Uygur Urges Dems To Be More 'Vicious', Like Republicans
One more sign the Age of Civility is over: an MSNBC host urging Dems to be more "vicious" toward Republicans. Oh, and to engage in more "name-calling."
Apparently writing off any career ambitions of succeeding to the Miss Manners slot, Cenk Uygur issued his recommendations last night in the course of disagreeing with a Dem congressman who was insufficiently coarse for Cenk's taste.
View video after the jump.
Watch Cenk make his unseemly suggestions to Oregon Dem congressman Earl Blumenauer.
EARL BLUMENAUER: From my vantage point, I don't think we want to get into a name-calling effort with Republicans.
CENK UYGUR: I disagree.
BLUMENAUER: I don't think name-calling actually does a lot of good.
UYGUR: Look, Congressman --
BLUMENAUER: We're going to lose, name-calling.
UYGUR: No, no, no. You're wrong. Look, I love you, but you're wrong. Here's why I say that: they call you guys names all the time. That's why we've just shown you the poll where people blame the president for the gas prices, cause they did this stupid "drill, baby, drill" bit, and it worked! And then they say oh, it's the Democrats fault for the gas prices, and it's not. Because they're vicious in how they attack you. When you guys sit back and you're not as vicious, honestly, and you say, well, you know, and then the next thing you know people blame you when it's not your fault at all!
Note: Uygur calls Republican proposals to increase drilling "stupid." Does Cenk believe the laws of supply and demand have been suspended? His proposal to deal with higher gas prices? Repeal the $4 billion a year tax subsidy to the oil companies. I'm generally no supporter of corporate subsidies, but Uygur never explained--because he can't--how increasing the costs of production will cause gas prices to fall!
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I remember when Cenk defended
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:40am.
Bush by trumpeting that high gas prices weren't his fault.
What did I just say? I must be off my meds again. That didn't happen did it? Anyone seen my veal cutlet?
Man Love
Submitted by SnapTie on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:45am.
Cenk,man i love you.Man,me too.
Name calling
Submitted by jdlybrand on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:49am.
If we're calling names, Cenk, bat crap crazy comes to mind.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
Say it enough and I guess you
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:50am.
Say it enough and I guess you start believing it. Examples, Cenk? Please, list the examples of viscous name-calling by Republicans.
But if you want to engage in a sticks and stones argument to further your agenda, go ahead. It's on par with the arguments themselves. (How old is this guy anyway? 13?)
Me and the guys
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:53am.
We went out drinking last night, and I fear I indulged too much. I got home and laid down, the room started spinning and the next thing I knew I was kneeling in front of the porcelain throne:
If the use of this drug causes...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 5:41pm.
...diarhea, nausea, or Cenk Uygur, stop taking it and call your Doctor immediately
Those "viscous" republicans...
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:01pm.
Calling them names like "Liberal" and "Progressive" and stuff. They shouldn't take that anymore.
/sarc
We can tell when the battle is almost won, because the liberal media (is that name calling?) and the left resort to name calling and ad hominem attacks instead of trying to defend their policy or lack there of.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Cenk "Barking Moonbat" Uygur
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:18pm.
Cenk "Barking Moonbat" Uygur wants the Dems to be more like MSNBC. Figures.
[So, Cenk, how does that name calling go over with you?]
I wish they would....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 12:22pm.
be more "vicious like Republicans". That would be a step towards civility.
The left is above name calling
Submitted by Dave81 on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 1:00pm.
The left would never (birthers) resort to name calling (tea-baggers), because they're above that (fear-mongers). They prefer honest (racists), open-minded (gun-toting), civil (religious nut jobs) discourse with people (twats) they disagree with.
You forgot "homophobes"
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 1:43pm.
You forgot "homophobes"
They all use coded racism and
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 2:19pm.
They all use coded racism and are anti-women, etc. Its not even new, you can trace it back at least to the debate Gore Vidal had with William F. Buckley, repeatedly insinuating he was a fascist.
Remember when Democrats got upset just because mean old Newt Gingrich used the word 'liberal' a lot as if it were a bad thing? Now they're complaining that 'progressive' is being used to mean a bad thing.
There's no sense of proportionality.
They all use coded racism and
Submitted by redfish on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 2:19pm.
They all use coded racism and are anti-women, etc. Its not even new, you can trace it back at least to the debate Gore Vidal had with William F. Buckley, repeatedly insinuating he was a fascist.
Remember when Democrats got upset just because mean old Newt Gingrich used the word 'liberal' a lot as if it were a bad thing? Now they're complaining that 'progressive' is being used to mean a bad thing.
There's no sense of proportionality.
redfish - A link for you
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 4:13pm.
Buckley vs Vidal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
- Grump
Myra Breckenridge
Submitted by jdlybrand on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 5:32pm.
Thanks Grumpy. That was mahvelous!
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
These fools better be careful in what they wish for...
Submitted by Hologram5 on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 2:16pm.
I ask, where's the RAGE?!! This "civility" is going to come back and bite them really hard. When it does finally explode, tools like these two will be the first ones hung for treason. Then they'll be crying like bitches to be spared. The tree is dry and dying. Time for watering...
Nothing like issuing a couple of death threats
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 2:28pm.
as an appropriate response to name-calling.
Jer
Yeah, much better to just pussyfoot around---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 5:46pm.
and let the libs pull their BS and not get called for it.
Tell me again, Jer, how you jump all over crazy Ed Schultz and his scrofulous comments.
If you spent as much time as you indicate you do going after liberal schmuck smartmouths, you wouldn't have time to catch all these nasty conservative comments that you never seem to miss.
MD
"If you spent as much time as
Submitted by NC Cop on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 5:50pm.
"If you spent as much time as you indicate you do going after liberal schmuck smartmouths, you wouldn't have time to catch all these nasty conservative comments that you never seem to miss."
ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dunno, Matthew...For some reason death threats seem
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 5:54pm.
to catch my attention a bit more than the same ole run-of-the-mill scrofula.
Jer
It is usually jibber-jabber, Jer, this "death-threat" stuff---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 6:07pm.
as I am sure you are aware; but far be it from me to deprive any lib from taking the opportunity to play drama queen. :o)
MD
Death Threats Jer?
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 6:21pm.
Only if you are the target should there be "outrage' right?
cajun---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 6:36pm.
to quote NC Cop:
Zing !!!!!
MD
Not at all, cajun...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 6:38pm.
And I'll explain after you post your condemnation of the threats, which you apparently forgot about, right?
Jer
Don't bother to clarify Jer*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 6:54pm.
The last time you tried to explain one of your posts to me, I ended up 100 yrds down the field and completely winded chasing after you. Too damn hot today. Its 89 degrees, 75% humidity and my damn A/C just went out.
In case you haven't noticed, Matthew...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 6:25pm.
NB bloggers have frequently and vividly dramatized far less incendiary remarks.
Jer
Jer---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 6:33pm.
For instance?
So what?
Oh.
They do it to.
Never mind. :o)
MD
Cenk is completely out of touch with reality.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 3:22pm.
Reid, Schumer, and the rest of the Dems have been nothing but vicious. What does Cenk think all the false accusations (racism, extremism, being angry and ignorant, spreading fear and divisiveness, etc.) are? And what about the Dems obstructing the GOP agenda and lying about it every step of the way? Is that his idea of being too nice? That's not vicious enough for Cenk?
If anything, it's the Republicans who need to be more aggressive and vicious. Stop rolling over and letting the Dems control the agenda and the narrative.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
What a joke
Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 4:08pm.
These people haven't experienced us going all down and out on them like they did Bush, those days are just ahead now that Obama, like Nixon did releasing a couple tapes, (mistakenly I might add) thought releasing this thing 3 years too late will end this.
There's a LTC Terry Lakin sitting in prison today because of this ahole.
He's the commander in chief? He should be charged right this second for a litany of crimes to America too long to even list nor read here, everyone knows what they are. Start with lying about his entire narrative and work through Porkulus and it's easy to recall them all.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. –Albert Einstein My Twitter
No Republican compares with
Submitted by robert108 on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 5:56pm.
No Republican compares with the violence and disorder by the WI union mob, and that's just the most recent example.
Actually, Robert,
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 12:05am.
since Wisconsin, there's been Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Just not covered by the Cenk and his cronies, because, like Wisconsin, things haven't worked out in the favor of the goonions.
And, as an aside, just what exactly is a Cenk Uiyghur?
Cenk's Secret Weapon
Submitted by IrateNate on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 8:39pm.
Name Calling - when sticking out your tongue is just not enough.
This guy wants more
Submitted by Cowboy on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 8:57pm.
This guy wants more name-calling and viciousness because intellectually he has nothing. He figures he's somebody after moving "up" from Air America to MSNBC, a clear indication of how clueless he actually is...