Post by robeiae on Jul 7, 2021 7:40:31 GMT -5
...wherein the far left continuously eats their own as if they were hardcore libertarians. Tonight's episode: GG v. TYT
Greenwald posts this: greenwald.substack.com/p/an-ugly-war-among-leftist-youtubers
Cenk Uygur responds:
Note that Uygur really doesn't offer up any evidence to justify the accusations made against Maté. He's more interested--not surprisingly--in doing a takedown of Greenwald with selective clips.
And honestly, "The Young Turks"? How about "The fat old Turk who is obviously in search of young women to creep on"?
Greenwald posts this: greenwald.substack.com/p/an-ugly-war-among-leftist-youtubers
An incredibly vicious and protracted war is being waged, seemingly with no end in sight, among numerous prominent liberal and left-wing commentators who work primarily on YouTube. The conflict erupted on May 26 when Cenk Uygur — the founder and long-time host of The Young Turks, the largest liberal-left YouTube platform — baselessly and falsely accused independent journalist Aaron Maté of being “paid by the Russians,” while his co-host, Ana Kasparian, spouted innuendo that Maté was “working for” unnamed dictators.
Maté is one of the very few left-wing journalists who reported skeptically on Russiagate and who questioned the U.S. Government’s narrative about the civil war in Syria, including by traveling to war-torn parts of that country to do so. He won the 2019 Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award for his work debunking Russiagate. Yet with a one-minute rant from their insulated studio, Uygur baselessly branded Maté as someone who is “paid by the Russians” while Kasparian asserted that he “seemed” to be working for Assad and other dictators — a potentially reputation-destroying smear for a journalist and one that can be quite dangerous for a reporter who, like Maté, works on the ground in war zones.
Maté is one of the very few left-wing journalists who reported skeptically on Russiagate and who questioned the U.S. Government’s narrative about the civil war in Syria, including by traveling to war-torn parts of that country to do so. He won the 2019 Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award for his work debunking Russiagate. Yet with a one-minute rant from their insulated studio, Uygur baselessly branded Maté as someone who is “paid by the Russians” while Kasparian asserted that he “seemed” to be working for Assad and other dictators — a potentially reputation-destroying smear for a journalist and one that can be quite dangerous for a reporter who, like Maté, works on the ground in war zones.
Cenk Uygur responds:
Note that Uygur really doesn't offer up any evidence to justify the accusations made against Maté. He's more interested--not surprisingly--in doing a takedown of Greenwald with selective clips.
And honestly, "The Young Turks"? How about "The fat old Turk who is obviously in search of young women to creep on"?
