If you want to reach out to us and tell us about it if talking politics good or bad, you can text us at text us at 2027488003. You go put out a poll yesterday when it comes to putting out put out a poll yesterday when it comes to political discussions at thanksgiving. The defined themselves as liberal, 11 were willing to start a conversation versus 47 . Those who defined themselves of conservative only 8 of those willing to start a conversation on that. 44 of those trying to avoid that. Among those who voted for Hillary Clinton, 7 of those say they would not talk about politics or start a conversation versus 50 would avoid that. Voters of those trump saying they would start a conversation versus 43 . Thats just one pole. If you look at another poll, some other factors when it comes to talking politics. Of democratshem and republicans both say they would discuss politics. Polling saying that when it comes to initiating political discussions, its only 26 of those who would initiate that
Host this is Clarence Page, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune joining us on this thanksgiving day. We appreciate your time. Especially this morning. Guest glad to be here. Host i will read the headline of your column. It says welcome to the other side of a generation gap and enclose the journalist from years ago. Although we still have to face our responsibilities someday, our first impulse is to turn our backs and form a Second Society of our own. Someday we shall know for whom the bell tolls but for now the sound is covered by the sound of our hot rods and beatles records. . Wrote that guest i wrote that in 1965. The quality has held up so well over all these years. Our wonderful advisor, bless her heart, she just passed away a couple of years ago at the age of 102. She first put the bug in my ear about considering journalism for a career. I thought she was not at the time. Host what are you hoping to accomplish when you wrote that . Guest my generation had been a cover story in ti
The horror film, silence of the lambs to write his own thriller. Hes attempting to be the chief story teller in this fictional charade to sabotage President Trump and simultaneously ravaging this great country. This is the new cover of the atlantic magazine titled how to stop a civil war. I know its in small print there. How to stop a civil war. They are right to address this. I brought it up on this very show weeks ago after seeing antistrum protesters turn violent at a recent trump rally. I said we wouldnt be seeing a traditional war complete with armies and generals. But what well see, i suspect, an emotional kind of civil strive. And that, nonresponsive good for this country. We dont need to be in this divided place. Of course, when trish regan says it the midwest wing media goes bonkers. Saying its insane warning of violence in the streets. When the atlantic says it, they love it. Abc news is calling it provocative. Go figure on that one. I was right. Now they are right. I dont ca
Monday weve got quite a bit of cloud just along that the coast of oman tend to push further south as we head through choose that it might just produce one or 2 coastal showers that we nothing more than that and this is a time which is sticking really in the to mid thirtys celsius that we had down into Southern Africa if you will for calls across into madagascar and certainly today one of the next few days you could see very warm still in johannesburg by cheese or we could just see even a scattered thunderstorm here and you notice the rains remain quite heavy and quite wise but through much of central and southern goa and that cat extend you cross into namibia as we head over into tuesday. The weather sponsored. Every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media when the Intelligence Services control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they would go out on the s
Organizations under their command and finding a meditative way through the news some. Nice and peaceful its important to push my bullet yet im in Square Hong Kong yoga coming to a mat near you the protests started small but escalated quickly social media can have that effect then came the security crackdown across iraq including the use of live ammunition more than 100 protesters have been killed as many as 6000 wounded and a number of news outlets have been attacked since the u. S. Led invasion in 2003 journalists have usually attributed under arrest on the streets of iraq to sectarianism the divide between primarily shia and sunni muslims they cant do that this time iraqi protesters are demanding an overhaul of the political system a system known as. Which has played on sectarian divides to carve up the spoils of war torn but Oil Rich Iraq so that most of the wealth gets circulated amongst the political elite and not nearly enough trickles down to ordinary iraqis thats what these dem