‘They’re crooks’: 'The Young Turks' founder admits conservatives were right about the Deep State



Cenk Uygur, founder of “The Young Turks,” has long found himself at odds with those on the right. However, unlike most on the left, Uygur’s attention has shifted from the right to the establishment.

“News has not been news for so long. People have forgotten. They’re, like, demanding propaganda, and they’re like, ‘Why won’t you say that Obama is a saint?’

"And I’m like, ‘But we’re on the left; we don’t want him drilling in the Gulf,’” Uygur tells James Poulos on “Zero Hour.”

“On what planet should I not criticize that?” he asks, adding, “Are we supposed to morph our policies around these politicians and their donors?”


While Uygur doesn’t believe that right-wing media is any better than the left-wing media, it’s the mainstream media he takes real issue with.

“Most of all, mainstream media is the ones that claim to be objective. And I think they’re the least objective, the least truthful. Not because their facts are wrong, but because their framing is so absurd — that politicians aren’t crooks. They’re crooks. That donor money doesn’t affect politicians? You’ve got to be mental to think it doesn’t affect politicians,” he explains.

“So the Democratic Party, unfortunately, has gone so pro-corporate,” he continues.

“They’re so blinded by their own bubble, James. That’s the most important thing. Everybody’s in their bubble, and in their bubble they’re 100% right.”

This is what Uygur believes led to the results of the 2024 election.

“2024 to me was the most watershed moment for so many reasons, because the establishment finally realized the country hates them,” he adds.

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Ben Shapiro tells Glenn Beck the EXACT moment the legacy media died



It goes without saying that the era of mainstream media is over. The outlets that once were trusted news sources are now dismissed as relics of a dead system.

It didn’t have to be this way. Mainstream outlets earned the moniker of "legacy media." They dug their own grave with unapologetic propaganda, gatekeeping, and centralized control.

The question is: What was the final nail in the mainstream media’s coffin?

Ben Shapiro, co-founder and editor emeritus of the Daily Wire, answered this question on an episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast.”

Shapiro recalls 2004’s “Rathergate,” when CBS News’ Dan Rather aired fake memos questioning President George W. Bush’s National Guard service.

When that happened, “people on our side were like, ‘ah, the mainstream media is dead,”’ he says, but they were wrong because the corporate media “spent the next nearly 20 years proving they certainly were not dead.”

“They could define narratives, and they could lie, and they could really define how Americans thought on a wide variety of issues ranging from BLM to COVID to Russiagate,” Shapiro tells Glenn.

The actual death of the mainstream media, he contends, happened just last year.

“I think 2024 was the definitive nail in the coffin — maybe the last nail in the coffin for the legacy media,” he says.

Ironically, it was Sleepy Joe who shot the final arrow.

“Joe Biden effing that debate with Trump was the single most important political moment probably of our lifetimes, because it wasn't just that it forced him out of the race. What it did is it exposed the entire legacy media infrastructure — all of them, all at once,” Shapiro explains.

“Literally weeks before that debate, they were saying it was a cheap fake to show tape of him on stage with Obama guiding him off stage because he didn't know where the hell he was, right? So they were maintaining that narrative consistently, and then Joe Biden was stupid enough to get on that debate stage.”

Shapiro recalls how almost immediately after the debate began, the camera panned to Biden, who looked as if he were “staring at the grim visage of death off screen with the goggly eyes.”

“You were like, ‘oh my God, death is going to take him in the middle of this. He can actually see the Grim Reaper with the scythe standing off to the side,’” he jokes, comparing the spectacle to an “episode of 'The Twilight Zone.'”

“I think in that moment, the legacy media died.”

While the mainstream media attempted to feign shock at Biden’s performance, the secret was out: “They were in the know for years.”

“These people lie, and they lie with an agenda,” says Shapiro.

And that’s something the American people just won’t tolerate.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Mark Levin BLASTS '60 Minutes of Shame's' Lesley Stahl for pro-Hamas questioning



Once upon a time, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” was serious television. Mark Levin recalls how hosts used to track down hoodlums and crooks with cameras in their briefcases. The in-depth reporting and interviews were well worth a watch.

Fast-forward to today, and it’s a different story.

Thanks to hosts like "the clown" Lesley Stahl and her hardcore leftist bias, gone are the days of tough, gritty reporting. Now, we get “60 Minutes” episodes of freed Hamas hostages being subjected to the American media’s anti-Israel, anti-Trump bias.

On the show’s latest episode, Stahl interviewed Yarden Bibas and Keith Siegel, two recently freed hostages, who suffered starvation, severe psychological torment, and physical violence in Gaza. To say Stahl’s questioning was tone-deaf is an understatement.

When Siegel shared that he had been starved by his Hamas captors, Stahl responded with, “Do you think they starved you or they just didn’t have food?”

“There’s story after story after story of tons and tons of food being brought into Gaza and stolen by Hamas,” Levin rails. “Hamas steals it to feed themselves, and what they have left over, they sell to the other Palestinians in order to fund their war machine.”

Even though “eyewitnesses have reported this,” it didn’t stop Stahl from perpetuating mainstream media pro-Hamas lies.

In her conversation with Yarden Bibas, whose wife and two sons were taken hostage and brutally murdered by Hamas, Stahl asked what he would like to say to President Trump. When Bibas responded with, “Please stop this war and help bring all of the hostages back,” Stahl retorted, “And you think he can help?”

“I know he can help. I am here because of Trump. I’m here only because of him,” Bibas doubled down.

In the same episode, Stahl stated that “50,000 Gazans have been killed” since the October 7 attacks.

“Where did she get those numbers from?” Levin asks. “She got those numbers from Hamas! ... I've had statisticians on my radio show, on my Fox show, who've said that's not true; it's an absolute impossibility.”

“She knows it's not true; she knows she got the numbers from Hamas, but she uses them anyway,” he sighs.

To add insult to injury, Stahl also blamed Israel for the continuation of the war, claiming, “Netanyahu resumed the bombing of Gaza, breaking a fragile ceasefire that was exceedingly popular with Israelis.”

“There were conditions to the first phase” of the ceasefire deal, Levin explains, noting that it was Hamas who first violated the agreement.

“You're dealing with monsters; you're dealing with subhumans; you're dealing with terrorists, for crying out loud! What is with the American media? What is with [Lesley Stahl]?” he asks in disbelief.

“‘60 Minutes’ isn't worth one minute of your time.”

To see the footage of Stahl’s disgraceful interviews and reporting and hear more of Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Two things that WILL happen if RFK Jr. successfully bans Big Pharma TV ads



According to numerous reports, HHS secretary RFK Jr. is planning to push for the banning of Big Pharma television advertisements. The United States is one of the only countries that permits direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising, and Kennedy has long condemned it.

If the reports are true and he’s successful at banning pharmaceutical advertising on TV, it would spark “a massive societal earthquake,” says Liz Wheeler.

Two things are going to happen, she says.

1. Corporate media sinks

“Mainstream media is just a fake business,” says Liz. “It is artificially propped up by massive ad dollars from Big Pharma ads, not because of the return on investment.”

“Big Pharma buys so many TV ads” for the sheer purpose of “[preventing] reporting on the corruption of Big Pharma.”

But if pharma companies are banned from buying those ads and those dollars disappear, so do the networks.

“You will watch before your very eyes as highly paid mainstream media anchors are fired. Networks are going to panic; some of them are even going to shut down as paychecks aren't paid to staff,” says Liz.

2. We finally get honest reporting

“When the gravy train of Big Pharma ad dollars to TV networks stops, we will suddenly see reporting on the corruption of Big Pharma, of these drugs that don't do what they claim that they do, on vaccines, and even the harm that comes from some vaccines,” Liz predicts.

“We'll see reporting on medical associations like the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association and government regulation agencies like the CDC and the FDA,” she continues. “You're going to see reporting that was previously prohibited because the ad money that pharma paid these networks was really just a payoff for the networks’ silence.”

“It was a money laundering scheme all along to keep reporters silent about the abuses coming out of pharma.”

To hear more of Liz’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Wikipedia scandal exposed: Big Tech manipulates what you see



Wikipedia is no longer what it used to be, and co-founder Larry Sanger knows exactly why.

“Wikipedia can be used to advance a particular social and political agenda,” Sanger tells James Poulos on “Zero Hour.” “This becomes evident only if you know a lot about the topic. So sometimes the only people who are really qualified to tell whether a treatment of a topic is neutral are the people who know a lot about the topic.”

“It’s gotten really, really bad, though, in the Trump years, I mean really noticeably,” he continues, “and I think that is what sort of enlightened people about the problem. So while conservatives and Libertarian and anti-establishment types, they generally continue to despise Wikipedia, this seems to have had little impact on Wikipedia itself.”


“Why would it?” he adds. “This is a feature of the mainstream media. They’re not going to change, and Wikipedia now is essentially a summary of what the mainstream media thinks, at least when it comes to current events, politics, social issues, and so forth.”

However, it’s not just the twisting of the truth to fit a political agenda that’s bothered the co-founder, but the lack of care taken to stop others from spreading horrifying imagery on the website.

This became an issue to Sanger when he was enlightened to the existence of pedophile rings and “graphic representations of child rape on Wikipedia.” He reported it to the FBI in 2010.

“It didn’t do any good. They didn’t follow up. It’s still there. That did change my views insofar as I felt now it’s important to speak out about this, especially in this context,” he explains. “They’re not trying to hide their disdain at all any more, and from my point of view, it felt like simply speaking about such things as a moral imperative has emboldened me to say things that I have believed for many years.”

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Mark Levin: THIS is why Musk and the DOGE are so critical



The mainstream media in its collective effort to undermine President Trump and the MAGA mandate has begun referring to Elon Musk as “President Musk” because the Department of Government Efficiency is exposing rampant corruption and reducing the size of our bloated federal government, according to campaign promises.

Thankfully, President Trump, who’s “very comfortable in his skin,” isn’t letting the suggestion that Musk is more powerful than him impact their relationship or his faith in the DOGE, says Mark Levin.

“We have a press that hates Trump, that hates you and me, that hates traditional America, that promotes all the opposite, so it's not a free press; it's a propaganda operation,” he says.

The truth is what Elon Musk is doing via the DOGE is steering the country off the path of bankruptcy.

In a press conference last month, Musk made it clear what the agency is at its core: “Humble tech support.”

“That is almost a literal description of the work that the DOGE team is doing — helping fix the government computer systems,” he explained. “Many of these systems are extremely old; they don't communicate; there are a lot of mistakes in the systems; the software doesn't work.”

“The overall goal here with the DOGE team is to help address the enormous deficit. We simply cannot sustain as a country a $2 trillion deficit. Just the interest on the national debt now exceeds the Defense Department's spending. ... If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt,” Musk added, calling the DOGE”s efforts “not an optional thing” but “an essential thing.”

He went on to explain that his and the DOGE’s efforts to quite literally save the country from the brink of economic collapse are being met with constant opposition, including “death threats.”

Regardless, he vowed to prevail, aiming to save the country “$4 billion a day” to meet the DOGE’s goal of $1 trillion in savings by September this year — and to be completely transparent while doing it.

“Just remarkable,” says Levin of the agency’s efforts.

But of course, “Washington doesn’t want to hear it,” he says, likening the DOGE’s task to “[rolling] a boulder up a hill while there’s an avalanche coming down.”

And “the press doesn’t want to hear it,” either. “The media could care less that he gets death threats,” Levin sighs.

To hear more of his commentary, watch the clip above.

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