Cenk Uygur

And David once did a piece about money and politics at a local NBC news station. And his editor or GM spiked a story. And David goes into his office and asks him, so why Why? This story is true. It's a huge part of politics. If we're going to report on this issue, we got to tell you what's actually happening. So he says, David, come here.

He puts his arm around his shoulders, takes him to the big newsroom, and he goes, you see all this? Money in politics paid for that.

He puts his arm around his shoulders, takes him to the big newsroom, and he goes, you see all this? Money in politics paid for that.

He puts his arm around his shoulders, takes him to the big newsroom, and he goes, you see all this? Money in politics paid for that.

Like we all know, I mean, now as we talked about earlier, we see it with our own eyes, open auction, any country, any company, anybody that has money, the politicians will now literally say, I am now working for this guy, as Trump says, because he gave me a strong endorsement, which means a lot of money, right? And so, and the press never covers it, almost never, right?

Like we all know, I mean, now as we talked about earlier, we see it with our own eyes, open auction, any country, any company, anybody that has money, the politicians will now literally say, I am now working for this guy, as Trump says, because he gave me a strong endorsement, which means a lot of money, right? And so, and the press never covers it, almost never, right?

Like we all know, I mean, now as we talked about earlier, we see it with our own eyes, open auction, any country, any company, anybody that has money, the politicians will now literally say, I am now working for this guy, as Trump says, because he gave me a strong endorsement, which means a lot of money, right? And so, and the press never covers it, almost never, right?

So you're telling me you're doing an article on the infrastructure build or build back better, et cetera. And you're not going to mention the enormous amount of money that every lobbyist spent on that bill? That's absurd. That's absurd. That's 98% of the ballgame.

So you're telling me you're doing an article on the infrastructure build or build back better, et cetera. And you're not going to mention the enormous amount of money that every lobbyist spent on that bill? That's absurd. That's absurd. That's 98% of the ballgame.

So you're telling me you're doing an article on the infrastructure build or build back better, et cetera. And you're not going to mention the enormous amount of money that every lobbyist spent on that bill? That's absurd. That's absurd. That's 98% of the ballgame.

And the reason they hide the ball is because they don't want you to know this whole thing is based on the money that they are receiving. And by the way, one more thing about that, Alex, it's that the ads themselves, actually, they work well. and they work pretty well, but that's not the main reason you spend money on ads.

And the reason they hide the ball is because they don't want you to know this whole thing is based on the money that they are receiving. And by the way, one more thing about that, Alex, it's that the ads themselves, actually, they work well. and they work pretty well, but that's not the main reason you spend money on ads.

And the reason they hide the ball is because they don't want you to know this whole thing is based on the money that they are receiving. And by the way, one more thing about that, Alex, it's that the ads themselves, actually, they work well. and they work pretty well, but that's not the main reason you spend money on ads.

You spend the money on ads to get friendly coverage from the content, from the free media that you're getting from that same outlet. And so since every newspaper and every television station and network knows that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are their top clients, they're going to get billions of dollars from them. they never really criticize the Republican and Democratic Party.

You spend the money on ads to get friendly coverage from the content, from the free media that you're getting from that same outlet. And so since every newspaper and every television station and network knows that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are their top clients, they're going to get billions of dollars from them. they never really criticize the Republican and Democratic Party.

You spend the money on ads to get friendly coverage from the content, from the free media that you're getting from that same outlet. And so since every newspaper and every television station and network knows that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are their top clients, they're going to get billions of dollars from them. they never really criticize the Republican and Democratic Party.

On the other hand, if you're an outsider, they'll rip your face off.

On the other hand, if you're an outsider, they'll rip your face off.

On the other hand, if you're an outsider, they'll rip your face off.

Sometimes it's super direct. When I was a host on MSNBC, I had a company that I was criticizing in my script and management looked at it. And by the way, I used to go off prompter a lot and it drove them crazy. Not because I wasn't good at it. I think my ratings went up whenever I went off prompter, but because they couldn't pre-approve the script. And what do they want to pre-approve?