Cenk Uygur’s impassioned plea on social security (VIDEO)

MSNBC's Uygur

BY PATRICE GREANVILLE

With the departure of Keith Olbermann, whose steady trajectory leftward probably prompted his demise, the MSNBC lineup has remained wobbly in its adherence to really progressive positions.  From time to time, however, one of the surviving inmates, perhaps in a moment of optimistic disregard for the unwritten rules of corporate speech, goes on to deliver a remarkable segment wherein truth is heard, loud and clear.  And so it was with Cenk Uygur on 19 April (2011), when he tackled the issue of social security “reform”. In a few minutes, Cenk adroitly tore to pieces the tissue of lies and false assumptions framing the debate, which most of the media is still “reporting” with a straight face.

Cenk, often labelled “the Young Turk”, is no wishy washy liberal. And while some of his positions are not what one would expect from such an intelligent guy, often packing many contradictions (after all, he does remain a liberal, albeit, of the “left-liberal” variety), this time he really did a great job: he was clear, he was didactic, and he had fire in his gut. Judge for yourselves as Cenk demonstrates that all this talk about the “urgent need” to reform social security drastically is so much baloney, highway robbery by the usual crooks and criminals, and that the baloney, as usual, is peddled by the two sides of the corporacracy’s party. —P. Greanville is TGP’s Editor in Chief.

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