'A Revolution Well Done' - Cenk After Mubarak Steps Down In Egypt

Cenk Uygur on MSNBC gives his closing thoughts after president Hosni Mubarak stepped down in light of massive protests from the people of Egypt.

Transcript:

One final note for you tonight, as you see the history unfold before your very eyes I want you to keep one thing in mind. I don't know if this is a win for the American government, they may have been early or late to the party depending on where you stand, they may have been overly diplomatic or not diplomatic enough depending on where you stand. Our short term interest might be furthered or endangered but that's not what I'm talking about tonight. What happened today was a win for America, the idea of America, the idea that men and women are endowed with certain inalienable rights. That this is not the privilege of one country, race or religion. That the idea of freedom is universal. At our core we should always be for democracy and the rights of man. So tonight it is about Egypt it is their celebration but we all rejoice. A simple but courageous idea that men like Jefferson, Madison, and Washington started, has borne fruit in the middle east hundreds of years later. Such was the strength of those principles. I'm originally from Turkey but I call myself an American because these are the ideas I came here for. This is why I chose to be an American. This is why I choose to call men like John Adams and Benjamin Franklin my founding fathers. How proud would Thomas Paine, who built our revolution with this pamphlets, have been of the youth of Egypt who organized and spread their ideas online, and stood up to tyranny in the streets. So tonight I believe our founding fathers are smiling down on the sons of freedom in Egypt, on a revolution well done.

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[frozenimran]

Americans dont know any history, dictators like those in Egypt, pakistan, Saudi, and all others were forced upon Muslims or financed by the british and french when they conquered muslim lands durring ww1-2, so when you have Terorist like bin Ladin attacking you, the reason is obvious get your dictators out of their countries!!!

[allamericanboys2001]

Chill out everybody, give Cenk a break.

[CarlosMonteiro1985]

Cenk is a true American. No, scratch that, a True Patriot.

[WonderBread006]

@frozenimran

don't forget Muslim countries were all democracies before the colonizers came.

[el3andalip]

Man .. you don't understand a shit!

[Dezonize]

fkin idiot

[dier505]

I didn't know that Cenk ashamed for being a Turk.

[CarlosMonteiro1985]

@iplaydrumsnguitar Cenk talked about the principles, and principles are only principles when put into action, and John Locke did not overthrow the British Crown or write a Constitution. The "idea" of democracy was actually started over 2500 years ago in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean region, I don't get how you can atribute so much importance to Locke.

[CarlosMonteiro1985]

@shazlionusa So they were freemasons (you can't even spell it...), so what? Freemasonry gave the world Democracy and it's only mocked with somewhat credible information by those who couldn't join and are jealous. Lay off with the conspiracy theories and get a life, don't talk about subjects who can't spell or hope to understand. You want to live under a dictator? Go then, then we'll see if you complain about the FREEmasonry or if you ask them for help.

[ifellinlovewithadead]

@frozenimran sounds good to me

[demirthemetalkhan]

Proud to call Jefferson your founding father, what no love for Mustafa Kemal Ataturk?