The Young Turks: How Wrong Are TV Pundits?

[Wetzelbill]

Run time: 02:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYHL5wvD1A   Posted on YouTube: February 28, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 01, 2009 By DU Member: Wetzelbill Views on DU: 2667

 
This comes as no surprise. -WB

[DUlover2909]

1. I enjoy watching the Young Turks internet television program.

Thank you for posting.:)

[spiritual_gunfighter]

17. I do too

But I would enjoy it more if I could watch it at 10pm EST on MSNBC.

[Wetzelbill]

2. you're welcome

Glad to do it!

[burning rain]

3. Manatee really brings the dumb.

He just does the right no damn good at all. He's stuck at high school-level junior conservative boy for life and it's sad to watch.

[trthnd4jstc]

4. Cenk says, "When I am most certain is probably when you can trust me the least."

[Wetzelbill]

5. He sounded pretty certain about that

uh.....

[trthnd4jstc]

12. I liked what he said at the first part of the clip, that one can look at both sides,

and one can see nuance, and say that things can go one way or the other. I believe in Democracy over Oligarchy or Monarchy. Democracy allows multiple views. Thanks for the post.

[ihavenobias]

6. K & R n/t

[pleah]

7. Just ask anyone on DU. They can tell you

the pundits are almost always full of shit.:evilgrin:

K&R

[ooglymoogly]

8. Most of the pundits have an agenda; Propaganda seeds

to sew. Propaganda by its very nature is wrong; They are projecting non facts to bolster their beliefs rather than any truth; Even on things that are pretty obvious where predictions are easy and almost a foregone conclusion.

[lob1]

11. Exactly. They're not paid to tell the truth,

they're paid to say anything that will keep their masters in power.

[20score]

9. Ooglymoogly Beat me to it. The other option is that it's propaganda. It's impossible to

be as wrong, as often as they are without it being on purpose.

K&R

[OhioChick]

10. K&R

:kick:

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. Most pundits have attached themselves to a RW ideology

They do worse than chance because they keep flipping a two-headed coin and calling it tails.

[Turborama]

14. Thanks for the share! n/t

:kick: & R

[Liberal_Christian]

15. Thats why I like my Maher, Olberman, and Maddow

Yeah, Yeah, I know they're talking-heads/pundits but in my own defense I also read NY times and the Nation, all very liberal outlets but at least some of them (NY Times and the Nation) are journalistic. It's funny how the liberal media mainly criticizes our government and status quo in a present day context in order to strive for a better tomorrow and is then called un-American/un-patriotic for doing so but when the conservative media use their fear doctrine and project all the horrific things that will happen to us in the future if we don't follow THEIR ideology then they're just being good, "unbiased", and "informative" people.

Lets face it; while the Liberal media, as biased as it can be, criticize what HAS happened and IS happening whereas the Conservative media, just as biased just to a different ideology, DOES make more "predictions" (there's really no other way to use fear but make assumptions on the future)

[bulloney]

16. You know William Kristol significantly brings down the average.

Has that doofus ever been right?

[Wetzelbill]

20. lol

I wrote basically the same thing in the comments at the link.

[President Decider]

18. What's funny is the same principle can be applied to the corporate culture. Those that act ...

the most sure of themselves ..... are generally the people that are

FULL OF SHIT!

[irislake]

19. No accident

TV pundits are corporate propagandists. You can trust them as much as you can trust advertisements for corporate products.

[lame54]

21. He's full of shit...

but at least he knows it