‘Do we want to live in a country where people have to almost die before they go to the hospital?’ Cenk talks to Jayar Jackson and Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher about a new ad from Priorities USA, the super PAC opposing Mitt Romney, which connects Romney to the death of a woman whose husband was laid off after Bain Capital shut …
LIVE from TYT on Current: Rafalca Romney, police violence, and “Dirty” Harry Reid
Republicans call liberals elitist, forgetting that Mitt Romney has a $77,000 Olympic dressage horse Cenk calls out Republicans for calling liberals latte-drinking, arugula-eating elitists when presidential candidate Mitt Romney spends approximately $10,000 a year just to clothe one of his dressage horses. http://bit.ly/QkJxSK Cenk on law enforcement: ‘For the smallest infractions, they’re willing to take our lives from us’ Cenk …
LIVE from TYT on Current: Jimmie Walker, Michael Hastings, and Mitt’s millionaire buddies
Jimmie Walker on future Americans wondering ‘what idiot’ was ever against gay marriage: ‘I’m that idiot’ Actor Jimmie Walker tells Cenk why he doesn’t support Barack Obama’s politics and why he supports civil unions but not gay marriage. “I think we have certain values we have to hold up,” Walker says, but he knows he’s on the losing side of …
LIVE from TYT on Current: Lenny McAllister defends Chick-Fil-A, Sam Alipour on Olympics sex, Immortal Technique on gov’t gangsters
Battlefield: Chick-fil-A continues with the latest round of culture wars The culture war over Chick-fil-A continues, with Mayor Menino from Boston and Mayor Emanuel from Chicago both saying the chain wouldn’t be welcome in their towns. Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum are calling for a day of “Chick-fil-A” appreciation while protesters are targeting locations on both coasts and planning a …
LIVE from TYT on Current TV: Politics of heritage, Anaheim protests, and Ron Paul gets a win Inbox x
Why attack President Obama as a foreigner when the Romney campaign already has the racist vote? Cenk talks to BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings (aka “The Notebook”) about Mitt Romney and friends hammering President Obama with an updated version of the birther attacks, calling him a “foreigner” who is “not Anglo-Saxon” and “un-American.” Cenk asks, “What is the Romney camp’s point …
LIVE from TYT on Current: Sally Ride, Jon Kyl’s middle class, and “If We Were Fox News”
Rep. Jon Kyl conveniently doesn’t believe in a ‘middle class’ Cenk tears into Rep. Jon Kyl, who now says there is no such thing as a “middle class.” (Does that mean he believes in the 99 percent?) “You wrote the law giving the upper income brackets tax breaks!” Cenk says. “They’re redistributing wealth up to the very top but they …
Politicizing Guns: If Not Now, When? (Cenk’s Latest Blog)
It’s a trick. When people tell you that you shouldn’t politicize a tragedy like the shooting in Aurora, Colorado they are unwittingly helping to spread NRA propaganda. After a tragedy like that, it is the most logical thing in the world to ask what went wrong and how we can fix it. When you ask that question, the obvious answer …