With his unwavering support of Bernie and crush notes to Jill Stein last year, Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks is about as popular around the kosphere as a drunk serial butt-fondler wearing a Roy Moore button while attempting to sell life insurance at the Big Orange Christmas Holiday Party.
But when he’s right, he’s right.
Cenk tweeted this yesterday.
How are we supposed to maintain a Democracy when The most watched Cable News Network for five consecutive years in the U.S. (only recently and sporadically bested by MSNBC) not only makes mistakes, but openly manufactures lying memes with which to entertain it’s viewers while every other news source is held to journalistic standards that are, by all means, essential to a well informed public?
Saturday Night Live inadvertently illustrated this disparity last night while spoofing another topic...that of sexual harassment in the workplace…
Fox News and Brietbart are “The Front Desk Guy” Charlie of the News World.
Their behavioral lying is so pervasive and over the top that it is expected and tolerated while the hapless straight news world, when it rarely deviates from accepted norms, is hammered.