Especially to the Sanders supporters who hail him as a hero and decry those who take money as corrupt.

Starting to see that the word "progressive" = narcissistic faux liberal. It is nothing more than a word being used by con-artists and scalawags who are out to make a buck or who are into self-aggrandizement.

The conservatives want them to continue sandbagging Hillary through the general election.

should!"

Divide and conquer is what the moneyed "Right" use as tactics against democracy and the populace. They lost the control over broadcast and cable media, even print media, because of the interwebs (which they tried very hard to control as well, but what failed), so now they've set a battle plan to use so-called liberal voices to castigate and lie about Hillary Clinton, and Cenk is profiting from it.

It definitely has turned many off of her. They have no idea what a wonderful candidate she really is.

or TYT, are they worth it?

went full-on tilt against President Obama, was soon thereafter, canceled, and then found a new home at Putin's cable channel, RT.

Cenk can be a bit much at times -- even when you agree with him. When they were doing story after story on bad cops, I sent them a link to a cop who did EVERYTHING he could to NOT shoot a guy here in Vegas. Did TYT run with that story? Of course not!

of minutes before I had to switch. I can't stand self-proclaimed Liberals attacking some bad policies President Obama has had to support, but at least explain WHY he had to, and not outright condemn him.

I guess TYT's constant and reliable condemnation of President Obama and Democrats (while completely absolving the unprecedented obstructionism by Republicans in Congress) is why ConservaDem-turned-Libertarian Buddy Roemer has given Cenk's show $4 million seed money.

Roemer knows what we know: Hillary is going to win this. And because of that, he needs reliable "liberal" voices to attack her and Democrats for another 8 years, preferably 4, but it will be 8 years so that a Republican will finally get back into the White House to continue to destroy Big Gubment.

With "liberal" voices like Cenk Uygur, who needs Bill O'Reilly?

Since I don't just rely on that show for my news, I started to notice that very often facts were missing, misstated, or seemingly purposely distorted. I figured it couldn't be the latter most of the time, and chopped it up to being due to time constraints rather than nefarious intention. However, when the primary season started, I figured that we'd get even handed coverage of the candidates. Instead I noticed that Secretary Clinton was attacked even if the story was unrelated to politics or about the Republicans. It became really annoying for me when there was more glowing coverage -- maybe not positive but certainly without the disdain for Hillary in tone -- for Donald Trump. Then it became so bad during their coverage of debates that even their Sanders fans (albeit very rarely) started to say what's the point of watching with their bias? Why? Well, they typically have the following videos posted after any debate and you can guess who won each category by the titles:

- Best line of the debate > pro-Bernie
- Worse line of the debate > pro-Hillary
- Debate's biggest loser > pro-Hillary
- Debate's biggest winner > pro-Bernie
- Summary of the debate > pro-Bernie

The above compounded with their poor coverage of other stories and Cenk's "personality" forced me to cancel my monthly subscription and stop watching altogether.

...and then switched parties...became a republican.

What a guy!

From Wikipedia:

I have never watched TYT and after its incessant Hillary-bashing (as posted by his many DU fans), I likely never will. But this article is a good find.

It's a pretty apt description to call the online Fox News of the Left.

continue his ugly smears against Hillary.. falsely thinking he's helping BS.

Very much reminds me of the a certain someone.

Never like big Ed and find Thom unwatchable. Bless their hearts. Very little self reflection with them. I rarely find people who don't question their own vulnerability, interesting.

Cenk can't argue his way out of a paper bag. He keeps running into the brick walls in his head. Screw him.

Tom fed the Bernie or Busters as well. I listen to his show from time to time. I think it's funny when he appeals to his own authority to back up his positions. How often have you heard--"I wrote a book about it!"--?

And he gives away his books to the "caller of the show"

"Which of my books would you like?"

I listento WCPT in Chicago, and I am so glad when they stopped carrying Joe Santos, who sounds just like Cenk.

I wonder how many those guys have of their own books.

Not interested in his brand of bloviation.

I don't care to bicker with them. If this was posted over in General Discussion they would definitely derail it with personal attacks. I'm not interested in that since Cenk is one of their heroes.

The "a la carte" politics though, that's a pretty good summation of, and explanation for, the random
assortment of supporters Bernie has cobbled together. Democratic support, the core, grows slow.
Bernie's support grew fast, not because he's particularly awesome or anything, but because his
support and supporters were founded on a tiny number of issues. It's easy to build a coalition to
support you when you don't worry about building relative consensus on any more than a handful
of issues. It's not a good strategy long term though, built up quick, falls down quick. Look at the
Tea Party on the Republican side, same thing, few issues (namely, "Obama sux, government sux&quot .
When it came time to do things though, they scattered in all directions like cockroaches. Really,
still almost feel sorry for Old Boehner...completely powerless. The only thing that's held the
Tea Party "enhanced" Republican party together is, amusingly, Obama...or hatred of him. Otherwise,
they'd have ripped each others' throats out by now...even more so than it seems like they have.

The Democratic core though, is much stronger than that. It can have it's problems, but a lot
like an ecosystem, it's grown into it's form organically, relatively balanced. Strength in diversity,
interdependence, and symbiosis.

Bernie's group grew more like...I don't know...a mono-crop field of corn? Low diversity, intensive
focus, turbo charged by the fertilizer of $27 (...ish) donations and media hype...but ultimately,
susceptible to it's own monolithic weaknesses. Bernie blight ruins the whole crop.

I'll remember that when I start putting down my thesis. Though,
I'm sure I'll rethink this in the morning.

after-glow from Tuesday.

What a well-deserved drubbing for Team Pinocchio. Satisfyingly clear-cut, after his low-down, lying double-cross.

So, you love words, too? Words are like mental catnip for the mind!

a few years ago when I was in grad school. I'm very out of practice but you and a few others here are helping me get my juices going again. Right now, I'm a therapist and work with mentally ill adults so barely do any real writing. I am having a field day here on DU, however, it's a virtual Petri dish of insanity, cognitive dissonance, and group think. Love seeing what people write on this forum - some great writers here on the Hillary Group. Am really thinking about doing a paper about this place. My area of specialty is group behavior. (Why people do the effed up things they do, how so many people can fall victim to group think and cognitive dissonance.)

I could use some research partners/volunteers/editors - so if you're interested, let me know. Need some good writers. You don't get paid much for getting a paper published in a medical/psych journal but it looks good on a resume' and they send you to a lot of conferences and presentations if you like that sort of thing. You could add a lot of humor and some punch to the publication. I need a good editor too if you're good at that.

If nothing else, we could have a lot of fun. Most of these journals like timely and new subject matter and will beg you to publish your paper. It's an adventure......

I suppose there are worse jobs.

Wait, that answers itself.

What's not answered is why an allegedly progressive network would take that money?

That is, supposedly one of Roemer & Uyger's shared "hot bed issues" -- sorry for the visual -- is campaign finance reform.

Though I'm sure Cenk & his acolytes will, of course, say their intentions are as pure as the driven snow.

They are another example of RW push to get the easier target in the GE so a Republican can win the GE.

sooner or later these self appointed guardians of purity sell out for cash.

What an ass he was ... and good for the AA pilot for kicking him off the flight. That was the correct decision. He deserved it.

Sorriest dang excuse for a revolution ever!

I think he is basically a member of the Libertarian Left.

pointing out that I've coined a word for the Libertarian Left - Liberaltarians. And these people are as dangerous and detrimental to the U.S. as their rightie version, Libertarians and other miscellaneous RWers.

I didn't hear of them (TYT) until I was looking for something to fill the void after Air America went down.