The Young Turks, Penn Gillette and Hillary Clinton

I'm really glad that The Young Turks is making its broadcasts available on YouTube, because host Cenk Uygur has a real talent for expressing some of the things I feel in easily understandable ways. One of those things is "faux outrage" by media personalities.

This case has to do with the hosts of Morning Joe on MSNBC, but the masters of "faux outrage" are undoubtedly on FOX "News." If there were a country called Faux Outrage, Sean Hannity would be running against Bill O'Reilly for president of it, OK? OK. In both their cases, whatever topic of the day has them red-faced and finger-pointy, you know they're not really outraged. . .they're delighted. It gives them drippy bloody red meat to throw to their audience.

But I digress. Check out Cenk's reaction to Morning Joe's hosts' reaction to Penn Gillette's reaction to his audience's reaction to a Hillary Clinton joke. Um, it's better than it sounds.