Sep 24, 2025
Cenk Needs To Clear The Air. Here’s Why.
TYT founder Cenk Uygur addresses his past interview with KKK leader David Dukes.
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There's something going around online
claiming that I did an interview
with David Duke
where I shared his anti-Semitic views.
So now this is a thing that's
come up over and over again.
This happened back in 2015.
The interview did.
And originally The New York Times
lied about it.
They had to do a correction.
I'm going to read that to you in a second.
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You'll be amused and fascinated by that,
because I think it's very telling,
not just about me,
but now it's making the rounds again.
Partly because YouTube took
down the interview,
which is why I'm against cancel culture,
why I'm against this kind of nonsense.
Because in the interview,
I aggressively challenged David Duke.
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That's why New York Times had to do a
correction and admit that they were lying.
And it was a bald faced lie.
So now the new group of folks,
you're going to be shocked to find out
pro-Israel folks are lying about it again.
And so they're like, oh, yeah,
Jake brought on David Duke,
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and he's so anti-Semitic.
And but since YouTube took down the video,
people can't confirm one way or another.
So we got the video for you guys,
and we're going to show you just
a couple of quick clips, clarify things.
Now, give you a sense
of what I'm talking about.
New York Times wrote this back in 2019
when I was running for office,
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and this is a doozy.
Mr. Uygur, a longtime supporter of Mr.
Sanders that's the only correct thing
in this entire paragraph,
has also disparaged, disparaged.
Former President Barack Obama on his show
argued that beastiality should be legal
and hosted white supremacist figures,
including David Duke.
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In one clip that circulated on Twitter,
Mr. Duke ends the interview by saying,
I am not what you call a racist.
To which Mr. Uygur replies,
no, of course not.
Now, if you're reading the graphic,
it says sarcastically,
that's what they had to add in.
They had to add in sarcastically
because originally it said,
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and Mr. Uygur replies, no, of course not.
Meaning if I am,
I think David Duke is not racist.
You're going to see the video in a sec.
Okay, so we're going to come back to that.
But did you notice the first sentence too?
He's attacked President Obama.
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You didn't clarify
that it was from the left.
Earlier in the article,
they said that I was anti-Muslim
and didn't clarify that I'm Muslim.
So the.
So like every once in a while
you'll see me defending the press
from Donald Trump's attacks.
And it's not because I
think the press is lovely.
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The mainstream media
has been abhorrent, terrible.
But we still have freedom of the press
here, even when they're terrible.
Okay, so then the second thing was,
oh, gee, what's the legalized bestiality
that's based on a video.
Maybe we'll do this on another day
where they take a portion of the video.
The later portion I go,
would a horse mind being pleasured?
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Nay. So it's an obvious joke.
Obvious joke. Right?
New York Times is like, nope,
he wants to legalize bestiality.
So I'm a right winger who's bashing Obama,
loves David Duke
and wants to legalize bestiality.
And then you wonder why mainstream
media is considered giant liars.
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Okay, so now let's show you first,
the part where I sarcastically agreed,
oh yeah, you're not.
There's a lot more than this,
but let's watch this first.
By the way, you know I want
to make this clear too.
- I am not what you call a racist.
- No, no, I am not because.
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So obviously I'm being sarcastic.
But if that's not obvious to you,
good news, it's going to be obvious.
They had access
to the whole interview back then.
This is what I said
throughout the interview.
Let's see if I was sharing
his anti-Semitic views,
if I brought him on to share his racism.
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Let's find out.
We're going to be speaking to David Duke,
former Grand Wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan, convicted felon,
for tax evasion and mail fraud.
David, you misunderstand
the problem entirely.
That's why you've spent a life
headed in the wrong direction.
Even if I were to concede your point,
which I most certainly do not that
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the Jews are are somehow running things,
or that they are, in charge all the time
of these media companies.
Okay, so they did a great job.
They rose up, they were successful.
They should be applauded,
whereas you didn't.
So you're a loser.
So what's the difference?
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They're the winners. You're the loser.
Why are you guys such schmucks then?
If you built everything
but somehow you don't have power anymore.
You can't even get
into the schools you built.
Why are you guys such losers?
You found some Jews who did better
than you, and you're bitter.
You know you get touchy
when we say you were the Grand Wizard.
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You're obviously still
enormously racist and bigoted.
So why don't you just say it?
Why do you care
that people call you racist when?
When obviously you are what?
You're anti-Semitic?
I mean, you don't deny
your anti-Semitic, right?
I mean, after all this, for Christ's sake,
you don't deny anti-Semitic.
- You're not anti-Semitic.
- Extremism.
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Who in the world is anti-Semitic
if you're not?
You think the Jews control the world?
That's anti-Semitism 101.
My arguments are very compelling
to an awful lot of people.
If they sit down.
They saw that interview and said,
I brought him on
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to share anti-Semitic views.
Was this Jennifer Medina's reporting?
I apologize, I said I was going to stay
out of this, but I couldn't help myself.
Jennifer Medina Jennifer Medina.
Jennifer Medina watched that interview,
and intentionally, it was intentional.
Act smeared you?
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Yeah. Why did she do that?
Because they wanted
to smear Bernie by proxy.
It's a classic hatchet job from mainstream
media that pretends to be objective.
No one should trust her reporting.
- Oh, of course.
- Not at all.
I mean.
She's an obvious liar. It's super obvious.
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It's a proof is in the pudding.
You just saw it.
She watched that.
By the way, she's not alone.
The whole brought him on
to share the anti-Semitic views.
Other mainstream media figures
wrote that because they're all liars.
Jake Tapper shared the horse video, etc.
They're like, yes,
we get to smear outsiders.
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Only the elites should be listened to.
We are the objective ones.
You guys, you saw we're let's smear them.
So I annihilate David Duke.
By the way, if you watch the video,
which you can't because all the platforms
have taken it down,
why don't you let people watch it and they
can make a decision on their own, right?
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No, no, no, we can't trust
the American people.
No, we have to cancel,
cancel, cancel and then later.
Lie lie lie. Smear smear smear.
So now get a load
of the pro-Israel guys saying,
oh, no, you see how anti-Semitic Jake was?
Did you just see that?
You saw it with your own eyes, right?
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A bunch of gigantic liars
doing it for their propaganda.
One last thing, because it's fun.
So in one portion of the interview,
David Duke started naming Jewish bankers.
I started naming non-Jewish bankers.
Let's watch the Zionist bankers of Goldman
Sachs who stole a half $1 trillion.
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All right.
- Look, look, you think your.
- Predator bank on earth is Goldman Sachs?
No, but you know who was the head
of Goldman Sachs, who then led the entire
bailout of what you say is Jewish bankers?
Yeah, I know who said it,
but Blankfein and.
No, no, no, no, Blankfein was
the head of it afterwards Hank Paulson.
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Hank Paulson is Christian.
Why did Hank Paulson, who's Christian,
decide to give all the money
to the Jewish bankers?
According to you, Gentile.
Once in a while,
the CEO of Bank of America was Moynihan.
Does that sound Jewish to you?
Vikram Pandit, a major head of Citigroup
at the time of the bailout.
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So I name an Irish banker,
an Indian banker, and we go on and on.
Right? So. And a mormon one.
Guys, look.
You see me criticizing Israel
pretty significantly these days.
Why? Because they merit it.
And but, it has nothing to do
with anti-Semitism.
When the Grand Wizard of the KKK
came with unadulterated anti-Semitism,
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having nothing to do with Israel.
I push back as aggressively
as anybody possibly could.
But, nevertheless, every once in a while,
you'll see a smear.
And by the way,
people take that seriously.
I've been canceled from TV appearances.
They're like, we read in the New York
Times that you love David Duke and share
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his racist views, so we can't have you on.
Right.
So it's just all propaganda to make sure
that dissenting voices from the left
or the right are never allowed to speak,
because if they speak, you might actually
listen to them and they might be right.
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And the so-called objective reporters
don't want you to have any other views
other than theirs.
That's why they cancel
everyone else and go.
This is the only thing
you're allowed to think.
Every time you ring the bell below,
an angel gets his wings.
Totally not true.
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But it does keep you updated
on our live shows.
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