Cenk Uygur a sell-out? 4 million little reasons

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5. I know how he ran. But he has many other positions that are completely opposed to progressive goals.

And since taking that money, Cenk is suddenly seeing Rand Paul as a winner and spouting off about Obama not having any goals. Just a coincidence? Four million dollars say no.

This was addressed in the first link:

But as we know, a large-scale political bent isn’t as important or desirable as it used to be. These days it’s entirely possible to get away with treating politics like you do everything else: as something that can be split apart and consumed à la carte and on-demand. Pick which issue is most important to you, your personal sine qua non, and ignore everything else. Think drones and kill lists are the most pressing problem facing America right now? Congratulations, you can apparently #StandWithRand and still be taken seriously as a liberal, even though he’s kind of a racist asshole. Think NSA spying matters more than anything else in the whole world? Hey, Glenn Greenwald has figured out a way to overcome the cognitive dissonance that should plague you if you choose to align yourself with otherwise repugnant creatures who happen to be anti-surveillance.

Cenk Uygur has shown over the past couple of years that he falls very nicely into this very exclusive category — a kind of category of one, where your individual or at the very least niche concerns are above all else and allegiances with just about anyone are possible. Uygur’s pet issue is campaign finance reform; he believes that money should be removed from politics as much as possible, and as it turns out that’s the one thing he and Buddy Roemer seem to agree on. Roemer, to his credit, slammed PACs and lobbyists when he ran for president in 2012, but the question remains whether that one good point about him makes up for all the other really lousy ones. Uygur sure seems to think so. No doubt a truckload of money helped ease any reservations he might have had about an alliance with Roemer.

Read more at http://thedailybanter.com/2014/04/cenk-uygur-just-took-4-million-from-a-conservative-source-but-hes-still-a-better-liberal-than-you/#wexT78b5LKSYH14Z.99