Ex-MSNBC Host Claims Network Was ‘Never Left-Wing TV’

Entirely Serious Ex-MSNBC Host Claims Network Was 'Never Left Wing TV' (NewsBusters)

This young man might have a bright future in comedy, providing he doesn't mind that people laugh only when he's not kidding.

You might remember Cenk Uygur -- pronounced "Jenk U-Gur" -- hosting an evening show on MSNBC for several months in 2011 after the network booted Keith Olbermann within weeks of the Tucson massacre, when liberals like Olbermann blamed Sarah Palin for creating a sulfuric "climate of hate" that led to the rampage. Turns out Olbermann wasn't entirely wrong, he was simply looking in the wrong direction.

Anyway, things didn't work out for Uygur at MSNBC, so after leaving the network he started an online news site called The Young Turks, based on his radio show of the same name. The site's offerings have nothing to do with Uygur's Turkish ancestry and all to do with leftist politics.