The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur had on our John Amato. They talked about Cenk's new Wolf-PAC and what it would take to amend the Constitution.

Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks was filling in for Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC yesterday, and had on Sam Seder and conservative blogger Matt Lewis about Netroots 2010, Right Online, and media bias.

Lewis actually started arguing that the reason liberals don't have a Breitbart is because we don't need one -- we have the whole liberal media. No, really, he said that.

LEWIS: You don't need Andrew Breitbart. You have the Washington Post and the New York Times and three tv networks. The conservatives had to invent Andrew Breitbart because of the liberal bias in the media for decades. It's only been since the advent of the blogosphere the conservatives hope to keep up.

You don't need him. You've got networks. The Washington Post and the New York Times don't run any -- whatever the liberals want them to run.
It's obvious.

It seems like only yesterday when the Times ran that investigative series exposing false intelligence and urging President Bush not to invade Iraq, doesn't it?

Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks talks about the politicization of the concept of patriotism.

Meanwhile, since the establishment media is determined to tie Barack Obama to everything anyone he may have ever had contact with has said, Cenk says it's time to play the "Six Degrees of Barack Obama" game.

Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks interviewed Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA06) about what the Democratic majority in Congress is planning to do to get us out of Iraq.

Lynn Woolsey: I'll tell you one of the things -- and you're just going to hate this -- because I hate it. But, there's this sense that we don't have the votes to do what we need to do, the right things to do, so we're not going to do anything, virtually. And what I say is, okay well if our troops, our wonderful troops over there say, "Well, you know, this is really hard and I don't know we can win this battle, so I think I won't do it." I just think we are looking at this so wrong. And I think the people of this country...89 percent of Americans polled are saying that our economy is directly related to our involvement in Iraq. I mean, they get it. We shouldn't be there in the first place. It's bringing our country down and our economy down. So I would think that the reason they made us the majority party anyway was so that we would do something about it.

The entire interview is available here. I'm out of words to express my disgust. Hopefully, you aren't and you can contact your congresscritter and remind them that even if they're calculating on you not voting for another Republican majority, there is always a "write in the blank" option on the ballot. That includes all incumbent Republicans. There isn't a safer action for Congress to make, given the polling of how Americans feel about the war and yet, they don't feel they can get the votes. Unbelievable. How about this as a reason? We can't afford this anymore.

From Stranahan.

Cenk Uygur and Wes Clark Jr. will be liveblogging the primary in conjunction with Brave New Films, with guests like Robert Greenwald, Jane Hamsher and Eric Boehlert.

Open Thread...

TYT's Cenk Uygur read this quote on C&L the other day and thought it perfectly exemplifies the George W. Bush batting average:

Air America Radio talk show host Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks joined Crystal McCrary Anthony and Niger Innis on tonight's "Paula Zahn Now" to discuss the hysteria surrounding a lawsuit being filed by Pastor O'Neal Dozier and others to keep a mosque from being built in a predominately black neighborhood in Pompano Beach, Florida. Cenk points out the absurdity of the lawsuit and how it is driven by fear, hatred and ignorance.

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Zahn: "Are you at all sensitive to their fears about safety?"

Uygur:"No. Okay, because then it's the same argument they would have made back in the civil rights era. I don't know, you know there are some blacks who are violent, and so we gotta be wary of all blacks. And it's a terrible argument."

Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks has been having an ongoing debate with John Hinderaker of Powerline on the subject of Jose Padilla. It's been a fascinating exercise in realizing how little one can debate with the classic conservative authoritarian mindset. Especially one that doesn't require facts to assert his side of the debate. The back and forth has left Cenk with just one question: Is John Hinderaker Ignorant or Purposefully Misleading?

I know which side I fall on, but I'm interested in hearing your take.

Cenk Uygur from The Young Turks was on Paula Zahn to talk about the the needless firestorm surrounding Rep. Keith Ellison taking his oath on the Quran.

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Cenk: "Our real enemy isn't Islam, because if it is we have a real problem. That is a billion people we have to fight. Our real enemy are the fundamentalists, the extremists."

If we could only get people like Dennis Prager and Virgil Goode to understand this very simple logic, then we would be doing a lot better in this country and in the opinion of the world.

Update: You can see the entire debate at The Young Turks.