The Young Turks

You are on your A game, man!

Keep reminding us that we have a majority of the population behind this. We are mainstream. The republicans are out of step with the country and they are holding everything back.

Agree w/ you on the minority leader. Make him spend billions to return back to the Senate. The more he has to say or do, the more the Real Mitch McConnell will come out. Better yet, you know they will throw the kitchen sink at the battle and, well, that is money that won't be spent where we can eat their lunch.

Cenk and gang...

The reality is returning on the state level ... slowly.

The state of Maryland is finally deciding to tax the wealthy at a higher rate than the true middle class and the less fortunate. If the feds are still going to give the rich a free pass, the states are going to go and say "fork it over."

It is high time for someone to do a serious poll about the Republican Senate side of the aisle v. the Democratic Senate side. Let's get the focus back on the real disasters.... (PLUS our old former VP candidate who seems to be on some sort of "trip"). Maybe we can get a new category for him?!!!

I am tired of the MSM considering my frustration w/ Congress to be the same as some yokel who still thinks that Iraq was involved in 9/11 and says stupid stuff like "I don't mind the CIA looking into my closet because I ain't done nothin' wrong."

Cenk is right. These folks have no clue what makes our country head and shoulders above the rest of the world, or might I say, used to make ...

Cenk, if not one of those "out front" Republicans who CLAIM to break w/ the pResident can't find their way to vote ONCE for the right thing where the rubber meets the road, then GOOD BYE and DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS on THE WAY OUT!"

We have the last say in the next election. If the Republicans think that it is OK to block the will of the American public with even 40 Senators, then they are just asking to find a way to 35. Good Going Caller Carol and everyone else who says, kick 'em out!!!!

===weed.

by weed on 09/20/2007 07:20:54 AM EST

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While the Democrats have clearly solidified their lead with Hispanics according to Cenk, there is a large population segment that they risk losing, "The Angry White Male". Hillary Cliniton will not be able to make any headway into this demographic. These Reagan Democrats want to have a reason to feel less angry and I don't think Hillary or John Edwards can provide that.

Barack Obama has recognized the importance of restoring hope. That is a very important goal if one is to appeal to this large demographic that crosses party lines.

by mperloe on 10/02/2007 12:53:06 PM EST

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Is there a link for the fair trade site?

by kdelarosa22 on 10/08/2007 01:04:01 PM EST

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Enuf re-airing the Faux Noise AAR religiotakedown-

There is no greek god apollo, or zeus, or any omnipotent GAWD being ANYWHERE-

I don't need to hear, more than once,  fixed noise propaganda on high, in their scared rabbit speaking to the sheep way...

Please; once was enuf-

Thanx Cenk and Co

by RF on 10/11/2007 08:02:59 AM EST

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Media Matters is great, but Eric Boelert's take on why media prostitute campaign news is off-base speculation, IMHO.

I am a journalist who works with a major media company.  I have been told directly that it is my job to get Republicans elected.  Absolutely true.

I think more often the reason, though, the reason is just laziness.  There are hard and soft quotas in newsrooms for reporter product each day.  The GOP oppo research press and video releases are far more aggressive than the Dems.  When that half of the stenography (sadly, that's what is actually taught in newsrooms as "news reporting" now) comes to a reporter's desk so clean and ready, it's the quickest thing to push out, make your editor happy and then you can take a lunch or dinner break for the first time that week, maybe.  (We're all salaried as if we really make our own decisions about our time just to get free overtime from us; the DOL could take down every media just in unpaid overtime.)

See what I'm saying?  If not, ask.  I'll check back in here. 

by anonymous5 on 10/31/2007 07:47:23 AM EST

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Remember remember the 5th of November: http://www.rhymes.org.uk/re member_remember_the_5th_nov ember.htm

http://video.google.com/vid eoplay?docid=-5132761364860 83883 

by YBNurmal on 11/05/2007 06:39:46 AM EST

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Does anyone recall that Bush has always been against setting withdrawal dates for getting out of Iraq because the insurgents and terrorists could then just sit back and wait for us to leave?

Isn't this likely the main reason we're seeing a lower body count in Iraq? The insurgents, al Qaeda and Shiite militias all see that our "Surge" troop levels cannot last beyond early Spring, and so have stepped-back their aggression in order to conserve their resources for a post-Surge push.

Aside from the fact that the Surge has not been a success relative to its stated goal -- of enabling political progress -- the Surge's military successes will likely be short-lived.

by plooger on 12/04/2007 07:05:01 AM EST

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... then "NOT Hillary" is at 67%.

The poll I saw yesterday had, IIRC, Obama around 28%, Hillary around 25% and Edwards around 22%.  So just looking at the "top 3" candidates, Hillary Clinton is losing to "NOT Hillary" by 25 percentage points.

The question is, will Edwards or Obama supporters coalesce around just ONE of these two candidates, as a bulwark against a Clinton nomination.

 

by plooger on 12/04/2007 07:30:23 AM EST

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If Dems nominate Clinton, I guar-an-tee that they will present their candidate -- even though their platform is an extension of Bush's agenda -- as the candidate of reform, and will run ads asking America if they want another 8 years of the Bush/Clinton dynasties.

Guaranteed. 

by plooger on 12/04/2007 07:34:02 AM EST

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Exactly how was Hillary's laugh evil?  And exactly why is it characterized as a "cackle"?

It was just an overdone, phony laugh, in an attempt to communicate how ridiculous the questioning was. 

by plooger on 12/04/2007 07:52:49 AM EST

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I think she's damaged from all the years on the McLaughlin Group.

by plooger on 01/15/2008 07:29:01 AM EST

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Please list Pacific times for shows/guests too, for all of us left-coasters. 
angela

by desertpear on 01/16/2008 03:33:14 PM EST

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Is the audio version of the postgame show coming out tonight?

by TheBigShow on 01/22/2008 08:59:40 PM EST

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'Nuf said.

by Juarez Traveller on 01/29/2008 04:08:19 PM EST

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by Verified1 on 01/30/2008 01:06:18 AM EST

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Okay, you found my 'starstruck' place. I am extremely envious. I'd love to sit and talk with him. Great character actor and an even better director.

How cool is this...

by MedfordTim on 01/30/2008 02:39:08 PM EST

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Ana, I have to say that I almost cried laughing when you were on the RPG yesterday with Cenk (and asked whether he was feeling "hard").  Thanks for that ;)

by desertpear on 01/30/2008 06:40:30 PM EST

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I'm a Canadian intensely interested in the Democratic Party's campaign for a presidential nominee.  Of the two possible "firsts", both of which are overdue, I am an Obama supporter.

Tell me something.  It's one thing for the candidates to work, one for the other, once a nominee is picked, but it's quite another to get the second-place finisher's volunteers and voters to flock to the winner.  It looks, from here, like there are deep, divisive issues of class (or at least income), male vs female, and race (even if the racists don't all show their colours).

Will the Democrats pull themselves together between now and August, hopefully long before then, as the Republicans will soon have their nominee and will be starting their national camapign for November?

Please do not let this opportunity for a Democratic president slip from your grasp.

by Kenn1959Toronto on 02/07/2008 01:37:33 PM EST

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Make her goAway

Grrrrr

by RF on 02/21/2008 04:47:57 PM EST

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...someone who was repremanded for being a b**ch to her employees?  Someone who was so nasty and vindictive towards her underlings that her superiors were trying to get her to be human to those under her?  Like the playground bully who, after finding his prey have joined forces against him, suddenly pronounces himself as the real 'victim'?

I'm definitely reading things into Ms. Kelly's interview, but I can't help imagining the other side of the story: An employee finds her cold and punative manner so difficult to deal with that he/she complains to Ms. Kelly's supervisor about it.  The supervisor assigns Ms. Kelly to send encouraging phone messages to her employees every day as a lesson/punishment/compensat ion for her nasty attitude and suddenly, in Ms. Kelly's mind, the WHOLE corporate world has gone soft and turned *gasp* LIBRUL!  *rolleyes*

Cenk hit it on the head.  This Ms. Kelly has done the SAME thing that every republican in the country seems to do; she's made a mountain out of a molehill and is sitting on that molehill and pronouncing her (very skewed) view of the world to be the TRUTH of the world.

by elasg on 02/22/2008 11:13:53 AM EST

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First, Mark is the son of Kurt not the brother.

Second, is the topic Obama against "Islam" or against "Israel."

by Gregory Wonderwheel on 04/03/2008 03:34:20 PM EST

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I was listening to the interview with Susan Jacoby, and it drove me just a bit nuts because it seems so representative of the conversative mindset.  This is not to say she's a conservative in the political sense, but I'm talking about that sense that things were better in the past.  We have a tendency to look into our pasts, romanticize them, dramatize them, and then try to compare the day to day reality to it and we find it lacking.

 She was railing on about how people don't read anymore.  Well no, the reality is people read a lot.  I'd argue that, as a whole we probably read more at this point in civilization's history than at any other time. You're reading this right now.  We're constantly reading and the Internet has done a lot to make reading a far more common part of our every day life.

Now you can sit there and claim that it's some how a worse kind of reading than it was in the good old days when we only read books and newspapers, but is that really true?  I mean we might think of the past and imagine Thomas Jefferson sitting by a candle, reading some deep work of political philosophy.  But what we tend to ignore is all the people who were totally illiterate.  We ignore all the people who couldn't afford a book.  We ignore all the people who, given the chance to read a book, read pulp novels and other crap that was the YouTube of their day.

The reality is that we are, over time, improving.  We're improving slowly and I think there's a good case to argue that technology is outstripping our ability to evolve the necessary wisdom to deal with its consequences.  But while that's all true, we are in a position where the sum of human knowledge has become uniquely accessible to almost anybody in the world.  That's undeniably powerful, and the reality is, whether you're a thoughtful intellectual, or the lowest of the low brow, this is one of the best times to live in human history.

Sure, we've got our problems but we've solve a hell of a lot of our old problems and are solving more every day.  So stop with the doom and gloom, recognize what our issues are, and recognize that, in the long run, we're getting better.

by sterno on 04/09/2008 10:04:52 PM EST

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but isn't Irish either.  His background is Scottish!

by maritzd on 04/17/2008 06:03:43 PM EST

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at first I was feeling a little bad for the guy and Cenk was coming on too strong, but once he proudly proclaimed to be a Blue Dog, the guy lost all credibility.

Actually have never heard anyone call themselves a Blue Dog, haven't even heard conservative/"isn't a Repug because he's black"-Harold Ford say that.

The guy likes Hillary, Hillary differs from Barack in nuances and that's it basically, but if she's not on the ticket to balance him out, he'll vote for McCain who's far away from Obama and Hillary? Where's the LOGIC in that man???
If Barack has the liberal value 5.5 and Hillary has one of 5, that evens out at 5.25, not a big difference.

So what can one conclude? A conservative democrat from Alabama? Might he maybe be a remnant of the Dixiecrats? :)

by callisto on 07/23/2008 04:35:49 PM EST

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