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Cenk bets $10,000 that Rush cannot prove massive audience size
Current TV host Cenk Uygur said Monday night that he would pay Republican radio talker Rush Limbaugh $10,000 in a “Mitt Romney-like wager” if he can prove his show’s frequent claim that they get up to 20 million listeners a week. “You know why the advertisers are leaving?” he asked.…
Cenk: The media is ‘grossly deceiving people’ on Iran
The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur accused CNN host Erin Burnett and the establishment media Friday evening for trumping up Iran’s weapons capability and trying to start another war in the Middle East. Uygur was particularly annoyed at Burnett placing her own assessment of Iran’s leadership proceeding to develop a…
‘Young Turks’ showdown: Cenk tells Breitbart, ‘Stop having gay sex in bathrooms!’
Posing a hypothetical on his show Tuesday night, “The Young Turks” host Cenk Uygur asked flamboyant conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart if it would be fair to say to all conservatives: “Stop having gay sex in bathrooms!” The bizarre exchange was part of Cenk’s rebuttal to Breitbart’s recent outburst at “Occupy”…
Cenk gets an ‘elbow from the sky’ for blowing Santorum prediction
Some weeks ago, after the Florida primary, The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur predicted that Rick Santorum would drop out of the race on the night of February 7 after getting pummeled in the midwestern caucuses. On Wednesday night’s episode, Cenk demonstrated his willingness to own up to a wrong…
Young Turks: GOP attacks on Newt almost make you feel sorry for him
The Republican establishment is mounting a full court press to try and avert a Newt Gingrich candidacy. In this clip from The Young Turks, host Cenk Uygur gives a run-down of this week’s fusillade of anti-Newt sentiment from right wing opinion-makers from Newt’s main rival Mitt Romney to The Weekly…
Cenk Uygur rips New York Times over ‘truth vigilante’ column
The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur blasted New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane on Thursday for his column which questioned when reporters should challenge statements made by politicians. “When should you challenge it? How about every freaking time! What do you think your job is? Do you think you’re…
Cenk slams CNN for neglecting indefinite detention: ‘Do real news!’
Appearing on Current TV’s broadcast of “The Young Turks” on Thursday night, host Cenk Uygur introduced a new segment, Establishment Media Watch, and took aim at his first target: CNN’s lax coverage of the National Defense Authorization Act. “We have covered it many times on this show, yet we were…
‘Kosher’ dildos? Sex toys increasingly marketed to religious crowds
Did you know that you can get kinky while still worshiping the Lord? It’s true, according to a new and somewhat perplexing online trend: religious sex toy shops. On Friday night’s “The Young Turks,” Current TV hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian made light of the subject, which was recently…
Young Turks host Cenk Uygur cuts mic of Peter Schiff
C-SPAN wasn’t the only one to get cut off on Wednesday. As The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur and self-declared 1 percenter Peter Schiff hotly debated the role of money in politics, Cenk cut off Schiff’s microphone when he interrupted him and continued to talk. “Are you saying the bankers…
Cenk: ‘It’s time to free Bradley Manning’
The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur felt Friday evening that it was time for the U.S. government to release U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning from prison. Nineteen months after being arrested, the trial for the Wikileaks information provider finally began on Friday. Manning is facing 22 charges, including “unauthorized release…
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