# Cenk Uygur running for Pres
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [October 22, 2023, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927 "2023-10-22T17:08:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 33
### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/641 "2025-11-22T13:42:38Z")
'Zactly. While you were typing I wrote this:
Whatever microscopic good thought anyone might have ever entertained for Uygur has been destroyed by his using the word “honest” to describe MTG. He’s clearly a wack.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/642 "2025-11-22T13:46:39Z")
She’s leaving congress?
Edit: OK, I just glanced at the MTG thread. Alright, I’ll believe it right after it happens.
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/643 "2025-11-22T13:56:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Whatever microscopic good thought anyone might have ever entertained for Uygur has been destroyed by his using the word “honest” to describe MTG. He’s clearly a wack.
Yeah, Cenk, Ana, and the rest have really gone off the deep end.
I’m half expecting MTG to land a gig at TYT after she leaves Congress…
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/644 "2025-11-22T18:38:44Z")
> [@bobot](#):
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> Alright, I’ll believe it right after it happens.
She’s saying, “You can’t fire me, I quit!”
If she didn’t resign she’d be gone soon anyway.
This is more a discussion for the other thread though.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2026, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/645 "2026-03-23T21:03:47Z")
Charlie Kirk’s [“mentor” has died](https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlie-kirks-mentor-jeff-webb-dies-after-freak-pickleball-accident/).
Why is that relevant to this thread? Because Cenk Uygur posted [this](https://x.com/cenkuygur/status/2036134135262224640) on Twitter.
> [@](#):
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> Charlie Kirk’s mentor just died in a freak pickleball accident. That’s an incredibly strange coincidence. If you’re going to say that’s not weird, that there are tons of pickleball fatalities, you sound nuts. I don’t know what happened but I don’t think this is perfectly normal.
The ways of the Pickleball Conspiracy are dark, but never pleasant. 😵💫 🥶 🥵 🤪 😱
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2026, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/646 "2026-03-23T23:08:31Z")
Who will blame the ~~Jews~~ Israelis first? Candace Owens or Cenk Uygur?
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/647 "2026-03-24T01:38:14Z")
It is indeed an incredibly strange coincidence that a 76-year-old man, while engaged in exercise, lost his balance and fell and hit his head and suffered fatal injuries. Who ever heard of a septuagenarian not surviving a bad fall? FREAK! COINCIDENCE! STRANGE!!!
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/648 "2026-03-24T01:44:11Z")
You know who else died from a “fall”? [Ivana Trump](https://abcnews.com/US/ivana-trump-wife-president-trump-dies-age/story?id=86834496)!
The conspiracy widens 😮 😮 😮
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/649 "2026-03-24T03:14:08Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#):
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> Who will blame the ~~Jews~~ Israelis first? Candace Owens or Cenk Uygur?
Don’t forget Tucker.
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### Author:  [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/650 "2026-06-02T17:12:04Z")
This just in: Cenk and his nephew are blocked from entering Britain.
[https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-blocks-visits-by-left-wing-us-commentators-cenk-uygur-hasan-piker-2026-06-01/](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-blocks-visits-by-left-wing-us-commentators-cenk-uygur-hasan-piker-2026-06-01/)
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### Author:  [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/651 "2026-06-03T02:46:53Z")
Cenk is either a Progressive with frat-boy instincts or a Big Phony who shows his true colors as a conservative apologist on a regular basis whose primary goal as a media star is to cash in, if you’re paying attention. In other words, he’s got something for everyone to distrust.
I’m really surprised that Britain would turn him away though. He’s for sure not the only political commentator who has questioned our fealty to Israel and our longstanding status as supplier of any weapon Israel wants. That is long overdue for a reassessment. We can still be friends but they don’t get to have all our toys. Does the UK mistake him for someone important?
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### Author:  [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/652 "2026-06-03T03:21:23Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> Does the UK mistake him for someone important?
Like most countries, the UK turns people away regularly in accordance with their stated policies, not just “important” people. It happens every day. We only notice this particular case because it involves somebody relatively well known. We don’t notice or care when Joe Q Average is turned away.
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### Author:  [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/653 "2026-06-03T06:28:36Z")
I’m not sure what this means. I have no idea which of the UK’s “stated policies” would be invoked in denying entrance to a guy and his nephew.
Of course it’s a political decision; none of those “average Joes” were turned away at LaGuardia since nobody would have asked those Joes for their views on Israel or anything else that might trip the wire declaring them ineligible to enter the country. If they indeed hold problematic views I believe they’ll find they have a lot of competition among the indigenous folk.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/654 "2026-06-03T06:46:41Z")
Here’s a list of prominent people denied entrance to the UK due to, among other things, their political views:
> **[List of people banned from entering the United Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_banned_from_entering_the_United_Kingdom)**
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> The Home Office, a United Kingdom government department, has, from August 2005 to 31 March 2009, excluded 101 individuals from the UK for having "engaged in unacceptable behaviour". Of those, 22 were excluded by then-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith between 28 October 2008 and 31 March 2009. On 5 May 2009 Smith publicly "named and shamed" sixteen of those individuals. In addition to the sixteen, other people are or have been banned from the United Kingdom.
> The individuals are not necessarily banned ...
They seem to cover a broad range of opinions and origins.
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/655 "2026-06-03T14:44:37Z")
To nobody’s surprise, Cenk alleges that he was banned from the UK because of those damned JEWSSSS!!!
As everyone knows, British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has always been our secret agent 🙄
I think Cenk losing his waiver to enter the UK without a visa (note, he was not “banned” from the UK, he just needs to apply for a visa now) has more to do with his peddling baseless and hateful conspiracy theories, like that the Bondi shooting and 9/11 were false flag operations, than with anything else.
As for Cenk’s nephew Hasan, he has openly supported a number of groups that are proscribed in the UK, including Hezbollah. Sometimes actions do in fact have consequences. Quite rarely if you’re a nepo baby like Piker is, but once in a while, it does happen.
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### Author:  [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/656 "2026-06-03T15:05:38Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> Of course it’s a political decision; none of those “average Joes” were turned away at LaGuardia since nobody would have asked those Joes for their views on Israel or anything else that might trip the wire declaring them ineligible to enter the country.
What are you talking about?
The CEO of my former company was denied entry to the US from Australia not for any stated views but because he had visited Iran sometime in the previous 8 months, which showed up on his passport. I guarantee you have never heard of him, and it never made the news. Things like that happen every day. He has subsequently been allowed entry but only after a fair amount of time passed (I think the next year but could have been 2 years).
There is denial of entry and permanent banning. This appears to be, for now, denial of entry.
Countries deny entry to foreign nationals for all sorts of reasons. Public statements can be one reason but they aren’t the only one. This is not exactly an isolated case.
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### Author:  [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/657 "2026-06-03T17:22:35Z")
Yes, denial of entry is not the same as permanent banning. You have a redress in that you can apply for a visa. I don’t know whether that works since the visa people no doubt can deny you one based on the Home Office’s determination of your unsuitability - one hand washes the other.
Cenk appears on the list linked above, which is from 2008/2009 (they later decided not to publicly name those people listed). Here’s the stated reason why: According to the UK government, his “presence in the UK may not be conducive to the public good”. As Cenk would say, weak sauce. But now we know he’s been blacklisted for quite some time.
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/658 "2026-06-03T17:27:05Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> Here’s the stated reason why: According to the UK government, his “presence in the UK may not be conducive to the public good”. As Cenk would say, weak sauce.
What’s “weak sauce” about that? Cenk’s presence almost certainly _would not_ be conducive for the public good; Shabana Mahmood is completely right about that, just like she was right about ~~Kan~~ Ye’s presence not being conducive for the public good.
Whether a country should stop foreigners who aren’t conducive to the public good from entering their country is a separate question, but that’s a choice the UK made in general, not especially for Cenk.
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### Author:  [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/659 "2026-06-03T17:36:20Z")
Well, the reasons given for non-entry for many on the list are things like “conviction of a crime in the United States”. Mike Tyson has one of those. Others earned their spot on the list like Fred Phelps, for “promoting hate speech”. So yes, some vague hand-waving about the public good (according to who?) is pretty weak.
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cenk-uygur-running-for-pres/991927/660 "2026-06-03T17:39:56Z")
> [@Hatchie](#):
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> according to who?
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood; that was pretty clear.
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