MSNBC's Cenk Uygur and Dem Congressman: Dissent Is Unpatriotic
Q. When did liberals rip those 'Dissent Is Patriotic' bumper stickers off their Priuses?
A. January 20, 2009
Latest evidence: on his MSNBC show this evening, Cenk Uygur suggested that opposition to President Obama's Libya policy is "unpatriotic." For good measure, Dem congressman Gary Ackerman stated that opposing the president is "cheering for the wrong team."
View video after the jump.
To his credit, liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne dissented, saying he doesn't like it when people who are opposed to policy are criticized as unpatriotic.
But could Cenk, Ackerman and their ilk possibly be more hypocritical?
GARY ACKERMAN: I believe that he [President Obama] has this exactly right, and the Republicans are having a fit over it because they don't know what to do. Their entire purpose is to pull the rug from out under the president and sabotage his administration and his success which of course is the success of our country. That's not what we could be cheering for and be happy about. That should not be our goal. When I disagreed with President Bush I hoped I was wrong and not him because he was dictating the policy and it was unacceptable for our country to get it wrong. They're cheering for the wrong team, which is what the problem is.
CENK UYGUR: Because I remember the Bush years, and if you said anything against Bush it was: oh my God, you're endangering the troops! What's the matter with you?
ACKERMAN: Unpatriotic.
UYGUR: Unpatriotic, exactly right. Now E.J., isn't it a little unpatriotic here for the Republicans to turn so quickly against a president, less than a week into a war? I mean, that sounds like they're going against the Commander-in-Chief. Sarah Palin did it outside of the country, like the Dixie Chicks! How could she?
E.J. DIONNE: You know, I never have ever liked it when somebody criticizes another American who opposes a policy for being unpatriotic.
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For the useful idiots*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 10:52pm.
I will post this one more time
Cajun
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 10:57pm.
I do believe that's going to give me nightmares!
Sorry Rad*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 11:03pm.
But hypocrits raise my blood pressure. Give Nova a hug, you will promptly feel better...;-)
Cajun
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 12:35am.
It's ok. Beck gives me nightmares too, because he is narrating and predicting the downfall of our country, but I love you both for giving me those nightmares.
Nova's next to me sending you a puppy hug.
Good job, cajun...I was just
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 9:52am.
Good job, cajun...I was just about to link to that very same thing. With Bush in the WH, dissent was the highest form of patriotism.
Now, with Obama...
I'll llet these guys explain it to you
while the grown ups are gone
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 10:54pm.
What policy? I don't see a policy.
All I see is that obama got the keys to the Sixth Fleet and he and his European buds went joy ridin' in the Mediterranean.
http://commentkazi.com
Submitted by commentkazi on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 10:56pm.
Ahhh, when the race card doesn't work just break out the "unpatriotic" argument.
Cenk declares it a war!
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 10:57pm.
Hey, Cenk said it was a war! Where's our Congressional declaration of war? Isn't he proving the point of the dissenters?
It's not war...
Submitted by commentkazi on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 10:59pm.
...it's kinetic activity. You have to keep up, things move quickly
Excuse me....
Submitted by Prester John on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 8:47am.
...it's scope-limited, time-limited military action.
Huh...
Submitted by IdahoJim on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 3:06pm.
Isn't that called Hit-And-Run-Away?
IdahoJim
http://idahoandy.net
NB's stock pic of this fool...
Submitted by Diesel on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 11:26pm.
...cracks me up. It looks like a toilet with a tie.
Opposing Obama is cheering
Submitted by jwrjr on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 11:39pm.
Opposing Obama is cheering for America. But then to Obama and his worshippers, that IS the wrong team.
I saw a car today
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 11:58pm.
It looked like most of the hippie Subarus around here. When I pulled close at the stop light I saw two bumper stickers. On the drivers side was "Peace is Patriotic." On the other side was "Obama 08."
I turned at the light and they didn't. If I'd had the time I'd have followed her just to say, "I agree with you. I don't think Obama is very patriotic either."
Cenk Uygar (?)
Submitted by Texndoc on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 11:59pm.
I guarantee The Magic Bullet slicer-dicer informercial at 3 AM has more viewers. He is a complete hack who is sacrificing his beliefs to keep MSNBC afloat.
What is very interesting is there are liberals opposing the war who have to go to Fox News for air time.
It is quite painful watching
Submitted by Clemenza on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 12:07am.
this sand monkey try to put on a serious news program. He still thinks for some reasson, that cable news is the same as that garage comentary program he puts on the internet. It just does not work.
Now, before everyone starts jumping on my back referring to Chunk as a monkey, I am only using a term once used by a former host that once had an 8:00 pm prgram on Chunk's network to describe Chris Wallace.
http://newsbusters.org/node/7891
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. . . . . . . . lean forward!
please...
Submitted by OldJoe on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 6:53am.
Show some respect for our primate friends!
Hypocrisy on Steroids
Submitted by Superman on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 12:11am.
These are the same people who called President Bush every name in the book. They called President Bush a monkey, a criminal, a fascist, idiot-in-chief, and more. But now, dissent is unpatriotic.
Very curious...
Submitted by Rukus on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 12:28am.
This Cenk thread hasn't been hit with the spam-bot. Hmmmm...
I will be the first to admit
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 12:42am.
I will be the first to admit that I wasn't completely satisfied with the way G.W. Bush did things. That being said, at least he never "bad-mouthed" something and then went on to do the exact same thing himself. Obama is the most hypocritical person ever to step foot in the White House. The man has absolutely no integrity.
Everything he campaigned on he has flip-flopped on. Everything he criticized Bush about he has done himself. This man makes me sick. Oh, and I am sorry for being so politically incorrect, but I don't need some jackass named "Cenk Uygur" telling me about patriotism, that''s just how I am minus the political correctness training.
GE pays no taxes. Silence
Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 1:30am.
GE pays no taxes. Silence from the Left.
Obama takes us to war #3. Silence from the Left.
Sarah Palin called a t***. Silence from the feminist Left.
Economy in shambles. Silence from the Left.
Foreign policy a disaster. Silence from the Left.
Gas/food/clothing prices skyrocket. Silence from the Left.
Over 30 Czars. Silence from the Left.
Obama loses Democratic party over 700 seats. Silence from the Left.
NPR busted in full bias. Silence from the Left.
GTMO still open. Silence from the Left.
2 wars still on, one with record death toll. Silence from the Left.
All Democrat Congressional and Senate representatives are millionaires, multimillionaires, or billionaires. Silence from the Left.
Obama ignores nuclear disaster now reaching our shores. Silence from the Left.
Obama delivers oil rig contract to Soros-owned Petrobas so they can drill for oil in gulf and sell it to us. Silence from the Left.
GE pays no taxes.....
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 8:43am.
forgot to add, They pay Cenk's salary too. Which means that WE pay it too!
We all should save this excellent summary....
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 9:31am.
...to confront leftists with whenever they start to spew their junk. "What do you think about GE paying no taxes....What do think about Gitmo still open?... War 3?... $4gallon gas...?
This is good to use also as to reasons why no Democrat should ever be elected to the presidency again.
Why stop with just the Presidency?
Submitted by NL207 on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 9:42am.
No Democrat should be elected, period! They are no less destructive in Congress or the state and local level.
Didn't want to overreach.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 9:50am.
But you are right!
i agree
Submitted by egutopia44 on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 1:42pm.
i agree. now president obama can tell the left to shove it since they will not respond
Wow. Good list
Submitted by IdahoJim on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 3:03pm.
I'm going to print it out and stick it on my refrigerator. Then when I go get that extra snack at night I can rest assured that there will be only silence from the left.
IdahoJim
http://idahoandy.net
Two Questions
Submitted by Bourbeau on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 6:55am.
What was Gary Ackerman spewing when George Bush went into Iraq; I'm certain he wasn't supportive. And secondly, who the hell is this host Cen Uygur and why is anything he says important? It blows my mind how these people, you never heard of, suddenly appear as a host on MSNBC and are given legitmacy no matter how immaterial their nonsense is.
appear as a host on MSNBC
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 8:52am.
and are given legitimacy... ???
Being on MSNBC is like hosting a show in a sewer. There's nothing legitimate or honorable working for that crap factory.
Remember THIS...? (of course you do)
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 8:21am.
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration that you are somehow un-American! Well I say I we are Americans and we have a right to debate and to disagree WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!!!!!!!!"
Remember this? Hillary Clinton said it during the Bush years, with her voice rising to a shrill screech. It was easy to envision her flailing her arms wildly above her head like Kermit the Frog while hearing her speak these words.
'Dissent is patriotism.' This was one of the Left's oft-repeated mantras during the Bush years. Yet more evidence (as if any further evidence was needed) that the Left area pack of stinking hypocrites. When Bush was in power, dissent was patriotism and it was their god-given right to say that Bush stunk. Now their 'sort-of-god-standing-above-the-world' Obama is temporarily in charge. And suddenly, dissent is 'un-American' again....
Bravo, looney left. Bravo. How's that foot in your mouth tasting?
MAD Magazine Cartoon material
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 8:48am.
That picture of Cenk that accompanies this article looks like it could easily be caricaturized by the artists at MAD Magazine. Give him a long neck and smoke blowing out his ears and it would be perfect.
This is really an adorable
Submitted by wiwf on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 9:17am.
This is really an adorable little video clip of double standards.
Not that this would be a surprise to NB readers...
Submitted by Prester John on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 10:11am.
....but Herman Cain lays it all out quite simply.
Liberals cannnot argue rationally, they just have tactics--they "SIN":
S--Shift the topic
I--Ignore the facts
N--Name call
I think that pretty much sums it up.
Dissent-when a blind man is driving the Bus-
Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 10:26am.
America voted in a fraud-the bus is being driven by a blind man. A man whose ideals are opposed to the American way of life.
the crazy Muslims are killing one another-they have been for centuries. leave the middle east-bring the troops home-we could end this in three days-but we will not.
Like Vietnam-unless we put 100% into the effort-why do it at all.
Dissent-lets focus on energy/economy leave the rest of the world to their own devices.
Libya is Obama's War and he
Submitted by dscott on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 10:33am.
Libya is Obama's War and he entered that war without even attempting to build consensus here in the US. I just love the juicy hypocrisy of these guys charging we are out to pull the rug from under Obama, make him fail, and under the unity imperative of War, etc. This is ALL Projection on their part as this is exactly what they did to W.
Contrary to the usual false moral equivalence presented by liberals and Democrats, how Obama conducted himself in his little video game war it was NOTHING like how W went about entering into military action to engage in War in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our criticism is directed BEFORE he has ANY boots on the ground using the internet and Fox News (only because the rest of the MSM wouldn't cover it.) Whereas liberals and Democrats engaged in their criticism using their megaphone of the MSM AFTER boots got on the ground under W. Democrats supported and voted for both Wars before they were against them. Schadenfreud doesn't count as dissent much less patriotism.
The MSM and Democrats actively undermined an ongoing fully involved WAR EFFORT with TROOPS ON THE GROUND under W, whereas we are standing up now in opposition BEFORE any troops have set foot on foreign soil. Liberals simply don't get why Conservatives support a WAR effort, we do so because it is in the national interest with the full understanding that people are going to get killed and regrettably some of those people are non combatants. We also know that the US government has a track record of TRYING to minimize killing the wrong people, as such we conduct a WAR to win and to so decisively knowing that such actions minimize the total number who are killed, both combatants and non combatants. Obama's video game war does neither.
It should not be a surprise, as enfuriating as it is,.....
Submitted by Prester John on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 10:50am.
.....that on the Code Pink home page all they have is a link to the O'Reilly interview in which Code Pink condemns the "US" bombing of Libya (the name "Obama" does not appear).
Meanwhile over at moveon.org they're slamming GINGRICH and his position on Libya, while whining about how many teachers the cost of a Tomahawk cruise missile would provide for. Again no mention of Obama.
Ah, my Leftist friends, thy middle name art shameless hypocrites.
Keith Olbermann on his
Submitted by dscott on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 10:55am.
Keith Olbermann on his meds...he would even pass for a Libertarian if he stayed on them.
A must see video via Ace of Spades. http://minx.cc/?post=313866
Bahahahaha, bahahahahaha, the liberal propaganda machine has just hit the rocks.
Keith
Submitted by dreamsincolor on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 4:52pm.
Whenever someone posts a link from him, I assume it will be as bad as Alan Grayson...
This freaked me out, I actually agree with him. (I can't believe I said that.)
Now, I'm going to wash my head out with lye-soap and reset the processor cause I'm pretty sure something is wrong with me. :(
I have said it time and time
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 11:18am.
I have said it time and time again... Guys like this and Chris "Chrissy poo" Mathews, Keith "Bathtub Boy" Olberman, Ed "Sgt Fatboy" Shultz, and Rachel "insert nickname here" Maddow all have one thing in common. The all drink from the OBAMA URINAL!!!!! (recycled Kool Aide) Deeply and Daily.... they have their heads so far in that urinal, that they can't see any other reality other than the one their drink of choice allows them (DELUSIONS OF OBAMA GRANDUER) Any thing anyone else says must be a lie because Obama (their GOD) wouldn't lie to them.........
The media looks for "new" name*
Submitted by cajun2 on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 11:29am.
The media are sending out their newly trained trolls
Of course, not everyone was frightened by this. Fox's Red Eye gives their special brand of analysis which The Vet will love.
Oh, but its different now!
Submitted by brutony1 on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 12:25pm.
For years, all the libs, Follywood leftists, and idiots I know who only hear about things from the Alphabet soup news and SNL and MSM, were trying to correct me on what Bush was doing wrong, how Bush was destroying the country and the world, Bushs war for oil, land, colonialism, etc..Obama does the same thing, only incorrectly, and hes suddenly a hero, and dont you DARE dissent or disagree! It just goes to show you what I said all along-the anti-Iraq War crap was just a liberal objection to what they felt was Pres Bush gettig too popular, and trying to bring him down-thats all!
When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me
I wonder what Rep. Ackerman will have to say when the Muslim...
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 1:57pm.
...Brotherhood hijacks the Libyan "rebellion" and takes over the country, just like they are currently doing in Egypt.
I bet he will be nowhere to be found.
Cenk, of course, will be jumping for joy.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
If you say his name really fast
Submitted by redright88 on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 5:17pm.
it sounds like a sneeze.
ah ah ah ...cenkuyger!!!
Time to wipe the snot coming out of him.
That is not snot redright.
Submitted by bassndude on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 5:21pm.
That is not snot redright. It's oozing pus.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
One of the most punchable
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 6:19pm.
faces on the planet.
Nice. Fleshy. You just KNOW he's a bleeder. And he'll cry. Just like his momma did when his daddy beat her.
Oh, wait, I'm just kidding. It's a JOKE, ya know?
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
some else already said it...
Submitted by OldJoe on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 10:13am.
But some village in Turkey is missing their idiot.