Bernie Sanders retracts endorsement of Californian who defends crude sex ratings of women
by Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times
Dec 13, 2019
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Bernie Sanders withdrew his endorsement of California congressional candidate Cenk Uygur on Friday after reports about the online talk show host making crude and degrading comments about women and provocative statements about Jews, Muslims and other groups.
The Democratic presidential candidate had said Thursday that Uygur, founder and co-host of "The Young Turks" online talk show, is "a voice that we desperately need in Congress" to fill the seat of former Rep. Katie Hill of Santa Clarita. Friday, he took back the endorsement.
In one episode in 2013, Uygur ranked women on a scale of 1 to 10 on how
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