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Dec. 30, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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The Young Turks Are Falling Apart
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So I don't know whether you've noticed, but this year has been an amazing year for the Young Turks.
I mean, it started out really well with, say, Cenk accusing Sarah Palin of saying that black people aren't really people.
You know, these are thugs.
They're rioters.
And I, yeah, I'm calling out the media saying, quit claiming that these rioters are peaceful.
They're stomping on a flag, figuratively and literally, shouting death to cops, celebrating violence.
But let's note there that she said these protesters, they're not people.
Do you have the piece of paper in your hand there, Chenk?
She says, media, quit claiming the rioters are peaceful because they stomp on our flag.
Shout death the cops.
evidence for any of this." So even though Chenk was literally reading out her words and got them right, he still went on to accuse her of thinking that black people weren't even people.
But to his credit, he did retract that and apologize.
A little while ago, I did a video on Sarah Palin and how she attacked Black Lives Matter.
And in that video, there's a word that's unclear.
It could sound both like people and peaceful.
So I thought she said that they are not people.
It turns out I think that in this proper context, it is that she did say they were not peaceful.
Yeah, I think that this time, Sarah Palin didn't say that black people weren't even human.
This time, I mean, it could have been either way.
Chenk, it could have been either way.
It could have been Sarah Palin denouncing the Negroid race as being a race of subhumans, but this time it wasn't.
And as I said, Chenk gave an apology, and he missed being an adult about it by just a gnat whisker.
So now, some of our detractors love that and made videos and tweets like, ah, you got it wrong, Chank.
We win, you lose.
Mommy, he got it wrong, mommy.
He got it wrong.
Okay, congratulations.
I'll tell you, Ben Mankowitz's embarrassed expression there is just priceless.
And that was from the Young Turks' coverage of the Republican National Convention.
Now, you might think, well, why the fuck would the Young Turks be there?
They have got virtually no reason to be there.
And you have to understand, life finds a way.
There's a great cosmic game being played out.
And Chenk is right at the center of it.
Standing right next to Alex Jones.
This is an event that passed on into internet infamy.
And we find the Young Turks and Chenk, particularly, of course, talking about white people.
What changes in demographics is that he wins white males in such overwhelming numbers.
It's that it overcomes every other demographic advantage.
How's it going?
Hey, Alex Jones, how you doing?
All right.
Hey, how's the revolution going?
You guys starting the revolution?
We are indeed, Alex.
The revolution is afoot.
Welcome to the Young Turks.
The Elmer's Real America is done.
I am going to restore American democracy along with progressives and conservatives in this country.
This is one of my favorite events from the entire year because you can see how much fun Alex Jones is having.
He's just come on to troll.
He's just come on to troll.
And Chenk is instantly on the back foot.
He's instantly worried that this trolling is somehow going to get to him.
It's like, dude, why are you letting Alex Jones call the shots?
The man is just a humble water filter merchant.
Just I'll just let it play.
All right.
Well, I gotta tell you, I'm really, really proud to be here with you.
It's good to meet you in person.
How are you guys doing?
We're doing okay.
You like all our Hillary for prison shirts everywhere?
No, I kind of despise it.
I honestly have no idea why Alex Jones lets Jen get to him so much.
There is just no explanation for it.
I mean, he's just trolling.
He's just having a laugh.
What shirts are they?
I haven't seen any of them.
You haven't seen it.
Oh my god, you didn't see me?
I don't exist and you didn't see me.
I'm not.
And that annoying yell was Jimmy Doar.
But we'll get to Jimmy in just a minute.
All right, guys.
Okay.
Look at this guy.
I got an insurance for you right here.
It's rape.
It's Bill Clinton that says rape.
My God, hide that amendment.
That's the big net over the Roger Stone's family.
You want to take my show over?
I'll take your show.
Okay, you know what?
Who does this kind of shirt?
First of all, a sick guy.
Second of all, Bill Clinton's not a rapist, father.
You know who was accused in court papers?
You know who was accused in court papers of being a rapist?
Donald J. Trump by Donald Trump, Roger Stone.
It's in court papers.
You're a sick dude, Roger Stone.
I don't even ran off with you right now.
You assault me all the time.
You never get me a chance for yourself.
I should give you a hatchet job.
You're a sick man, Roger Stone.
Roger, you're the world's biggest liar.
Get him out.
Didn't you admit that you lied about Elliot Smith, sir?
Didn't you already admit that you're a fan of yourself?
You're not afraid of him, are you?
You're not afraid of him.
Get a minute.
First of all, Alex, this ain't no fucking show.
I don't know.
You surely ain't your fucking show.
Are you afraid to debate him?
So you can see the pressure's ratcheting up and things are reaching a boiling point.
This is not going well.
I mean, they've already had to cut away once.
What's going to happen next?
All right.
Roger, yeah, run away.
Roger, don't go.
He wants to debate you right now.
I'm not going to debate this guy.
You're a hatchet man.
I don't know why anyone in the media takes you seriously.
All you do is lie.
You're known as the biggest liar in media.
You're the biggest liar in media.
Please nobody watch this show, dude.
Don't get too mad.
We got over.
All right, well, first of all, it's actually mad.
You're actually really upset.
I think you should have come to debate.
All right, all right, all right, all right.
Once you get out of here, Alex, all right.
I love how Alex Jones is just taking this as a joke.
Don't get too mad.
Just calm down.
It's just a bit of a laugh.
Cenk, calm the fuck down.
But do you know what we need?
We need Cenk's shrieking girlfriend.
Get off the stage, you got the fuck!
Get off!
I'm like, get off that!
Yeah, you did it!
Saunny Rabians aren't funny enough, you don't!
Total, total lack of class from Anna there.
But now, Alex Jones is talking to Anna Kasparian, and there is no way the brown knight can let that stand.
He is going to stand up and defend his woman.
Hey, first of all, let me explain something, alright?
Okay, this is bullish!
We're against Salvior Andrew, you dumbass!
So, Cenk unleashes his inner buffalo and really lets rip on Alex Jones.
He just is unconfined by normal decency or standards or anything of the sort.
And he just lets rip.
And you can see that it even takes Alex Jones back.
Like, oh my god, maybe my trolling has gone too far.
Maybe this guy is an angry brown buffalo.
We're against Salvior Andrew, you dumbass!
We talk about that all the time!
You talk about that all the time!
You don't know shit!
Where do you think the lizard people are in charge of now?
Is that what you think?
I've wanted to say that to Cheng for so fucking long and I can't believe that I have to live vicariously through Alex they're turning the frogs gay Jones I just...
How is 2016 even real?
Bullshit!
You know what I care about?
I care about the American people.
I care about the American people.
What I love most about this is that Jenk appears to be harboring fantasies about being some kind of bovine superhero.
But then a snake crosses our path.
And not just any snake, a spitting cobra.
That's right, Jurassic Park escapee Jimmy Dore did his Delophisor impression in Alex Jones's face and then gave us a demonstration of his masculine virtues.
What the fuck?
What a fucking cowardly little bitch.
I'm trying to stop laughing, but all of this is just so funny.
Some dude, what a cowardly little bitch.
So eventually they managed to calm it all down and get the fat fuck off the stage, corral the rest of the children and sit down and kind of explain to everyone exactly what had just happened.
And my God, they don't look happy.
All right, we're back on a Young Turks.
Obviously a little bit of commotion here as Alex Jones and a guy significantly worse than him entered the stage here.
So for those of you who didn't see it, let me explain what happened.
So we're doing the Young Turks Live at the RNC and we were just getting through a Donald Trump Ted Cruise story when Alex Jones came on the set.
In the beginning, it was actually a little bit friendly.
First of all, I didn't give him permission to come on the set.
I would never walk onto anybody else's set.
Imagine we walk on into the middle of a Fox News MSNBC CNN set or just any person doing a radio show.
That's unacceptable.
I wasn't asked to be on that set.
But, you know, sometimes people do things tongue-in-cheek a little bit.
Like, for example, I was doing an interview earlier today in Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog.
Did I get that wrong?
I know it a thousand times, but anyway, so he came on for a little bit, and it was fun, and we played along.
So Alex Jones comes here.
In the beginning, I wasn't mad at all, right?
Okay, he's doing his grandstanding, and he's doing it because we have a much larger audience, and that's the only way he can sneak in and get it to a larger audience.
So if he's containing his tiny, tiny audience, well, then he has more trouble reaching a broader section of Americans.
Well, like all things, 2016 is here to piss all over progressive dreams because the Young Turks started out strong, but were in fact in November surpassed in views per month by Alex Jones.
Alex Jones actually had a larger reach than the Young Turks.
2016 was actually just the year that kept on giving, wasn't it?
Just every fucking time, something crazy would happen.
Something crazier would result from it.
And now we come to the Young Turks coverage of the American elections, which started out exactly as you might imagine for people who thought that there was no chance that Donald Trump was going to win.
All right.
Man Bankwitz, Jay Googer, John Irola, and a Kasparian.
I will be yelling throughout the day.
I was eating breakfast with my kids this morning before I went to go vote.
And they're both so excited at the idea that a girl could be president.
The idea of Donald Trump beating the person who is could be the first female president.
Yeah.
Oh, it doesn't get any worse than that.
Look, this election is over, okay?
Trump cannot win.
He can't win for a number of reasons.
I mean, putting aside his xenophobia, racism, sexism, and all that, that, you know, gets Latinos and other groups to vote in large numbers.
He's incompetent.
So after Jimmy Doerr, of all people, calling Jenk a cuck, things started going downhill.
Donald Trump, now the favorite to win the presidency, 51%.
Jesus.
This is the most haunting thing I have ever had.
We've ever had on the Young Turks.
14 years we've been on the air and we saw, we thought John Kerry was going to win in 2004.
This is Trump.
We are fucking talking about a madman, incompetent, buffoon being the most powerful man on earth.
He now has a better than 50% chance.
I can't even believe how this is going so far.
Well, hold your horses, sugar tits, because it's not going to get any better.
Trump's empty podium is back.
Well, now well deserved.
That's the empty podium of the president-elect.
This is the country we live in.
Now, you might think that Donald Trump's election was the nadir of the fortunes of the young Turks in 2016, but you would be wrong, especially for Anna Kasparian.
Things got worse.
Much worse.
But let's take a quick look back over 2016 and watch how this year has destroyed Anna's mental faculties.
It begins with Anna leaping onto her high buffalo and speaking down to everybody.
Look, I've come to the realization that the people who get that rise out of, you know, attacking others, you know, putting other people down, those are miserable people, right?
They're not happy people.
And so this is how they get joy in their life.
And I feel like if you see memes like that, or if you see people getting attacked, or if you will sit back and have no emotion when you see unarmed individuals getting shot and killed, well then, I mean, look, you're a sociopath, right?
And so I feel bad for you more than anything, right?
And so if you want to attack me for being overly emotional or for passionately, you know, defending those who are defenseless, then go ahead.
You can attack me all you want.
But am I saying that I'm better than you?
I guess I'm going a little further than you are.
Yeah, I'm fucking better than you, okay?
Much better than you.
You are garbage, okay?
If you get a rise out of attacking the powerless, you're garbage.
And you can call me a social justice warrior.
You can call me whatever the fuck you want.
At this point, I don't give a shit, okay?
That's it.
That's who I am.
And it is what it is.
If you support Trump now, if you support Trump today, you are 100% deplorable.
100% of Trump supporters right now at this very moment are deplorable.
Because look, in the beginning, maybe your argument makes sense, right?
Half of them are just racist people that love what he has to say about Mexicans and Muslims and black people, but the other half just want an anti-establishment candidate and that's who they get, right?
But at this point, it goes far beyond whether you're establishment or anti-establishment.
If you're supporting a candidate who openly speaks the way Donald Trump does about women, you're deplorable.
You are a piece of shit in my eyes.
And she really meant this, and she kept doubling down on this.
Be unapologetic for who you are.
If you are super left-wing, that's okay.
Okay, go out there and be super left-wing.
You call some of the Trump supporters deplorable.
Don't walk those comments back.
You said it because you mean it.
When you walk it back, it makes you look like a clown.
I'm going to keep it 100, okay?
They are deplorable.
Not all of them, but a lot of them are.
Kind of funny how she decided to walk her own comments back in the segment where she's saying, don't walk your comments back.
But hey, who am I to judge?
Anna Kasparian is, of course, better than me.
But I'm not important.
I'm just some pleb on the internet with a YouTube channel.
What's important is that Anna Kasparian is better than any Donald Trump voters, particularly the women.
I have no respect for women who voted for Trump, okay?
I think so poorly of them, and the reason why is because, look, I don't think that you're a single-issue voter.
I just think you're dumb, okay?
I think you're fucking dumb.
When you vote for someone who openly treats women like second-class citizens, who talks about them as if they're nothing more than a piece of meat, who has been accused of sexually assaulting them, who has been caught on tape, talking about groping them and grabbing them by the pussy without consent.
Yeah, you're an idiot.
You're an idiot.
Okay.
You are voting against your best interests.
I just, I'm losing my mind tonight because of how stupid the majority of the country is.
If 2016 was a Simpsons episode for Anna Kasparian, it's the one where Homer Simpson falls down the cliff after failing to jump across it and keeps hitting and keeps hitting and keeps hitting.
And you would think that at this point, Anna had finally reached the bottom of the gorge.
But unfortunately, she still got away to fall.
Earlier this year, Fusion and the Young Turks did a series of college tours where they would go to universities and give lectures and answer questions.
And then this happened.
I was really looking forward to going back to blurring his face on the show and not doing his quotes very often.
But unfortunately, we're going to see a lot of him.
But I do want to go to Brett in the audience.
Let's find out from students.
That was the nice, conciliatory, sort of unifying message that I don't buy for one second.
What do students think?
The most telling moment for me is when he translates his own speech.
He's like, we got to bind the wounds of democracy.
We got to come together.
It's like, did you, just so you didn't understand?
Anyways, let's have some students chime in.
You want to give us your feelings on the election.
Have a stand-up.
What's your name?
Where are you from?
Vaughn, Los Angeles.
It's here for Vaughn from Los Angeles.
You go to CSA?
Yeah.
Student, what year?
Second.
Second year, a sophomore.
A wise fool, aren't we all?
He's texting in the middle of the interview.
It's great.
I have my question.
Oh, so you have a question.
All right.
My question for you is more, how do you feel about all the stuff that Trump said during the election, during the running for the election?
And are you afraid of it?
How do you feel about all the stuff that he said?
And do you believe it?
I actually want to touch upon.
Oh, could I?
He wants the floor.
I actually want to touch upon the kind of immigration and that kind of sentiment on it.
So the rise in anti-immigrant sentiment that's pretty much it's raised fear amongst our communities and things like that.
It brings back memories in history of other leaders, of other groups, people that have rose to power and have done much worse, such as the Young Turks.
I'm fucking mad man!
The madman actually did it!
Vaughn, you're a fucking legend!
You get my fucking hero of 2016 award that I've just made up because you are a fucking legend, Vaughan.
What was the young Turk's reaction to this?
Oh, you know what the fucking reaction to this was.
Shut it the fuck down!
So, which is very interesting.
I'm sure it would be expensive, but we're not going to be able to do it.
So let's focus on the election.
I actually do want to quickly respond to that because I think it's an interesting concern.
Have a seat, have a seat.
So he brought up a question.
We worked really hard on this episode and they come back live now.
We'll have more questions from the audience, from actual students after we come back from this.
Oh, yeah, quick cut to commercial, John.
Shut it down.
We'll get a real student in because this guy clearly is not a real student.
Real students wouldn't ask you pertinent and very uncomfortable questions, would they, John?
But what's very interesting is that Anna Kasparian does not deny the Armenian genocide.
Please give them a laugh.
You're the mom.
Hello.
Okay, is this people listening?
What happened in that year?
She just called it that multiple times.
Okay, so she just concerns if you're not going to listen to anything that you said and just keep repeating the same thing.
She called it a genocide.
She said she believes it and said that the show has nothing to do with it.
Do you think I can add a genocide?
You think I can add a genocide?
You think I can add a genocide?
I don't deny genocide.
I saw the Turks.
I don't deny it.
Bloody hell, Anna.
Okay, if you don't deny the Armenian genocide that was perpetrated by the Turkish regime called the Young Turks, why are you, an Armenian, a fucking panelist on a TV show named the Young Turks?
If someone started a television show called The Hitler Youth and a Jew decided to appear as a regular panelist, don't you think people would have some fucking questions?
You'd be like, holy shit, is that a Holocaust scenario?
And I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Of course the Nazis murdered six million Jews.
Of course I'm not a Holocaust denier.
Why do you keep asking me these fucking questions?
Just, you don't seem to understand how unbelievably buffoonish and cartoonishly stupid the Young Turks is.
I mean, just everything about this year has been so glorious to watch when it comes to the Young Turks.
Just getting your shit kicked in at every opportunity and you've doubled down consistently.
At any point, you could have turned around and said, you know what?
Yeah, we started the show like 14 years ago and we didn't know and I didn't know and I didn't really know anything about it and we were kind of silly.
But we're a bit stuck with the name now, aren't we?
So we're just going to carry on and yeah, okay, yeah, you know, it's a terrible thing.
I know I'm Armenian.
It's terrible.
I don't really want to get into it if that's okay.
And people are probably like, you know what?
Fair enough.
At least you're not going around yelling how you're better than everyone.
At least you're not going around pontificating from an unearned position of moral superiority, Anna.
Because if you were, that might be really fucking embarrassing.
I mean, that might be the sort of thing that was just fucking ego-destroying.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
There is no way that 2017 is going to surpass 2016 when it comes to the collapse of the Young Turks.
And you're wrong.
We hired one other person.
Now, he's not going to be a reporter because he's got a daily reporting job and I think you know what it is.
And you'll see it in a second, okay?
But he's going to be a commentator for the Young Turks.
So you're going to see him all over our air.
We are super proud to announce that today we are also hiring Sean King.
Damn.
Is it just me?
Or did they darken that picture of Sean King?
I mean, it looks, Chang, for all the world to see that you are blacking up Sean King because he's so fucking white.
Now, Sean is all over media.
Tom Joyner morning show.
I remember when he used to write blogs on Daily Coast and send it to me, and I'd retweet it and I'd think, this guy's good.
Then he got a job at the Daily News.
You know what?
I love his title, and he still has that.
He's going to work for us and the Daily News.
His title at the Daily News is Senior Justice Writer.
Okay, I love it.
So do I, Cenk.
I absolutely love it that you've hired someone who can be discredited by questioning their race.
Whether he is even white or not is actually an important and pertinent thing to ask Sean King after he parades around as if he is a black man.
And you know what?
Sean King will indulge this delusion to the point where he will accuse his own mother of being a whore, cheating on his father, and not being so his father isn't even his real dad in his desperate attempt to gain some African-American credentials.
Look at this man and tell me if you think this is a black man.
And you've hired this liar.
Jesus Christ, Chenk.
This is the Young Turks going into 2017.
2016 was an incredibly stupid year for you guys.
2017 is looking like it's going to get you huge amounts of hate watchers as if you don't have enough already.
I can't wait.
I am genuinely, I am genuinely at half-mast to see what the Young Turks are going to be like in next year.
This is this is going to be good.
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