Cenk Uygur is joining Keith over at Current TV with a new show on Monday at 7pm Eastern.
Uygur is highly critical of MSNBC's reluctance to criticize Democrats MSNBC mistakes their mandate. He is getting a platform that is unfettered by corporate censorship.
These quotes from Cenk make me want to watch his show.
“I didn’t want to work at a place that didn’t want me to do my kind of show, that wasn’t interested in my kind of show, didn’t want to challenge power,” he explained at the time. Uygur later told Olbermann that he felt like MSNBC sacrifices truth for access to elected officials, and he wanted no part in it.
The Republican Party is 99 percent corrupt, and we’re probably being generous there. The Democratic Party is probably about 80 percent corrupt. …So, if you’re not putting that out to your audience, you’re doing them a great disservice
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We integrate progressive blogs into the show not because we have some kind of agenda, but because [they] bring a valuable context to these stories,” he said. “If you go to CNN.com, what are you going to get? The same old, trite story: Democrats said this, Republicans said that. You don’t have a mind, we won’t tell you what the reality is. So let’s throw it up there, be neutral and run away. You have to go to the blogs to get the context. Senator, you know — name one — said this, but on the other hand, here’s their voting record and here’s what they’ve done in the past. That’s the kind of context you need in a story, which is exactly what the mainstream press is afraid to do.”
“The Young Turks” on Current TV begins Monday, Dec. 5, starting at 7 p.m. EST.
The occupation will be televised as long as progressive television has its own network.