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  • Mr YT. Who gives a shit about Harry Pot anyway? Why don't you get off S. Palin. Are you so infatuated with her that you cannot get away? You won't get any anyway.

  • nobody cares what you have to say. just show the video. jesus

  • i bet she has a hairy pussy cuz she's over 40 mmm.

  • Actually, Palin's statement was accurate. The news reports where that she tried to ban the books in December of 1996, right after taking office, and even the clown on the Young Turks clip states that the first Harry Potter book was published in 1998. Even snopes found the claim she had tried to ban books bogus, and specifically referencing that the Potter books had not yet been published. snopes.com/politics/palin/bann­edbooks.asp VERY lame effort to smear Palin.

  • if sarah palin was president? crickets.....................u­mmmmmmmmm yea

  • When is she going to pose for playboy?

  • Damn those books are complicated - and yet Jo wheeled them out in a matter of years... DUDE...

  • i love how arab cenk made "azkaban" sound. lol

  • And to think she wants to run for president lmfao XD

  • ey. I thought Harry Potter was first written in 1991...

  • @JoshuatheKodiak written in 91, published in 97

  • He definitely said Harry Potter and the philosophers stone. mmm, dont think so. Try Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

  • @peacelovehippiness93 It was originally titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone but it was changed for the United States audience. Most people from the U.S. associate the world "philosopher" with people such as Aristotle or the like. The U.S. audience would not think back to "philosopher's stone" and think of magic. I blame the U.S. public school system.

  • harry potter's the one with the red hair and big family right?........ :P

  • Maybe she meant they weren't written when she took office. (I am not being serious but I just figured I should throw that out there).

  • sarah palin is a beautiful women,

  • @MrNance91

    She most certainly is.

    But she is not a very smart one.

  • harry potter and the philosipher stone? its called harry potter and the SORCERERS STONE. its okay, we all make mistakes, not as many mistakes as fox news of course.

  • @lebronjamesXD It wascalled Harry Potter and the Philosiphers Stone in London where it was originaly published.

  • @pizza464132 oh it was? im sorry! :P

  • @lebronjamesXD it's ok also that you don't know what you are talking about :)

    both are correct

  • @lebronjamesXD haha your stupidness made my day dude!!

  • @ThobyThomas :(

  • @7607615 Say that again I'll stuff one in your mouth!!!

  • Palin is a dumb as can be. Scary dumb.

  • CHECK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU WRECK YOURSELF Don't Bachmann or Palin know how easy it is to fact-check things in a matter of seconds? I guess they've learned it doesn't matter because their supporters have no regard for facts, either.

  • I actually walked over to my bookshelf to check the publication date, mine says 1997.

    BTW FINALLY!!!!! SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY SAYS PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, NOT SORCER'S STONE!!!!!!

  • This woman is a complete stooge! Ban books? Coming from someone who doesn't actually READ! It's becoming increasingly harder to get people to read these days. Even that foolish comment... BAN THE BIBLE. Whether you are Christian or not, I would say read it. I enjoyed it+I also enjoyed the Kuran. I wouldn't be religious myself but having an interest in knowledge seems to be way down on a large percentage of peoples lists. Don't judge or make comment unless u have an idea of what you are on about

  • @7607615 Why ban the bible? Have you read it?

  • @bluegsp I think she's under the Confundus charm. You probably are too. You will defend her if she burns down your house.

  • she was a dolt and she is still a dolt.

  • This Cenk is a moron. The allegations of Palin's so called attempt to ban books was in 1996 just after her election. Harry Potter was on a among a list of books that Palin was alleged to attempt to ban. Harry Potter was not out until 2 years later. The whole story is nothing but a lie in a long list of lies attempting to smear Palin. No wonder Cenk was fired from MSNBC, he is too stupid even for that idiotic network. XD

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  • Oskaban LOL

  • @7607615 dont FUCKIN blame this on the bible

  • This bitch supports legalized animal cruelty (hunting, animal testing, factory farming, et al), can't name any of the founding fathers, writes on her hands like a teenager, is a pro-life nitwit who allowed her DOWN-SYNDROME RIDDEN SON TO BE BORN who will probably lead a very difficult life, and is a suck-up to a God she doesn't have proof of and who, if the God exists, probably reviles. She doesn't know anything about media either. This woman is a true disgrace to our already screwed up nation.

  • @vgman94 people with down syndrome may face extra challenges in their lives but that doesn't mean they are better off dead. I knew a guy with down syndrome. He's a very gung ho, fun guy, and (though I can't judge anyone's happiness with absolute certenty.) seemed quite happy.

  • And yet right-wingers call me all sorts of names when I question the woman's intelligence.

  • @SasukeFangirl456 GOP is anti-woman.

    Pro-FORCE is never right. Pro-CHOICE must remain the law!

    You can never FORCE a woman to abort, nor should anyone ever FORCE a woman not to.

    There is no other way about it. Don't like abortions? Don't have one.

    It's just like gay/straight sex. Don't like it? Don't do it. Stop FORCING your particular preference on OTHERS!

    Lack of knowledge and total ignorance should disqualify anyone from high political office. Candidates should be at least HS PROFICIENT.

  • @Chelsea4President Love when people say don't push your ideals on people, in the same sentence that they push their ideals on people. Fun.

  • @Chelsea4President Do you oppose society forcing its preference on someone who might want to murder or rape you? The real question is whether an unborn child is a life, and if so to be treated as a living human being, afforded the protections other human beings are afforded. Including you. Somehow I doubt that you are at all offended by forcing onto others the "particular preference" that you not be raped or murdered.

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  • @Chelsea4President Chelsea, you do a lot of assuming there, since I expressed no position on any of the issues you mention. The only assumption I will make about you is that you are not able to maintain focus to address an issue at hand, and also are deliberately insulting. In fact I expressed NO position on abortion, but merely tried to frame the question. And that question really is when does human life begin, and what societal protection is it entitled to?

  • @Chelsea4President Wait, what about forcing death upon an unborn child? lol

  • @ohedd No woman can be forced to abort. No woman should be forced not to.

    Are you a woman? Then exercise your right to choose. Your rights end there.

  • @Chelsea4President No child should have to suffer because of a woman's poor decisions. How is it up to someone else to decide whether or not a child will have a successful life? As soon as a woman gets pregnant, she's suddenly not alone in the situation.

  • @ohedd Millions of children suffer because right wing tight-wads like you insist that ALL pregnancies should be carried to term, regardless of the mother's circumstance. Millions live in abusive homes, neglected and poor, because YOU won't do a damn thing to help CHILDREN. You are obsessed with EMBRYOS and you refuse to share in the cost of your forced labor ideology.

    You are the problem, and you insist on makingit worse. You are evil, masquerading as holiness! Godly? Get REAL!

  • @ohedd I wonder how many "well to do Christians" are having secret, but safe abortions (perhps at a Spa in Switzerland), then return to their picket lines in front of abrotion clinics. HYPOCRISY is owned by the right wing church-goers!

    Would you care to commnet on thefact that the highest rate of paid internet porn is concentrated in UTAH (the Jesus State), and the worst family health stastistics are concentrated in the Southern BIBLE BELT? Those are FACTS! Your comments?

    PHARISEES!!!

  • @Chelsea4President I'm Swedish agnostic, so I don't know what the fuck you are yappin about, woman.

    As to your logic about children growing up in abusive, neglected and poor homes - why don't you ban all the "undesired elements of society" from mating all together! Who the fuck is a god damn lady to decide: "No, you don't get to live because you might not be as prosperous as I want you to be". Ask any child if they rather would have been aborted and see how many says "Yes".

  • @ohedd Why don't you stop your stupid babble about BANNING stuff!? I thought you guys are all about SMALL government? You want to outlaw everything from prostitution to masturbation. What is your obsession with SEX anyway? Are you just afraid of it, or just no damn good at it? Stop worrying so much about what OTHERS do. YOU are the ones with the biggest problems and the worst track record.

    Glass houses! Think about it!!!

  • @Chelsea4President What kind of fuckin maniac are you? Wtf glass houses!? masturbation? What are you even talking about?

    I don't want to ban stuff, I just applied your logic to another context. You want to kill children because they might grow up in a poor home? Calm down, crazy person, and answer this: If you'd ask a poor child if they rather would have been aborted, how many do you think would say 'yes'? Killing them because they are "unwanted" is fucking disgusting.

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  • @ohedd uh just passing by and saw this, actually i hear alot of people who say they would of rather had been aborted. like people who were passed from home to home :/ . and im guessing you guys are talking about abortion, im not going to go too far into this, but a child, or a human, is something that can live on it's own. my nephew is a child, he doesn't feed off of his moms body so he can live, if they are separated for days, he wont die, just saying :/ .

  • @Chelsea4President You are one big mystery. You shout out empty words attack random american right wing movements. It's as if you're not even responding to me! Don't mind my language. I curse whenever the fuck I want.

    This is the third time I ask you: If you'd ask a poor child if they rather would have been aborted, how many do you think would say 'yes'? How about an answer this time, instead of a load of caps lock bullshit about GOP or whoever you're tryin to rant.

  • Goodbye. Sarah`s finally falling off the public stage. Good Riddance dunce.

  • I truly think now she's under the Confundus charm.

  • 0:26 skip the crap

  • ok i loved the way you say philosophers stone instead of sorcerers but your pronunciation of azkaban o.O

  • LMFAO!!!!

  • Poor Stupid Sarah.....

  • If she had said she didn't care for it, that is her prerogative. HEr facts as usual were wrong. Do you believe Paul Revere's ride was to inform the British we were not going to give them our guns?

  • @daytraderfbf He rang his bell for freedom.

  • maybe she didn't even really care for Harry Potter so paid no attention.

  • @lovejen01 She needs to think and have her ducks in a row before she speaks publicly.

  • @daytraderfbf that still does not apply because she did not read Harry Potter, she just should have said didn't really care for it. TYT just make a big deal anything this women does. He won't address that is boy is screwing up.

  • We leave Harry Potter to childish moronic imbeciles like the young turks. Get a life you crack heads.

  • @53juanoli SHUT UP

  • TYT could have a whole series on "Sarah Palin gets Facts Wrong on BLANK"

  • uranorexic ...Talking to you is like reasoning with a drunk. Your one of the sheep who thinks that because Palin won a beauty contest & was able to turn her popularity into a political job she wasnt qualified for & now thinks because an old man needed to save his losing campaign & brought her in shows

    McCains presential desision making ability and exposed her to reality. She would have made a good comedy team with Bush, kinda like Gracy & Allen.

    Just go to youtube & lookp Palin, & Bush.

  • P.A.L.I.N. = Pathetic abhorrent loser in the nation lol.

  • @Eslates ROFLMAO

  • Cenk doing some hard hitting, balanced reporting.

  • I wouldn't gte too hung up on this, try and stop her from becoming president in 2012.

  • I like how he said "Azkaban"

  • now its just PALIN scary

  • does she get anything right

  • Palin can't get anything right.

    It stopped being funny a long time ago.

    Now it's just plain scary!

  • I wanted to watch this video, but as soon as I saw it was the Young Turks, I threw my computer out of a second story window.

  • The first 2 film were even out then!

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  • In 1996, when Palin's alleged (and false) book-banning incident occurred, Harry Potter had not been published. Young Turks is fucking stupid for not checking the time-frame in which these rumors circulated.

  • Lets send Palin reading material: What do Jesus and Harry Potter have in common? More than you think: JesusPotterHarryChrist (dot) com

  • @cpmondello Well.. 1) They're both fiction.. 2) people take them a liiiiittle to seriously. 3) IT'S NOT FUCKING FICTION YOU HEATHEN/MUGGEL!!!!

  • "Sarah Palin Gets Facts Wrong".....WHEN DOESNT SHE?

  • @MelanieFrontage Isn't huffelpuf where all the ''special'' little wizards go?

  • @evildeathmonkey1 I am pretty sure that Hogwarts would kicker her out... she might be a griffindor, though. She has to be pretty to brave to go national with all the stupid comments that she's made, and keeps making. But she isn't friendly enough for Hufflepuff. She may be Slytherin (this may just be one big act to underestimate her; that would make a lot of sense). Ravenclaw? hahahaha

  • @buckster888able Neh the republicans are Slytherin ;) Ravenclaw is just to awesome for Palin. I think its a case of getting picked last in Gym class. No one really wants her in their team XD

  • @evildeathmonkey1 So that means Hufflepuff...isn't Hufflepuff where they take not only the friendly, but those who don't fit in anywhere else?

  • @buckster888able I think the sorting hat just sat on her head for over an hour, completely motionless. Then suddenly yelling, ''Stableboy!!''

  • 200 people dislike facts

  • Who are the idiots that clicked dislike? Tea baggers?

  • Someone should put her under the Confoundus Charm. Then she'll be smarter.

  • technically, the harry potter books hadn't yet been written in the first two years of her residency as mayor.

  • Kids can't tell fact from fiction???? really? Yet you still watch fox news.

  • I think it's time for a Confondus charm on Palin.

  • What is odd is, it's tough to tell when she's lying and just being authentically stupid. I guess it's because she's a solid mixture of both at the same time.

  • @mistereveready

    When ignorant people feign knowledge, it is always both. The intentional lie is that they know what they're talking about, the authentic stupidity is what they make up as the answer.

  • i dont think its a big deal not to know when they were written but if she doesnt know for sure she shouldnt be using them for reference points, but maybe she did think it was accurate which only makes her mistaken. never mind , this is making my brain crack

  • I love the young turks!!!

  • you said she was mayor 1996-2002 first book was written 1998! there is a 2 year difference between 1996 and 1998  that is when she was talking about you dipshit!

  • Harry Potter and the Bible are both fictional books.

    But the bible is a very poorly written book.

    You can tell there was alot of opium going around those desert tribes when they wrote it. And I mean a LOT.

  • @2camjohn TOTALLY AGREE

  • Sure, Harry Potter is evil. So the Chronicles of Narnia, the Lord of the Rings, the Sword in the Stone, and Fantasia is also evil? We must learn when we are being hypocritical...

  • @zekdom Not Chronicles of Narnia, it has strong Christian undertones and is pushed by the Evangelicals as an example of classical Christian story telling.

  • @xdir Eh, well, you're right. Still, the Chronicles of Narnia, like many other fictions, define between "good" magic and "evil" magic. Everybody that bashes HP states that it defines between white and black magic, and that differentiation is a horrid example bestowed upon our children! It is hypocrisy at its finest.

  • Would you like a diadem of Ravenclaw Palin?

  • hey censor, its nalin palin. i wana make my bid to vote is that alright? i voting reelection bebeh...sup? zzgeneral mcclovinzz

  • I'm American and I call the first book/movie "Philosopher's Stone".

    Sorcerer's Stone makes no sense to me. I want to read the UK book. The US version of the 1st book also edits out "Mum's" to "Mom's". It's like... *facepalm*

  • I'm a Christian who loves Harry Potter. (I also support Gay Right, Abortion choice, etc, but I guess I'm just a Liberal Christian, we do exist XD)

  • the words of Joanne Kathleen Rowling have done more to help me then any phoney baloney "Bible" ever has

  • Sarah Palin- Avada Kedavra

  • Your not telling the whole truth. Harry Potter was unknown and not popular back then. It became popular years and years after it came out and that is a fact. I am not a Palin fan but I can't stand someone using lies to make someone else dirty who probably was way too busy to know anything about a Harry Potter Book. This is ridiculous and a waste of my time watching this ignorance. Grow up! Talk about real issues. Even the God issues your making are lame. Talk about some meat!

  • @Joyce4Christ really? "years and years"? you can prove that as a "fact"?

    because I remember back in '99 (only a year after Sorceror's Stone was released) that it had become all the rage in my middle school, with even our teachers praising it's literary quality

    sure there were the Bible thumpers who wanted it banned, but the school board told them to stick it and everything worked out ok

    once again, the conservative is caught in their own lies

    P.S. Jesus was fictional

  • Dumb people love Sarah Palin... She makes them feel smarter!

  • @ancientshogun Lol, pretty much. I'm a Libertarian (Social wise, Liberal, economic wise, Republican) and even I can't stand Sarah Palin. But I do like how she makes me feel intelligent... which isn't much, but you know. ;D

  • Wow instead of spending all your time on investigating about sarah palin getting a harry potter fact wrong, why don't you research on all the communists, socialists, marxists, and socialists that surrounds president Obama?? Are you serious what is this world coming to?? Also what about the socialistic health care that most America was against, but rammed down anyways, or all the debt that we'll never get out off because the gov't is spending like a drunkin sailor? the list goes on and on. Yousad

  • @daisylover93 define Communism

    define Socialism

    define Marxism

    define Socialism (again)

    how is health care reform (i.e. not allowing insurance companies to pick & choose who lives or dies) "socialistic"?

    try watching any other episode of TYT, and you'll realize what a jackass you look like

  • Banning books? I think they should ban "Going Rogue".

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  • wikipedia is not a reliable source, people can put in what ever they want! Check your sources make sure they are credible. The book wasn't written in her first year of being mayor.

    Always make sure that your sources are credible, otherwise you look like an idiot, like this guy!!!

  • @hotrodholly23 yeah! people can put what ever they want in there! go change something under harry potter and i'll go check can you change anything.... lol

  • @hotrodholly23 She didn't say anything about her first year. She just said it wasn't written when she was the mayor. Don't try to put words in her mouth. She was wrong as usual, deal with it. And I'm sure there many, many sources that say the same thing as Wikipedia.

  • @hotrodholly23: He is right about when the books were written. I have ALL the books and I know the exact date I bought the first book and it WAS when she was in office as Governor so his source was indeed credible. >_>

  • LOL this one was funny

  • This ban issue came up at December of 1996, BEFORE the HP books were released! I'm not a fan of Palin, but she was actually right in this case.

    Just because you know basic arithmetic and have the knowledge of wikipedia (and no other website, apparently) doesn't give you the right to be an asshole about it.

  • @KhaotixInc it's fun!

  • @KhaotixInc Yea, I think you're right. Technically she does say "the book wasn't written when I was mayor of Wasilla", but it seems more likely she meant at the time of the allegation, in her first year as mayor.

  • Wow you the first American i have heard say Philosiphers stone in ages haha, plus if anyone is gonna ban a book it should be twilight.

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 he was also reading from wikipedia...

    though i wish they woulda kept it the philosophers stone in america.

  • @tuseroni You too?

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 and whats wrong with twilight?

  • @MrShadowguy2 You are asking the wrong question, You should be asking what is right with twilight.

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 ok what is right with twilight

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 I'll sign that petition.

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 Both manufacted commerical diet fantasy marketed at kids that ARE SO OVERHYPED AND OVERATTED.

    I'll be giving kids real books thank you.

  • @pandasftuw Really? I have some facts and figures that disagree with you, The Harry Potter book series sold Over 400 million copies and the books have been translated into 67 languages. That is a sign of a ''real'' book and a brilliant one at that. Do the kids a favour and do not give them a book that you like.

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 That is an ad populum argument by that logic titantic is the best movie in the entire world

  • @pandasftuw Im talking about the books not the films. And im just curious what books would you give kids?

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 Still an ad populum argument sales don't account for taste. Hp is mediocre there are tons of better childrens books that get no attention because of undeservingly overhyped hp and twilight are

  • @pandasftuw Books such as? and you haven't answered my previous question. Harry Potter isnt overhyped at all, it deserves the hype it gets because its a great book series. Twilight on the other hand is overhyped.

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 its many peoples opinion that it is overhyped and just diet fantasy manufactured for kids, so just because you think differently doesn't make you wrong or right. people have different opinions and tastes, why can't you potter fans accept that not everyone loves it? And why would I list books just for you to tell me there shit?

  • @pandasftuw We do accept that not everyone likes it and we stay out your buisness we dont comment on every other video saying Harry Potter is the best we stay to Harry Potter related content. But then there are people like you that like to comment and say Harry Potter is crap without being provoked or anything its so immature seriously if you dont like Harry Potter why did you comment on this video and try to force your opinion onto others. Why do you care if i think the books you like are shit?

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 If I see harry potter content I'm allowed to comment my opinion just like you are allowed to express your liking for it. Free speech doesn't just apply to compliments.

    I don't care if you think my books are shit, I think it is rather pointless listing them just to recieve the predictable "potter is better response"

    Now excuse me while I go read adult books =]

  • @pandasftuw Yes i know about free speech but i also know about a simple childhood lesson that your parents obviously neglected to teach you, that lesson is if you do not have anything nice to say dont say anything and if i didnt learn that i would probably be like you, expressing my dislike of certain things like books and such and i am glad i learned that lesson.

    How do you know i would say that? Harry Potter might not be better than your books, they probably are better but they might not be.

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 Free speech is not limited to being "nice" you complete idiot. Don't act like you only say "nice" things, you contradict yourself in these very posts by insulting twilight. *FACEPALM

    How do I know you would say that because you just proved it by your bias in the following sentence it is laughable that you think I would take offense to a hp fan assuming I have bad taste in literature. Accept the fact books are subjective and I don't need or want you to like my books.

  • @pandasftuw Oh wow you just used *FACEPALM, i now realize i am speaking to a child. So im not going to waste my time even talking to you. Good day to you.

  • @BADWOLFRYAN1 Well it was the perfect phrase to some up what an embrassament you are. You contradict yourself and then act like your smart, Do you not have any self respect or something? Your posts are just cringe worthy.

  • @pandasftuw You're both embarrassing. Embarrassingly long-winded. Your e-penis contest is fascinating, but would you mind taking it to PM so the rest of us can leave video-relevant comments? Thanks.

  • @greysquare7 both of yours pale and shrivel in fear of my enormous e penis that rivals mountains for creating shade

  • @kiel108 All hail the kiel108 e-penis of immense and Godly girth!

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  • Banning harry potter for witchcraft? Hell to be fundamentally christian requires the belief in daemons,ghosts, life from death rejuvination, witches... funny logical hypocrisy there.

  • The New GOP is like the Old Egypt.

    Maybe it's high time to stop betting on a dead horse!

  • When the fuck did Harry Potter become an important part of politics?

  • @BabsControl So true. I don't like Palin, but this is ridicilous.

  • @BabsControl When it was deemed satanic by the Right and they tried to ban it from schools. This is very important, religious censorship is very, very important. And fighting it.

  • @SocialDissimulation The right wing gives a bad name to conservatives, just as the left wing gives a bad name to liberals. They're radical, just like fundamentalists. But then again, look at the censorship being pushed right now. They want to censor the Internet. What? Didn't China do that to oust all sites denouncing their government?

  • @BabsControl Look at the reasons for censorship, though. One: To avoid malevolent sites that misinformed people. Two: Because witchcraft is satanic. The motive is clear.

  • @SocialDissimulation Hahaha, I can believe that China thinks capitalism is satanic XD

  • @BabsControl I beg to differ, I would say capitalists believe China to be Satanic. A fully transparent, socialistic/capitalistic government would be fabulous. I see no reason to keep anything hidden, other than the fact corporations don't want people to see what's really going on.

    I trust governments -way- more than I do corporations.