I quote The Young Turks a lot on this site so in a way I’m glad to have the opportunity to show an area where I disagree with them. Although for the above segment, while I agree with the actual. point being made by the show’s Executive Producer Ana Kasparian, I really do think she devotes too much time expressing it.
Anyway I voiced my view in the form of a comment on YouTube, which will probably never be read, but for the record I’ll copy it here anyway…
Well I know Anna said she doesn’t care if someone disagrees with her but I’m going to do it anyway. Thing is, it’s not her main point of this segment where I disagree.
Of course it’s wrong to condone or defend or rebrand Hamas’ actions. I’m 100% with her on that, in fact to me it’s pretty obvious.
My problem is with the presentation. While her point is one that needs to be made, I totally disagree that it’s one that needs to be made in the A Block of the main TYT show, while finding about a dozen different ways to call people with those views “stupid” in the process.
For one thing, I find this hypocritical since having watched the show for years I know she often pushes back on Cenk when he goes too far on the intelligence of MAGA voters (and I also agree with her on this).
But what bothered me most about this segment was that Anna kept saying “I don’t know whether or not it’s a tiny minority who think this way” (paraphrase). If she didn’t have this information, maybe it wasn’t worthy of being the feature topic of the show, suggesting that this is the most important thing in the news cycle. My guess would be that this is a minority view on the Left so while it shouldn’t be ignored I don’t think it should be elevated to this extent either.
And one final point, Ana claims those voicing their opinions at the council meetings are “providing fodder for the right”, which is true, but I also think her segment does that because it would not be difficult for someone to either clip to make it look like TYT agrees with them, or at least highlight the left fighting among themselves.
To summarize, I love the show, I love both Cenk and Ana as well as all the crew, it’s just for this one segment I felt I had to push back a bit. Agree with the point, just not the framing. Keep up the otherwise excellent work guys!
Jeff the Irish Dragon
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