Well our very own Cenk Uygur was trending on twitter today because he
apparently triggered the right wing with a simple tweet.
Let me read that tweet to you.
He says right wing doesn't love Putin just because he's an authoritarian
tyrannical leader they love him because he's a white authoritarian leader.
Race has become more important than even nationality.
They've turned on democracy and now even America in favor of a white warlord.
Now that immediately led to all this backlash because let
me tell you something,
the one thing the right wing doesn't like is you telling them exactly who they are?
It happened when I said I was better than the racist that
were comparing Leslie Jones to Harambe the gorilla.
They didn't like the fact that I called him out on their racism.
So every time they want to like come at me they're like are you better than me?
I am, I am better than you.
I'm saying it again, go cry about it.
But anyway, Cenk I thought that your tweet was fine.
I think that the reason why some people have a knee jerk reaction to it is because
you do have some elements of the Democratic Party weaponizing race to their
advantage all the time.
But in this case I think that you actually have a lot of credibility in that
argument and we have receipts to show you, so.
>> I mainly care about the receipts.
But guys the cultural wars are so prevalent now Trump started by saying how
Putin I like Putin, Putin's good guy, right?
And Trump had a personal financial interest in it.
And his again his sons have said it many times, not related to his presidential
campaign, whether it was related to his administration is a different question,
but his son said, well before he even ran for president,
we get all of our money from Russia.
So there's a reason why Trump has a personal affinity for Putin,
that was the beginning, but now Tucker Carlson didn't have to do it.
And all the other right wing pundits and media figures didn't have to do it,
they're all choosing to to celebrate Putin in different ways.
And so I was wondering why what a weird turn it's Alice in wonderland,
it's upside down world.
The right wing used to hate the Soviet Union and the goddamn ruskies,
the Russians were the worst.
They're the ones who did the red scare.
Now all of a sudden there like Putin is strong and wonderful and it's just so
great, right?
You're like what the world happened and they are desirous
of a white leader who takes charge and is a strong man.
And mainly they remember the right wing never cared about democracy and
they showed it on January 6th, but they've been showing our whole history.
They were like, democracy and equality for black people know we're gonna do slavery,
then we're gonna do Jim Crow, and and
we're gonna make sure that they don't have equality for hundreds of years.
Who did that?
The right wing that that they've never cared about democracy.
They just want to be in charge and when they see Vladimir Putin pushing people
around there like there's a good white guy pushing people around,
not taking any flak.
We're not doing any of this walk nonsense, go get him Putin,
that's why because they their identity has become not american but white.
>> So we have examples for you.
So here's a quick mash up of videos featuring prominent right wingers.
Fileting Vladimir Putin, let's watch.
>> Putin ain't woke.
He is anti-woke.
>> The Russians people still know which bathroom to use.
They know how many genders are there in Russia?
>> Two.
>> Since the day that Donald Trump became president Democrats
in Washington have told you have a patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin.
It's not a suggestion, it's a mandate.
Anything less than hatred for Putin is treason.
Many americans have obeyed this directive, they now dutifully hate Vladimir Putin.
Maybe you're one of them.
>> And I said this is genius.
Putin declares a big portion of Ukraine.
Putin declares it as independent, that's wonderful.
>> Also remember the t-shirts we saw at Trump rallies?
I'd rather be Russian than a democrat.
>> Has Putin ever called me a racist, has he threatened to get me fired for
disagreeing with him as he shipped every middle class job in my town to Russia.
Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked my business and
kept me indoors for two years.
Is he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination?
Is he making fentanyl?
Is he trying to snuff out Christianity?
Does he eat dogs?
These are fair questions, and the answer to all of them is no,
Vladimir Putin didn't do any of that.
So why does permanent Washington hate him so much?
>> They don't have boys swimming in girls college swimmates.
>> How backward?
>> It's how embarrassed.
>> How savage how medieval, this whole thing is a scam.
>> So there you have Erik Prince and Steve Bannon talking about how awesome Putin is
because he doesn't believe in treating people who are different than they are or
have different lifestyles, different identities than them as equals.
You have Tucker Carlson listing off all the things that he loves about Putin,
including the fact that Putin has never accused him of being racist.
>> Yeah, so I want to talk about that.
But part of the reason we brought up the tweet is because in so
many of the responses from the right wing work, yeah,
can you show one example that's outrageous to say conservatives like Putin.
>> Yeah, we can show you examples.
>> We just did it receipt up on top of receipt on top of receipt.
Now I want to break down what Tucker said because understand this, they do
a scripted show his script is in the teleprompter, he wrote it ahead of time.
His producers wrote it and sanctioned it, and so did the executives,
executives look at scripts on cable shows they did when I was on MSNBC.
Okay, so everybody's on board and he bothered to write down and
wasn't off the cuff.
So the first thing is what anna mentioned, Putin's never called me a racist.
Now, why did he write that down?
Why did he want to send that message?
He's saying remember the democrats are the bad guys
because they're not the same race as us and they call us racist and
it makes us uncomfortable just because we don't want them to be equal to us.
On the other hand, Putin has never called us racist and
he doesn't mind us being in charge.
He knows how to take charge and then you go to Steve Bannon and Erik Prince,
they're like, Putin knows who to target,
he's not going to let any gay people get away with anything or
even allowed him to be on, he's gonna regulate on bathrooms, he's not woke.
They are cheerleading for him as why because he's kind of a white right wing
hero to them, look at this shirt that the guys were wearing in that picture,
it's not, it's not about to Rando.
They're getting that because right wing media is giving and feeding them that and
that's why those shirts are made in the first place is symbolic.
I'd rather be Russian than a democrat, why?
Because in their minds democrats are the others, they're minorities,
they're black, they're brown, they're Asian.
And so I'd rather be Russian than a democrat because it's
their identity has become super focused on their race and so
that's the oldest right wing trick in the playbook, right?
They've been doing this for hundreds of years, one more.
It was super curious that he said, does he eat dogs?
Why did he write that?
What is that in reference to our Democrats trying to get you to eat dogs?
That's not a thing that's been in the news at all?
No, that's a reference to Asians.
So he purposely put an anti asian sentiment in there to say,
remember guys Putin is white, Democrats are black and
brown and Asian, we don't like the Asians either.
We like strong white warlords and
everybody cheered thunderous applause in the right way.
>> Look, I'm tired of people behaving a certain way and then throwing
temper tantrums when others judge them based on the way they're behaving.
So they proudly spew their hatred, homophobia, xenophobia racism,
whatever it is day in day out, they have proudly made that their identity.
And then when something pops off and they get called out on it,
they just get together and
have their simultaneous Twitter meltdown over it, have a meltdown over it.
But whatever you think about Jenkins a person he was 100% right in that take.
I remember when Putin really started getting attention among the right wing in
America and it was around 2012.
And I remember it really well because around 2012 was when Putin started
implementing all of these anti LGBT policies in Russia,
it was also around the same time he took that insanely goofy photo shoot
shirtless on a horse and all that stuff.
And I remember Fox News like salivating over it like he's so strong.
Now did they look at those flabby pictures of him on on top of a horse and
think wow he's so strong because of that.
No, they thought that because of the fact that he was hateful,
openly discriminatory and didn't care was unapologetic about it, they loved it.
And if you want to deny what this is really about, if you want to deny why
the right wing in America is so supportive of Putin, this is why.
>> Look soon they'll get to a point where they'll say
the left is just trying to cancel Putin.
>> Whatever. >> Their defense is unbelievable.
So look I have half tongue and cheek said pushed #anawasright on twitter a lot
because she called what Tulsi Gabbert was gonna do three years before she did it or
in the middle of her doing, she noticed the things that she
was trending towards and everybody was like it's outrageous.
She's such a good progressive.
No Ana was right.
Tulsi Gabbert was always actually a right winger and
she was faking it as a progressive, she was right about Glenn Greenwald,
Jimmy Dore, gray zone, she was right about all of it.
So on this one I don't mind #cenkwasright, I don't mind it.
Okay and so these guys one thing I else I have to mention it now back to her
being right but guys it's important for you to know we're not just saying
it like ha ha we were right, this is a matter of massive importance.
They're turning half the country against the America and our allies and
they're literally supporting our enemy that is attacking our allies.
It is unbelievable, right?
So it matters who's right and wrong.
So it that's why I say and I was right about the LGBT issues.
In fact TYT investigators tracked Marina Butina who turned out to be a Russian spy.
And many Russian delegations being invited to the National Prayer Breakfast.
The National Prayer Breakfast Madeline Lee still attended by Democrats.
It's insane but run by right wingers and right now solely funded by
Franklin Graham who's very right wing evangelical leader in America.
They kept inviting Russia's over when after Putin started taking
the LGBTQ stance against them, right?
And our christian leaders so called christian right wing leaders here in
America we're like, finally somebody is looking to crush gay people, we love it.
And then the Prayer breakfast sent out delegation after delegation to other
countries to encourage anti-LGBTQ laws in those countries,
using American politicians to do that.
So they've been working wing parts of the right wing movement in this country,
have been working with hateful rushing leaders for a long time now.
So in a sense, this is the culmination of that,
where they get to come out of the closet and say yes,
Putin is our hero and there in the middle of doing it right now.