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Kyle Kulinski
Kulinski at Politicon 2018
Personal information
Born (1988-01-31) January 31, 1988 (age 36)
Westchester County, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic (2016–present)
Independent (until 2016)
EducationIona College (B.A.)
Occupation(s)Talk show host
YouTuber
Political commentator
Political activist
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2008–present
Genre(s)Political commentary
Political activism
Subscribers772,000[1]
(January 2020)
Total viewsOver 630 million[1]
(December 2019)
NetworkThe Young Turks
100,000 subscribers2014

Kyle Edward Kulinski (born January 31, 1988) is an American political commentator, and the co-founder of Justice Democrats.[3][4] He is the host and producer of The Kyle Kulinski Show on his YouTube channel Secular Talk, an affiliate of The Young Turks network.[5] He is a social democrat.

Personal life

Kulinski was born and raised in the New York City suburbs of Westchester County, New York. He graduated from New Rochelle High School in 2006 and Iona College in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in political science and a minor in psychology.[6][7]

Career

In 2019, he appeared at Politicon[8] and the The Joe Rogan Experience.[9] He has appeared on Fox News[10] and Hill TV's Rising.[11]

The Kyle Kulinski Show

Kulinski started a YouTube channel in 2008, named "Secular Talk". In 2012, Kulinski began publishing videos full-time, and started broadcasting on BlogTalkRadio as The Kyle Kulinski Show. The show's segments are uploaded to Kulinski's Secular Talk YouTube channel, which received its 100,000th subscriber in April 2014 and reached 500,000 subscribers in September 2017. Kulinski has claimed that his content was "de-ranked" by YouTube.[12][better source needed]

Justice Democrats

Kulinski—alongside Cenk Uygur, Saikat Chakrabarti and Zack Exley—co-founded the Justice Democrats in December 2016.[13][14] The group seeks to steer the Democratic Party in a strongly progressive, social democratic or democratic socialist direction by running progressive candidates in primaries against moderate and conservative incumbents such as Joe Manchin, Joe Crowley, and Dianne Feinstein.[15]

When Justice Democrats co-founder Cenk Uygur was forced to resign in late-2017 over controversial blogposts from the early-2000s that featured sexist language, Kulinski resigned in solidarity.[16][better source needed]

In December 2019, when a The New York Times article about Uygur (now a congressional candidate for the California's 25th congressional district) claimed that Uygur had, in an interview with former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, agreed with Duke's characterization of himself as "not a racist".[17] Kulinski ran clips of the Duke interview on his show to show Uygur having a "fiery debate" with Duke and saying directly to Duke that he was "anti-Semitic." Kulinski demanded an apology from the Times.[18] The New York Times later issued a correction.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b "About SecularTalk". YouTube.
  2. ^ Secular Talk (February 17, 2016), What Is A 'Militant Agnostic' And 'Agnostic-Atheism'?, archived from the original on March 2, 2016, retrieved July 23, 2018 – via YouTube
  3. ^ "Justice Democrats: About". Justice Democrats. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  4. ^ Hains, Tim (January 24, 2017). "Cenk Uygyr launches a new wing of Democratic Party: Justice Democrats". Real Clear Politics. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  5. ^ Pfeiffer, Eric (July 11, 2017). "Kyle Kulinski Of The Young Turks Says Democrats Need To Change Before They Can Defeat Trump". Good.is. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
  6. ^ Kulinski, Kyle. "About". The Kyle Kulinski Show. Archived from the original on December 20, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  7. ^ Secular Talk (April 11, 2015). "Kyle's First Time High - From K&C #10". Archived from the original on August 21, 2015. Retrieved December 13, 2017 – via YouTube.
  8. ^ "Schedule". Politicon. October 26, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  9. ^ Tim Hains (October 30, 2019). "Kyle Kulinski: Donald Trump's Claim To Be Anti-Establishment Is A Sham, It's A Hustle". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  10. ^ di Santolo, Alessandra Scotto (August 9, 2018). "Fox News: Left-wing Radio host SHUT DOWN in hilarious TV clash over future of US Democrats". Express.co.uk. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  11. ^ Bonn, Tess (July 24, 2019). "Progressive activist: Sanders 'at his best when he's an angry old man'". Hill TV. Retrieved December 20, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ Uberti, David (July 26, 2019). "Tulsi Gabbard's $50M Google Lawsuit Takes a Page from the Far-Right Playbook". Vice. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  13. ^ Murphy, Tim (March 28, 2017). "The Young Turks really, really don't want you to compare them to Breitbart". Mother Jones.
  14. ^ Atkinson, Joshua D.; Kenix, Linda Jean, eds. (2019). Alternative media meets mainstream politics : activist nation rising. Lexington Books. p. 190. ISBN 9781498584340.
  15. ^ Hains, Tim (May 9, 2017). "'Justice Democrat' Coal Miner's Daughter Paula Swearingen Announces Primary Challenge Against West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  16. ^ Kerr, Andrew (March 5, 2019). "Ocasio-Cortez and Her Chief of Staff 'Could Be Facing Jail Time'". The Daily Signal. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  17. ^ Medina, Jennifer (December 13, 2019). "Bernie Sanders Retracts Endorsement of Cenk Uygur After Criticism". The New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  18. ^ Wulfsohn, Joseph (December 16, 2019). "Cenk Uygyr slams 'unconscionable' NY Times report suggesting he defended David Duke, calling it a 'lie'". Fox News.
  19. ^ Wulfsohn, Joseph (December 16, 2019). "New York Times issues correction after suggesting Cenk Uygur defended David Duke". Fox News. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
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