MSNBC w/ Cenk: Game Show Hosts Love Republicans?

[CherylK]

Run time: 04:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TKv-c1VZAY   Posted on YouTube: November 12, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 19546   Posted on DU: November 15, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 380

 
Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) hosting MSNBC Live speaks with Rebecca Dana of The Daily Beast about popular game show hosts donating to conservative candidates. Watch Cenk host MSNBC Live through November 30th (3-4pm Eastern, 12-1pm Pacific).

[jwirr]

1. Of course they do that is who is paying them .

[frazzled]

2. The one who isn't conservative is ...

Tom Bergeron, host of Dancing with the Stars (I guess you can call that a game show). Despite the fact that the show has had on Tom Delay and Bristol Palin as contestants. (I presume the hosts don't choose the guests.)

I learned this by accident back in late 2003, when we drove up to some town in New Hampshire to check out the newest presidential candidate throwing his hat into the pool: Wesley Clark. It was his first speech/rally in NH, and we were curious to see if he had the chops. There were fewer than 100 people there, but one who was was Tom Bergeron. He got up and explained to the mini-crowd that he was visiting his parents in a nearby NH town and couldn't believe his luck to see that Wes Clark was going to be appearing, and he was grateful to the campaign for letting him say a few words before the candidate arrived. Then he dove into a rant about G.W. Bush and the Republicans that would have made even Michael Moore blush.

If you look up his recent donations, they've been to the DNC and Obama, and the DSCC.