TYT FTW!!! 2009 Podcast Awards Info
Leave a Comment1. Go to www.podcastawards.com to vote for TYT in the Political category
2. Voting begins this Friday, November 13th and ends November 30th.
3. You can vote once a day EVERY day during the voting period (after you place your vote remember to verify your vote through your email, this is really easy and only takes a second, however the vote isn’t counted until it’s verified via your email)
4. We also are asking for your vote for the Best of the Left podcast (a friend of the show) in the Best Produced category.
5. Mount up TYT Nation! We are up against some big names (Rush, Maher) so we’re gonna have to strike in full force in order to win. Remember to vote once a day every day!
TYT FTW!!!
TYT FTW! Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Awards
Mashable is proud to present our 3rd annual Open Web Awards online competition. The Open Web Awards is our international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology and achievements in Social Media. TYT FTW!!!
The Young Turks – Best Political News Site
Cenk Uygur – Best Blogger to Follow
The Young Turks – Best YouTube Channel or Personality
Turk Telling Tuesday: TYT Video Podcast Mission
EXCITING NEWS!!!
The Young Turks have now launched a video version of the FREE iTunes podcast.
So here’s your mission: Get three people to subscribe to the FREE Video Podcast.
The TYT Video Podcast downloads automatically to your iTunes or iPhone daily, and it’s a great way to get people interested in the show. To find and subscribe to the podcast, just open iTunes and search “The Young Turks”, then click subscribe.
Don’t forget to leave a comment and give the video and audio podcasts 5-star ratings in iTunes!
Help TYT Dominate Podcast Alley
It’s now the first of the month and voting is again open at www.podcastalley.com.
Check out these links to vote for TYT
http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=45179
http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=86845
Last month the TYT audio podcast was ranked 280th on the site, I don’t know about you but I think TYT Nation can get the podcasts better rankings than that.
Must Read Monday – 10/26/09
Father faces criticism for taking 11-year-old to Hooters by Ana Kasparian
With an Incredible Shrinking President, It’s the Congress, Stupid by David Sirota
Uphold equal rights in Maine via Boston Globe
http://www.protectmaineequality.org/
Too Big To Win by Daniel Engber
Torching the Big Tent via New York Times
TYT vs. Fox News
Bill O’Reilly used his talking points memo on October 12th to challenge liberals to prove Fox News media bias.
Talking Points 10/12 – Video of Challenge by O’Reilly
So mount up TYT nation, let’s let Fox have it by bombarding them with clips of TYT taking it to them, like this one
O’Reilly Projection — Liberals Are Hatemongers
Email clips of TYT proving Fox’s bias to oreilly@foxnews.com
Must Read Monday – 10/19/09
Can somebody PLEASE explain the popularity of Jeff Dunham? by Kirk Baird
You Can Check Out Anytime You Like, but You Can Never Leave by Christopher Flavelle
Why Is Everyone Pretending Olympia Snowe Is so Darn Important? by David Sirota
Post-Bush Stress Disorder by Jonathan Alter
Goldman Can Spare You a Dime by Frank Rich
The Young Turks on Podcast Alley
How you can help promote the Young Turks via Podcast Alley.
First a quick explanation about what www.podcastalley.com is, they describe themselves as a “podcast lovers portal”. Basically it’s a huge directory of podcasts, and once a month the members of the website vote on their favorite podcasts, then the site publishes a top ten best podcasts list for the month. The Young Turks should dominate this list, with your help we can make that a reality.
The first thing you’ll need to do is sign up at www.podcastalley.com.
Once you’re signed up, search “The Young Turks” (the search box is located on the right side of the webpage) this will bring up a list of podcasts, find and click on “The Young Turks” and you’ll see three options, “Get Podcast”, “Vote” and “See Details”, simply click “Vote”.
One important note about the voting process, you can only vote ONCE a month.
Must Read Monday – 10/11/09
Japanese turn to Obama’s speeches for inspirational English lessons by Ana Kasparian
Not Your ‘Bud’ or Ours via NY Times
Tuesdays With Rahm by Christopher Hayes
Marriage Equality in Califorina: Why We Can’t Wait Until 2012 by Love Honor Cherish
Can This Film Save Afghanistan? by Gail Sheehy
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Must Read Monday
Capitalism Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry By Peter Scheer
A Real Employee Free Choice Act By Matt Miller
Conservatives attack a Department of Education official By Ana Kasparian
Tea Party Movement Returns Christian Right to Its Racist Past By Michelle Goldberg
Imagine No Religion? Atheist Movement Gains Momentum By Tana Ganeva
10 Reasons Why TYT should win a 2009 Podcast Award
1. Member Funded. The members are the backbone of the show, no corporate interests, no lobbyist money!
2. Quantity. Over three hours of content DAILY, 3 HOURS!!!
3. Member Involvement in the show. Every Friday a caller plays the “Name Game” live on the show.
4. Great Interviews on EVERY Show, see this link for more info http://www.theyoungturks.com/info/guests
5. The ONLY truely nonpartisian political coverage around.
6. Guest Co-Hosts including, Michael Shore, Ben Mankiewicz (At The Movies, TMZ, TCM) RJ Eskow, Wes Clark Jr. (yes he’s related to the General) and many more.
7. Daily News Round Up. Celebrity News, Sports Talk, Political Debate, etc.
8. Cenk’s Passion. Go to YouTube and search “Cenk Goes Ballistic” for proof.
9. ReThink Reviews, Jonathan Kim is frequently on the show reviewing giving the audience a progressive take on the movies.
10. www.theyoungturks.com. They provide not just a website but a virtual hub for their community.
Nominations open October 4th, to nominate TYT for a People’s Choice or Political Podcast award to to www.podcastawards.com
Must Read Monday
New study indicates spanking lowers IQ by Ana Kasparian
Conservative Radicals and the Politics of Vengeance by Bill Moyers
Glenn Beck Faces Backlash – from the Right by Steve Benen
How did Russians get so good at chess? by Christopher Beam
The Beck Bank Bailout by David Sirota
Twitter Petition to FORCE UP OR DOWN VOTE on Healthcare Bill
Found a great site that enables you to create Twitter petitions, http://act.ly/
Created a petition to be sent to Sen. Reid’s Twitter account to show support for him to Force an Up or Down vote on the Healthcare Bill by not allowing the Republicans to Filibuster. Check out my twitter account to Retweet and Sign.
Must Read Monday
Drinking age of 21 doesn’t work by John McCardell, Jr.
Me Talk Presidential One Day by Matt Latimer
New Rule: You Can’t Complain About Healthcare Reform If You’re Not Willing To Reform Your Own Health by Bill Maher
Corporatists vs. Capitialists by Cenk Uygur
Can We? A Brief History of American Racism from the Nation
Let’s get Michael Moore on TYT
If you’re like me, you’re a huge fan of Michael Moore, along with being a huge fan of The Young Turks. I think getting him on the show to promote his movie is a great idea. TYT Nation needs to mount up, if you agree let him know, maybe with your help TYT can score the interview.
Twitter – http://twitter.com/MMFlint
Email – mike@michaelmoore.com
TYT Must Read Monday
Fox News’ Glenn Beck’s right-wing rants go way too far, critics charge by David Saltonstall
The 9/11 Standard by Cenk Uygur
You Lie! Among at the 9/12 march on Washington by Christopher Beam
Why did Health Insurance Stocks Go Up after the President’s Speech? by RJ Eskow
New Rule: Float Like Obama, Sting Like Ali by Bill Maher
Mission: Egg the Right into a Fight
Attention, I have a new top secret TYT mission for anyone interested. I need you to help me egg the right into a fight. Here’s my plan. I’m going to email conservative radio and television personalities TYT blogs and YouTube clips bashing the right. I think it’ll be smart to say something like “Do you believe these Young Turk idiots, I can’t believe they’re so big on YouTube!” in the emails. My goal is to egg these personalities into attacking TYT. Wanna help? Here are a few emails addresses to start with, if you can dig up any other email addresses to attack please post in the comment section of this blog. With any luck we can egg these rightwing douche bags into a fight with Cenk, hence pushing TYT further into the national spotlight, how awesome would it be to see Cenk debate Glenn Beck!!!
Bill O’Reilly – oreilly@foxnews.com
Glenn Beck – glennbeck@foxnews.com
Fox’s Red Eye Show – redeye@foxnews.com
Rush Limbaugh – ElRushbo@eibnet.com
Glenn Beck Radio Show – me@glennbeck.com
TYT Must Read Monday
5 Must Read Blogs
How Mike Huckabee’s Evangelical Creds Helped Him Avoid the GOP’s Collapse, and Remain a Political Threat for 2012 by Max Blumenthal
10 of the Most Obscenely Stupid Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories and Attacks Against the President by Tana Ganeva
Is Obama One of Us? by Cenk Uygur
WSJ: “Glenn Beck Counts For More At the Obama White House” Than the Progressive Movement by David Sirota
Out With the Books. In with the Flat Screens. by Ana Kasparian
Framing Mission: Rename GOP
I’m so tired of Republicans calling us the “Democrat Party”. It ends in “rat”, how clever! Then they refer to themselves as the “GOP” or “Grand Old Party”. The only thing correct about that label is the “OLD” part. So here’s my idea, everytime we hear a Republican refer to their party as the GOP, let’s correct their asses. There’s nothing GRAND about that party and it’s time we fight back. It may be childish, it may cause a fight, but it’s time for the Democratic Party to grow a pair, stand up and fight back. No longer can the phrase “GOP” or “GRAND OLD PARTY” be allowed to be part of our political vocabulary.
Mission: Help Promote TYT via iTunes
Helping promote TYT through iTunes is extremely quick and easy.
1) Whether you’re a member or not SUBSCRIBE to the FREE iTunes podcast.
- to find the podcast simply type “The Young Turks” into the search box at the podcast section of the iTunes store and it’ll come up.
2) Once you’ve subscribed to the Podcast, RATE IT. There is a place where you can rate the podcast and add a comment about it, the ratings and comments make a huge difference.
3) Tell all your friends who you think would enjoy the show about the Podcast, it’s a really easy and free way to check out the show, if they like they can become members.
The FREE Podcast will download automatically on a daily basis, so once you set all this up once it will continue working until you tell it to stop.
