Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Cenk Uygur On Why He Left MSNBC: ‘I Didn’t Want To Work In A Place… That Didn’t Challenge Power’
Medialite ^ | July 21st, 2011 | Frances Martel

Posted on 07/21/2011 4:47:43 AM PDT by tlb

Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur’s departure from the network earlier today was fairly quiet for a close-to-primetime host, and the network made it clear it was his choice to leave. It didn’t take long for the newly liberated Uygur to address his fans.

In the end, he explained, it boils down to this: Cenk Uygur is a tiger, and MSNBC tried to cage him.

“They offered, honestly, a lot of money,” Uygur explains in his message, where he also says the role would have been a smaller one– “contributor, etc.”– instead of the alternate program the MSNBC statement suggested. He then explained something an executive once told him when he began as host: “there are two audiences– the audience you’re trying to appeal to, the viewers, and management.”

Management took him aside in April, he explains, and told him to “tone it down” because “people in Washington are concerned about your tone.” He did the exact opposite.

He concluded succinctly that “I didn’t want to work in a place that wouldn’t let me do my kind of show, that wasn’t interested in my kind of show, that didn’t wnat to challenge power.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cenkuygur; comcast; firing; freepress; ge; mslsd; msnbc; uygur
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-29 next last
I'm not clear where Cenk was doing anything material on his show to actually challenge power. But clearly it's not the same network under Comcast as it was under GE.

If Sharpton is the replacement MSNBC should be satisfied. One thing about Al is he will do what he's told as long as he gets his paycheck. When he's bought off, he stays bought off.

1 posted on 07/21/2011 4:47:50 AM PDT by tlb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: tlb
LOL!!!

Seriously disturbed people will be Charlatan's audience.

2 posted on 07/21/2011 4:53:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb

Cenk Uygur is the sound my toilet makes when you flush it.


3 posted on 07/21/2011 4:57:31 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb
In the end, he explained, it boils down to this: Cenk Uygur is a tiger, and MSNBC tried to cage him

Oh boy. Sounds like someone thinks pretty highly of themselves . . . . .

4 posted on 07/21/2011 4:57:48 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb

In Jumbleville his name would translate to Yuck Green.


5 posted on 07/21/2011 4:59:48 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (In loving memory of Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb

I had a rectal Cenk Uygur but the doc gave me some ointment and it healed.


6 posted on 07/21/2011 5:02:53 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb
“people in Washington are concerned about your tone.”

Keywords for “State Run Media”

Most of you are doing a fine job, but we must eliminate the Cult Fringes who impeding our progress for Hope and Change.

7 posted on 07/21/2011 5:06:41 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't go wobbly on me now GOP leadership)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

Photo looks like The Wizard of OZ and it’s people to me. A little green here and there might help. Little smoke and mirrors....for the little man behind the curtain.


8 posted on 07/21/2011 5:10:05 AM PDT by caww
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

That’s the second story today about the left where the words “Cult Fringes” is used.

Purely coincidental I’m sure.


9 posted on 07/21/2011 5:10:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Impy; blackie; metmom; thouworm; little jeremiah

“Management took him aside in April, he explains, and told him to “tone it down” because “people in Washington are concerned about your tone.” He did the exact opposite.”


10 posted on 07/21/2011 5:11:14 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Carl LaFong

“Cenk Uygur is the sound my toilet makes when you flush it.”

LOL, now that there is funny!!


11 posted on 07/21/2011 5:11:28 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: tlb

So he is a frustrated and confused guy who thinks everyone is evil?


12 posted on 07/21/2011 5:15:26 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb

I’m sure he could have more influence on Al’s Current network.


13 posted on 07/21/2011 5:16:47 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SunkenCiv; cripplecreek; Impy; blackie; metmom; thouworm; little jeremiah
He's a self-described Young Turk. Young Turk history coming up in next post. [I don't watch youtubes but ...] Ann Coulter Calls MSNBC Host Cenk Uygur 'Retarded'‏ - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82BfKrAX7wo Coulter: "I Thought [Cenk Uygur] Was A Type Of Lebanese Food ... http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201105290004 Cenk Uygur Should Fix His Own “Jewish Problem” Before Telling Lies ...Jan 25, 2011 – http://bigjournalism.com/jdunetz/2011/01/25/cenk-uygur-should-fix-his-own-jewish-problem-before-telling-lies-about-glenn-beck/ Cenk Uygur runs a website called Young Turks which is loaded with Antisemitic comments that are reminiscent of the Antisemitic cartoons ...
14 posted on 07/21/2011 5:21:44 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: choctaw man

He is a self described “Young Turk” -—

Young Turks.

They resented Ottoman efforts toward secularization but largely hid their agenda from Christians. First the Young Turks tricked Chistian Armenians into contributing their guns to the war effort [WWI], disarming the infidels by exploiting their trust. Then they “drafted” all able bodied Armenian men who were either betrayed by mass executions or forced into a slow death by slave labor.

After that it was easy to send one million Christian women, children, elderly, and invalids on the 1915 Death Marches, where the Young Turks’ “Special Organization” systematically beat and herded them away from water. Special Organization members tortured, looted, and kidnapped surviving Death Marchers into slavery. Conservative estimates are that 600,000 Death Marchers died. Survivers were largely looted of all their clothing. They even raped little girls and coerced surviving children to denounce Christianity and submit to Islam. Turkey has reformed and is Islam’s greatest long standing example of a successful republic, but a constitution that needs a fickled “coup trigger” to prevent a new Young Turk movement is not proof of anything good


15 posted on 07/21/2011 5:24:38 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: tlb

The wit and wisdom of Al Sharpton:

Sharpton was quoted as saying to an audience at Kean College in 1994 that, “White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires.... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”


16 posted on 07/21/2011 5:35:35 AM PDT by tlb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb

“..........that didn’t challenge power”

Silly me, and here all along I thought he was doing his work exclusively for Obama.......


17 posted on 07/21/2011 5:38:28 AM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Carl LaFong
Cenk Uygur is the sound my toilet makes when you flush it.


18 posted on 07/21/2011 5:42:13 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

All he had to do was wait until a republican was president and they’d go back to “challenging power”.


19 posted on 07/21/2011 5:43:43 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: caww

I think it’s the opening shot from the famous Apple Macintosh commercial, 1984. (I would guess the year inspired the theme of the ad.)


20 posted on 07/21/2011 5:51:03 AM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-29 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson