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OldRed2450

(710 posts)
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 10:19 AM Dec 2019

CNN: Sanders endorses controversial candidate in California congressional race

The media figure's litany of controversial statements also includes a 2013 comment in which he argued bestiality should be legal in some cases.
"Here comes the controversial part, the part I shouldn't say," Uygur said during "The Young Turks" program, according to video posted online. "I believe that if I were the benevolent dictator of the world, I would legalize bestiality where you are giving ... you are pleasuring the animal."
During past episodes of his "Young Turks" program, Uygur has also made demeaning comments about the sex lives of lesbians and invited former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke for a segment about his anti-Semitic view of Judaism.
While Uygur has disavowed some of these remarks, Sanders' endorsement is not sitting well with some of the Vermont independent's supporters in California.


https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/politics/bernie-sanders-endorse-cenk-uygur/index.html?utm_content=2019-12-13T13%3A46%3A50&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_medium=social&utm_term=image

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LongtimeAZDem

(4,494 posts)
1. Cenk Uygur, Darius Khalil Gordon, Simone Zimmerman, Matt Orfalea, Linda Sarsour
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 10:29 AM
Dec 2019

When do we stop making excuses?

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OldRed2450

(710 posts)
2. It's a feature.
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 10:36 AM
Dec 2019

We can't pretend it's not.


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still_one

(91,949 posts)
3. +++. Along with Brinia Joy Gray who he put in a high position in her s campaign, who not only voted
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 10:45 AM
Dec 2019

for Jill Stein, but has no regrets doing so

His choices are quite troubling

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MH1

(17,537 posts)
12. And Gray is still there, no?
Sat Dec 14, 2019, 10:16 AM
Dec 2019

Showing that supporting the election of Trump in 2016 is not a no-go from Sanders.

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DURHAM D

(32,595 posts)
4. Does Bernie have bad advisers or is it something else? nt
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 11:00 AM
Dec 2019
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comradebillyboy

(10,119 posts)
7. I wouldn't blame his advisors. If I might absue the Bard for a moment
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 11:23 AM
Dec 2019

"Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves..."

Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2

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SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
9. When someone shows you who they are, believe them...nt
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 11:59 AM
Dec 2019

Sid

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LongtimeAZDem

(4,494 posts)
5. A Truman quote comes to mind
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 11:07 AM
Dec 2019
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George II

(67,782 posts)
6. Uygur is far worse than merely "controversial". He's said some highly offensive things....
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 11:18 AM
Dec 2019

....over the years.

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NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
8. Cenk is toxic. It reflects poorly on the judgement of anyone who would endorse him.
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 11:52 AM
Dec 2019

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Cha

(295,903 posts)
15. Exactly.. "controversial" is a euphemism for what cenk is
Sat Dec 14, 2019, 09:34 PM
Dec 2019
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Cha

(295,903 posts)
10. BS knew cenk got kicked out of justice dems..
Sat Dec 14, 2019, 04:38 AM
Dec 2019

and why.. but he endorsed him anyway.

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NurseJackie

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16. Even THEY couldn't stand him...
Sat Dec 14, 2019, 10:19 PM
Dec 2019

... that's pretty bad!

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Lexee

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11. I do not care about the bestiality. Cenk is totally disrespectful to women.
Sat Dec 14, 2019, 04:48 AM
Dec 2019

Bottom line, he does not think of women at all unless they are fuckable, and their worth in that. Sanders supports a man that thinks so little of women and has had a career of promoting that disrespect. Anna, his gal at hand has told the audience from the conception that meh... Womens fault if we have a problem with Cenks disgusting attitude toward women.

Sanders ignored this. Doesn't care. Even the disclaimer is about those supporters that had issue with Cenks attitude toward women. Not the very attitude. Sanders has, time and again, made clear that women have a back seat when it comes to his agenda for the most picked upon group. White men.

I do not know what it takes for us to believe Sanders when he tells us over and again that women are not important to him.

That old b* teacher.

His disrespect for women is evident over decades. The 2016 campaign of harassment and abuse. To today, repeatedly hiring men that are misogynist.

This is not a simple misstep. It is who Sanders is.

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MH1

(17,537 posts)
13. Well said.
Sat Dec 14, 2019, 10:18 AM
Dec 2019

It is a pattern over years with Sanders. He just can't help himself, because it is who he is.

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