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  • Mr Ridge, "YOU LIE", just the same as the entire BUSH / CHENEY admistration...

  • now, that's the thing i don't get, and the ONE thing that bothers me about him.

    with his common-sense views on domestic and international affairs, with his popularity increasing with PROGRESSIVES (INCLUDING their limited media), and with the public-at-large growing more and more uneasy from the unreasonably unproductive nature of the two-party system...

    ...what's the rationale (read: benefit) of Ron Paul being in freak circus like the Republican Party IN THE FIRST PLACE?

  • Guilani is a total ass, and yes that is my opinion.

    I do agree that the thought of Ron Paul as president is a dark joke and thay Romney was the most quilified in the GOP.

    I am way liberal/socialist thus never would want any of those guys as president.

    Mostly I am relieved McCain lost because IMO he would have started WW3. Also if you look ito his history he has been very corrupt.

  • Clusterfuck Bush Administration was a team effort.

    PERIOD!

  • clusterfuck or secret government.? Do we really still think this is just incompetence?

  • clusterfuck. we, the american people, are the "cluster" they're "fucking"! when it comes to getting newly-elected reps to help us out of the messes their previously-elected predecessors made for us, we're the incompetent.

    correcting myself then...

    ...ClusterfuckING Bush Administration was a team effort. 8D

  • @debunkingdebunkers There is a third arnswer, between secret government and incompetence, and that is criminal ignorance. Ignorance is not only incompetence, but the dedicated WILL to be incompetent.

    Republicans believe in being stupid, as it adds to credibility with other stupid people.

  • Chaney was the Bush the 2nd administration. Kellogg Brown and Root (sp?).  Made a killing (couldn't resistst) ftom what they got us in. got us in to externalize cost.

  • What a dull and boring video

  • The Bush era, for reasons quite apart from the noted government incompetence, I believe will go down as an era of phenomenal naptime of our nation's press. I'm hoping it doesn't continue.

  • stewspin, the media is still fast asleep. they're still afraid of conservatives calling them the "liberal media".

    take the town hall nonsense, the gun nuts showing up, death panels, reciting the pledge of allegiance, quoting thomas jefferson, were going to be communists and socialists, something about not following the constitution, etc... it's a goddamn health care debate!

    what is the media doing? nothing, they're actually covering these lunatic arguments as legitimate.

  • if tom ridge's testimonies were even true, then my f'n god....Who are we to believe anymore?? At this point, how can we trust anyone??

  • He seemed like "one more scumbag sack o' turds" to me. Now he's doing some revisionist history and getting rich. Ah yes! This is what life is like in a nuclear state. i say make him spend a year behind bars for every million $ he's made on this fiasco. He could be the only guy in lockdown with "Last Chief of Home (Vater)land security tatooed on his butt. Can he pull it off?

  • This is yet another example of the comments being exponentially better than the vid. Yall got me laughing and thinking.

  • the theory is:

    everyone becomes a conservative in a moment of crisis.

    some people are always acting like they are in a crisis. they create drama - or imagine drama. these are the ones that are more likely to be a political conservative because they think their life is a crisis and they desperately need to hold on and keep things the same.

    the far religious right plays the role of the eternal victim. as if everyone is out to destroy their beliefs and religious freedoms. they look for problems.

  • You're acting like George Bush was some kind of mastermind here. George Bush was a pawn, or perhaps even a drone. You have some very powerful types who needed a very weak president to do their bidding. i remember thinking how creepy Tom Ridge seemed when he ways shoveling that homeland security Hoopla. He was no dupe. He was playing to the bigger game. i wouldn't believe him.

  • im sorry 'haven't learnt a damn thing' what do you think the Arabs were doing when Israel was created, they were engaging in frontal attacks, what you mean is freedom fighters or terrorists (same thing different views) don't have the resources to fight frontal attacks so they rely on gorilla tactics which work in their situation

  • What's a 'gorilla tactic'? Beating your chest and running through the undergrowth then eating a banana?

  • your not serious are you? its laying ambushes, firing then hiding and retreating, laying bombs, poisoning enemys water all kinds, but ways that although wont seemingly get as many kills, it preserves your troops much more

  • *whoosh*

    You spelt it wrong. It's geurilla.

  • Guerilla*. That was bound to happen haha.

  • guerilla warefare = what the americans used in the revolutionary war. Constantly raiding a more powerful opponent and then retreating where they cant find you, and then doing it all over again till you bleed them dry.

  • why Iraq? and its the Taliban in Afghanistan not Al Qaida

  • I agree with you. Most of the middle east is non-political. They are devoutly religious. That's what the west fails to understand. They follow their religious beliefs, not political ideology. The concepts of "nation-state",democracy and compromise are not assimilated well into societies that are and have been tribal and theocratic for millenia.

  • The attacks HAPPENED ON BUSH AND CHENEYS WATCH. They DID NOT HEED the intel warnings. Then, they ignore the recommendations from the commission assigned to make sure it doesn't happen again.

    THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPEACHED on September 12, 2001.

  • It's not our jobs to police the world, we should revert to isolation. Nothing increases the debt and makes people like Bush and Cheney richer than war.

  • I agree. It's Europe's turn to play global policeman for 65 years while we rebuild from the carnage and destruction our greedy warmongers have wrought.

  • "Bush/Cheney were winning the wars we are now losing."

    Only in your delusional fantasy world, if stories like this one tell you anything, its you've been feed a daily diet of lies.

  • blingbling65943, what gave you the idea that Bush/Cheney were winning the wars? Why do you think McCain lost the election? It's not because McCain didn't have support, or that Obama was very very popular. It's because Bush and Cheney messed up the country so much that people got so tired of Republicans running this country. Soory for McCain who lost because of the two biggest liers in politics: Bush and Cheney.

  • I like TYT but they kiss the democratic parties ass a little way too much!! yes I have seen video's were they criticize their own party but I would say they are just as delusional, as the republican outlets.

  • I think this is part to do with Uygur's former involvement with the republican party (which he mentions sporadically). I think, for him, TYT is a means of "cleansing" himself of a party which has fallen out of popularity or in which he no longer believes.

    I don't doubt that he is progressive, but he seems to overstate cases against the GOP, frequently including GOP shortcomings/failures in otherwise unrelated stories.

  • The Democratic party is WEAK, and corruptible.

    The Republican party is INSANE, and hate-able.

    Choose your own medicine.

  • It would be great if the religious right would "Leave Others Alone". But they won't. They keep trying to use their twisted middle eastern fairy tales to make public policy and law in MY country.

    Gay marriage is a prime example. It is a contract law issue, but churches put billions in advertising to make it a religious issue. School Prayer is another.

    Let's make a deal. You don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church.

  • Wasn't one of the major recommendations of the 9/11 Commission that the FBI, CIA, military intel and other security departments communicate directly with each other for proper threat assessment? And here is Tom Ridge, THE HEAD OF DHS, LOCKED OUT OF MEETINGS?!!!!!!

    Bush/Cheney, the WORST administration in American history.

  • great statements Sam

  • Look to underatand that al this was done in increments, 76 yrs ago, the Fed was given Emergency Powers to handle the currency of the US, from that time until now the US has been systematically infected with this program to bring it to this point. See Monopoly Men and Core of Corruption

  • The bush admin was the last gasp of the retarded right. Glad to see them go!

    Let's get Jefferson's wish of seeing the "Cult of Jesus" disappear and let science and reason prevail.

    LEO WOLF- ATHEIST PHILOSOPHER

  • nice leo. i think the right is counting their chickens in 2010. only because it's normal to win seats as a minority in an off year. but i think they will be devastated by all this nonsense they continue to stir up.

    seriously, does anyone think what's left of the republican party is capable of leading? they are over looking a huge problem. the party of "no" is out of ideas.

  • Don't jump the gun idiots still have an impact.

  • Certainly the small groups of them can still cause trouble.

    Look what 19 seriously religious, right wing young men were able to accomplish in New York and Washington. They knew the value of putting the law of God before the laws of man.

    But as a party, I am seeing more and more people who equate "Republican" with "Backward Redneck" and just won't be associated with the term.

    Bush was just the last coffin nail. He'll join Haliburton in Dubai and watch from afar as it falls apart.

  • NEWSFLASH #1 Bush isnt president. NEWSFLASH # 2 Ridge NEVER heard anyone say, "Hey lets raise the securtiy limit for the election" Lets cover this so we dont have to talk about obamas 45% approval rating. Crystal clear liberals, crystal clear.

  • why don't you spit out your nonsense in some townhall meetings? you know, join the "mob."

  • excellent point about the media being afraid of the right. they've gone out of their way as to not be called "the liberal press". wouldn't want to upset republicans lying about going to war, or in this case "wag the dog" to win elections. the very same thing they accused bill clinton of. hypocrites, every last one of them.

    the mainstream media shits in their pants when conservatives complain. they're too chicken shit to do their job anymore.

  • This was painfully DULL. You could cure anyone's insomnia

  • no he was saying if you are more reactionary then you are more likely to buy into threats like an orange terror alert meter.

  • this is all conforting to know

  • the final point is really true - all of these facts were out there in the public domain for years but it isn't until the respected republican admits it that the media will accept it as true.

    liberals are not allowed to present facts because they are dismissed as childish bleeding heart types for daring to present the truth. and here - even when it is discovered that they were 100% correct they were still wrong because the facts were discovered by someone that was "out to get Bush."

  • liberals are to cowardly to even prosecute anyone from the Bush administration for their miles-long list of criminal activities, not to mention liberals would never prosecute one of the Wall Street Banksters who stole all the money - since liberal Democrats are getting their cut.

    Liberals are worthless.

  • you're blaming liberals? it's the centrist democrat (so called blue dog) conservatives who are blocking everything.

    the other big problem is the political constituency. like you, they are easily manipulated clueless puppets who react like pavlov's dog at code words like the mere mention of "liberal".

    i mean, if the majority of the population isn't a bunch of apathetic morons, george w. bush never gets out of texas.

    so, you just keep being their angry puppet.

  • liberals are worse than conservatives, they are smarter thus more dangerous.

  • lol, i have to disagree with your over generalization. i think ignorance is the most dangerous aspect in a society.

    liberals want to educate while conservatives want to keep people ignorant, thus easier to manipulate.

  • agreed.

    We got brain but no guts

    We suck.

  • Considering that Cheney seemed to be running everything I'd almost believe Ridge on many of these issues. He's still a coward for not coming forward two years ago.

  • lolololol. oh god. bush was an idiot, but this givernment never had integrity. oh boy this is funny....

  • never? never. NEVER??

  • As time goes by ... more & more criminal activity is revealed on the Bush/Cheney administration - both of whom should die in prison.

  • do you really think there's two parties ?? red white and dumb ... they're all working for one thing .. GREED !! go watch a food network while half the world is still under fed .. or go buy your clothes at wal-mart . made by virgin chinese hand ... there's more slaves now in the world then ever !!! just sit back and enjoy the ride ... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • I just lost what little respect I had left for Ambinder.

  • welcome to the New World Order.. you wanted change, here's change ya don't find in your couch cushions..

  • NWO? What a joke. Get out of your mom's basement.

  • get out of your happy delusion, although some people do take the idea of elite control way too far

  • "Happy delusion"? Fuck you.

    Like I said, the NWO is a bedtime story for fatasses who are afraid to leave the nest. It's a good way to stimulate the army/navy surplus & hardware (for underground bunkers) economies. Otherwise, the conspiracy theories are absurd. If there were some "elite control" would they leak ANY information at all? Isn't there another layer to it? That's when those theories collapse; y'know, when common sense is applied.

  • There is a patten:

    What is good for the party and what is bad for the opponent is more important than what is good for the Nation.

    That might is still be occurring today.

  • ?

    What has this got to do with " The Now" ?

    What year is this?

  • Thats deep

  • The republicans were so corrupt it never seems to amaze me....

  • Yeah. I mean they're all corrupt but the republicans are so shameless about it it boggles the mind.

  • Yes...You are 100 percent correct.

  • Looks at the cockroaches coming out to try to defend themselves one last time. You hide behind dead soldiers and when that doesn't work you hide behind dead babies.

  • Your ignorance destroys yours.

  • This was a particularly informing clip. I hope TYT goes into it more after the book is published.

  • He is a Republican - of course he cannot be trusted.

  • ridge was from ny state and he was a big asshloe then and still is

  • Oh Democrats are smarter and better than everyone else? I didn't realize that. Now I'm smarter right?

  • Love the moderate Republican line. Damn that was great stuff.

  • he may be talking more truth then you realize. I will not go farther here on it but he was used and didn't like it much for real.

  • Twist and turn the words then call people names then tell them to get killed. Democrats are so for the people right?

  • Bush Adm Policy:

    Screw the Senate.

    Screw the House.

    Screw the Const.

    Screw the Facts.

    Work for the Wealthy.

  • you forgot

    Screw the people

    screw the country

  • The integrity of our government is being lowered every single day that YOU and the Democrats are there.

  • tyt,coming to you from the basement.lol.

  • i just cant finish a single tyt clip without cenk

  • why does this nerd not like ridge?....i don't gett it....the book ISNT favorable to bush. this guys retarded....wheres the normaldude.

  • Tom Ridge must be running for Public Office, soon. Probably that is why he is having the enlightenment, all of a sudden about Bush administrations practices.

    Political convenience!

  • tell it like it is Sam..

  • This guy has a correct observation, there are three off the book laws for people, people who pay attention, the law for the wealthy, for they can afford in there right good representation, and manipulation of the laws internationally, and domestically, then laws for politicians is mentioned above with the weathy, and the law for the common people, common people this is white, black, hispanic, asian, or middle class to poor, can't get proper representation it that is fact, this guy will get away.

  • I reported you, I hope you get arrested for death threats.

  • Attack and divide the people.

    Bush=Obama

    Dem=Repub

    Name 1 law, in the past 30 years, that has been repealed by the other party?

    Name it you idiots, sheeple and imbeciles.

    The Enemy is your Government and who is behind it. Obama raised 1.3 BILLION dollars for his election. Who do you think gave him that money? Mega Corporations and Banks. Who again is it the government listens to?

    THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?LOL

    SOVEREIGNTY IS OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT

    NO TO EMPIRE AND NWO

  • Unfortunately you might be right.The government is suppose to look out for public interest not corporate shareholders.The minute we allowed the government to sacrifice American lives over letting a big corporation fail. It became a problem.Even if Obama wanted to fully change this government that won't happen.Congress will block every single thing he can propose that goes against corporate interest.

  • "Name 1 law, in the past 30 years, that has been repealed by the other party?"

    Oh sweet Jesus, you have no idea what you're talking about.

    Go masturbate to that college dropout Alex Jones and stop pretending that you know anything about politics.

  • "you idiots, sheeple and imbeciles."

    wow, that's totally a great way to win friends and influence people.

  • Good job on this one!

  • tom ridge was just a tool used by the powers that be.

  • wheres clem?

  • clem? you mean cenk? who is clem?

  • Tom Ridge was a useful idiot for the Bush administration. He was Mr. Solid Republican, and installed as head of Homeland Security because he was a compliant lapdog.

    Why she we believe he opposed "Brownie", when he did nothing to inform Americans about terrorist threats, other than "go buy duct tape and plastic sheeting from Home Depot"...who hired him on the board after he left Bushland.

    His persona was used, so that working Americans could keep getting dildoed by globalist China lovers.

  • I am not a politian and I knew this was a myth long before Tom came out of the closet...

  • Dumbass ignorant fuck. Learn how to turn off your caps too, you ass.

  • welcome to the young turks : college broke edition.

  • He's Sam Seeder...

  • everyone that worked under BUSH should be charged with war crimes and genocide!!! this fucking people destroyed this planet.! i still believe this bush was under 9/11 anyone who disagrees just wait and see. bush is a fucking terrorist!!!!

  • Can Powell slide he's my cousin...?

  • typical republican douchebags.

    The republicans are the worst most, evil, criminals in the world

  • National Security Council (NSC) advises & assists President on national security & foreign policies, while Department of Homeland Security (DHS) focuses on domestic terrorism and natural disasters. Since national security & terrorism are linked, Ridge felt it was a mistake to exclude DHS from NSC meetings.

    By the way, presidential approval ratings & terror alerts are both tied to outside events, so obviously fluctuate somewhat together.

  • Fred13B > "head of a Cabinet-level department not allowed to sit in on security meetings .. Something is rotten.. "

    Secretaries of Agriculture, Transportation, & Labor don't routinely attend National Security Council (NSC) meetings either. But, since terrorism & national security are clearly linked, Tom Ridge felt it was a mistake to exclude Department of Homeland Security from NSC meetings. Others disagreed, which takes nothing away from his fine service as Secretary of Homeland Security.

  • WHERE IS CENK???

  • Why can't the republicans do anything legit. They always resort to lies, dirty tricks, name calling, slogans and total bullshit and lets not forget fear tactics and catering to the narrow minded, racist and biggoted. I wish they would stop with the below the belt and low down tactics so they can help get this country back on top. Republicans need to put the country first and not their party.

  • turboboy68 > "Why can't the republicans .."

    Ever heard the phrase "pot calling kettle black?" Your stated opinions are certainly as narrow-minded and bigoted as anything coming from the Republicans.

  • Anyone else extremely ticked off with the ad next to the video saying "Obama Socialist?" Just let it go. Seriously.

  • There's not a lot to do to make Americans afraid.

  • i should be president.....

  • Obama in 2012? Not a chance.

  • that will probably be true if he keeps "negotiating" or hosing down the healthcare bill by listening to those republicans

  • the west has gone mad

  • wow people need over throw the government like the french did and behead them all

  • maybe not behead them but overthrow yes

  • this guy should be cenks wing man.

  • the government loves fucking peoples lives.

  • eeeh uuum aaaah eeeh

    Shooo go away!

    Gief Cenk :(

  • tom ridge was molded like playdo and never did anything to take control

  • So was the majority of the Bush cabinet.

  • Absolutely -- and the elephant they rode in on!

  • TYT is probably the best center-left media example.

  • The head of a Cabinet-level department not allowed to sit in on security meetings... The Bard said it best.

    "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

  • This guy is awesome.......I want Cenk and Sam to be on the show together....that would be awesome.

  • word...

  • C'mon Sam, that was an Orwellian "long time ago".

  • Left wing, right wing, I think it's all Semantics... I like to eat chicken wings... But for Politics how about NO wings...

  • I like Cenk AND Sam.

    Sam has been on " Air America " radio for years .

  • The RIGHT WING bias in major media

    is a result RIGHT WING RADIO constantlly complaining about "LEFT WING BIAS".

    I wish reporters would just tell the truth !

  • and yet the media is looking into every single lunatic claim about Obama and his plans, even when we can find a financial incentive for them to make those claims

  • Bush, Cheney and their accomplices should be put on trial and put in Jail.

    Book em Danno!

    The repubs have done their best to destroy America. Never again will these idiots be given the trust of Americans.

  • checkurself,

    whats wrong with living in a bubble...

    we all live in a bubble.. the earth is a bubble.. the stratocaster surrounding the earth is a bubble and we live in that bubble.

    the univervse is probably invented to look like a bubble....

    when you showwer and use soap... you use a lot of tiny bubbles to clean yourself

    so whats so wrong with living in a bubble?

  • The "stratocaster" is an iconic electric guitar by Fender. I'm sure you mean stratosphere, but I hope you're simply being sarcastic.

  • I agree!

  • Stratocaster, weird we live in a guitar? and an invention is to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation so the universe wasn't

    invented.

    just saying not trying to insult you.

  • no he is actually saying, i blew it and i didn't learn anything buy this lesson, and I am going to blow it next time again, so everything I say in the future is BS

  • i love that when conservatives bring up "death panels" and bullshit with no clear evidence the media (as a whole) investagates every word like its fucking gospel, but when liberals use facts and evidence we are discounted completely and called unamerican.The republicans and its fucking media is unamerican and im supose to feel bad cause the internet and people who do more real investagtion and journalism (bloggers) than the journalists are replacing them, I say tough shit and do your jobs better

  • Well that is not surprising since the Republicans recognize and exploit the fact that most of their constituents are people of "faith." Who needs evidence or facts when you are led by "faith?"

    And when you lack "faith" and demand evidence and facts, then you are just an elitist, commie, pinko, un-american damned liberal.

    Now you don't want to be that now do you?

  • I like his anger.  I feel the same way esp. when I conversations with my parents...well mostly my mom. Honestly, conservatives live in a bubble...anything that challenges their belief system they either get angry and bring up other things totally unrelated to the issue or they just belittle you. They want to keep that bubble intact. You know the "ignorance is bliss crap."

  • SAM SEDER: Good job. I normally don't like people filling in for Cenk, but this was good. I absolutely agree with all of your points.

  • If you personally feel threatened by a security alert coming from the clowns of that agency, you are a worthless sucker.

  • The end of the world is near!

    Sorry nutjobs, it aint 2012, it is NOW!

  • lol lol i was right !!! my o my god lol

  • did even the studio go into vacation - rather cheap

  • Ok dudes what the hell is going on in Rebel Headquarters? I've been watching TYT youtube clips for months now and I'd like to know why all of a sudden Ana dissapears, replaced by (sorry but its true) sub par girls. And now Cenk is gone? Why the change and are they coming back?

  • They're coming back Monday of next week. Relax a little.

  • Where the fuck is Cenk? On vacation?

  • so you hope Americans die cuz they recognize terror alerts are scare tactics?

    wow ur a real piece of shit...

    btw...when you saw a high terror alert, what did you do besides being fearfull...nothing. it has no value aside from that.

    when a terrorist sees a high terror alert...he sees that there are more security personel on staff. a low terror alert, less security personel...

    why would you want to tell ur enemy when the best time to attack would be?

    use ur fuckin brain.

  • "btw...when you saw a high terror alert, what did you do besides being fearfull...nothing. it has no value aside from that."

    He probably went out to buy several roles of duct tape.

  • "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis" Dante

  • from devil may cry or?

  • Did Cenk and Ana get everybody from the young turks sick that they had to go for 6th string host Sam Seder!! Dude, no offense, but could you have atleast done the show over there where Cenk sits?

  • The whiny Sedar is an embarrassment to this channel.

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  • Great video, Sam. Ridge is a complete asshole.

  • beeshor1, I disagree. I met Gov. Ridge a few years back - he struck me as a total Eagle Scout patriot, the genuine article, unlike Cheney's chicken hawks. He should have been president instead of Shrub, we would have all been better off. Of course he's doing a CYA job, but in 2004, the Washington scene was toxic to anyone who spoke truth. It was a bad time for America.

  • audad

    Perhaps, you're right. If I had the opportunity to meet Gov. Ridge, I'd probably have a different opinion of him. I'll just refrain from passing judgement based on the memory of the atmosphere surrounding Washington during Ridge's tenure.

  • Sam Seder paraphrase "Our government at one time had integrity" before Dubya. Hello, Ding Dong. Anybody home!

    Eugenics started in America.

    I remember a war call Vietnam started over a Gulf of Tonkin lie.

    I remember Iran Contra where Reagan cronies in CIA trafficked Cocaine to American youth.

    I remember an Iraq War in 93 started on an incubator baby lie. Plus another 1000 other lies and deceptions.

    Sam Seder needs to grow the fuck up.

  • those terror alerts were so stupid.

    meant to scare us...no actual intelligence value...

    if the alert is high, then there would be more security personel on staff...if the alert is low, less security staff...

    the question is, why would you want to tell ur enemy when you are strengthening or relaxing the # of security personel?

  • XD yeah i asked myself that question to