Bernie Sanders withdrew his endorsement of California congressional candidate Cenk Uygur on Friday following reports about the online talk show host making crude and degrading comments about women and provocative statements about Jews, Muslims and other groups.
In 2007, Uygur used the n-word multiple times in a show about Duane “Dog” Chapman after the celebrity bounty hunter used the racial slur. Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, president of California Young Democrats, a group that backs Sanders, had called on the Vermont senator to withdraw his endorsement of Uygur.Mark Gonzalez, chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, had also called on Sanders to “disavow” Uygur and pull his endorsement. Uygur’s “vulgarity, his hate speech and divisive rhetoric have no place in our party,” Gonzalez said in a Friday statement.
“I will not be beholden to corporations, lobbyists, or special interest groups and I will not stand by while those groups attack my political allies,” he said. “That’s why I have decided that I will not be accepting any endorsements.”Sanders on Friday released a statement saying, “I hear my grassroots supporters who were frustrated and understand their concerns. Cenk today said he is rejecting all endorsements for his campaign, and I retract my endorsement.
Sanders initially told CNN that he’d been unaware of complaints in his 2016 campaign. “I was a little bit busy running around the country trying to make the case,” he said.
Liberals
Depravity
This actually happened precisely because of you LA Times. You wanted to be the story. Your treatment of him has been one of the worst examples of journalistic malpractice I have ever seen. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Oopsie!
What kind of online talk show host is he? Who would do such a thing? BABA BOOEY.
Hit piece. I hope he wins
Does the LA Times know what actual politicians and the U.S. president says about Latinos and women to only name a few groups of people they attack? It's a little more than provocative if you ask me.
As Bernie should have. Good for him.
Fake news. Corporate media at its best.
Too late, putz. You should’ve known about this before your glowing endorsement. Now please, GO AWAY FOREVER!!
Thanks for giving Cenks progressive campaign a big boost now everyone has their eyes on him and they can see who’s really worthy of the vote a progressive like Cenk or Christy nobody
Yeah, and he did not change the name of his show when it was pointed out the negative connotations because of the Armenian Genocide. Don't be a douche, Cenk, change the name
RoupenArmen We know where Bernie Sanders moral compass is as far as genocides are concerned! The man is an idiot, a stain on humanity!
Don’t forget he believes women should pleasure animals and he purposefully named his channel after the group that committed genocide.
Fuck the LA Times.
I love that the left is destroying him. Lol
UPDATE: Bernie withdraws endorsement of misogynist after candidate disavows endorsements. Up next: quitting after you’re fired and ending relationships after you’ve been dumped. N
And animals. Le us not forget the animals.
7) Good news is that thanks to hypocrital, awful political games, against all odds, something extraordinary, beautiful, fair, right happened: the American Senate recognized the Armenian genocide. Something none Armenian was dreaming about anymore.
6) This resolution is problematic for Trump and with another president, Democrats would have never gone against Erdogan. Moral of the story: Bernie doesn’t care about the wrongdoings of Uygur, he cares only about the backlash he gets. Woke millennials are not humanist at all.
5) Democrats wanted to go against Trump and they find the perfect topic in a time where Trump and Erdogan are getting along. Senator Menendez did not start this under Obama, they are buddies, same party, so Democrats did not want to mess with Obama.
4) Make Erdogan popular among Americans, something Trumps works for too by the way, and to crush the Armenian cause aka the recognition of the Armenian genocide. Actually it is weren’t for Trump, funnily thanks to Trump, the Senate passed the resolution recognizing the genocide.
3) That’s the ironic horror...The American far-left and part of the left wing youth love one of the biggest propagandist lobby, implanted in America, hey it is key to reach the USA, YT TV, a media that is exactly like Russia Today. And with a clear goal:
2) Bernie knew. What typically and most probably happened is a discussion behind the curtain related to the risk of media digging in and Bernie concluded that since Uygur and Young Turks TV are the Taylor Swift of the millennials, his disgusting actions would get a free pass.
Which is a shocker. He never cared before. Bernie has had no issues with supporting pro-life, misogynistic, candidates in the past.
1) People have to understand how an electoral campaign works. Any public figure hires, endorses, who might be under scrutiny, is investigated, there is little you can hide. Bernie is loaded with money, has all the advisors he wants and Uygur’s wrongdoings were in all the medias.
And how comes he is not disavowing, Sarsour, a woman who advocated female genital mutilation against her critics? I mean if you really care about women, surely you should condemn and not endorse someone who encourages mutilating women for divergence of opinion.
His withdrawal was pathetic. He basically said Cenk is rejecting all endorsements so I am withdrawing mine.
HickoryStonewal Haha
Trump disavowed Duke tardily too. If people are alright with Bernie making such an unethical choice in the first place, they should be alright with Trump, if they’re fair and balanced, since both changed direction last minute, when they realized their strategy was rejected.
Wake up Bernie!
2) Bernie reminds me of the ranch owner, in Tarantino’s movie, totally taken over by Manson and his gang. Though, I am probably wrong to believe Bernie is naive.
1) But not because Uygur is a genocide denier! Poor Bernie, he’s all over the place, he doesn’t know which road to take for more popularity. He took in the worst extremists because they are trending and now it backfiring. Uygur is notorious, really Bernie didn’t hear about it, bs
Bernie Sanders accepted the endorsement of Linda Sarsour a bigoted Anti-Semite who was kicked to the curb by the Women's March. He should also walk away from having any contact with her, or Ilhan Omar, or AOC for that matter since AOC refuses to condemn either.
Now ask him about the Armenian Genocide
ProvacativeJihadist Cenk Yogurt bolstered by an ever growing foreign operation to implant new age muslim terrorists into the US by CAIR and The Muslim Brotherhood using fake documents and immigration fraud and the elusive Anchor Babies. Lol Jk that could never b real no way ever
Cenk has been a democrat since 1999 if I remember correctly. He has been the host of TYT which has fiercily promoted the progressive agenda since it's inception. Contrary to what the article insinuate, he is not just a former republican from a foreign state, buying elections.
I think this is both a matter of Cenk was never going to accept any endorsements combined with the fact that Bernie knew he needed to retract. Cenk “requesting” they take away their endorsements works well for both parties.
Breaking... nobody gives a shit..
LA Times, junk artickle that's why People go to TYT. Cenk2020 Bad media is also publicity. Prepare to be crushed by Cenk!
AND animals, that was a big one, don’t forget about that.
When did LA Times become a rag? Let me give it a try.... LA Times Newsroom has given up any regard for context or decency when they engage in political slander. Grow up people. Progressives don't buy your BS. Cenk2020
about cenk uygur past comments
In the real world, people talk about sex, curse and use slurs, laugh at farts, look at porn...so the establishment has to feign outrage to take down a leftist. If the Democrats were actually a party of the working class, this wouldn't be a controversy. Lighten up, Francis
What controversial comments about Jews. Why does the media keep painting everyone who endorses Bernie2020 as an Antisemite? IlhanOmar JeremyCorbyn and now CenkUygur. They literally endorsed the1st Jewish US presidential candidate,unlike the people calling them Antisemitic😂
I knew about this guy weeks ago. What is wrong with Bernie’s vetting that he approves of the guy then withdraws? Amateur hour!
Public opinion matters.
Yo what's with the smear campaign latimes whats with the yellow journalism funny how your not telling the truth I wounder which corporation paid you guys to run this article yall should fire your editor due to false articles and misleading the piblic
'After reports of....'? Bernie has known about Cenk for YEARS, and didn't care. It was the public outrage and finally being vetted by the media that spanked him.
And you should retract this story for being an obvious disingenuous smear to anyone who has read more than 2 paragraphs about Cenk and his career. La times is willing to play pattycakes with Republicans but lie and distort about progressives, got it. This is how Trump got elected
only because he was given an out & even some of his own camp attacked him over it so he had to retract. He still supports Cenk. He's just hiding it. This is who Bernie is. He hasnt denounced Cenk & the misogyny, racism & bizarre bestiality he stands for coz he wants Cenk to win
Ah, it’s the guy who wants to make bestiality legal. WTF is wrong with that guy?!👇🏾
You guys are disgusting.
Days like this, Make me really contemplate suicide. I see no hope in the future. Large wealth has poisoned the human experience. If/when I do it, Y’all can blame all these monsters. The smear machine is real and killing me. How do U sleep?knowing the damage you cause to people.
Dacades ago and had been host of young turks for 2 dacades now
demonstrates its lack of integrity.
michaeldweiss BUT HILLARY WAS TALKING ABOUT CHOCOLATE MILK IN THE CONTEXT OF RUNNING FOR CLASS PRESIDENT TO DRAW AN ANALOGY!
Enjoy the victory you corporate lobotomites
You forgot his advocacy of bestiality.
Women are the match for men and to men. Love is stronger than money. Truelove between men and women helps all and women are equal
What in the hell is wrong with CA-25.
michaeldweiss Has she too ?
I love how these progressive bros all claim their creepy sexism was “satire” after women call them on this shit.
With the CaliforniaWildFires fresh in our minds, it is a good time to remember how KatieHill4CA's predecessor voted on the GOPTaxScam. Cenk2020
Bernie ONLY pulled his endorsement of POS Cenk because Cenk ‘doesn’t want any endorsements’ Bernie, author of Pro-Rape essays, is still cool with Cenk’s disgusting misogyny.
PoliticalAnt
LA Times after this story:
Nice try , but this isn’t a FoxNews audience. woke
Cenk2020 he will win
Why did he endorse this mook in the first place?
No he didn’t. He retracted because Cenk is no longer accepting endorsements.
jonathanjewel That tweet is misleading. Sanders didn’t address any of the issues raised, just retracted his endorsement while praising him.
Good to know the is just as good at propaganda as FauxNews. If you want to get your news curated by pro-establishment editors who do the bidding of status quo corporate dems, this is the propaganda for you.
well, he backs Beastiality, named his group after ppl that exterminated humans. Not a leftist fan and consider them enemies of the country. But this guy is the enemy of humanity
PoliticalAnt Statements made 19 years ago while He was A Repulican blogger trying to be a right wing Republican Howard Sterns
How do you sleep at night knowing you're taking part in a deliberate smear campaign? Cenk has apologized for this many times, but you were looking for something to criticize Bernie and now you're gonna sink your teeth into it. I hope your corporate overlords pay you handsomely.
Weren't they comments from like 20 years ago?
Update on the update: Cenk Uygur withdraws his endorsement of Bernie Sanders after reports about the presidential candidate making crude and degrading comments about women.
You call this journalism? Writing an article without doing research, I wont even click on that sht article.
Any women that has worked under cenkuygur or has had interactions with the man. Has said he is nothing but a man of integrity & respect. Just ask AnaKasparian EmmaVigeland etc. This is disgusting hit job, he has clearly grown & become more than his ugly past. CenkUygur
LA Slimes still supports Cenk.
Just saw a clip where he is literally endorsing bestiality if the animal is on the receiving end of getting satisfied. Guess this is the next step on the arc of Progressivism?
SMEAR MERCHANTS
Amazing work, m_mendozaferrer! 👏👏🙋🏻♂️
FAKE NEWS IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS COMMENTS LYING BASTARDS
BS framing. Your paper is trash.
. SenSanders withdrew endorsement out of respect for cenkuygur request to do so ... can we move on please.
Hope he realizes his mistake and apologize to Jews and other groups
WTH? votolatino AP_Politics washingtonpost AP Lawrence nytimes el_pais
BSmithTweet Too late old white dude
Hahahaha
Bernie is a jerk
So I have a question for Old Snake Oil Salesman Sanders, What did you know about Cenk Uygur's desire to have sex with a horse and when did you find out about it ? Well 2 questions. Did AOC or Nina Turner know and when did they find out about it too ?
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Yes, all of us are shocked — shocked — to just be learning of Uyger’s disgusting world view. Otherwise why would someone endorse him in the first place? 🙄
ubervaper Please correct your reporting: Bernie Sanders only “retracted” his endorsement after Cenk Uygur stated that he would not accept endorsements giving BS an out. Sanders still supports Cenk. Sanders did not denounce Uygur’s misogyny, pro-bestiality statements, using the n-word, etc.
Also he's an Armenian genocide denier
Heckuva job Bern, endorse someone without bothering to check the Yutube.
why always portraying muslims as the victims when's made provocative comments about christians aswell
That is because most people in Turkey, especially the Muslims, hate Jews and Christians. The Young Turks, his Fake News Channel, is named after the group who slaughtered thousands of Christians, in the Armenian Genocide!
Derp
I can’t stand Cenk, but man people will find dirt on anyone if they look hard enough
Smart move Bernie!!!!!!👍👊👏
So y'all not going to give the context that he made those statements 19 years ago as an anti-PC conservative, then denounced them 15 yrs ago.
RoupenArmen He should have known all about him before he endorsed him. Which planet does he live in that he does not know about this guy. The name of his TV show should have screamed loud and told him that he is toxic!
Life comes at you fast.
I’m stalking every thread to read comments. This is so juicy
That’s gonna leave a mark...lol
m_mendozaferrer Don't forget Uygur's support for Bestiality .
Pathetic smears from the LA Times didn’t help. Grotesque
La times all too eager to tow the neolib line.
So my question is: Why was Bernie so quick to endorse Uygur ? Oh wait, Young Turks are Sanders zealots so he was just doing a quid pro quo.
BUT Bernie Sanders did NOT withdraw his endorsement of Cenk Uygar disgusting views on women, etc. He ONLY unendorsed because “Cenk doesn’t want endorsements”. Bernie is still cool with Cenk being a terrible person. Cenk admires Bernie’s pro-rape essays.
bad title, Bernie didn't withdraw because of sexism or racism or any of that, he withdrew because of the blowback and then said it was because Cenk didn't want endorsements.
This is NOT TRUE... Cenk said he wouldn't be taking endorsements. Wtf are you doing ? You're just outright lying at this point. This is disgusting...
AllResistNews I’m unsure how much weight a Sanders endorsement carries in California. Bernie who?
Bernie needs better researchers on his team
Are you high?
This is so tame compared to the shit every other dem candidate has done besides yang. These people are really grasping at straws here.
And... He’s cool with beastiality.
Cenk isn’t far enough left for the Bernie bro’s?
Nice hit piece. Hope it keeps the lights on and your paymasters happy.
Millennial_Dems Hmmmm then why was he endorsed in the first place? Hmmmmm 🤔
m_mendozaferrer That's not why he said he withdrew it. He said it was because Cenk wouldn't be accepting endorsements. He also stated that he 'heard the concerns'... Not shared them.
Got a feeling LA Times doesn't want progressives in Washington. Just a hunch.
Too damn late
And this?
Millennial_Dems Too late.
Oh no!!! And he’s a California liberal Democrat!!! They can do nothing wrong I thought!!
And he has the audacity to call out Republicans for being racist and dumb. Nice ending.
way to be aware, bernie
It’s crazy how so many people have no idea who Cenk is and are so easily influenced. No wonder Trump is president. Damn.
BAHAHHHGAAA
But no mention of his ideas about beastiality?
Predictable! This kind of noodler flip-flopping - due to poor judgement, weakness, lack of decisiveness & inability to be undeterred - cost him '16. Failed to think this through (as always), or blindly trusted advisors. Cenk is vile & dangerous. Bern would've been putty as 46
ToBeSafeNSound Sanders must have been using trumps vetting standards.
Dumb, it wasn’t like nobody knew about it. This clown has had a very public platform for years. Bernie needs to hang it up already.
Too frickin late.
Bernie has a Russia problem.
He had to have known this beforehand.
Bwahahahahahah!!!!😭😭😭 Cenk2020 HardNewsNetwork
Good.
OMG, this guy is running? 🤦♀️ Only reason he doesn’t want endorsements is that he will be called out for his hate and propaganda style. What a joke he is.
A reminder that Bernie isn't somehow immune to the same bullshit he and his cult demonize in others.
The bigger picture
Shameful!
He didn't disavow any of Uygur's toxic spew, which is telling.
Thanks for the withdrawal,that's the mark of a true Democrat.
And animals. Freak!
doctor_eon Lol and he only withdrew the endorsement because Cenk stopped taking endorsements WTH?!
doctor_eon 😂😂 too late
doctor_eon Such leadership! Good Lord what a mess!
Now start booting out the rest of the fake progressives and we might start believing again! TruthToPower for FreedomOfSpeech for NotMeUs
What’s that say about SenSanders ‘ judgment? Jeez, people!
this is too nice, Cenk first declared he wasn't taking endorsements, then Bernie put out a statement complimenting Cenk, acknowledging he wasn't taking endorsements, and in accordance with Cenk's wishes, retracted his endorsement.
Sounds like a typical anti Semitic democrat.
Don’t forget racial slurs...
I used to like TYT. Then I saw more than 5 of their videos
too late too late Cenk is only interested in gaining a progressive seat in the House, not in the actual constituents of CA25 and their needs. He's already proven that.
Damn but y’all still won’t report him as the 1 choice among POC in California... sad
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