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The Young Turks: Season 12

12x298 June 6, 2016 Hour 1

  • 2016-06-06T22:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 50m
  • United States
  • English
  • News
Tricaster crashed.Hillary Clinton won the primary in Puerto Rico over the weekend, taking the majority of the 60 delegates there. The number of votes that were counted was drastically lower than it has been in the past. Their explanation that celebrated the long lines of people that eventually went home, sounded a bit shady. The local Dem Party there also accused the Sanders campaign of limiting polling places. After Cenk’s appearance on Reliable Sources over the weekend, he noticed a new line of questioning to help Clinton against Bernie supporters. Video of Brian Stelzer asking Cenk why he’s against the historic milestone of a female President. Another video of Bernie Sanders being asked if he’s sexist for standing in the way of a potential female president. Cenk senses the huge Clinton PR machine pushing this line of empty questioning. The majority of the Cenk’s conversation on CNN was about the nature of superdelegates and how the media counts them when they haven’t voted yet. Since the TV segment was so short, Cenk elaborates on his points here. Video of the DNC Communications Director telling CNN’s Jake Tapper that the media wrongfully reports superdelegates into the delegate numbers during the primary. Cenk compares the costs of Bernie’s policies vs the accepted policies of endless wars in the Middle East. The framing from the media told the public that his ideas are not pragmatic, while wars are described as legitimate. A Politico article was titled 'Bernie’s Wrecking Crew' to tell its readers that he’s tearing down the chances of the Dem Party. Republicans have decided to finally come down hard on Trump for his latest round of racism, now that he’s going after a judge, calling him a Mexican for ruling against him in Trump Univ case. Video mashup of their opposition to Trump. Video of Mark Halperin refusing to call this a case of racism. Trump also admitted that he’d feel the same way about a Muslim judge that ruled against him. Donald
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