House Majority Leader Eric Cantor wants to cut taxes on the rich and raise them on the poor. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/eric-cantor-on-raising-taxes-on-the-poor-youve-got-to-discuss-that/256373/ Subscribe to The Young Turks: http://bit.ly/eWuu5i The Largest Online New Show in the World. Facebook: Twitter: http://twitter.com/theyoungturks Google+: http://www.gplus.to/TheYoungTurks Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tytnetwork
Read More »Monthly Archives: April 2012
Tony Fadell on early iPhone prototypes – On The Verge
Former SVP of Apple’s iPod division, Tony Fadell, discusses the development of the original iPhone, including a phone with an iPod click wheel, and the internal debate over a physical keyboard. See full episodes and more clips at http://On.TheVerge.com More from The Verge: Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theverge Check out our full video …
Read More »CEOs Make 380x As Much As The Average Worker
Via Think Progress: “According to the latest edition of the AFL-CIO’s Executive Pay Watch report, the gap between CEO pay and worker pay expanded last year. In 2011, CEOs in the Fortune 500 made an average of $12 million, about 380 times what the average worker makes…”.* The Young Turks …
Read More »The ‘FUCKING’ Point (No, Really) – Weekly Teaser
This week on The Point: Should the unfortunately named ‘Fucking’ Austria change its name? Are Democrats bad at appointing Supreme Court Justices? Is there a new breed of ‘progressive’ evangelical voters? John Fugelsang (Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour) leads this weeks panel to discuss these issues and more with Hal Sparks …
Read More »Romney’s Drywall Lie and Jobs Under Bush Vs Obama
Via Paul Krguman of The New York Times: “So Mitt Romney gave a speech at a closed Ohio drywall factory, which he tried to use as a symbol of Obama’s economic failure. The symbolism was perfect — not as an illustration of Obama’s failure, but as an illustration of just …
Read More »Wall Street and Ivy League Hazing – The Dartmouth Story
A Rolling Stone report by Janet Reitman details the story of Andrew Lohse and his claims about horrible hazing rituals at Dartmouth University. Does this frat-boy culture translate to Wall Street? Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Read the article here: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/confessions-of-an-ivy-league-frat-boy-inside-dartmouths-hazing-abuses-20120328 Watch – more on …
Read More »8 of 10 Top Super PAC Donors Are Republicans
Via Think Progress: “Last January, a study found that seventeen of the top twenty political donors are Republicans or conservatives. Last night, USA Today published a similar roundup of Super PAC donors in the 2012 cycle, and they found exactly the same pattern. Eight of the top ten Super PAC …
Read More »Witchcraft More Popular Than Citizens United
Via Think Progress: “In Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court justified its conclusion that corporations and wealthy individuals can spend unlimited money to influence elections because it believed that “independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.” According to …
Read More »Hard-Hitting Ad Has Bill Clinton Praising President Obama For Getting Osama Bin Laden
An ad with Bill Clinton talking about President Obama sending Navy Seal Team 6 after 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden is discussed by Ben Mankiewicz and Michael Shure on The Young Turks. Subscribe to The Young Turks: http://bit.ly/eWuu5i The Largest Online New Show in the World. Facebook: Twitter: http://twitter.com/theyoungturks Google+: …
Read More »2012 NFL Draft Grades: NFC South Day Two
SB Nation breaks down the second and third rounds of the 2012 NFL Draft with one video for each of the eight divisions. Here we analyze the Friday night developments in the NFC South. Subscribe to our channel for more sports videos! Click here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=sbnation Check us out on Facebook …
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