier sports writer back in his day. When I see this complete collapse into Leftist ideology, I wonder if he has completely gone under or been coerced over the years. His and every media personality out there is to incite, not inform. Sad…
My family and I lived in and I worked in one of the more affluent Detroit suburbs and we still have acquaintances there. I was shocked at the level of overt Biden support during 2020, COVID narrative acceptance, and support for Whitmer prior to the 2022 gubernatorial election. But I also saw that in Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Lansing, and more obviously in Ann Arbor being the home of the leftist think tank at U of M.
Mitch was always a liberal. That said, it's hard to understand how otherwise intelligent people can devolve into becoming ideological parrots.
I wonder the same about people I know. Could the manipulation of what some people see, hear, and read be so complete, so competent, that they are 'brainwashed' over time? But what about their souls - it seems to me that for the most part our 'side' criticizes policy and action, whereas the other criticizes (or worse) the *person* (or perhaps it only appears that way, as I try to peer around the log blocking my vision). It's clear that the Left categorizes people and 'others' those they want to be in the out-group, but I see a spillover into public comments about individuals who are outwardly similar such as Trump and Biden.
I noticed that. I try to talk about the processes like you said—policies, consequences of those policies but they get right down to personal attacks. I so try not to get personal but all I get back is what’s wrong with me. Of course they have nothing left but that kind of talk. They can’t back anything up. I’m weary in my soul. My life is all I can control.
I think a lot of it is hubris and an almost religious self righteousness. A lack of humility. The need to feel part of the “in” crowd and look down on those who aren’t. For all their constant blathering about “diversity” they hate any thoughts or opinions that stray outside of the prescribed narrative. Diversity of thought is absolutely verboten. It’d be almost comical if it wasn’t so dangerous 😕
I’m from the Saginaw area. Saginaw County is funny. Because of the auto foundries and parts plants that were once here, the city and unionized workers were heavily Democrat. Long gone now many former auto workers are now Conservative. The city remains Liberal but the agricultural areas surrounding it has always leaned Conservative. That hardly matters any longer, unfortunately.
We probably passed by each other at some point. I’m from one of the small towns near Saginaw and I grew up on the agricultural side, but I knew plenty of the foundry dads.
They sure are trump deranged. Their whole thought process is run through a trump filter so everything is trumps fault. They might be talking about any old thing but then trump pops up like a “pop goes the trump” toy in heads . Not everyone but a few I know are living this way. Being constantly outraged seems to be exciting to them but certainly not good for health. I stay away from their poison.
Yup. It’s on both sides. I was a Democrat until September 2021 and it’s been interesting hearing the dissonance on the red side matching what I heard on the left. So I’m in nobody’s tribe now.
He doesn’t hear half of it. He like many of his generation, (Vietnam Vet), gets all his news from Fox tv. Even though I tell him, they are really no better than the alphabet news, he grew up with television and despite everything believes Fox is telling him truth. We have learned to live in a state of agitation. They know it and it is what we are spoon fed every hour.
I sat in a car last night with husband who must have some form of talk radio on. It was Mitch Albom, a long time broadcaster on WJR out of Detroit. Albom has written some good books, “Tuesdays with Morrie”, which was also made into a movie. He’s always been a Liberal, but I forgot how much disdain he has for President Trump until I listened to him last night. The whole monologue, and I can’t even call it journalistic opinion was on the indictments coming out of Florida on the Trump raid. He and his cohort’s elitist disdain and snarky jokes taken as truth because it was reported by the media as such, about finding classified documents hidden in a bathroom at Mar-a-lago shows just how low we have sunk in any kind of media integrity. The fact that they made jokes about how stupid it was to try to fool the FBI by hiding documents in a bathroom proves how incompetent he is. Then they proceed to have a DA on from some western district who describes how serious these “obstruction of Justice” charges are, and that the Trump appointed judge who ruled some of the stuff inadmissible was overturned by a 3 panel set of Republican judges, so absolutely no bias there.
That these people can believe the most absurd accusations after all this country has been through is beyond belief. How does anyone trust anything about the DOJ any longer and it’s police arm, the FBI?
Of course, these new indictments were timed to come out just as crusty, old Chuck Grasley was revealing the Biden bribery scandals. It is a certainty. And the propaganda media ran with it, on all sides and ignored Biden. Root canal? More likely hiding out from questioning.
Hiden Biden. Campaigned out of his basement to avoid scary covid. He's top at avoiding the public.
It means he doesn’t have to go near the college kids who whoopsie actually don’t have to wear masks to point out who they are to the public.
As you certainly know as a Michigander, Mitch Albom started out as a very talented, even gifted if I can use that word, sports writer with the Free Press back in the day. My Dad worked at the Freep and Mitch's residency there (along with Richard Guindon, Bob Talbert, and others) was a source of deep pride during what was once a true battle of hearts and minds between the Detroit News and the Free Press. Both were great papers when journalism was still a thing.
Mitch has written some good books and sold a lot of them and he's a smart guy. Sadly, he's evolved over time into just another a leftist ideologue (in a progressive's clothing). The last time I heard anything from Mitch, it was a very pro-Whitmer screed during the peak of her administration's COVinsanity.
Sadly, Mitch still carries a lot of weight, particularly in Michigan. His opinion on Trump and a lot of other issues is reflective of liberal intelligentsia thought in the affluent Detroit suburbs, Lansing, Flint, and in Ann Arbor, the places that spawned Michigan's transition from a republican state in the Bill Milliken mold to its evolution into Massachusetts on the Great Lakes.
I am from mid Michigan, two hours north of Detroit. I often forget that Liberal rules in the Detroit area, though I don’t believe it is as strong as the media wants us to believe. Yes, Albom was considered a premier sports writer back in his day. When I see this complete collapse into Leftist ideology, I wonder if he has completely gone under or been coerced over the years. His and every media personality out there is to incite, not inform. Sad…
My family and I lived in and I worked in one of the more affluent Detroit suburbs and we still have acquaintances there. I was shocked at the level of overt Biden support during 2020, COVID narrative acceptance, and support for Whitmer prior to the 2022 gubernatorial election. But I also saw that in Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Lansing, and more obviously in Ann Arbor being the home of the leftist think tank at U of M.
Mitch was always a liberal. That said, it's hard to understand how otherwise intelligent people can devolve into becoming ideological parrots.
I wonder the same about people I know. Could the manipulation of what some people see, hear, and read be so complete, so competent, that they are 'brainwashed' over time? But what about their souls - it seems to me that for the most part our 'side' criticizes policy and action, whereas the other criticizes (or worse) the *person* (or perhaps it only appears that way, as I try to peer around the log blocking my vision). It's clear that the Left categorizes people and 'others' those they want to be in the out-group, but I see a spillover into public comments about individuals who are outwardly similar such as Trump and Biden.
I noticed that. I try to talk about the processes like you said—policies, consequences of those policies but they get right down to personal attacks. I so try not to get personal but all I get back is what’s wrong with me. Of course they have nothing left but that kind of talk. They can’t back anything up. I’m weary in my soul. My life is all I can control.
I think a lot of it is hubris and an almost religious self righteousness. A lack of humility. The need to feel part of the “in” crowd and look down on those who aren’t. For all their constant blathering about “diversity” they hate any thoughts or opinions that stray outside of the prescribed narrative. Diversity of thought is absolutely verboten. It’d be almost comical if it wasn’t so dangerous 😕
I'm from mid-Michigan... the tri-cities area and still have family there. Agree... can't understand the Biden/Whitmer support and COVID BS.
I’m from the Saginaw area. Saginaw County is funny. Because of the auto foundries and parts plants that were once here, the city and unionized workers were heavily Democrat. Long gone now many former auto workers are now Conservative. The city remains Liberal but the agricultural areas surrounding it has always leaned Conservative. That hardly matters any longer, unfortunately.
I'm from Saginaw too! My dad worked at one of the GM foundries.
We probably passed by each other at some point. I’m from one of the small towns near Saginaw and I grew up on the agricultural side, but I knew plenty of the foundry dads.
They sure are trump deranged. Their whole thought process is run through a trump filter so everything is trumps fault. They might be talking about any old thing but then trump pops up like a “pop goes the trump” toy in heads . Not everyone but a few I know are living this way. Being constantly outraged seems to be exciting to them but certainly not good for health. I stay away from their poison.
My husband and many Fox viewers are outraged the opposite way. I think they also like the constant fight against the Left.
Yup. It’s on both sides. I was a Democrat until September 2021 and it’s been interesting hearing the dissonance on the red side matching what I heard on the left. So I’m in nobody’s tribe now.
You have an incredible amount of patience and love for hubby to endure listening to that crap! I say this with admiration!
He doesn’t hear half of it. He like many of his generation, (Vietnam Vet), gets all his news from Fox tv. Even though I tell him, they are really no better than the alphabet news, he grew up with television and despite everything believes Fox is telling him truth. We have learned to live in a state of agitation. They know it and it is what we are spoon fed every hour.
I am sorry to hear about Mitch Albom. I had 5 of his books and now, they are in the garbage. I won’t even donate them. Shame on him!
AND THATS THE WAY IT IS, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2022, to paraphrase a time when news are more or less real!