Quote Originally Posted by Monty3038 View Post
I'm taking a look at a few of these, on the Cenk Uygur stuff, do you focus on the clips or the blog?
I watch his daily show, and his MSNBC show now that he's on there. On MSNBC, he kinda does and doesn't have a show. It's like he's a really popular temp so they've given him a sorta permanent but indefinite show. He's in a good spot where his TYT brand is growing so well that viewership may eventually surpass any cable news, so he doesn't have to sell out. His TYT show is better than the MSNBC one though because it's unscripted and more raw and they do an excellent job with that. The MSNBC one does get some great material with guests though. They used to do tons of guests on TYT, but they moved that stuff to MSNBC. FWIW, Cenk's mission statement is something along the lines "present a pro-populous agenda with as much strength at you can". My guess is that's the main reason he does MSNBC. He doesn't need it for his excellent TYT business, but cable news calls the shots on political discourse. Just some small examples examples, Shirley Sherrod was fired because of Glenn Beck, and 9/11 first responders got health care because of Jon Stewart

As to what to look at with Cenk's stuff, I'm not sure it matters. Just get a few little doses of anything that looks cool. Probably watch a full 2 hour TYT show at some point. I do it live, but they do itunes downloads and the site continually runs streams. It is by far the best political show I've seen, but it might take some getting used to because it's different than any TV news show

Is the current issue the rate of production or the rate of refining? At least in the US?
Extraction. And US doesn't really matter when it comes to production and pricing and all that because the market is global. Don't be fooled by the rhetoric coming from politicians and media paid by the oil lobby. Doing things like drilling in ANWR and off shore change pricing by mere pennies, and it's not "US oil", it's privately owned mulitnational corporate oil sold on the global market