Liberals Behind "The Young Turks" And Vice Apologize For Blatant Sexism

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The founders of two liberal news outlets found themselves apologizing over sexist remarks and a "boy's club" environment filled with sexual harassment. Cenk Uygur, creator and host of popular liberal news show, The Young Turks (TYT), apologized last week for a series of now-deleted blog and social media posts from the early 2000s, published by The Wrap. 


Cenk Uygur

In one entry from 2000 entitled "Rules of Dating," Uygur says of third dates: "If I haven't felt your tits by then, things are not about to last much longer. In fact, if you don't get back on track by the fourth date, you're done." Uygur's "Rule 2" of dating: "There must be orgasm by the fifth date," and "Rule 3" states "There must be sex by the second month of dating."

There are a lot of allowable exceptions to this rule, but they all involve orgasms.  I'll let you slide if for unseen circumstances we haven't gotten to see each other much, and you have been providing me with some excellent orgasms in the meanwhile.

 

But there are no foreseeable reasons why anyone would slip into the fourth month of dating without sex.  But since you do provide a certain level of sexual satisfaction, I will give a requisite talking to you to see "what's wrong."  If you don't give it up the date after "the talk," you're done. -Cenk Uygur

In another post, after an apparent lack of sex, Uygur declared that "the genes of women are flawed" because they "do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully." 

There's quite a bit more on Uygur's past statements which have been compiled by journalist Cassandra Fairbanks.

Uygur's defense to his old posts was to claim he was a was a different back then; "I had not yet matured and I was still a conservative who thought that stuff was politically incorrect and edgy. When you read it now, it looks really, honestly, ugly." This post from January, 2000, however - in which Uygur slams conservative Pat Buchanan, suggests his ugliness was coming from the left.   

In this week's second exposé, the New York Times ousts left-leaning media outlet VICE for its "boy's club" environment - from which allegations of sexual harassment and revenge were levied by over two dozen women who say they experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct at the company. 


VICE co-founders Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi (Reuters/Mike Segar)

VICE settled with four other women for sexual harassment or defamation as well. 

An investigation by The New York Times has found four settlements involving allegations of sexual harassment or defamation against Vice employees, including its current president. -NYT

In a statement to The Times, CEO Shane Smith and co-founder Suroosh Alvi said “from the top down, we have failed as a company to create a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone, especially women, can feel respected and thrive,” adding that a "boys club" culture at Vice had "fostered inappropriate behavior that permeated throughout the company." 

In 2016, Vice's president, Andrew Creighton paid $135,000 to a former employee who was fired after she wouldn't sleep with him, while earlier this year, VICE settled with former employee Martina Veltroni, who claimed that her supervisor retaliated against her after they had a sexual relationship. The supervisor, Jason Mojica - the former head of Vice News, was fired last month. 


Joanna Fuertes-Knight

The $6 billion media company also reached a $24,000 settlement with a London journalist, Joanna Fuertes-Knight, who said she had been sexually harassed, and suffered racial and gender discrimination along with bullying. She claims that a Vice producer, Rhys James, made sexist statements to her - including asking whether or not she slept with black men, as well as the color of her nipples. 

Vice started out in 1994 as a punk magazine in Montreal, Canada, before growing to a multi-billion dollar multimedia company catering to millennials. Walt Disney owns an 18% stake, while private equity firm TPG invested $450 million in June, valuing the company at around $5.7 billion. 

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BennyBoy's picture

 

You bore me.

WTFRLY's picture

All these cases have in common are men with no sex appeal or lacking in skills with women

The_Juggernaut's picture

lmfao @ these no-pussy-getting motherfuckers.

JRobby's picture

The Young Turks is some pretty ludicrous programming. Didn't they have Al Gore on a few times? Like I said..............

Just jackass city.

DownWithYogaPants's picture

I don't agree with Stenk on much but he's right about the sex thing.  3rd date and nothing? You're in the friend zone buddy.  Get moving on unless you have very very good intel suggesting she's not putting out elsewhere.

In my experience with over 1000 notches ( different women ) in the bed post is that she is almost never going to hold out beyond that if she is interested because she is aware of current dating norms.  

Finally: It's not sexist to state the truth.  Stenk actually managed to state it in regards 3rd dates and tits.

RAT005's picture

How about that Not So Young Turk trying to claim the bad behavior was back when he was a conservative......  There are snowflakes somewhere eating that up as proof of how vile the right is :-)

 

DownWithYogaPants's picture

Well him claiming he was a conservative is just plain funny. 

But there is a shred of truth in it because lefties generally are low testosterone and don't really like girls.

zorba THE GREEK's picture

That's why they called bitches, they always be bitchin bout every little thing.

virgule's picture

I think America is on a slipery slope to beat Japan at population decrease in the coming years. If every man is afraid to approach a woman, and if every woman is entitled to destroy a man's life after she tried something with him, then I guess the only choices left are sex-robots and hookers :-(

Escrava Isaura's picture

Liberals Apologize For Blatant Sexism

I am shocked. It makes no sense for a liberal to apologize for their sexual appetite because they’re, usually, pretty good at it.

Now if their sexual appetite becomes predatory, these liberals should be fired, because they ought to know better, meaning they ought to be sophisticated. It cannot be intimidating, uncomfortable, and even less predatory and tacky. Leave that to the conservatives.  

 

Red-Pill-Girl's picture

All Hollywood and MSM .. aka JEWS... is filled with this filth.

And (((they))) promote it and push it on the young minds. 

Ever wondered who came up with the "rules of dating" like having sex by the 3rd date?

Hollywood !

Dating was basically getting to know the other person and starting a relationship, not hustling sex out of women in record time, until they started to push it and twist it in their TV (behavioral) programming.

Let's make SHAMING fashionable again.

Hollywood Actress Addison Timlin Leaked Nudes and Sex VIDEO (77 Photos)

http://celebrity-leaks.net/hollywood-actress-addison-timlin-leaked-nudes...

 

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Escrava Isaura's picture

Red-Pill-Girl, your view, conservative view of sex is totally distorted. Why do you care what two adults decide to do? Do you care if two adults open a bakery? Why does it bother you what these two decide to do when they’re naked?

You have to understand that sex is not to manipulate the other. Most women love to do that to become disappointed later on. If you have sex in the first, second, or third date is better, because you’ll find out if it's a good match. And, if it’s not, why pursue the relation.

Why invest months to come out unhappy sexually later on?

Now, if you’re a virgin that is saving for a husband don’t go to Hollywood, actually, don’t go pretty much anywhere but a church.      

 

Moe Howard's picture

Yes, and in your home country of Brazil, nice to pick up HIV on the first or second date, why wait to get it later?

Moe Howard's picture

Good point. I am long married, but back in the day I had two modes of interaction with females socially:

Getting laid. Immediate need.

Getting to know another person for a long term relationship. Putting off immediate need.

Sometimes with a certain mutual attraction both happened, got laid and got to know them at the same time.

 

Of course, these weren't RULES I was following, it is just how it happened.

Fuck hollywood. If you are taking dating advice from hollywood, you will have many disasters for relationships.

nmewn's picture

"It makes no sense for a liberal to apologize for their sexual appetite because they’re, usually, pretty good at it."

LMAO!...thats funnier than inviting Bill Clinton to speak at the opening of a rape crisis center.

Or Hillary titling her book What Happened?! ;-)

Escrava Isaura's picture

First, there’s no evidence that Bill Clinton raped anyone.

Second, Bill Clinton would not be my choice to talk about rape, but he was probably invited to attract a larger audience.

 

 

nmewn's picture

"First, there’s no evidence that Bill Clinton raped anyone."

So you dispute Juanita Broaddrick's allegation...yet...for some reason, don't think he would be a wise choice in that venue.

Now thats funnier than Joe Biden teaching a firearms home self-defense class ;-) 

shovelhead's picture

Forget it.

She specializes in hopelessly stupid with amazing consistency.

nmewn's picture

Yeah.

And we hadn't even gotten to "Clintons non-victims" being selected out for IRS audits, something else the "progressive" liberals are notorious for...that is to say, weaponizing government agencies against any civilian who confronts or questions them. 

Apparently this is normal in places like...Brazil ;-)

Escrava Isaura's picture

The conservative hypocrisy is astounding.

If you ask the liberals that supported Hillary, 53% of the liberals believe that the sexual allegations against her husband are credible.

If you ask the conservatives that supported Trump, 6% believe that the sexual allegations against Trump are credible.  

Bill Clinton cases there were 3 women. Trump over 20 women.

So, do conservatives respect women voices?

No, they don’t, unless if it’s one of their daughters, I guess.

As I said, the liberals are the worst offenders in this area.  

 

nmewn's picture

It was more than three and I have no idea what hypocrisy and polling have to do with each other outside of the fact that a majority of dimz have stopped trying to cover up what Clinton did as well as the credibility of the Clintons has now been shattered while Trumps in this matter is still intact.

I find it much more enlightening that 47% of dimz still will not admit they are wrong and I would bet if you dug deeper into your numbers, fully 95% would never admit that Hillary & Bill conspired to abuse their authority in unleashing the IRS on his accusers. 

So much for your polling ;-)

Escrava Isaura's picture

See the conservative hypocrisy yourself. Only 11% of the liberals find the accusation of Clinton not credible.

 

 

MortimerDuke's picture

Perhaps.  But less than 1% of those with IQs over 100 find the accusations of Clinton not credible.  

MortimerDuke's picture

Please.  Apples to Oranges.  The cases are completely different, first of all.  Second, how many liberals were demanding Bill step down in the run up to the 1992 election?  Crickets.  How many liberals gave Clinton's accusers anything other than life-ruining, concerted "attack-the-victim" vitriole while he was president?  Remember the NOW president brush off all allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of Bill Clinton?  It was so antithetical to their professed purposes, that the organization was relegated to a historical footnote.  The point is that comparing those willing *now* to call out Bill Clinton as opposed to *then* and using that as a benchmark to measure the now in-power Trump and the conservative reaction is flawed.  That assumes, of course as you have already, that those accusing Clinton were truthful and those accusing Trump are truthful.

Now we have the small problem of the passing of time, whihc applies to Clinton but not Trump.  In the fullness of time, and checkme if I'm taking liberties, Clinton accusers seem more believable simply because of how much more we know about Bill Clinton.  The same is not true of Trump.  So far, and again check me if I'm taking liberties, what we know of Trump, like him or hate him, is that he does not strike you as a "groper" or worse.  We may find that to be the case with the passing of time, but so far, the claims are not supported by what most sane people believe to be the character flaws in Trump.  He's got them, alright, but not the kinds of flaws he's being accused of.  The mainstream, average Joe cannot see that in Trump like he could with Bill Clinton 7 or 8 years into his presidency.

To answer your question regarding convervatives respecting women's voices, and I speak for only one conservative, the answer is, "I respect the voices and clsims of all parties, but that does not mean I must believe them."  It's about evidence.  I couldn't care less about someone claiming to be groped or worse unless there is evidence, even if that evidence is a pattern of established behavior, with nothing more concrete.  And I certainly don't give more credence to a victim than the accused simply because the victim claims to be a victim.  That's a recipe for societal failure, and frankly contradicts all logic.

D7z's picture

Dont think so contrary to japan the usa got alot more immigration still, jp got a very restrict policy there so combined with their sociopathic young people who rather date their smart devices then any mating partner sure they decline.

Croesus's picture

@ Yoga Pants:

Agreed; I guess the issue is coming from the usual un****able suspects...women who look like Pete Rose and have "Coexist" stickers on their Prius's (or is it Prii?).

The lookers who sue for sex harassment are either trying to get rich, or dealing with a Weinstien-esque, Joey Buttafuocco wannabe.

Urban Redneck's picture

This notion that women don't want to have sex as often as men is really laughable.  Making a woman WANT sex is not hard.    

These guys seem to have the maturity, experience or sex appeal of pre-pubescent boys, and they should really ask themselves WHY the specific women that they attract (or coerce) don't want to have sex them just as much as they do...

 

Obadiah's picture

1,000 nothces?   Holy SheepShit you're one fked up freak

JLee2027's picture

Never understood how the Young Turks has 3.5 million Subscribers on YouTube. Must be all bots or something.

pynky01's picture

...they are down with the media joo cause ... understands you must push the narrative and demonize DJT... they aint stupid just poorly educated... 

chubbar's picture

The only time I ever watched them, and I do so over and over, is the election night episode. If you haven't watched it yet, it's priceless. These asshats are just crestfallen by the end of the show when it's apparent that Trump won. It's just fucking great TV. What a bunch of losers these people are.

crazzziecanuck's picture

Yeah, TYT and Vice are concervative Clintonites.  Basically, as Jimmy Dore puts it, conservatives cool with abortion.

bluez's picture

Most here know that I come from the so-called "left" side, but I don't think many here can begin to imagine how many very different types of people could be stamped with that label. Let's just say it all started when I was a greaser and a hippie at the same time, and then went techno-nerd.

These days, the people closest to me (but they are not all that close) are called "anarchists". But I don't quite fit in there either. The issues that are critical to me probably lie outside the box for most ZHers. But that's OK.

The "Young Turks" are simply low-down, shit-eating Democrats. "Vice" is a straight-up CIA neocon hipster knock-off. They both suck like rabid whores on meth.

tbd108's picture

Don't feel so bad. Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat.

Billy the Poet's picture

Such rules require that women become skanks. The woman you finally end up marrying will have been around the block dozens of times.

Mtnrunnr's picture

1) all women are skanks, and if you think otherwise you're deluding yourself. 2) this is just a new political tactic to overthrow people that powerful individuals don't like. 3) how quickly you're willing to forgive Trump's obvious sexual problems 4) I thought his rules were pretty spot on, if maybe a little tone def. if you're dating someone and after three dates we aren't having some level of sexual interaction something is wrong.

DownWithYogaPants's picture

A lot of these Zh'ers have not been laid a particularly large amount of times so you can expect their understanding of women to be fairly low and therefore they are going to White Knight you and vote you down.

Billy the Poet's picture

I had sex multiple times a day for several years and then I stopped. That was decades ago and considering the landscape I'm well enough satisfied with the deal. I actually can't think of any scenario in which I'll ever have sex again.

Billy the Poet's picture

I'm five foot ten and weigh 165 pounds. Wanna know what I'm wearing?

DownWithYogaPants's picture

Billy only wears a J-strap as he gaily parades about. 

165?  That's sort of weenie level for a man of 5'10".  I can military press that.

Billy the Poet's picture

A Merry Fuckin' Christmas to you too.

bluez's picture

Let's face facts, ladies and gentlemen. Both men and women are always just fucking horny as fuck most all the time. It's just that for some absurd reason, the women get to decide. Except in cases of rape. Furthermore, some women insist on getting raped. And don't even start with how they prefer bondage. And most women have little use for nice guys. Yet still they wonder why they get fucked.

Is this all just too much logic for you? Learn to be a bastard. Enroll in a bastardcraft school. You will not mind the student loans at all once the return on investment kicks in.

Trust me on this.

Billy the Poet's picture

Why would I want to do that? I don't consider myself to be a "nice guy" because that implies that I don't rape and pillage for the sake of others whereas I simply don't enjoy that sort of thing.

 

"There’s just one other thing you ought to do. To thine own self be true." -- The Skipper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg


bluez's picture

Why? If you master bastardcraftmanship you will get laid at least ten times a day by the most beautiful women on earth. You won't even have time to eat, or anything.

What the fuck are you waiting for?

Billy the Poet's picture

Well it sure as hell ain't Christmas.

bluez's picture

Tomorrow is Christmastide. I will get with God. And maybe sober, even. I am not just some heathen.