On November 4, after millions had already voted, Cenk Ugyur of the Young Turks, officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, noting that “America Was Playing With Fire” with Donald Trump. To my mind this is too little, too late, as his year long anti-Clinton campaign has already poisoned the well of millennials, and cost the Democrats innumerable votes, among them my own daughter.
I came home from the Iraq war pledging to never vote for a Republican again in my life, and have largely kept that vow. I have a grown daughter who no doubt picked up her “Young Turks” listening habit from me, and it was a harmless habit when we were both doing it.
Then came 2016. I saw the Young Turks lose its mind as Cenk hired an honest to god Fox News operative to do vicious hatchet jobs on Hillary every single day. I stopped watching them, but my daughter became a rabid and rampant “Never Hillary” Crusader, and when I tried to talk her down she pointed me to TYT videos. When I tried to explain the dangers of Trump, she airily dismissed my concerns saying “she didn't know anything about Trump’s policies, but they couldn't be as bad as Hillary’s — according to the TYT. She has already voted: For Stein.
I turned on a TYT Video, to hear Cenk describe how it was a “4 way race” with Hillary and Stein. Cenk is a lawyer, he knows the electoral college, he knows that the Green candidate wont get a single electoral vote, but he was perfectly happy to personally mislead his audience. I watched the new TYT Reporter Jordan Chariton, late of Fox News and Fox business news, use TYT airway time to extol why a Trump Presidency would be BETTER than a Clinton one.
They did this for MONTHS, breathlessly covering every KGB to Wikileaks creation, trashing Hillary as LIBERALS. Now Cenk is on “our” side again? In my personal opinion Ugyur doesn't want anything to get on him—he served ably as a voter suppression and diversion program for the Republicans, but at the last second goes “mea culpa” so later he can say: “No, I was FOR Hillary” like Trump was against the Iraq war.
At the very least I no longer respect the judgment of the people at TYT: Ugyur is a Turk, a country quickly becoming a dictatorship under ‘President’ Urdogan. Why couldnt he see that coming in Trump colored clothes? I have personally have lived the damage that TYT did in 2016, and I am not in a mood to forgive nor forget.