Cenk Uygur Files to Run For Congress in Katie Hill's District

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75. Selective forgiveness is an epidemic.

As far as the show name, it was a combination of him being of Turkish decent, and....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Turks

According to Cenk Uygur, the name of the show was chosen because it is a popular colloquialism. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, one definition of a Young Turk is "a young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party."



He as since retracted his position on the Armenian genocide with this statement:

Today, I rescind the statements I made in my Daily Pennsylvanian article from 1991 entitled, “Historical Fact of Falsehood? When I wrote that piece, I was a 21 year-old kid, who had a lot of opinions that I have since changed. Back then I had many political positions that were not well researched. For example, back in those days I held a pro-war rally for the Persian Gulf War. Anyone who knows me now knows that I am a very different person today.

I also rescind the statements I made in a letter to the editor I wrote in 1999 on the same issue. Back then I had a very different perspective and there were many things that I did not give due weight. On this issue, I should have been far, far more respectful of so many people who had lost family members. Their pain is heart-wrenching and should be acknowledged by all.

My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about.

Thank you for being patient with me on this issue, though I might not have always merited it.

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But lets continue to demonize liberal voices because of some past mistake. Selectively of course. Joy Reid can be forgiven of past anti-LGBTQ statements, after an opoology. (which is good enough for me) Peaple evolve. Look at Obama, and the Clintons "evolution" on gay marriage. We could go into Biden's past and find positions that would not jive well today. But for all of these voices, we forgive them..BECAUSE THERE IS A GREATER CAUSE WE FIGHT FOR.

RW news media has an all-but monopoly. But we do all we can to help them out by finding any past fault in a pro-Democratic (Sanders supporter) voice and help to smear them into oblivion, because they don't support the same D candidate we do, or have a slightly different position on some issue. So sick of this.