Cenk Uygur

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Cenk Uygur is co-host of The Young Turks, the new morning show for Air America Radio, 6-9AM ET.

The Young Turks was the first liberal radio show to air nationwide. The program was also the first original talk show for Sirius Satellite Radio. With the move to Air America, the program can now be heard on XM Satellite Radio, as well as, your local Air America station.

The Young Turks is also the first live, internet TV show. The show can be seen 24 hours a day on www.theyoungturks.com.

Described by the Pittsburgh City Paper as “Part Howard Stern, Part Howard Dean,” The Young Turks presents a smart, funny and irreverent take on politics, pop culture and news. A sampling of recent guests include Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader, DNC Chair Howard Dean, Porn Star Mary Carey, Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan, Actor Matt Dillon, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark, Actor Mel Brooks, Brian Williams of NBC News, Porn Star Lolana, Sam Donaldson of ABC News, Professor of Linguistics at MIT Noam Chomsky, Actor Richard Dreyfuss, Political Commentator Mary Matalin, Political Commentator Arianna Huffington, among numerous others.

Host Cenk Uygur’s eclectic background exemplifies why this unique program has become such a success. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School of Business and Columbia University Law School, Cenk joined the prestigious Philadelphia law firm of Drinker, Biddle & Reath in their Washington DC office. He then worked as an entertainment lawyer for Parcher, Hayes & Liebman in New York City.

Cenk’s on-air career began as a weekend talk show host on WWRC radio in Washington, DC and WRKO radio in Boston, MA. He later worked as commentator, head writer and supervising producer of “The Times,” the news show for WAMI-TV, the flagship station for Barry Diller’s USA Broadcasting in Miami, FL. From WAMI, Cenk moved to Sirius Satellite Radio where he started The Young Turks, along with co-host Ben Mankiewicz.

Blog Entries by Cenk Uygur

Republicans Who Just Don't Get It

11 Comments | Posted May 14, 2008 | 12:05 PM (EST)


The Republicans lost another crucial election last night. It was their third special election loss in a row. All three were deeply Republican districts in the past. This one was in the heart of Mississippi and was in a district that George Bush won with 62% of the...

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Pulling a Hillary

16 Comments | Posted May 12, 2008 | 02:05 AM (EST)


I was playing basketball over the weekend and one of the funniest moments in trash talk history happened. We were playing pick up ball at a park in LA. A guy drove into the lane and got his shit swatted ("his shot was blocked" for the basketball illiterate). He called...

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Reality Has Well-Known Obama Bias

139 Comments | Posted May 7, 2008 | 02:38 AM (EST)


You have to give Hillary Clinton's team credit for one thing: they have masterfully played the perception game. It might have been all smoke and mirrors, but they have done their job of keeping people confused and distracted them from what really matters.

The reality is that: 1. She has...

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An Overlooked Hate Sermon by Rev. Hagee

301 Comments | Posted May 2, 2008 | 02:07 PM (EST)


As everyone is concentrating on the loathsome things that Rev. Hagee has said about New Orleans, or gay people, or Muslims, or Catholics, his more radical views on the poor and his encouragement of violence in Christianity has been overlooked.

Get a load of the hateful things Reverend Hagee...

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Six Degrees of Barack Obama

105 Comments | Posted April 29, 2008 | 03:11 AM (EST)


The latest right-wing game is to pin controversial figures, who might have said or done anything objectionable at any point in their lifetimes, to Barack Obama. Then make him apologize for them. Then make him denounce and reject them. And then say he hasn't done enough to "distance" himself from...

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Hillary Clinton Supporters -- The Global Warming Deniers of Democratic Politics?

101 Comments | Posted April 25, 2008 | 11:26 AM (EST)


Hillary Clinton supporters seem to have become the equivalent of global warming deniers in Democratic politics. If facts don't suit your argument, insist on the opposite. And even more importantly, insist that your non-facts get at least 50% of the coverage.

The Clinton team is now trying to make the...

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Is Hillary Lucky to be a White Woman?

41 Comments | Posted April 23, 2008 | 01:57 AM (EST)


Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to the Pennsylvania Primary results

First of all, you have to give Hillary Clinton a ton of credit. Whether you agree with the way she has run the campaign or not, she is a fighter and no matter what happens she keeps...

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The Difference Between Tough and Inappropriate Questions

108 Comments | Posted April 19, 2008 | 09:48 PM (EST)


ABC has been hiding behind the shell of "we were just asking tough questions" in response to their questionable performance in the Pennsylvania debate. But to see how transparently false that claim is you only have to think about this "tough" question: When did you stop beating your wife?

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The "What He Said" Game

14 Comments | Posted April 17, 2008 | 11:26 AM (EST)


Every election cycle the Republicans play the same game of distraction. They want to distract people from what they have done, so they turn the focus on to what their opponents said, or what someone who can nominally be linked to their opponents said.

And every year, the press dutifully...

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It's Impossible to be Proud of the Way Hillary Has Run This Campaign

198 Comments | Posted April 15, 2008 | 12:37 PM (EST)


I feel like asking the same question about elitists that Jim Mora once famously asked about the playoffs. Elitists?! Elitists?! We're talking about elitists?!

The Clinton and McCain families both have over $100 million. Barack Obama has a father from Kenya and mother from Kansas. Who are they kidding...

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The Two Central Myths of the Iraq War

17 Comments | Posted April 10, 2008 | 11:30 AM (EST)


Yesterday on our show I talked about the two central myths of the Iraq War:

1. There is no central government of Iraq who can take over as soon as we leave and run a peaceful, stable and flourishing Iraq.

2. More time in Iraq is not going to produce...

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Why is General Petraeus Helping Iran?

51 Comments | Posted April 8, 2008 | 10:35 AM (EST)


Someone should ask General Petraeus today why he is working so hard to help Iran. This is not to suggest he is some sort of enemy of the state. I suppose he is following orders, but why doesn't he question his wildly counterproductive and conflicting orders?

I hear him bemoaning...

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How Would Hillary Handle the Next Cuban Missile Crisis?

17 Comments | Posted April 1, 2008 | 11:33 AM (EST)


Throughout the primaries there has been a credulous discussion about the different reasons why Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War authorization bill. Senator Clinton has said that she thought the president should have the authority to threaten force so he would have better negotiation leverage. Senator Obama has said...

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Who is the Iraqi Army?

41 Comments | Posted March 28, 2008 | 02:14 AM (EST)


Who is the Iraqi Army? That seems like a strange question. What do I mean?

The Bush administration claims the Iraqi Army is a unified force of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds who fight together for the centralized government of Iraq. That's complete nonsense.

In fact, the different divisions of...

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The Latest Clinton Canard

178 Comments | Posted March 26, 2008 | 12:25 PM (EST)


The latest talking point for Hillary Clinton is this race is still early in the process and primaries from previous years were decided much later in the year. She recently told Time, as well almost every other interviewer she's talked to, "I remind a lot of people that my...

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Is Hillary Positioning for 2012?

662 Comments | Posted March 22, 2008 | 05:21 PM (EST)


The Politico laid it out very clearly yesterday - and solidified what we've known for weeks - this race is over. Obama has the nomination.

Even Hillary Clinton's own campaign admits it! Politico reports, "One important Clinton adviser estimated to Politico privately that she has no more than...

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Different Standards for Black and White Preachers

Posted March 19, 2008 | 11:50 AM (EST)


Rudy Giuliani's priest has been accused in grand jury proceedings of molesting several children and covering up the molestation of others. Giuliani would not disavow him on the campaign trail and still works with him.

Mitt Romney was part of a church that did not view black Americans as...

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What Happened to the Bootstraps?

Posted March 18, 2008 | 11:14 AM (EST)


For as long as I have been alive Republicans have been saying that government hand-outs make people lazy and give them all the wrong incentives. Instead the better approach is for people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

So, now when the financial industry is in trouble because they...

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Hillary Whines to the Refs

Posted March 17, 2008 | 01:37 AM (EST)


The Republicans have made a high art out of whining to the refs for the last several decades. It goes something like this: "The media is liberal. They hate us. They won't be fair to us. Boo hoo. You better not write anything bad about us otherwise you prove...

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Hillary Clinton's Only Remaining Hope: Steal This Election

Posted March 12, 2008 | 11:58 AM (EST)


First of all, let's be clear on one thing -- this race is over. Barack Obama has won. Hillary Clinton has lost. Obama's pledged delegate lead is insurmountable. He leads by about 150 delegates in that category. Hillary Clinton cannot and will not catch up to him.

Clinton's supposed...

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