RE: I hate The Young Turks so much.
October 25, 2015 at 11:35 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2015 at 11:53 pm by Reforged.
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(October 25, 2015 at 10:55 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I agree that they're not trying to be partisan, but Fox goes way beyond simply having an agenda. They're a well-oiled propaganda machine that consistently and blatantly manipulates the facts to push a narrative. That sounds like an unfair comparison. Perhaps something along the lines of MSNBC would be more appropriate.
As for the inaccuracies, I find it curious that you're being so vague about them.
Because finding the ones I've seen is like asking me to pick specific grains of sand from a beach after the tide has been and gone.
Theres so many videos and most of them are like 6 minutes long.
Alot of it is like this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zAgJzepVAs
He produces a poll over amounts spent by the US training foreign armies, tuts at the US for doing that with oversimplified statements like "imagine what we could do with that money" and then the video ends without so much as a bit of speculation what the consequences for those countries would be if they were left with an untrained military. Thoughtless shite like that.
The demonstrably dodgy claims about people that don't fit in with their ideology are made by guests they bring on and can appropriately distance themselves from should there be any fallout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1lcJl2qtk
Most of what this guest says is rhetoric with no solutions which is exactly what he criticizes Bernie for but Cenk makes no effort to cut through the bullshit and just nods.
When they bring on guests of opposing views it will always, with one exception I found, be someone crazy like Alex Jones or Jesse Ventura for a real clash of intellects.
They go for soundbytes, short and sharp so it sticks in your head. All of it resonates one message "I'm liberal so agree with me."
If news is going digital these guys are the next up and comers to the throne of bullshit.
In Sam Harris' case they had a couple of lunatics who oppose his views come on making all kinds of claims that were demonstrably false. They went on uninterrupted and uncorrected.
I can't seem to find the videos, I suspect they were taken down after the video in the OP. They do that in cases they get called out on to an embarrassing degree.
I imagine that will begin to bite them in the ass once they get more recognized which is in the process of happening.
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