Cenk Uygur Quotes
If I'm off the teleprompter, management doesn't get to see what I'm going to say.
Uygur, Cenk. The Young Turks. TYT Network.
The University of Wisconsin had a radical faculty member who claimed that the 9-11 attack was the fault of Vice President Cheney and other absurd claims that were supportive of the Muslim Terrorists. Many called for the firing of the faculty member who had academic tenure. The University decided that college students were not going to be fooled or seduced by such absurd statements and that while in this case the statement were controversial and absurd, what would happen when a faculty statement was just controversial. The University agreed with almost all of the other great universities in America with the fact that the risk of a foolish pedant like this is very tiny in contrast to the risk of allowing officials—-academic or political---to to determine what a professor can say. This freedom has made the American University system the envy of the entire world.
At that moment Hoover was the first politician to ever use the then new technology of a Teleprompter. Hoover was video recording a political speech for the Republican Convention. The teleprompter operator had not kept up with his pace of the speech, and with no protocols or other procedures, this quotation is what Hoover said. Hoover, a great engineer before politics was always interested in new technology. When Secretary of Commerce, he was the first politician ever to appear on television.
During World War II, reporters covering Eisenhower found out where the next allied attack was planned:. Not a word of the operation leaked or was printed.
Cenk Kadir Uygur is a Turkish-American progressive political commentator, media host, attorney, and journalist. Uygur is the creator of The Young Turks, an American left-wing sociopolitical news and commentary program. Before beginning his career as a political commentator, he worked briefly as an associate attorney in Washington, D.C. and New York City. As a young man, Uygur supported social conservative positions but as his views changed he began to identify as a progressive. He is also a co-founder of Justice Democrats.
