We have all had a similar experience I am sure.  We really enjoy watching someone or listening to a celebrity, but then you get a closeup view and they are not a person you would ever want to know.  It happens.  We watch and watch and then see a quote or police blotter or a twitter rant, and that person’s persona dissolves into an ugly puddle at the bottom of your brain’s drain.

It happened to me this weekend when I responded to Susie Ochs’s, @sfsooz, tweet about the “loser” president-elect.  She is the executive editor at Macworld and she took exception to my suggestion that she should stick with tech.  Well, the suggestion was just that, but she sent some tweets about being a female and not being silenced, blah, blah, blah.  She is a tech writer.  If I want to read about politics there are plenty of Twitter feeds that supply that content.  If I go to tech, I go to those feeds.  Why would I want to sift through content to find what interests me that particular day.

It is not just Susie Ochs, other tech tweeters also have a severe liberal bias.  I have looked the other way because I like their tech insights, but I think I am done looking the other way.  I’ll listen to them–they are nearly always non-political in their podcasts–but I am no longer going to follow them.  Why should I continue to read their drivel about politics when it is their tech insights that interest me.

Here is a list of tech people who I would encourage others to unfollow:

Susie Ochs, @sfooz, Mark Gurman, @markgurman, Marco Arment, @marcoarment, John Siracusa, @siracusa, John Siracusa, @siracusa, Chris Breen, @bodyofbreen, Erfon Elijah, @erfon, Leander Kanye, @lkahney.

Other blatanatly left people I am going to unfollow:

Catherine Fugate, @katherinefugate, Michael Feldman, @myfeldman, Stephen King, @stephenking, Mark Hamill, @hamillhimself.  (Note:   Michael Feldman’s show is blatantly, liberally biased–but he is just so funny–I’ll miss his tweets though.)

I look forward to blindly listening to their podcasts without all the political drama.  All the best to techies and left leaning entertainers in the new year.

But wait!  There is more!  Had these tech writers looked into Hillary’s server vulnerabilities once The NY Times broke the story in 2015, they could have informed the world from a professional point of view.  Instead, tech valley let the story be told by political hacks and Hillary continued toward the election year.  Now, tech writers slander the president-elect they helped put into office.

Maybe tech writers should look inward to find the cause of their discontent.

One final point needs to be made.  My Twitter feed has equal parts left and right from news organizations and political sources.  Bernie, Trump, Hillary, Warren, Biden, Pence, Ryan, and even Donna Brazile are among the 200+ people and organizations I follow.  I like to hear both sides of the issue and do not live in an echo chamber.

I am not a pod person.