Cenk Uygur
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Gangnam Style Ruined by 81-Year Old Republican?
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December 6, 2012
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December 6, 2012
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3:39Now Playing"Enter former Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican from Wyoming who served from 1979 to 1997 and who was appointed by President Obama to co-chair his commission on debt reform.
The 81-year-old statesman can be seen on YouTube galloping along to the smash hit song from South Korean star Psy -- all in an attempt to get young people involved in the fiscal cliff debate.
Simpson was recruited by the nonpartisan group Can Kicks Back, which urges the millennial generation to lobby for a deficit-reduction plan. The organization hopes that officials will reach agreement by the summer instead of stalling, or as some say, kicking the can down the road."*
Alan Simpson, the 81-year old former Republican senator from Wyoming danced "Gangnam Style" to get young Americans into the fiscal cliff debate. Are Simpson's ideas enough to fix the budget? And did his ad officially make Gangnam Style jump the shark? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian sound off.
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