Cenk Uygur
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Who Is TYT’s 2015 Jerk Of The Year?
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January 1, 2016
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16:02Now PlayingThere are a lot of jerks in the world. Who’s at the very bottom of the barrel? Watch us count down the five worst. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Acquaintances of the mastermind behind ISIS, which now controls a self-proclaimed caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, say he grew up studious, pious and calm. He was introverted, without many friends...
Above all, says Jiyad, al-Baghdadi seems to be a man who revels in his position “as the world’s top terrorist, who sees himself as a successor to Osama bin Laden.”
“Once you remove the mystique and grandeur, the ‘caliph’ turns out to be a rather ordinary man who saw his opportunity and took it,” says Jiyad. “He is no different from the hundreds of other Iraqis who attempted to destroy the new Iraq. He could have ended up as a faceless terrorist or a violent criminal. And now he finds himself the center of the world’s attention.””*
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