Cenk Uygur bristles at the notion that the progressive media company he co-founded more than a decade ago, the Young Turks, is becoming the Breitbart of the left—that is, a pugilistic news outlet waging an ideological war with the establishment class. If you ask him, the comparison is backward. “Andrew Breitbart, when he was on my show before he passed away, said they emulated us, not the other way around,” Uygur told me in mid-March, after finishing a panel at South by Southwest. “They get a lot of credit now because our idiot president reads them, but in terms of traffic, they’re nowhere near us.” Besides, he added, Breitbart had done it wrong. “The trick is to be honest, and that’s the part they left out.”
