The Young Turks Show February 3, 2012
Worst Drunken Experience?
CLICK HERE to WatchYeah, yeah, you've probably had much worse experiences drinking than Ana or John (off the top of their heads, anyway.) We want to hear about them!
John details how he made the most of a magic show and defiled the George Carlin experience, while Ana used her feminine charms to gain VIP access.
What about you? What are your worst, best, most disgusting, and most epic stories of drunken excess? Comment down below - or even better, send us a video!
Oh Carolina! Weekly Enewsletter
Hey TYT Nation!It was another week on the GOP presidential campaign trail, and therefore another week of Cenk practically jumping up and down like an excited schoolgirl relating a juicy piece of gossip as he covered yet another crazy, unpredictable Republican primary in South Carolina:
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TYT on Current TV Jan. 25 Highlights
GOP pushes ineffective, revenue damaging cuts to IRS, even as tax code gets more complicatedCenk looks at Romney's tax returns as a case study in how rich people avoid paying more in taxes. With income of more than $57,000 a day -- without a paying job -- Romney pays less in taxes than most Americans. It helps that Republicans have pushed for lower funding for the IRS, even though studies have shown that government auditors can find almost $10,000 in owed taxes for every hour worked. David Cay Johnston explains that with more complex tax laws and a larger population, the IRS actually needs more staff. http://bit.ly/zsdd8a
'I'd rather have promises Obama doesn't keep than promises Republicans might keep'
Cenk asks his Power Panel -- Michael Shure, Richard Eskow and Robert Borosage -- whether President Obama's strong State of the Union showing is a sign he can win re-election in November. "The guy I saw last night -- I thought, that guy may be able to fight back and make his case and actually beat Mitt or Newt," Cenk says. Eskow praises Obama's "fighting speech" but says it's time for him to think a couple steps ahead -- otherwise the GOP line will be ,"Nice guy, doesn't deliver on his promises." Shure says, "I'd rather have the promises that he doesn't keep than the promises that the Republicans might keep." http://bit.ly/yqelpP
MegaUpload indictment strikingly similar to Napster rhetoric, but this time DOJ does the dirty work
MegaUpload owner Kim Dotcom, who was arrested in New Zealand, was denied bail until an extradition hearing in late February. Rhetoric in this case and that against Napster 12 years ago is strikingly similar -- except the RIAA sued Napster and the site stayed open for two years of court wrangling. Compare that to the DOJ's pre-emptive shutdown of MegaUpload.com. "Industry going over to the prosecution's side and shutting these sites down is outrageous," Cenk says. http://bit.ly/xyQrY3
TYT on Current TV Jan. 24 Highlights
Obama has to be the adult in the room, no matter how angry he isEvery person on our Power Panel -- Tina Dupuy, John Fugelsang and Zaid Jilani -- has a different opinion on what President Obama should and will say during a major speech such as the State of the Union. Cenk says "I would come out and say, 'These bankers have been screwing you, and no more Mr. Nice Guy. And if I need to, I'm gonna break their goddamned kneecaps." Fugelsang says, "As a black man, he's got to work twice as hard because he's being judged by so harshly." Dupuy points out that Rep. Boehner pre-emptively called Obama's speech "pathetic." "No other president has had to deal with this," Dupuy says. "He has to be the adult in the room." http://bit.ly/x9WywF
Robert DeNiro would never settle with big banks that caused housing crisis
Since the beginning of the housing crisis in 2007, 7.5 million homes have been foreclosed, with another 1.9 million in foreclosure. "Not a lot of help has arrived for homeowners," Cenk says, and even a proposed $25 billion settlement with bank owners -- which might give blanket immunity to banks for any wrong-doing -- doesn't come close to the total $700 billion negative equity on houses in this country, and doesn't address the issue of executive pay. Robert DeNiro's got something to say about that: "Clean up, go home." http://bit.ly/zgdER9
LAPD coordinated with CIA, former chief Bratton tells 'The Young Turks'
Former New York City police commissioner and LAPD chief William Bratton joins Cenk to talk about his new book, "Collaborate or Perish!" Despite recent criticism of the NYPD for unauthorized coordination with the CIA, Bratton says that communication can be an important strategy. "In dealing with information intelligence as it relates to terrorism, the CIA has a lot of information that is appropriate for use by American police forces," Bratton says. At the LAPD, "We had interactions with the CIA in the sense of meeting from them from time to time, certainly, just in order to make them aware of our capabilities and our needs. There is nothing that precludes that." http://bit.ly/yMRp3Q
TYT on Current TV Jan. 23 Highlights
'Food stamps' went up 63% under Bush and other stories you missed on 'The Young Turks'Cenk on Newt Gingrich's giant elbow from the sky on Mitt Romney in South Carolina -- and how Romney's trying to fight back. Even two years of tax info from Romney might not help him against Gingrich's "food stamp" assault on Obama. "Sixty-three percent increase of food stamps under Bush, which no one talks about," Cenk says. "And by the way -- who gave us the goddamned recession?" For more of "The Young Turks," watch weeknights at 7/6c. http://bit.ly/wsvS4Y
Should liberals root for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich?
Cenk asks his Power Panel -- Karl Frisch, Thomas Schaller and Michael Shure -- whether liberals looking for the best GOP candidate for President Obama to go up against should choose Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich. Shure says, "Democrats have thought all along that Mitt Romney would be the tougher opponent, but I'm not sure I agree," and Cenk agrees. "People have forgotten how much they hate Newt Gingrich," Frisch points out, when his unfavorables were somehow even higher than they are today. "Newt will get the base fired up," Schaller says, "but a vote cast with intensity counts the same as a vote cast reluctantly. It doesn't matter how juiced up the conservative id is. The votes in the middle are going to matter." http://bit.ly/wec4F1
Giffords' YouTube resignation a viral hit, but no one's talking about guns
Rep. Gabby Giffords posted to YouTube her announcement that she will resign from Congress this week to focus on further physical recovery from being shot just over a year ago. The video racked up nearly 400,000 views in its first day online, and yet among almost 12,000 Tweets we analyzed via our partner Crimson Hexagon, only about 300 even mentioned guns. "They shot her with a gun, and there was 33 bullets in that gun," Cenk says. "What happened after the shooting? What kind of legislation did we have? What kind of proposals did we have? Nothing. Nothing." http://bit.ly/wcZPBs
Obama squandered a year of potential gun reform after Giffords shooting
In this exclusive commentary, Cenk talks about President Obama's promised policy proposal on guns in the wake of Rep. Gabby Giffords' shooting last year. "Guns are a tough issue" for Democrats, Cenk acknowledges, but even so the lack of true follow-up has been deeply disappointing. In an op-ed in the tiny "Arizona Daily Star," Obama wrote, "Hunting and shooting are part of our national heritage. And, in fact, my administration has not curtailed the rights of gun owners -- it has expanded them, including allowing people to carry their guns in national parks and wildlife refuges." Cenk says, "It's really disheartening. People wonder why I get frustrated with the president. I don't have any personal animus. I wanted the guy to win. You should have seen the show when he won -- I was ecstatic... But he took that situation and, as usual, squandered it, because he was too afraid to take on the Republicans and the gun lobby." http://bit.ly/y3x5KK
Show Update & Fox News Most/Least Trusted News Source - Poll
Ben Mankiewicz and Ana Kasparian will be hosting the show today. Same bat channel, same bat time.
Fox news is the most and least trusted name in news according to the latest Public Policy Polling (PPP) TV News Trust Poll. What about CNN, MSNBC, Comedy Central, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and PBS? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
TYT on Current TV Jan. 20 Highlights
Occupy Update: Romney tells S.C. activists that he'll get money out of politics by beating ObamaCenk interviews Tim Liszewski from Occupy Columbia, S.C., about the battle against Gov. Nikki Haley, who kicked Occupy out of the statehouse grounds in a move that was struck down by a federal court. Liszewski has been bird-dogging candidates and spoke to both Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney about getting money out of politics. Santorum blamed union contributions and Romney said his plan was simply to beat Obama. http://bit.ly/xetPaB
Obama's Al Green performance is one bona fide success of his administration
President Obama sang Al Green's "Let's Get It On" at a fundraiser -- but he's far from first official or candidate who's belted one out. Brian Unger and Jayar Jackson critique Obama's performance, "American Idol"-style, but when put head to head with others it's clear that in this respect Obama is above reproach. http://bit.ly/xGUScO
Save the whales movie 'Big Miracle' makes Cold War look friendly compared to American politics today
Ana Kasparian interviews Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski and Kristen Bell about their new save the whales movie, "Big Miracle" -- a true story from 1987 about Americans and Russians coming together to rescue California gray whales trapped by ice in the Arctic Circle. "If three whales were trapped together somewhere near Alaska today, would Democrats and Republicans come together to save those whales?" Ana asks. http://bit.ly/zaS0NN
Plenty of rich guys have been president -- but is Romney just too out of touch with his own wealth?
Guest host Brian Unger asks the Power Panel -- "Daily Show" co-creator Lizz Winstead, Amanda Terkel and Ari Berman -- whether Mitt Romney is simply too rich to be a viable candidate for president. While plenty of wealthy men have occupied the White House, all the panelists agree Romney seems particularly out of touch. "I think maybe that dog ate the tax returns," Winstead says. "The bigger issue is somebody who is the son of a rich guy who never learned about noblesse oblige." Terkel points out that Romney's father released 12 years of tax returns as governor. "Mitt Romney isn't committing to that -- even though he often invokes his father," Terkel says. http://bit.ly/zvhWyc
SOPA On The Ropes! - Weekly E-Newsletter
Hey TYT Nation!
All of a sudden this past week, members of the mainstream media woke up to the very real threat posed by the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), most likely when they discovered Wednesday that they couldn't update their own Wikipedia pages. The horror! Of course, TYT has been ranting and raving about the topic for weeks. So welcome to the party, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC! Also waking up has been the Motion Pictures Association of America's president and top lobbyist Chris Dodd, who spent the past week angrily denouncing SOPA's opponents in the tech industry as "irresponsible." You remember Chris Dodd - he's the former Connecticut senator who retired in 2010, promising that he wasn't going to become a lobbyist. Here's Cenk's take on just where the former Democrat can cram his SOPA/PIPA thoughts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go9ub2HNnlg
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TYT on Current TV Jan. 19 Highlights
Sh*t Erin Says: Is Burnett running for office in Wisconsin, or did she just steal their talking points?Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch is running ads about how the recall of top elected officials there is too expensive for taxpayers. That's ridiculous enough -- but wait until you see Erin Burnett's "OutFront" segment on CNN with almost the exact same language. "There isn't a Republican talking point that Erin Burnett didn't want to make out with," Cenk says. We've got a hashtag for this kind of mess: #shiterinsays. http://bit.ly/AwiHGw
Operation Rescue wants your help making a list of every U.S. abortion provider -- to 'hold them accountable'
Anti-abortion advocates Operation Rescue are crowd-sourcing the creation of a list with information about every abortion provider in America -- in order to hold them accountable, they claim. "It's not like pro-life fundamentalist extremists haven't done violence!" Cenk points out. "They've killed abortion doctors. They've done assassinations. They've literally done terrorism." Ana says, "In this country, we have an issue with right-wing extremism, but right now the government is ignoring that in order to tackle this non-existant problem of Muslim terrorism." http://bit.ly/ybltOR
Newt Gingrich's 'open marriage' is the worst example of family values ever & other stories you missed
On Thursday's show, Cenk covers the end of the Rick Perry campaign, Newt Gingrich's "open marriage" family values scandal, Herman Cain's endorsement fail, the major salaries ex-senators and representatives are making and more. Watch "The Young Turks" on Current TV, weeknights at 7/6c.
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TYT on Current TV Jan. 18 Highlights
Tom Morello: Obama did not turn out to be 'some kind of Camelot knight waving a progressive magic wand'Cenk talks to Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchmen and Audioslave, about his high hopes for President Obama -- they're both half-Kenyan, have Illinois roots, went to Harvard, were on the cover of "Rolling Stone" -- and what Morello learned about the influence of campaign donations during his two-year stint as a scheduler for Sen. Alan Cranston. "I admit that I was swept up in some of the euphoria around the [2008] election, in part because I never imagined there would be an African-American president," Morello says. "That blinded me to the fact that it was a Democratic president more than it was some sort of Camelot knight waving a progressive magic wand to right all of our wrongs. I'm a firm believer in street politics, not congressional and presidential politics." http://bit.ly/zmQVxO
Is Obama playing a long game or a short game?
Is President Obama playing a long game or a short game? Cenk and the Power Panel -- Ben Mankiewicz, Richard Eskow and Jill Pike -- debate both Andrew Sullivan's article in "Newsweek" and its salacious headline: "Why are Obama's critics so dumb?" Mankiewicz points out that Sullivan's actually much tougher on Obama's right-wing critics than the disaffected left. Eskow says, "The thing about saying somebody has a long game is you never have to be proven right. It's more a theological statement than it is a statement of fact." Pike argues that Obama's record proves Sullivan's point that Obama is "playing chess while the rest of us are playing checkers." Cenk says, "He's playing such a long game that we'll all be dead before it's over." http://bit.ly/xyDQ1H
In S.C., Romney's 15% tax rate is small peanuts compared to possible impact of Mormon thing
Mitt Romney won't release his tax returns, but Michael "Epic Politics Man" Shure argues that Romney's low (if legal) tax rate might not be as damaging as his off-shore investments and -- especially in heavily evangelical South Carolina -- just how much money he's tithed to the Mormon church. "If that comes out in a general election, it's not nearly as bad," Cenk argues. Shure says, "This is about deception. He's not telling us who he is -- that's going to be very hard to get by in the general as well." http://bit.ly/z7ptHr
Ask Cenk Anything: Getting angry about campaign finance reform, getting scared and getting even
Cenk answers questions from Facebook about what news stories piss him off the most, whether politicians don't know or don't care about public opinion and if the state of the country ever gets scary. Send your questions to theyoungturks@current.com or tag 'em #AskCenk. http://bit.ly/A1dCfI
TYT on Current TV Jan. 17 Highlights
Reddit's Erik Martin on going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA -- and how the fight is far from overErik Martin, GM at Reddit.com, tells Cenk why his company will go dark on Wednesday to continue the protest against anti-piracy legislation that could severely curtail Internet freedom. "That's not criminal -- that's the way the Internet works," Martin says of provisions that could allow for take-down of sites that link to piracy sites. While SOPA has been at least temporarily beaten back -- thanks to pressure from tech companies and constituents -- some sponsors have vowed to push its Senate equivalent (PIPA) and also revisit SOPA in February. "They're looking for bribes," Cenk says. http://bit.ly/zosOCm
Rick Perry: Painfully dumb or appealing to presumed dumb voters in S.C.?
After Rick Perry's answer about Turkey's foreign aid in the GOP debate, Cenk asks his Power Panel -- James Poulos, Linda Killian and Lucia Graves -- whether Republicans are actually stupid or just trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator in South Carolina. "You seem surprised that Rick Perry has made a gaffe on television," Polous jokes. Cenk says, "There's some chance that [Rick Perry] is just painfully dumb." Killian predicts Perry "will be toast" after South Carolina, but points out that overseas "these comments are taken seriously" and the State Department had to do damage control. Graves says, "This is the guy who could not remember what government agencies he wants to eliminate...but he stands out as a very special case." http://bit.ly/y45l8e
'Screw the Republicans,' Cenk says, and other stories you missed on 'The Young Turks'
On Tuesday's show, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer says what's called bribery abroad passes for super PACs here, Cenk tears into Romney's 15 percent tax rate, Bill O'Reilly's brotherly love for Ice Cube and the loathsome audience members at the South Carolina debate who gave a standing ovation to racist remarks. For more, watch "The Young Turks" weeknights at 7/6c. http://bit.ly/yrNyTk
Jesse LaGreca on Occupy Congress and how lobbying politicians is a radical act
Cenk talks to Jesse LaGreca, whose smackdown of a Fox News producer in Zuccotti Park went viral last year, about Occupy Congress welcoming lawmakers back to Washington this week. In addition to marches and protests, LaGreca and others lobbied officials on the Hill. "There aren't a lot of citizen lobbyists," Cenk says. "These guys are not used to dealing with regular people," LaGreca says, "and it kind of scares them a little bit. I think it's a reality check. And it also occupies their time, because the more time that they have to spend talking to me, the less time they have to spend with lobbyists with big bags of money from 'too big to fail' banks and other industries. If we had a Congress that was more representative of the 99 percent, we wouldn't end up with the corporate capture of our government that we experienced today." http://bit.ly/zh22D6
TYT on Current TV Jan. 16 Highlights
For-profit colleges enjoy close relationship to Mitt Romney and other candidatesAna Kasparian and Cenk talk about the support that for-profit universities, including Full Sail University and its executives, have given Mitt Romney's campaign -- and the support he's shown Full Sail. Tuition at many for-profit colleges is higher than at public community colleges. "A lot of the money goes towards profits and executive compensation," Cenk says, "and all they gotta do is butter up a couple politicians like Mitt Romney and keep that gravy train going." http://bit.ly/zPV2Zg
Cenk: We won't be intimidated by Full Sail lawyers worried about TYT coverage
In this post-show extra, Cenk talks about the pressure put on "The Young Turks" by lawyers representing Full Sail University about a story on the school's close relationship with Mitt Romney. "The reason I'm telling you this is because this is what happens behind the scenes that you don't get to see," Cenk says. "Different companies use their power and sometimes their lawyers to try to intimidate the press."http://bit.ly/yMLfsz
Did Colbert knock Huntsman out of S.C. Race?
The Super PAC that has absolutely no connection to Stephen Colbert has a new attack ad calling Romney "Mitt the Ripper" for "killing" corporations, which he has said are people. Super PACs in South Carolina have spent $7 million versus $3.2 million by campaigns directly. "It shouldn't be just comedians pointing out the craziness of the Super PAC system and how they are obviously coordinating with the campaigns to spend unlimited corporate money," Cenk says. "It should be everybody in the press non-stop talking about this issue, because it's the most important issue in this election." http://bit.ly/x7NxGO
How Fox News would have covered MLK
Cenk asks his Power Panel -- Cheryl Contee, Katie Halper and Tricia Rose -- how Fox News would have covered Martin Luther King Jr. Contee says if King were alive today, "He would have said, 'We should sit down with the Taliban, we should treat them with brothers.' He would have been labeled a terrorist in turn." Halper adds "Marxist" and "class war instigator" to that label and says, "They're brilliant at creating this myth that if you talk about race, you're racist." Rose says, "They have far too much credibility with far too many Americans" that could spread ideas against King that were more diffuse during the 1960s. http://bit.ly/ywRCFY
The Point (War, Hollywood & Prisons Driving Immigration Policy) Full Show
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Points from TV legend Phil Donahue about the human costs to being a nation of warmongers, actor Crispin Glover (Back to the Future, Charlie's Angels) on Hollywood and propaganda and, Brave New Foundation on how the new draconian immigration laws are being used to line the pockets of the private prison industry are discussed by Axel Caballero (activist and founder of Cuentame), Steve Ross (USC history professor and author), Rick Overton (actor, comedian and Emmy Award-winning writer) and Cenk Uygur (host, The Young Turks).
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Reddit SOPA Blackout - Will Google, Facebook Join?
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Reddit has planned a 'blackout' on Wednesday January 18th to protest and raise awareness of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Will Google, Facebook and other huge sites opposing SOPA join in? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
Show support for the Tech blackout in protest of SOPA here: http://act.ly/5cz
TYT on Current TV Jan. 8 Highlights
'Listen to your wife,' Obama, so at least there's one progressive in the White House http://bit.ly/wS4gyy
Major media companies ask Congress for SOPA, then fail to cover the controversy http://bit.ly/wiLl0l
It's raining Elbows from the Sky and other stories you missed on 'The Young Turks' http://bit.ly/wd9dig
Occupy Update: New Hampshire bird-dogging candidates and protesting on the cusp of the GOP primary http://bit.ly/x3w1RC
SOPA Coverage in Main Stream Media?
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Media Matters just released a study in which the main stream media's coverage of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Cenk Uygur breaks down the shocking results of this study.
Source: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201201050008
Ay-Ay-Iowa - Weekly E-Newsletter
Hey TYT Nation!
As you may have noticed this past week, Cenk has a certain, shall we say, fondness for politics. He greets the Iowa Caucuses the way bird lovers rejoice over the swallows' return to Capistrano, or Larry Craig tears into the mail every month when the new issue of "Colt Roundup" arrives. So it should surprise no one that when he found out he'd be spearheading Current's four-hour coverage of Iowa this past Tuesday, his response was, "Only four hours?" And anyone who saw the coverage would have to agree with Herman Cain that Cenk's analysis, even without a teleprompter, was at least "two levels deep."
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TYT on Current TV Jan. 4 Highlights
Dan Savage on 8 years of Googling 'Santorum' and how Santorum's really running for 4 more at Fox News http://bit.ly/wTk8gQ
Angry old man feud alert: Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are both "dangerous," but who's worse for America? http://bit.ly/zNLcZg
'Are you there, God? It's me, Pat Robertson, and I want to know who's going to be the next president' http://bit.ly/yct1La
Bet on it: Cenk and 'Epic Politics Man' settle their Iowa caucuses wager http://bit.ly/y4LA80
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