Mitch Albom is a prolific novelist, playwright, radio host and a sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press. He is also an internationally renowned author of several New York Times best-sellers, including: "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "Five People you Meet in Heaven." Despite his coveted accolades as a writer, intellectually speaking Albom is a typical example of the hack journalism that dominates Detroit, particularly in its coverage of the rise and fall of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Albom's writing admittedly is clean, crisp, direct and entertaining, but not enlightening or revelatory. Albom, like his legions of socialist journalists across America, tells the reader the facts about what happened, but not why it happened. In his article cited above, Albom writes about the mayor's self-serving and outrageous farewell speech:
"You done set me up for a comeback" were your final words, because you couldn't resist, as the curtain came down, one more grab of the spotlight. Instead of fessing up to a series of lies that paralyzed this city, cost it millions and turned it into an international embarrassment, you exited like a poor victim, swinging at some vast, invisible conspiracy, as if people in this state had nothing better to do than to mount an exhausting, eight-month campaign against you – full of your own text messages. As if it were other people who had extramarital sex in hotel rooms, fired cops, traded city money for silence and lied under oath, while you stood innocently on the sidelines.
If the liberal media are wondering why their 100-plus year monopoly over the press is essentially over; why they no longer have exclusive control over what people hear, see and think; why journalists are being fired by the thousands across America due to a precipitous drop in readership and poor advertising sales; then look no further than Mitch Albom.
If the mainstream media are wondering why even once-vaunted newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and many, many other news organizations, examples of what conservative intellectual Laura Ingraham calls "the dinosaur media," are falling by the way side, Mitch Albom's coverage of the downfall of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should give them a clue.
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The excerpt from Albom's column contains all the elements that turn off many rational people who desire a fair and balance treatment of the news, not liberal propaganda. For example, Albom, like virtually all of his journalist colleagues, thinks and writes on a macro (big picture) level; however, most people in the technological age demand a more complete summation of the pivotal events of modern times.
To help Mitch understand what theologian Paul Tillich referred to as issues of "ultimate concern," I would advise Mr. Albom in the following manner: Mitch, everyone knows that Kwame Kipatrick is a scoundrel. What they demand journalists to answer are the why questions:
- Why are Detroiter's collectively so dense in their thinking as to elect a known rogue, criminal and womanizer of this low ilk … twice?!
- Why was KK, up until his removal from office by Gov. Granholm, the front-runner for a third term for mayor of Detroit in 2009?
- Why is identity politics so entrenched in Detroit and in big cities across America that other dissenting or alternative viewpoints like mine and other conservatives have been scrupulously impugned, ignored and perverted? In my case for over 25 years during the period that I have been writing professionally.
- Why do Detroiters seem so incapable of using democracy to choose competent leadership?
- Why has the liberal media in Detroit and throughout Michigan committed journalist malpractice by being over six years late in conducting real, substantive news coverage of KK and his corrupt administration?
- Why did the liberal judiciary here in Michigan allow Mayor Kilpatrick to remain in office for another two weeks after the governor removed him on Sept. 4?
These examples of journalistic negligence cited above together with KK's criminal tendencies will only allow this villain and his cronies more time to shred incriminating documents, rip out the hard drives of all the city computers, cook the accounting books, raid the city coffers, set up golden parachutes for his loyalists, steal state funds from every possible city entity and finally set up his stooge, Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans, to keep his mayor's seat warm for him for four years, plunging the city into even more destruction.
These are why questions you will never hear from any of the liberal media entities in Michigan because they have been in KK's back pocket for over six years and have literally served as the de facto Minister of Propaganda for KK and the Democratic Party.
If Detroit had a strong conservative Republican presence in this town, KK would never have lasted this long. (Remember, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer voluntarily left office in two days when his infidelities were discovered).
Also big-government liberalism, which is essentially socialism or the apotheosis of the god-State dominating every aspect of culture, society, law and politics, is the idol god leftist journalist's worship. If people actually realized this fact alone and united to revolt against this tyranny, it would be the death knell to the liberal media's remaining monopoly over newspapers, the Internet and TV. This state of affairs liberals cannot abide.
What's wrong with Detroit? … Liberalism. Dear readers, you see what happens to a once-great city like Detroit, known 100 years ago as "The Paris of America," known 65 years ago as "The arsenal of democracy" and 45 years ago as "Motown" and "Hitsville U.S.A." and in many respects the vanguard of the civil rights movement, as it quickly devolves into the abyss of monolithic, Stalinist groupthink.
Who represents Detroit now? Michigan sadly has some of the most reactionary radicals of any state in America, people like: John Conyers, John Dingell, Carl Levin, Sander Levin, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Bernard Kilpatrick, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Debbie Stabenow, Tupac Hunter and many other socialists at every level of government.
All of these pols are quintessential liberal hacks who never saw an abortion policy, a tax hike or a welfare program they wouldn't reflexively vote for. Because Gov. Granholm and the Democrat Party insisted on raising taxes and the Republicans here were too weak to stop them, these policies have plunged Michigan into a one-state recession causing tens of thousands of residents like myself to flee; where even the Big 3 – GM, Ford and Chrysler, the foundation of Michigan's economy – have to go begging to the federal government for yet another multibillion dollar bailout.
In conclusion, dear reader, any rational-minded, introspective person looking objectively at Detroit must come to the understanding that Detroiters for the past 50 years have elected the wrong political leaders with the wrong political philosophy. Consequently, this negligent and irresponsible voting by the people of Detroit has led the city down a rat hole of incompetent governance, slavish groupthink, black racism, failing public schools, endemic crime and despair.
There is only one political philosophy that has dominated Detroit for the past 50 years and has enslaved its majority black citizenry by the actions of its own black leaders … LIBERALISM!