Cenk Uygur Says He's 'Heartbroken' to Berate 'Do-Nothing' Progressives like AOC & Bernie Sanders..

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Cenk Uygur Says He’s ‘Heartbroken’ to Berate ‘Do-Nothing’ Progressives like AOC and Bernie Sanders for Capitulating on Minimum Wage

By Colby Hall Apr 16th, 2021, 10:26 am

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In a fiery segment of The Young Turks Thursday night, Ugyur tore into top progressives in Congress—namely Bernie Sanders, Pramila Jayapal and even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—for what he deemed as utter capitulation and cowardice in failing to fight for the $15 minimum wage, an issue on which they tirelessly campaigned. He also called out mainstream media reporters and editors, who, in his esteem, turned a blind eye to the blatant corruption that covers the corridors of power in Washington DC.

Discussing the minimum wage battle, Uygur deemed it obvious why many Democrats oppose raising the federal minimum wage, even if the media refuse to report it. “Corporate Democrats are all funded by corporations,” he says. “No one in the Washington media points it out, either because they suck at their jobs and are completely ignorant of what actually drives politicians or because they’re in on it. And their editors — the higher you go up the ladder the more they’re in on it. ‘Hey, you can’t disturb our advertisers and we need access to these corrupt politicians!’ So the media’s got giant culpability here.”

Recent polls have shown that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 is supported by two-thirds of Americans, and even by a majority of Republicans. Yet the mainstream media insists on describing politicians who oppose a $15 minimum wage as “moderates.”

“Whether it’s Mitt Romney, Kyrsten Sinema, or Joe Manchin, they’re not moderates — by definition,” he says. ‘They’re not moderates because two-thirds of the country says, ‘Do it.’ The number is usually even higher than that when they poll the $15 minimum wage. So every reporter in the country who keeps calling them ‘moderates’ or ‘centrists’ should be fired because they are not doing fact-based reporting, they’re doing access journalism.”

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