Cenk Uygur Quotes
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The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.
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Why do millennials like Bernie Sanders so much? I love that this is a mystery to Washington. It's the authenticity, stupid.
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The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.
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I hire a lot of hosts, reporters, producers, and I hire people who care about the news.
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You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable.
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Republicans, Democrats, libertarians, and independents all agree on only one thing - our national politicians are bought.
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I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.
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If I get something wrong on air, I get 1,000 emails correcting me instantly, and most of our story suggestions come from viewers.
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Quietly, President Obama has done warrantless wire tapping. And it was hardly covered. I don't know if any of the mainstream press bothered to cover it.
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I think Rachel Maddow has done a brilliant job in becoming more and more independent. And I think she does a fantastic progressive show, and she did it by accruing power, by getting better and better ratings.
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Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.
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Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations.
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I'm interested in producing more TV shows.
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TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.
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I was always kind of a loudmouth to the point where I annoyed my teachers and friends.
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If you don't watch 'The Young Turks,' you don't know me at all. Whereas no one watches Anderson Cooper, but everyone knows him.
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I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn't see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.
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I'm the poorest famous person in the country.
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I think defeating Fox - and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news - is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda, and general foolishness. But I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.
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When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.
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I don't want to negotiate with the power brokers in Washington; I want to tear them down.
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There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.
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Why would Dem leadership immediately kneecap Democrats? Because they work for their donors. This is way to defeat all progressive initiatives. It’s Corruption 101. @NancyPelosi is unacceptable, should be immediately challenged.
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You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.