Five Democrats are running to replace former Representative Katie Hill in California’s 25th district, and socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has endorsed the man he thinks should win: Cenk Uygur, the tough-talking immigrant from Turkey and oft-unhinged host of Young Turks.
Sanders says Uygur will represent “ordinary people.” Well, Sanders might want to find out whether Uygur, whose outspoken sex remarks got him fired from a major leftist outfit, will represent ordinary cats and dogs, too.
Uygur has, after all, advocated the legalization of bestiality.
Hill resigned after a major sex scandal involving threesomes and an affair with a staff member, but those perversions weren’t extreme enough for Sanders. He’s gone whole hog for the sex-with-animals candidate.
Sanders’ Endorsement
The Soviet apologist’s endorsement was unqualified. Uygur has been one of the “outstanding progressive journalists in our country,” and has “shown enormous courage in standing up to the greed and power of corporate elites.”
As well, Uygur “has spent his entire life fighting for justice and the needs of working people in our country.”
Given that Democrats don’t typically believe the GOP fights for such public goods, Sanders’ claim doesn’t quite square with Uygur’s past as a conservative Republican.
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But the gushing note from one socialist to another went on.
“For years, Cenk has inspired people all across the country to organize against corrupt forces in our politics, and now he’s organizing the people in his district to do the same,” Sanders said.
“I’m endorsing Cenk because I know he will serve ordinary people, not powerful special interests. He is a voice that we desperately need in Congress and will be a great representative for CA-25 and the country.”
If I Were the Dictator
As the Daily Beast reported, more than a few Democrats in the district disagree, meaning Uygur’s views on sex and women might be too radical even for a party that permits mentally ill cross-dressers to run for office under the party banderole.
Six years ago, Uygur endorsed the legalization of bestiality — humans having sex with animals.
Reporting on Sanders’ endorsement, the Daily Caller reprised videos of Uygur’s remarks posted to Twitter by M. Mendoza Ferrer, a Democrat.
“Here comes the controversial part I shouldn’t say,” Uygur said on his Young Turks program in 2013. “I believe that if I were the benevolent dictator of the world, I would legalize bestiality where you are giving, you are pleasuring the animal.”
Ferrer also posted video of Uygur’s other sex rants. In one case, the Turkish immigrant speculated about the “‘score’ a woman has to be if she asks to ‘suck your ****,’” Ferrer wrote. “Cenk says 99% of men would let a woman who is ‘hot’ or a ‘9.’ But a ‘2’” or ‘3’? Meh. Maybe 50%”
In another tweet, Ferrer attacked Uygur because he “built his entire career on objectifying women. He can apologize as much as he wants, but it’s a fact. Here he is in 2013 talking about how ‘hot’ Dominican women are and how they don’t get enough ‘hype’ about it unlike other ‘hot’ women.”
Another of his greatest hits involved a sex fantasy with sadist overtones. Uygur, Ferrer wrote, “apologized [for] his pre-2000 vulgar descriptions of women. Yet, here he is in 2013 talking about getting picked up by a ‘cougar’ and then going into how metaphorically ‘you have to break their back to drink the spinal fluid’ and then describes the sex.”
Uygur: Women are Deficient Genetically
Those “pre-2000 vulgar descriptions of women” are the reason the hard-left Justice Democrats got rid of him.
Among Uygur’s many nice thoughts were these, HuffPo reported when the group fired him:
“Obviously, the genes of women are flawed,” Uygur wrote in 1999 post lamenting the inadequate amount of sex he was having while living in Miami, Florida. “They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.”
In a 2002 entry in which Uygur described the “rules of dating,” he specified that “there must be orgasm by the fifth date.” And in a 2003 column, he described drunken revelry at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he “kissed over 23 different women, saw and felt countless breasts.”
Uygur has said his comments “do not reflect who I am today or what I believe.”
Maybe, but no conservative candidate would survive that record. A sane presidential candidate would withdraw an endorsement.
If Sanders won’t do that, he might at least warn voters: If Cenk Uygur wins, hide the pets.
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R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
