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HOST OF SHOW NAMED AFTER GENOCIDAL POLITICAL FACTION CONTINUES TO DEMAND REDSKINS NAME CHANGE
Daily Caller
Oct 23 2014
Joel Reed
Lecturer, Texas A&M
Liberals' double standards on political correctness may truly know
no bounds. Whether it is the left-wing blogosphere's robust defense
of Alec Baldwin after he launched into an anti-gay rant on Twitter,
or the seemingly endless string of impolitic comments which flow
from Vice President Joe Biden, it is clear that there are different
PC restrictions for anyone on a Barack Obama donor list than there
are for the rest of us.
One of the most egregious violators of this double standard is left
wing political commentator, Cenk Uygur.
Uygur, the founder and face of the liberal media enterprise The Young
Turks -- it was once a show, but was cancelled -- has been vehemently
demanding that the Washington Redskins change their name to something
more acceptable to his former colleagues at MSNBC; presumably something
like the Loraxes, or the Upper Middle Class Suburban Gay Couples.
Last week, Uygur described the president of the Navajo Nation as,
"an ass" for joining Redskins owner Dan Snyder in the stands to watch
the D.C. football team get walloped by the Arizona Cardinals. The only
problem is that Uygur's own media company is named after a genocidal
political faction within the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, the Young Turks
movement, which had recently come to power in the Ottoman Empire,
engaged in the wholesale extermination of the Armenian people.
The Young Turks rounded up and arrested community leaders before
luring fighting age men to meetings which became mass executions.
After murdering most of the adult male population, the Young Turks
marched Armenian women, children, and the elderly into the Syrian
Desert where most died from heat, thirst and/or exhaustion. Marco
Rubio and John McCain have been among the Republicans putting pressure
on the Obama administration to officially recognize the slaughter of
the Armenians as genocide (which it indisputably is).
Uygur began hurling stones from the confines of his glass house
back in December when he told a story on The Young Turks about
watching football with his young son and being unwilling to explain
the Redskins name to the child. In June, Uygur did another special
criticizing Redskins owner Daniel Snyder saying, "He's still not
convinced because he's Daniel Snyder and he's a jerk." In another
segment last Tuesday, Uygur asserted that the only thing Dan Snyder
cares about is the money he might lose by changing his brand. The
Young Turks Network has been vocal in its opposition to the Redskins
name with apparently little cognitive dissonance related to being on
a network named for the Caucasian equivalent of the Hitler Youth.
The Young Turks Network has been fighting their own "change the name"
battle launched by Armenian-Americans who are descendants of those
massacred in the first genocide of the 20th century but has so far
been given a pass on their hypocrisy.
So far, the only explanation that Uygur has offered for the name The
Young Turks is that he and his friends "looked it up in the dictionary"
and that he works with Armenians, resorting to the time tested,
"I'm not racist, I have black friends" defense. At a meeting of the
California Democratic Party in 2012, Uygur described the genocide of
the Armenians by borrowing some lingo typical of Holocaust deniers,
describing the genocide as, "The historical situation, uh, that
happened in that era."
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/23/host-of-show-named-after-genocidal-political-faction-continues-to-demand-redskins-name-change/
From: Baghdasarian
Daily Caller
Oct 23 2014
Joel Reed
Lecturer, Texas A&M
Liberals' double standards on political correctness may truly know
no bounds. Whether it is the left-wing blogosphere's robust defense
of Alec Baldwin after he launched into an anti-gay rant on Twitter,
or the seemingly endless string of impolitic comments which flow
from Vice President Joe Biden, it is clear that there are different
PC restrictions for anyone on a Barack Obama donor list than there
are for the rest of us.
One of the most egregious violators of this double standard is left
wing political commentator, Cenk Uygur.
Uygur, the founder and face of the liberal media enterprise The Young
Turks -- it was once a show, but was cancelled -- has been vehemently
demanding that the Washington Redskins change their name to something
more acceptable to his former colleagues at MSNBC; presumably something
like the Loraxes, or the Upper Middle Class Suburban Gay Couples.
Last week, Uygur described the president of the Navajo Nation as,
"an ass" for joining Redskins owner Dan Snyder in the stands to watch
the D.C. football team get walloped by the Arizona Cardinals. The only
problem is that Uygur's own media company is named after a genocidal
political faction within the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, the Young Turks
movement, which had recently come to power in the Ottoman Empire,
engaged in the wholesale extermination of the Armenian people.
The Young Turks rounded up and arrested community leaders before
luring fighting age men to meetings which became mass executions.
After murdering most of the adult male population, the Young Turks
marched Armenian women, children, and the elderly into the Syrian
Desert where most died from heat, thirst and/or exhaustion. Marco
Rubio and John McCain have been among the Republicans putting pressure
on the Obama administration to officially recognize the slaughter of
the Armenians as genocide (which it indisputably is).
Uygur began hurling stones from the confines of his glass house
back in December when he told a story on The Young Turks about
watching football with his young son and being unwilling to explain
the Redskins name to the child. In June, Uygur did another special
criticizing Redskins owner Daniel Snyder saying, "He's still not
convinced because he's Daniel Snyder and he's a jerk." In another
segment last Tuesday, Uygur asserted that the only thing Dan Snyder
cares about is the money he might lose by changing his brand. The
Young Turks Network has been vocal in its opposition to the Redskins
name with apparently little cognitive dissonance related to being on
a network named for the Caucasian equivalent of the Hitler Youth.
The Young Turks Network has been fighting their own "change the name"
battle launched by Armenian-Americans who are descendants of those
massacred in the first genocide of the 20th century but has so far
been given a pass on their hypocrisy.
So far, the only explanation that Uygur has offered for the name The
Young Turks is that he and his friends "looked it up in the dictionary"
and that he works with Armenians, resorting to the time tested,
"I'm not racist, I have black friends" defense. At a meeting of the
California Democratic Party in 2012, Uygur described the genocide of
the Armenians by borrowing some lingo typical of Holocaust deniers,
describing the genocide as, "The historical situation, uh, that
happened in that era."
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/23/host-of-show-named-after-genocidal-political-faction-continues-to-demand-redskins-name-change/
From: Baghdasarian