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  • is the closed captioning done by a drunk chimpanzee?

  • Pathetic, Cenk. Why are you guys trying to find racism in EVERYTHING? You guys are bringing up racial issues where they don't exist. It's sort of racist of TYT. They discriminating this politician, because he's white, calling him racist. When really all the racial issues, in this case, are at TYT. Good job!

  • In the background you hear a black women singing kinda in a gospel way and you hear the deep drumming. I mean I wouldn't have noticed the background but listening to it closely I can hear something loool =P

  • i dont know how you can call that racism, it would probably be the same music with a white man if he that was his main competition, the idea is to put him in the bad light, whether they are black, white or asian. stop hunting for racism in places you cant find it, other wise your just adding to it and making it a worse fucking thing.

  • that fat fag makes me so eager to smack his freaking ugly face!!!

  • This isn't racism. The young turks hate conservatives so much that they stretch things like this to prove invalid points.

  • women run this shit cuz they can lie pon men and put us in da bin!!!!

  • The turks are racist themselves. Bashing white people constantly but denying that there are black racists. These people are so dumb.

  • This fat turk sure hates everything about America. Maybe that's because turks are not Americans.

  • Normally I love the Young turks but I didn't see the point here

  • You can't be serious Cenk. You are reaching DEEP into your colon to fetch this so called "racism."

  • racist? wtf> i saw nothing, tyt just chat shit. fucking propaganda get it off the net!

  • i don't git it !!?

  • What the fuck where is the racism. Of course the music is going to sound angelic for the guy they want to win and its going to sound ominous and dreary for the guy they want to loose. Its clever subliminal messaging. This is bullshit, sorry TYT but you fucked this one up.

  • well, it is tennesee.

  • Gleefully pointing out so called racism everywhere from your moral highhorse does not make you better than other people, nor does it make real racism magically disappear, its just pisses people off and makes you look like a smug conceited pompous twat.

  • Oh my God, crack smoking liberals with fantacies! They make stuff up!

  • "Bob Corker saves puppies lives with his bare hands and donates all his money poor, cancer-stricken orphan babies, then he goes home and reads the bible 12 hours a day, drinking water and eating oreo cookies (just the filling, as a good man should), then turning in at 9pm after his hour long prayer." The music was tame, not the worst thing I've ever heard, but the statements were laughable. So syrupy.

  • IT SHOULD BE THE YOUNG TURD'S. I don't know what tha hell they are talking about. There's no racism in the ad at all. They have VERY LIBERAL imaginations.

  • I think all 3 of you are N-words.It's people like you that keep racism alive.Stupid f__ks.All I heard was 3 libs trying to stir up hate to get what you want.As far as the people in the South we could give a crap about your imaginary racism.It's plp like u who men of all racist should protect their freedom and women from. Ass holes.

  • @Freedomformine I am with you, I just don't get how they are saying thats racist. Crazy Libs trying to be heard without a cause.

  • that dude always pisses me off lmao, he thins he know everything, lmao hes so dumb in my opinion, kinda lame actually if u ask me.

  • George W. Bush spent most of his youth outside of Texas (Andover, Yale, Harvard), not to mention the fact that he was born in Connecticut and his family had no connections to the state prior to the Bushes moving there. This didn't seem to hurt his image as a good ol' Texan.

  • Well ... What do you expect from the CONFEDERATE CHRISTIAN RIGHT?

  • I am with the young lady... not sure what you are talking about with the racist link???

  • Stop trying to find racism everywhere.

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  • Im from TN. I voted for Ford. This is not racist in the slightest sense. This is just some young fascist jurks that wanna spread their hate propaganda.

  • I didn't see the racism.

  • No racism here bottom line.

  • It does matter what shade you are, if you are identified as black then you get all the stereotypes thrown at you.

  • Try being a white man.

  • Stereotypes about white men are quite benign and also very positive when compared to those face by a black or brown man .And in a society that is dominated by white men, stereotypes might be annoying, but they are inconsequential.

  • I wasn't talking about stereotypes.. I was talking about Affirmative Action, black-only: colleges, caucuses, channels, magazines, etc... anti-white (specifically male), pro-minority legislation (ie hate crimes), on and on.

    There's nothing holding minorities back. The only individual in the entire US who is held back is the white man.

  • I am sure you are quite ignorant of why those things existed in the first place.

    It because whites rather violently would not have black people around. Violently. Jim Crow wasn't just some abstract policy...it was real and the glue that held it together was violence or the threat of it.

    So study a little American history some more, and I don't mean just the flag waving sanitized version either.

    And your last statement is a joke. The richest and most powerful group in this country is white men

  • please, did you get all this from the pat buchanan??? black colleges exist because they weren't permitted to go to state schools.

  • @gregwi562 Quite benign and very positive? There's a comparison, but it's not that great by the way you put it?

  • @Tetzukai a year later I still stand by that statement.

  • @gregwi562 Too bad I don't see any huge comparisons, however.

  • @gregwi562 "a society that is dominated by white men"

    Most white men don´t even dominate their home

  • @gregwi562 dominated by white men? are president is black dickhead, but i guess tht still isnt enough for black ppl, in todays world, at least to me at seems as if minorites have all the unnecesary advantages tht whites do not nd its bullsht...i recently got my ged nd plan on goin to college, there is no scholarships for white ppl wit GEDS but on the other hand, black scholarships alot of them at least cator to ged receipents if they are black..blacks have just as much,if not more oppurtunities

  • @gregwi562 black ppl are there own worst enemy, like i said above nothing is holding them back from doing good in the world. it just seems engraved in there culture, at least with those who live in the city tht if you want to do good in life such as go to college nd get a normal job, you are considered a sellout, "your on tht whiteboy sht" and tht right there is there problem and can only be solved by themselves

  • @shaddowmoses91 Sounds like you are quite adept at buying into all the stereotypes. Well, it is easier than getting information, getting to know people (black pple specifically), & formulating an informed opinion. Let's face it: we all are capable of succeeding in this country & that's part of what makes this a great country. But it is a lie and a delusional fallacy to believe that everyone has the same opportunity to succeed. A lot of people, not just black people, have larger hurdles to clear

  • i cant believe the depths these guys will go to to insert racism into everything.

  • I can't believe the depths you guys go to to insert racism into everything!

  • are you replying to the wrong person or what?

  • Ford Jr is an idiot. His family claim to be white, even though his mother was BLACK. They want to get in where they fit in. I would vote BUSH back in office before I accept a man who denies himself..

  • ...that's not racism at all.

    Yes, I heard the different styles of racism. But... tribal drumming is more assiciative with being PRIMITIVE and UNINFORMED, and most of all unsophisticated or unintelligent. While I think that's a rather sleazy marketing technique to use, it's really stupid to call that racism.

    just to prove my point, if someone was to ask you describe a tribesman, what would you think of first? The skin color, or the complete exclusion from civilization? ...that's what I thought

  • Music is always a part of ads and I don't think it was "racist", racism is promoting one race more favourably than another.

  • or making lesser of another race

  • People will always find racism in anything as long as racism exists. Not too long ago, a Congolese Belgian wanted to forbid the Tin Tin album 'Tin Tin in Congo' for racial matters. Dude, the album is 70 years old, get over it and place it in context.

  • another loooooong reach for racism from these guys.

  • @ptsmmrs Gotta question Cenk and the crew on this one!! Where the hell did they find racism in the ad!! Come on, I'm black and this is a far reach!! This was a joke right??

  • like she said, it took me until i heard them say "it's racist" before i thought it was racist

  • Wow, this is a stretch and a half. Dark, foreboding music behind your opponent's info, and angelic music behind your's? To call that racist is a major leap of logic, folks. That's the radio equivalent of TV ads that show the opponent's clips in black-and-white, and your own clips in glorious technicolor. Not an issue of racism, just one of trying to manipulate the voter's emotions. That's been around ever since advertising has.

  • Ummmmm im from the south in fact im from Tennessee so stfu with this shit.

  • There are alot of racist in Tennessee, still can't walk in a restraunt without getting the chicken only menu.

  • LOL, your an idiot.

  • Yeh i'm a idiot because I follow political and marketing strategies and because I briefly stayed in a extremely racist neighborhood in Nashville, TN. Just because no is racist towards you where you live does not mean that there aren't any racist where you live. You are the idiot

  • Ummmm you know i was kidding right, Notice the big LOL I put befor that. I liked ur joke about chicken. I was using that in a friendly way much like my brother does. U RLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY need a better sense of humor. And yes i understand ther r racist everywer. But ther is just as many racist in say california as ther is in tennessee.

  • My apologies, that actually crossed my mind if you were being literal or not but its hard to tell on the internet if someone is being funny or making a ass of you, I have a sense of humor!!!

  • Yea I know u have a sense of humor LOL. But yea it is hard to tell if they r kidding on teh internetz. But u gotta look for key words like :D or ;) or LOL or LAWL etc.

  • Seriously. Nothing racist about this. Don't be stupid.

  • It's based on the history of strategies people use to identify a black candidate and the fact that there are alot of racist in tennessee, who actually pick up on those things.

  • there is nothing racist about the ad, really???? anything to make a show grow up

  • I like to watch your show a lot and I agree more times than not, but I must say I do NOT see the inheirent racism in the ad. Sure, it pulls on emotional and religious heart-strings, but not racial ones. Not in my opinion, anyway.

    Btw, I am not caucasian

  • oh btw those who doubt that racism was involved in this election, just look at the TV ads that the RNC pulled off, research southern strategy and the history of southern resentment against blacks.

  • another long reach for racism.

  • youngturks talk out their ass

  • Dont watch there videos then

  • next week "is the girl a racist for wearing a black top?"...if anything only racist people would pick up on the drums and relate it to blacks

  • i guess theyre saying thats the ppl this ad is aimed at

  • the last 20 seconds are hilarious here xD

  • white country for white people

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  • shot up?

  • Ok so three white people saying it's racist makes it so? I'm black and from what I can tell it was just music. Maybe it played to a stereotype but not racist. I think people read too much into things.

  • "the young turk" is not white hes arabic

  • I still don't get how it's racist...

    I think the better case to make is that Tennessee residents are easily swayed by such political ads.

    The sad truth seems to be that people in Tennessee would rather vote for a home grown guy regardless of his probable lack of experience in politics than someone who is actually experienced in politics.

  • Rem

    The current Gov. of TN is from NY, the previous Gov. grew up in IIllinois.

    Corker is an accomplished businessman who later became the mayor of Chattanooga and was instrumental in revitalizing that city. Ford is a Congressman who basically inhereted that role when his father decided not to run again.He never had a job after law school.He is unqualified for just about any position.He comes from a political family from Memphis, many of which have been caught in scadals and have been convicted

  • i think that fat guy is an idiot....srry just my opinion

  • I don't get it...

  • Every time Mr. Ford name was used jungle drums were playing in the background!!!! Do you get it now?

  • This is racism? do you really have nothing better to do than find something out of nothing. then you have your white groupie agree...... so it must be true!!!!!! you guys are a joke.

    associated himself with angelic music

    and his opponent with dark or slightly chaotic music, thats racism!!!!!!!!! child! thats called politics, what a joke.

  • I am a southerner and trust me it was racist its how they do down here urban means black, city problems = black problems

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  • ROFL very subtle in the music but very funny!

  • This isn't racist. It sounds like generic "uplifting/epic" world music. The beat is under statements about both candidates. Plus, the "angelic vocals" sound like typical soul/gospel vocalizing. The kind of music I hear at my black church. Watch the right kind of movie and you'll easily hear a generic tom-tom beat like that behind some epic scene. When they show the bad guys, you hear sinister low strings on top of the beat. It's generic and lame, not racist.

  • Ford's whole family are crooks,his uncle is in prison right now.Racism didn't have anything to do with it,most of the racism I observe comes from blacks against whites and the crime stats bear it out.

  • It's possible, but not probable.

  • Not racism. Politics.

  • HOW IS THIS RACIST THEY DIDNT MENTION ANY RACE!!!!! fucking political correct assholes nitpicking at anything so they have something to WHINE about!

  • You don't think that code language or actions are done in campaign ads. Race was a huge issue in this Senate race in Tennessee because Tennessee is a southern state and Ford is a black candidate. Just because someone thinks this way doesn't always mean they are trying to be politically correct. It is like call it like it.

  • Not buying this one. Maybe because the sound quality sucks and its hard to hear. But regardless it seems like a stretch.

  • One of the oldest tricks in advertising...

  • "I would never had picked up on that"

    Uh. Maybe because they forced the notion into you head. You can only think of it that way if they're constantly like "OH OH OH, RACIST MOOSIK!!! OH TO NOES!!!"

    This is a big stretch and I'm not buying it.

  • That's because people don't know how to think. The drums sounded like African drums.

  • So something melodic is now racist? Wow! this fat fu(k is really reaching.

  • If a small-town white guy has to point to big-city a black guy as a "career politician", I think we can say we've arrived! Sheesh people!

  • ITS NOT RACIST YOU MORONS  they're just trying to make another politian look better.

  • genesis- god made adam out of sand and clay, what color was adam? think hard. clay color or sand?

  • clay is usually reddish, so native americans must have been made by god, and the rest of up evolved over billions of years.

    i think

  • O_o what?

    please tell me your joking.

  • yes

    I will say that there is a reason that school books are updated every few years. Because they get out of date and aren't correct anymore. (psst, a 2000 year old book may have good points to make, but might be wrong on just a few of the factual parts)

  • no its actually literally earth! but even racist know the 1st people were black the oldest skeletons were found in africa, so hatin blacks is like hatin yer family

  • evolution

  • 25meg-Evolution??

    You are confusing Evolution with mutation or adaptation. PGLOVE is correct about how people are actually hating their famly.People that live in Denver have developed an increased lung capacity. Did they evolve? Are they a new group of humans to hate? Are they a racial group?The term race is scientifically invalid. We are all humans that have adapted to new environments or mutated. Is the dwarf child of tall parents or the albino child of dark parents a different race?THINK!!!!

  • u must have never heard of white sand.

  • r u serious? my point is we were all created in Gods image not color, even though everyone knows the garden of eden was in africa, but u eithier believe were all related by adam and eve so we're all cousins, or we started as tiny organisms evolving from millions of years aka the darwin theory big bang then we were like half monkey men, homo erctus fags then to homo sapians--so yer gay

  • wow you must be a hell of a christian to call someone gay.. great way to spread the word about god.

  • Trolling Creationist is trolling.

  • Either way we're jus all shades of brown so shut da fuqq up wit da racism kay

  • You white supremacists are sad individuals with little accomplishments to be proud of, so to alleviate this void, you start saying that white is the best skin color and anyone not possesing it is inferior. Two problems with that 1: you did nothing to attain your skin color so stop being so proud of it, and 2

    The only real white people are albinos, and even they are slightly off white.

  • we all saw the video we dont need your thoughts

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  • White isn't a color either bro.

  • I hope you don't wear black then. For that matter lets get rid of people with black hair and pupils.

    What about after death when you are no longer a white or black body and it all turns to nothing? What is going to be wrong with someone then?

  • White people are pinkish, not white. Black people are brown, not black.

  • You're an idiot XD how are we pinkish? Wow some people are fucking morons.

  • "Because we grew up in places that weren't racist"

    sooooo full of shit. Not racist at ALL!

  • South=Moonshine=Failure.

  • Moonshine last weekend=failure.

  • lol.

  • That is a huge stretch. Seriously..... thats sad.....

  • conceil8, Im sure god wouldn't mind, he seems like a pretty nice guy...

  • another reach for racism by the young turks but this even bad for them.

  • Gay, Fagat, Homosexuall Queer

  • Oh fuck off you dumb cunts. If you have to dig this deep, you need your fucking face beat in.

  • Talk about grasping at straws, I see nothing racist about this commercial, the real racists are the ones who connected the drums with the fact that he's black, I'm quite sure the people who made this commercial didn't intend it in that way.

  • wow that was SOOO stupid, if this fat ass has to search that hard for racism... it's not racism...

    I'll admit, the ad wasn't done that well, but darker music behind the opponents name and more inspiring music behind the candidate's name is just so... basic... What is racist about that?  These guys reallly need to get a life if that's what they're going to talk about.

  • I really like the Young Turks. But this time they overdid it. Generalizing that the South is racist is the same thing they accuse "conservatives" of doing.

  • You guys are IDIOTS? Racism? Are you kidding me? Because of the music? HAHAHA. Is that what you learned in the LIBERAL Northern University you attended? Yup, that is it....We Southerners are ALL racists. Of course, you define racism by the kind of music that is playing in an political add. LAME. Get a grip, turn on your MSNBC and leave the defense of the Constitution to those who have half a brain and some COMMON SENSE!!!

  • Places aren't racist dummy...and sweetie don't be so

    gullible..."Well if you guys didn't tell me that this ad

    was racist, I wouldn't have known" So you just believe

    everything people tell you ? What a dumbass. Bet

    you were any easy mark in high school . Would love

    to see TYT'S ON MSNBC...They would fit in so nice

    with Rich Maddow and Keith "The Pimp Olbermann.

  • It so cleverly done it's frightening. The drums beat in the background music under each Ford Jr line, they stop and the singing comes out under each Corker line, it alternates cleverly. Listen to it again!

  • hehe, I don't sense the racism in the ad. But the last part is funny, I wonder where he got the recording of those drums from..

  • Sounds like a regular attack add to me. No different than saying someone "pals around with terrorists".

    Perhaps I'm not cultured enough.

  • MMM, vintage Pike.

  • I'm not sure I understand this video. I think there's a certain amount of reaching on this one.

  • young turks are used to reaching.

  • SIKTIR

  • how is this racist?

    what a lame video

  • its not,when there isnt any racism they will just dig something up and throw the racist tag on it because someone will buy it.

  • hahahahahahahahahahaha xD

  • now listen really carfully and if you use your imagination you may just hear a hint of racism,you got to love these race baiters.LOL

  • just what we need,a greedy inmate.

  • fuckin funny...and I'm black and appreciate the wit

  • im glad you could see i was kidding.:^)

  • pretty big reach for racism but then again it usually is.

  • Spiteful jealous creatures? You are the 'fool'

  • And what planet are you living on?

  • This shit is stupid.But all you muthafuckas on here saying that black people need to stop whining about racism need to shut the fuck up. These are white people making this shit into a racial issue.Black people dont give a fuck about this.

  • I love these campaign commercials that always end in "Hi, Im (so and so) and I approve this message". WELL NO FUCKING SHIT SHERLOCK. THERE TALKING NICE THINGS ABOUT YOU. I DONT THINK YOU WOULD APPROVE OF A COMMERCIAL THAT TALKED SHIT ABOUT YOU. Man i swear America has a bunch of idiots running for political seats nowadays. Thats why i dont fucking vote. Its an insult to vote.

  • "Theres a lot of winky and nodding..." LMFAO

  • Get a life.

  • racism will be a crime against homeland security punishable by death.we will start the punishment now!

  • The thing thats worng with America is we judge every fckin body there just cant be poeple theres always something to judge someone on! You can even have a relgion and not be judged on that! America is a great country yes! but like any other country we have so many flaws that needs to be fix that its fuckin crazy

  • its not racist, its demonizing his opponent. it would be exactly the same if it were two white people.

  • These people aren't black get at them not black people....I cannot even catch what they are saying but some of it is funny.

  • Is he white?

  • These unentertaining talentless cretins should go back to Turkey. I wish these craetures would stay in the third world.

  • Doesn't the university of Kentucky have a fraternity called "Old South"?

  • nowadays even the smallest thing can be racist,,, and that is bullshit

  • The girl is a plant. These guys are trying to be funny while subtley ubderscoring the racist content in this ad. What, for example, do hard work and self-discipline have to do with the failure of negroes to establish themselves in the middle class, when affirmative action and government jobs have been to able to push them in that direction with no effort on their part?

  • this one sounds like a stretch. but people keep saying that its the black people playing the victim. did you watch the video? not just listen, but watch? i don't know about you, but i saw white people.

  • They got racism from a music background? Stop whining, and stop segregating YOURSELVES, and stop looking for any excuse to try to point a finger at a white person that is supposedly racist.

  • today black people will milk anything to get to play the victim role lol this video is so stupid and they must have had nothing else at all to talk about

  • they aren't black twinstar