Cenk's Goldman Sachs Run-In at OWS

The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur ran into an oil driller visiting Goldman Sachs while covering the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests in New York City.

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[LeLimeLine]

Cenk breezed through that heckler like a fucking boss.

[Clanki]

@TheYoungTurks I bet that heckler in the background is paid by the banks to try to stop TYT!

[wayne17700]

guys australia want to help you but we dont have the assets that you do

[MrDavidDux]

cenk should have knocked his head off, im sure he could have

[TheDethBringer666]

@terpis I can safely say he loves the economic system and that he is patriotic. He's said it himself an endless number of times as it is, which means his judgement aside from his social liberal views is probably clouded on one level or another. Hes no slave of the culture but he surely has fallen victim to it. Though what do you care of my views, I'm just a far left anti-nationalist, known to some as being a Communist.

[terpis]

@TheDethBringer666

"...and so by default he also loves the economic system"?

Really? That's the most mindlessly reactionary thing I've heard in a long time. Does a mid-19th century American 'by default also love' slavery? According to yr thinking, it does, and this is no problem.

[KaizokuSanji]

What was that heckler going on about ?

[TheGreatReckoning]

I thought it was illegal to smoke in New York now?

[ablomodro]

protest its something natural, as freedom ist taken away, when 300 people has more power than 150 millions ,there is something very wrong

[Mirza247]

Cenk is a serious baller. I have the utmost respect for him.

[LibCon00]

I like that made up story cenk tells, seriously he wants us to buy an "Oil driller" going to "a meeting a Goldman Sachs" really? I call shenanigans

[LibCon00]

thousand dollar iMac and expensive sound equipment in the shot behind cenk, awkward. we are 99% of people who can afford iMacs?

[Leadman1989]

@XSC3

If he followed tyt around whether they had security or not that would definitely be harassment. I think we should just agree to disagree because I think you're getting slightly confused as to what I mean and I'm just tired of this discussion no offense I'm sure you are too.

[XSC3]

@Leadman1989 sure, if he ran up to Cenk and assaulted him that would be different. Are protesters allowed to shout others down or interrupt speeches?

why is there "security" there to remove anyone disrupting a protest? (which by definition would be a counter protest, hence, another protest, with free speech rights, they don't need a permit to criticize TYT)

[Leadman1989]

@XSC3

Well yes we're trying to harass them and get something done, it's peaceful, so far.

I think he is harassing them is it bad enough for him to be arrested? If tyt moved and he followed them and they had security and made stop his free speech is in no way violated.

[XSC3]

@Leadman1989 how about "protesting"? just a nice way of saying "mass heckling."

Of course no one has to listen, and so you're free to ignore this guy if you want. My point there was that those saying he's guilty of harassment (and should be arrested) are favoring the free speech of a tv show over an person without one. it'd be no different if it were somebody heckling Howard Stern or Bubba the Love Sponge.

[Leadman1989]

@XSC3

Heckling is just a nice way of saying harassing. He can have all the free speech he wants but no one has to listen. I'm not agreeing with the people that say beat him up but his free speech rights aren't taken away just because he doesn't have a show. If no one wants to hear his crap then that's no ones fault.

[XSC3]

I agree, corporations are not persons. Is it okay to protest actual people? YES! We protest public figures all the time (as does TYT). Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, the Koch brothers, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and every major and many minor candidates for president for the last several years since they've been around... last I checked those were all persons, not corporations. so people are allowed to protest Cenk Unger, even if you think they're a-holes for doing so

[XSC3]

nobody has to listen to the heckler. but see what you just implied there. if you get to yell at the heckler "shut up" and shout him down, then it's okay for the reverse... people can try to shout down OWS supporters as well. if free speech means you can debate and heckle, then it extends to everyone, not just people in support of a certain cause. counter protest is still protected, as long as its not violent.

[XSC3]

@Leadman1989. Even if Cenk Unger isn't as famous as Glenn Beck, he's a public figure. Even if you never watched youtube, you'd know that he was a presenter on MSNBC for awhile. and he's now a leader/founder of a PAC. So criticizing Cenk is free speech, whether you like it or not. Criticizing TYT is free speech, and so is criticizing OWS. Free speech isn't just protecting popular speech or anti-establishment speech. otherwise we're saying only people with money/popularity get free speech.

[XSC3]

@Leadman1989. Another thing is that Cenk isn't just there as a journalist reporting what's going on, he's actively participating as well (see the "Wolf-PAC") videos. now you might say that in this particular case he's acting as a reporter, but he's also giving his clear opinions in support of the movement. in any case, his being heckled doesn't stop him from reporting, anymore than heckling Sarah Palin during a rally takes away her free speech as a private citizen running for office.

[XSC3]

@Leadman1989, I forgot one thing. You might argue that Cenk is part of the "press" and therefore he has freedom of the press and by heckling him you're taking away his free speech rights. but that's silly. does free speech mean you can't publicly disagree with someone or protest their opinion? so then the Westboro Baptist Church when they come to picket a funeral of a dead soldier, and the bikers come out to counter protest WBC, you arrest the bikers?

[XSC3]

@Leadman1989. If this guy were throwing rocks at Cenk and threatening to attack with violence, that would be different, but he's not. it's no different than if somebody yelled during a speech or made fun of a reporter on the street. it happens all the time. I'm glad you're passionate about OWS. I am too. but we don't start taking away people's free speech just because they're not on "our side." besides, what's one heckler going to do? stop the entire movement in its tracks? Cenk isn't the leader

[XSC3]

@Leadman1989 if the point is "don't interfere with business" (Cenk is representing an online TV show, the young turks, which is a business) then you should be in favor of people who protest fox news or any other reporter or media group (Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, etc) getting arrested for interfering. just because Cent Unger is "less popular" than these guys doesn't matter. if it were John Stossel or Fred Phelps getting heckled, it doesn't matter. they all get free speech