I was slowly getting impressed with Weiner, but when he caved in & resigned, I remembered that bad feeling in the back of my head: that Weiner's a DEMOCRAT!
It's great to see Maddow and Uygur working together. It's like Wonder Twin Powers: ACTIVATE! Imagine this: Cenk Uygur, Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, and Jon Stewart, all dressed up in tight pleather, fighting right-wing crime and injustice wherever they go. That would be awesome.
He not only cheated on his wife and acted like a sleazeball, but he lied, continually and aggressively, until the evidence was so strong that he could no longer get away with lying about it anymore. This guy has no right being in any sort of position of power.
I’m thinking of my senator Kirsten Gillibrand telling Al Franken he must resign after that stupid picture surfaced. She is a conservative commentator who held onto that picture for years but was goaded on by Roger Stone to Make it public
Even though i support Anthony Weiner, it was still his damn fault for this scandal. He pretty much gave gifts to the Republicans and democrats to kick him out. If he had zipped up his pants and done his work as always, Republicans would have had hard time beating him. Samething with Spitzer.
Weiner could have taken an entirely different tact on this situation by being honest and blunt from the beginning. There isn't anything anyone can do if there is no "shame" handle to grab on to. Sex is not shameful. What happens between two consenting adults isn't shameful, it's private. The person who is shameful is the voyeur who dug up the pictures.
Thought you did a *great* job, Cenk ! You brought up some very valid points. So...Do you think NOW Limbaugh will know how to pronounce your name and acknowledge that he's heard of you before ? Nah - Probably not. :-)
I bet Edward R. Murrow would had lost his mind, and his temper at the coverage of news now. He'd kicked some serious ass about that had he'd been living.
@colinsilver105 your right he was bashing but he did not say that the repub should step down from office. so its not hypocrisy. in fact he said the same thing he said for weiner. personal life is personal and as long as it does not effect your job you should not have to resign.
he is fair in that he is consistent with his positions. he will not give someone a pass because theyre a dem or lib. conservatives will give their people a pass and cry foul if a dem does the same thing their guy did. cenk doesnt do that. if he says hes against something, he will be against a dem or lib being for it.
@VirtualBilly I can see your explanation of this backpeddling reporting. But you shouldn't compare TYT to Faux News. For example, what if Faux News found a plausible report which showed that Social Security can be sustainable, you think they'd ever report that? Do you think that a plausible report revealing that "enhanced" interrogation method did lead to a tip-off would ever see the light of day in Faux News?
@VictoryCough so what's the solution to oil companies or banks not paying any taxes? Why do you think the financial collapse happened? do you really think the government made all the banks go bankrupt? Now if you say it was the governments fault for not regulating them then I agree with you...but that would also mean government is the solution
@jumar1281 I see what you're saying, but from what I've seen, there aren't just 2 parties (or 3, or whatever) but an infinite number of potential "political parties," as everyone just says whatever they think will get them or their party elected, changing their stances on issues over an over again, as long as they don't agree with the "other side." It's like an endless adversarial system of government, that is in big trouble.
I don't get you Americans. When this kind of stuff happens here in Europe, or even worse stuff, people just laugh about it and make a little bit of fun and then just go on with their lives. Especially France and Italy, you have hundreds of sex scandals but no one gives a shit
@jumar1281 Totally agree but you can see why these guys go along because if you don't you get crushed- almost anyone who was worth anything is gone - Dean, Grayson, Feingold, Spitzer now Weiner - reminds me of the Matrix "We've survived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys. Which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them."
HydroArctic Cenk is currently demanding a resignation from Donald Trump on a weekly basis. He railed against Trump for telling a woman she had a nice smile, but he defends Joe Biden - a man who has been caught on camera touching, kissing and stroking women and children who are clearly uncomfortable!
@chaumont20 what ideology? He is too weak to even know what is ideology is. So what do you think are the additional steps to get the economy going? I'm very curious
@jumar1281 We live in a one party system, the business party. There just happens to be two factions to the business party, the Democrats and Republicans. In the long run you'll do ever so slightly better under the Democrats but essentially there's no difference between the two. Both party's take care of business first and then maybe throw some scraps to everyone afterwards.
@VictoryCough The collapse happened because of deregulation of the financial industry originally by Bill Clinton and then further by Bush, Banks needed a huge bailout and were too large to fail, Repeal of the Glass-Steagall act in 1999 which allowed bank holding companies from owning other financial companies, and no regulation meant the banks got to gamble (invest) with other peoples money. I agree we need a much better financial regulatory system, which Obama isn't doing
@VirtualBilly Look at Cenk's track records (in otherwords the TYT videos) when it comes to covering political news, he's usually right on the dot. Cenk already has the politicians' sorry-ass figured out. Just because he had gotten wrong on one or a couple of issues in the past doesn't discredits him as a journalist. It's like mocking Babe Ruth as a biggest loser for striking out a few times in his entire baseball career.
@VirtualBilly When you say things like "playing odds" and "50%" these are terms that are highly associated with gambling as if TYT was going to gamble on predicting the outcome of events by randomly guessing or something. Of course I wouldn't put it passed Faux News to do something like.
@Tripp393 he's saying it as a term of speech. Referring to the fact that Dems don't back up their own. Once there's a lot of negative attention they'll throw their own under the bus. Watch the video again it's fairly obvious
@shadowedge69 "Of course because when you predict something like that, you have a 50% percent chance of being right. Yet Cenk was so wrong about Weiner showing his weiner and yet I knew it clearly based on just my gut." Well that's what happens when you use a crystal ball to make... oh wait! Here's what makes Cenk different from other medias like Faux News. He actually presents FACTS! And when he looks at the trends based on FACTS, he can make very accurate predictions. (cont'd)
@rsty614 I don't have any? OK, here's a quiz. This man was caught in a sting saying he would take consider taking a bribe and never reported the offer to the authorities - who is he (HINT - Polosi tried to reward him with a sweet appointment)? This man lied under oath until he was caught lying by DNA evidence - who is he? This man was caught with bribe money in his freezer - who is he (HINT - Polosi tried to reward him with a sweet appointment)?
im so disappointed.. instead of really giving thoughtful comment outside this stupid ideological paradigm of political left and right like he (sometimes) does on tyt, as soon as he gets onto msnbc all he does is reinforce it. i really had hope he would be different.
Cenk I rarely if ever agree with you in the political world. Sometimes by freak of nature chance you do hit something on the head. You could never be more wrong on this issue. Nor could you be anymore of hypocrite. Not only what you are saying is okay for a public servant to do. And portray the people he works for by his actions reprehensible. You say Republicans love attacking the core members of your party. Well Its not like your party has never done this. Wait a second hold the phones
Cenk was 100% right. Great job! Every Dem should be forced to watch this
Cenk should write a book about this.
Hell YA!! You tell em cenk! Cenk Maddow 12' !!!
Cenk, you are the only American newscaster/politico that I watch because you are the ONLY one that tells the truth. That simple.
Wow, a lot has changed since this segment aired.
It's good to see Cenk on Maddow. I hope to see Cenk On Maddow more often, no matter how uncomfortable it may be for her.
Goodwork Cenk!
Excellent interview
Right on Cenk
two American heroes right here
TheLightShow I only see one...
@DeepSouth16 who did he attack on the right for something similar?
I was slowly getting impressed with Weiner, but when he caved in & resigned, I remembered that bad feeling in the back of my head: that Weiner's a DEMOCRAT!
wow... Cenk is on Dylagan and Maddow more and more often. TYT is going to rock the world!!
It's great to see Maddow and Uygur working together. It's like Wonder Twin Powers: ACTIVATE!
Imagine this: Cenk Uygur, Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, and Jon Stewart, all dressed up in tight pleather, fighting right-wing crime and injustice wherever they go. That would be awesome.
great foresight in that blog post Cenk.
He not only cheated on his wife and acted like a sleazeball, but he lied, continually and aggressively, until the evidence was so strong that he could no longer get away with lying about it anymore. This guy has no right being in any sort of position of power.
I’m thinking of my senator Kirsten Gillibrand telling Al Franken he must resign after that stupid picture surfaced.
She is a conservative commentator who held onto that picture for years but was goaded on by Roger Stone to
Make it public
"He did nothing illegal"
Boy this aged like milk.
First Cenk says Weiner shouldn't resign and then he says he's done for. Which is it?
I said Weiner would go down the second he fessed up.
For democrats it really is "With friends like these who needs enemies?"
Even though i support Anthony Weiner, it was still his damn fault for this scandal. He pretty much gave gifts to the Republicans and democrats to kick him out. If he had zipped up his pants and done his work as always, Republicans would have had hard time beating him. Samething with Spitzer.
Wonder if this fool would take the same position today on Weiner?
Weiner could have taken an entirely different tact on this situation by being honest and blunt from the beginning. There isn't anything anyone can do if there is no "shame" handle to grab on to. Sex is not shameful. What happens between two consenting adults isn't shameful, it's private. The person who is shameful is the voyeur who dug up the pictures.
Thought you did a *great* job, Cenk ! You brought up some very valid points.
So...Do you think NOW Limbaugh will know how to pronounce your name and acknowledge that he's heard of you before ?
Nah - Probably not. :-)
Now that he is out of the House, he should run for President.
He would he would be better than Obama.
Cenk nailed it.....thrice!!!
I bet Edward R. Murrow would had lost his mind, and his temper at the coverage of news now. He'd kicked some serious ass about that had he'd been living.
I forgot to say, that was a Chomsky quote.
@colinsilver105 your right he was bashing but he did not say that the repub should step down from office. so its not hypocrisy. in fact he said the same thing he said for weiner. personal life is personal and as long as it does not effect your job you should not have to resign.
IDKIYAR stands for I Don't Know If You Are Republican?
So sad that Weiner is gone .....
@IcyKitty If you go to the segment posted on TYT's UA-cam channel you'll find one in the description bar.
to many ads
@Polydynamix Nope I dont watch them , I was refering to Cenk and Rachel
blame ed schultz
@Xytos
That's what I like about Rachel, she is a good journalist, and she also talks like a man.
Seriously, CENK FOR FUCKING PRESIDENT
Guess this didn't age well haha
Aged like milk. But TYT continued to defend pedophiles in 2020 w/ Rosenbaum.
he is fair in that he is consistent with his positions. he will not give someone a pass because theyre a dem or lib. conservatives will give their people a pass and cry foul if a dem does the same thing their guy did. cenk doesnt do that. if he says hes against something, he will be against a dem or lib being for it.
@VirtualBilly
I can see your explanation of this backpeddling reporting. But you shouldn't compare TYT to Faux News. For example, what if Faux News found a plausible report which showed that Social Security can be sustainable, you think they'd ever report that? Do you think that a plausible report revealing that "enhanced" interrogation method did lead to a tip-off would ever see the light of day in Faux News?
Cenk's a lot better when he's speaking like this off the cuff. He sucks reading the monitor.
@VictoryCough so what's the solution to oil companies or banks not paying any taxes? Why do you think the financial collapse happened? do you really think the government made all the banks go bankrupt? Now if you say it was the governments fault for not regulating them then I agree with you...but that would also mean government is the solution
@Tripp393 He said if "Extra" is at your press conference, you're done for.
@jumar1281 I see what you're saying, but from what I've seen, there aren't just 2 parties (or 3, or whatever) but an infinite number of potential "political parties," as everyone just says whatever they think will get them or their party elected, changing their stances on issues over an over again, as long as they don't agree with the "other side." It's like an endless adversarial system of government, that is in big trouble.
Those recent political debacles inspired me a song called "I Don't Want to Be Your Friend". Check it out on my channel if you have t
I don't get you Americans. When this kind of stuff happens here in Europe, or even worse stuff, people just laugh about it and make a little bit of fun and then just go on with their lives. Especially France and Italy, you have hundreds of sex scandals but no one gives a shit
@jumar1281 Totally agree but you can see why these guys go along because if you don't you get crushed- almost anyone who was worth anything is gone - Dean, Grayson, Feingold, Spitzer now Weiner - reminds me of the Matrix "We've survived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys. Which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them."
@yes4me TYT already rocks the world
Weiner/Grayson 2012.
@senortonyful Worded very well.
Cenk for MEDIA DOMINATION haha
@ShadesOfFall I don't think he actually cheated...
Of course if Weiner were a republican Maddow and Uyger would take the same position. LOL
Cenk has before with republicans in similar situations, we're principled unlike conservatives. (cough mike cernovich cough)
marlette782 now he is in jail 😂😂
HydroArctic Cenk is currently demanding a resignation from Donald Trump on a weekly basis. He railed against Trump for telling a woman she had a nice smile, but he defends Joe Biden - a man who has been caught on camera touching, kissing and stroking women and children who are clearly uncomfortable!
Claire Lally He's not calling for his resignation because of the affairs. That's the point.
@imataxslave "He lied to the public..."
Yea because Weiner is the only politician to get caught lying.
@mattj91x
What about the facebook messages to that blackjack dealer? Those were quite hilarious actually.
@chaumont20 what ideology? He is too weak to even know what is ideology is. So what do you think are the additional steps to get the economy going? I'm very curious
@jumar1281 We live in a one party system, the business party. There just happens to be two factions to the business party, the Democrats and Republicans. In the long run you'll do ever so slightly better under the Democrats but essentially there's no difference between the two. Both party's take care of business first and then maybe throw some scraps to everyone afterwards.
@VictoryCough The collapse happened because of deregulation of the financial industry originally by Bill Clinton and then further by Bush, Banks needed a huge bailout and were too large to fail, Repeal of the Glass-Steagall act in 1999 which allowed bank holding companies from owning other financial companies, and no regulation meant the banks got to gamble (invest) with other peoples money. I agree we need a much better financial regulatory system, which Obama isn't doing
@VirtualBilly
Look at Cenk's track records (in otherwords the TYT videos) when it comes to covering political news, he's usually right on the dot. Cenk already has the politicians' sorry-ass figured out. Just because he had gotten wrong on one or a couple of issues in the past doesn't discredits him as a journalist. It's like mocking Babe Ruth as a biggest loser for striking out a few times in his entire baseball career.
Cent rules :)
two of the biggest hypocrites on air , Trying to justifying it
@VirtualBilly
When you say things like "playing odds" and "50%" these are terms that are highly associated with gambling as if TYT was going to gamble on predicting the outcome of events by randomly guessing or something. Of course I wouldn't put it passed Faux News to do something like.
@jumar1281 exactly. im tired of people blaming presidents, or the left or right, for things when it is the government as a whole.
@Tripp393 he's saying it as a term of speech. Referring to the fact that Dems don't back up their own. Once there's a lot of negative attention they'll throw their own under the bus. Watch the video again it's fairly obvious
although I wish he didn't resign nor do I care about his sexting he pressed the self destruct button on himself.
@shadowedge69
"Of course because when you predict something like that, you have a 50% percent chance of being right. Yet Cenk was so wrong about Weiner showing his weiner and yet I knew it clearly based on just my gut."
Well that's what happens when you use a crystal ball to make... oh wait! Here's what makes Cenk different from other medias like Faux News. He actually presents FACTS! And when he looks at the trends based on FACTS, he can make very accurate predictions. (cont'd)
@lowenklee either way it doesnt change the fact that cenk was very awkward and still seems like he hasn't learned how to speak english
@rsty614 I don't have any? OK, here's a quiz. This man was caught in a sting saying he would take consider taking a bribe and never reported the offer to the authorities - who is he (HINT - Polosi tried to reward him with a sweet appointment)? This man lied under oath until he was caught lying by DNA evidence - who is he? This man was caught with bribe money in his freezer - who is he (HINT - Polosi tried to reward him with a sweet appointment)?
@jackcanedit My thoughts exactly.
@buffaloface1 Are you kidding? There is no bigger liar than Stenk.
@lowenklee not really, but ok. u might wanna look up the def. of irony
why is he yelling?
+TCt83067695 Because he is angry.
Singh he needs to calm down
TCt83067695 Because he thinks the loudest person in the room wins the argument.
@tluv42 so then weiner's done for and so should resign..
@craigdb84 what lies? it wasn't blatant or obvious to me
@LeLimeLine
Maddow gets to be DC, lol.
TYT army marching forward!
@jumar1281 Well said, i agree.
cenk has a weird, uneloquent way of speaking
im so disappointed.. instead of really giving thoughtful comment outside this stupid ideological paradigm of political left and right like he (sometimes) does on tyt, as soon as he gets onto msnbc all he does is reinforce it. i really had hope he would be different.
@jumar1281 I agree.
Underwear gate lolz
@nextdrink45 CAPS LOCK!
feingold /weiner 2012
Democrats are weak? =0
What?!!
Cenk I rarely if ever agree with you in the political world. Sometimes by freak of nature chance you do hit something on the head. You could never be more wrong on this issue. Nor could you be anymore of hypocrite. Not only what you are saying is okay for a public servant to do. And portray the people he works for by his actions reprehensible. You say Republicans love attacking the core members of your party. Well Its not like your party has never done this. Wait a second hold the phones
@TAz69x Rachel is hot
first to say second