'The View' Hosts Take Ted Cruz To The Woodshed

'The View' Hosts Take Ted Cruz To The Woodshed | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers - loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.
“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”
The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on KZbin. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.
“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”
But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news - the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.
It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.
“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”
With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on KZbin, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do - even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.
While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.
But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks - who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago - the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.
Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king - the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”
And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”
Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”
It’s probably for the best - the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all - class issues,” he said on a recent episode. “That Raytheon decided they don’t hate gays or trans people - frankly, I don’t really give a shit what their take on that is..."
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@PbPomper Жыл бұрын

If only The View was this harsh on corporate democrats.

@bigcrazewolf Жыл бұрын

Claiming you're a Bush republican is not the prize she thinks it is.

@sawtooth808 Жыл бұрын

Someone in Ted Cruz’s staff

@lorimoore5589 Жыл бұрын

Watching Kyle's reaction calms me because someone is expressing how I feel.

@SilverSoul255 Жыл бұрын

Ted Cruz is the KING of bad faith arguments: what-aboutisms, strawmen, more what-aboutisms, bait and switch, all the sleazy tactics to avoid what you don't wanna talk about.

@Irishgoodbye2018 Жыл бұрын

I'm on disability and was been kicked off food stamps because my 21 year old college student son got a part time job. They made me wait until his 22nd birthday to re apply.

@ChestnutTreeCafe Жыл бұрын

Your Ted Cruz impersonation is spot on..

@Anthony-dy5cq Жыл бұрын

We all want to know too, how does a man let his wife be disrespected in such a public way.

@Libbathegreat Жыл бұрын

I just had to laugh at the title. I thought 'taking someone to the woodshed' was something we only said in the South 😂

@curtisrobinson9696 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call it taking him behind the woodshed when they let him pivot from abortion to the economy without consequence, didn't call him a liar for his back to work response and didn't call him a liar on the food stamp point. All they did was ask 1% harder questions

@ImaCatMaia Жыл бұрын

The extended child tax credit did not lift children out of poverty. What it did was put those families just over the income limit to not qualify for assistance. They still lived in poverty. The federal poverty income guidelines are a joke. Even income that is 140% above the poverty level is not enough to live on.