In an election that has seen a parade of their preferred nominees go down in screaming flames, the Tea Party has seen its relevance dwindle since their tri-cornered heyday. However, they can still manage to get Cenk Uygur worked up. On Tuesday night’s The Young Turks, Cenk bemoaned the rapidity with which they were “co-opted” by banks, and went off on Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), calling him a “Tea Party whore.”

Ana Kasparian, co-host of The Young Turks, apparently suffers from an all-too-common malady: Fox News Legs Syndrome. During a segment on Friday’s web-0nly portion of the Current TV hit featuring Bob Beckel playing pot/kettle with Joy Behar‘s looks, Kasparian confessed that The Five co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle‘s legs were “distracting” to her, a condition which host Cenk Uygur noted is common among Fox News viewers.

Someone at The Ed Show has a flair for prop comedy. On Tuesday night, host Ed Schultz mocked presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney‘s longing for strolls on the Champs-Élysées by donning a progression of Franco-philic accessories. Romney has taken guff from political pundits over his choice to fondly remember vacations in France, rather than his years as a missionary, but Shultz was also quick to point the right’s hypocritical silence on Romney’s Frenchiness.

Greg Gutfeld, 20% of Fox News’ The Five, raised more hackles than a flock of geese at a screening of The Sixth Sense when he opined that the National Organization for Women is now superfluous because women have secured the right to shop. During Monday’s online edition of The Young Turks, co-host Ana Kasparian said what a lot of people were probably thinking: “F**k you!”

First, it was Mitt Romney having “fun getting to know Ted Nugent,” but now, the rest of post-Mesozoic America is getting to join in. On last night’s The Young Turks, host Cenk Uygur detailed one more fascinating chapter in the tough-talking rock dinosaur’s past: his avoidance of service in Vietnam. Uygur recounts the explanation Nugent gave in 1977, dubs him “coward” about 18 times, and crowns him “The Weakest Man In America.”

On Tuesday night’s edition of Current TV’s The Young Turks, host Cenk Uygur took a little detour into Howard Beale territory, going off on Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly over his reaction to the so-far successful campaign against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). O’Reilly called opponents of the group like grassroots organization Color Of Change “fascists,” to which Uygur responded, angrily, “You wanna play name calling games, Bill? You’re a goddamn Nazi!”

On the heels of reporting on the Newt Gingrich campaign’s Tigger-esque checkbook, Current TV’s The Young Turks interviewed a small businessman who says he was stiffed by the presidential (still) (mystifyingly) hopeful. TYT contributor Michael Shure interviewed Las Vegas businessman Larry Scheffler, who says Gingrich owes him about $8,000.00, and that even though Gingrich blew him off on the phone when he tried to collect, he would still vote for the former House Speaker over President Obama.

The fallout from Current TV’s firing of Countdown host Keith Olbermann was bound to get ugly, but one particular section of Olbermann’s lawsuit against Current is particularly unfortunate. In the suit, Olbermann trashes longtime booster Cenk Uygur, alleging that he opposed hiring The Young Turks‘ host, and then refused to promote TYT because “It Was Demonstrably Substandard.” The numbers, and even the former Countdown host’s own words, tell a different story.

In the PR war between Current TV and fired former Countdown host Keith Olbermann, the truth is the first casualty, say sources familar with the situation. Reuters is reporting that several anonymous sources say that Current is in danger of being dropped by Time Warner Cable, and while the network disputed the report in general, our source says that “Reuters’ report is completely inaccurate.”

On Wednesday, Inside Cable News released an in-depth, multi-part report on MSNBC’s failed rebranding effort to a news and information destination in the dayside and the cable network’s subsequent rebirth into one dominated by progressive opinion and analysis.

On the heels of his firing from Current TV, former Countdown host Keith Olbermann makes his mildly-ballyhooed first appearance on CBS’ The Late Show with David Letterman. In a preview clip, Olbermann rehashes his passive-aggressive “It was my fault for not knowing everybody but me sucks” apology, and compared himself to “a $10 million chandelier” that Current TV “should have a house to put it in.”

He also revealed that he began looking for an escape pod within ten days of his show’s debut.

Along with the news that Countdown 2: Electric Boogaloo host Keith Olbermann has been fired from Current TV, almost as suddenly as he was from the last Countdown, comes an interesting bit of news from a source at the network. As of this week, lead-in The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur, which was already feeding coveted younger viewers to Olbermann, began actually beating Countdown in the key 25-54 demographic.

Over the weekend, Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz slammed MSNBC for allowing Rev. Al Sharpton to cover the Trayvon Martin story, while leading rallies and protests at the same time. Rev. Sharpton picked up an unlikely ally Tuesday night, as The Young Turks‘ Cenk Uygur, who has been sharply critical of The Rev in the past, came to his defense, saying “God bless Rev. Sharpton. He’s bringing to light an issue that needed that light, that needed that attention.”

Emotions are running understandably high over the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin, and the police failure to arrest George Zimmerman, the man who admitted to shooting the 17 year-old, claiming self-defense. A prime example of this was Young Turks host Cenk Uygur‘s interview with gun advocate Larry Pratt, who says that Trayvon Martin should have run away.

Although not regulated by the FCC, basic cable news channels generally adhere to the same language standards as their broadcast counterparts, with occasional exceptions. Current TV’s The Young Turks made such an exception Tuesday night, airing uncensored audio of the 911 call that many are convinced features George Zimmerman muttering “f**king c**ns” minutes before he shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The Young Turks‘ Cenk Uygur explained the decision to Mediaite.

As is often said of Christmas, “You keep March Madness in your way, I’ll keep it in mine.”

While President Obama celebrates the annual NCAA Basketball Tournament with his “Barack-etology” segments on ESPN, conservatives celebrate it by complaining about President Obama’s ”Barack-etology” segments on ESPN, and Mitt Romney…skips it. The Young Turks‘ Cenk Uygur has begun a new tradition, the “GOP Madness Tournament,” and he needs your help.

The political media has been quick to assess the damage that Rush Limbaugh‘s “slut-gate” has done to the Republican Party, particularly given their presidential candidates’ bewildering failure to denounce the conservative radio giant’s attacks on Sandra Fluke, and all women. But they have so far failed to highlight the fact that one of those candidates, Mitt Romney, actually profits from Limbaugh’s inflammatory rhetoric, and probably owes voters a better answer than “That’s not the language I would have used.”

The Young Turks‘ Cenk Uygur took a shot at remedying that on Monday night.

Conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh has always enjoyed a certain immunity to public pressure because of his total dominance of talk radio, but this past weekend, he felt compelled to issue a walletfelt apology for calling Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute.” The Young Turks‘ Cenk Uygur sees the apology not just as a response to advertiser pullouts, but as an indication that Limbaugh’s ratings are actually a lot weaker than people realize. He issued a $10,000 challenge for Limbaugh to prove his self-proclaimed 20 million listeners.

Rush Limbaugh is the provocative, outspoken voice of an army of conservative dittoheads, while The Young Turks‘ Cenk Uygur breathes fire from the left, so the two don’t often agree. However, the recent burning of Korans at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, and subsequent deadly protests, have brought these two together for a brief moment that could throw open the gates of Hades and swallow civilization whole.

Andrew Breitbart and his Big Journalism colleagues have been waging all-out internet war on Countdown host Keith Olbermann over his failure to correct (or clarify) guest Markos Moulitsas‘ comments on sexual assaults at Occupy encampments, and for statements Olbermann has made on Twitter since then that seem to indicate denial that any such assaults occurred. While there is serious, legitimate criticism to be made of Olbermann here, the Breitbart crew undermines that with overreaches and lies.

Conservative media provocateur Andrew Breitbart made news at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference by hectoring Occupy DC protesters with cries of “Stop raping people!” On Tuesday night’s The Young Turks, host Cenk Uygur challenged Breitbart over his rant, and his assertions that the mainstream media hasn’t been covering sexual assaults at Occupy protests. Breitbart told Uygur his rant was “a stunt to go over the mainstream media, to get people talking about the rapes.”

Viewers of Current TV’s The Young Turks might get the idea that host Cenk Uygur and his crew are a relatively new band of progressive broadcasters, and even fans of TYT’s long-running internet and radio shows might not know just how long they’ve been toiling away. Tonight, that all changes, as Uygur and co. celebrate their 10th anniversary, and debut the trailer for a Valentine of a documentary for their fans.

On Tuesday night’s The Young Turks, host Cenk Uygur went the eff off on President Obama over what he sees as administration signals of a compromise on the religious employer exemption to the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Mandate. Loudly calling it like he sees it, Uygur said that President Obama “doesn’t have the guts” to fight conservatives on the issue, and that “his natural instinct” to “run for the hills” kicks in whenever he’s challenged a little bit.

On Thursday night’s edition of Current TV’s The Young Turks, host Cenk Uygur blasted CNN’s Erin Burnett (again) in a segment called “Sh*t Erin Says,” accusing the OutFront host of “right-wing talking points and scaring retired people” during an interview with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). At issue was Burnett’s suggestion that an increase in taxes on capital gains and dividends would hurt retirees, when such income is overwhelmingly made by millionaires.

This week, viewers of Current TV’s Countdown have been treated to syndicated liberal radio powerhouse Bill Press filling the anchor chair for bronchitis-stricken Keith Olbermann. Contrary to this item at Huffington Post, Press will also host Countdown‘s Florida primary coverage Tuesday night, along with guest analyst Eliot Spitzer (Spitzer will then fill in as Countdown host Wednesday night). Olbermann’s absence may be providing viewers with a glimpse of Current’s future.