Remember the Houthis that have been taking shots at both US warships and innocent marine traffic moving through the Red Sea to the Suez Canal? Israel just ‘beepered’ them and now Cenk has the sads.
Poor baby.
Every so often Cenk rears his head out of whatever obscure hole he broadcasts from and does something so ridiculous people almost remember he exists for a minute. He’s had some famous meltdowns over the years — slowly losing his mind on air as it gradually dawned on him Trump would be elected in 2016 is the some of the best comedic political viewing the internet has ever produced.
He’s had other moments that got him noticed, usually for unchecked rage like the time he raged at airport staff like some petty potentate. But most of us have moved on and forget about him until he says his next colossally stupid statement.
Now that Israel has found the Houthis and hit them HARD with missile strikes as they were gathered to hear their leader, much of the rebel leadership has been wiped out.
This is VERY upsetting to poor Cenk who let loose with (what else?) an internet rant raging at Israel for having committed such an ‘atrocity’, for ‘murdering’ a ‘head of state’.
Cenk Uygur is now mourning the Houthi terror group leadership.
Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/HKCMevkkhk
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) August 31, 2025
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If you don’t feel like watching the full rant, you can get the gist of it from here:
Uh-huh. Before we get to the punchline where Grok made Cenk look like a chump, let’s look a little more closely at the details of the event itself. Spolier alert: he’s siding with actual terrorists, and claiming that anti-Muslim bias explains why others don’t share his view.
Here’s a photo of the group he’s sympathizing with as something to ponder as you look at where the Houthis have been in recent headlines. Here is a Reuters image of the group whose agenda he has been defending.
Their leadership got smoked by Israeli airstrikes. But they have no claim to be the legitiimate’ leadership of Yemen. The Houthis are NOT the organization with widespread international recognition as official leaders of the country.
The Houthis responded with their usual reply of attacking civilian shipping and reminded the world that they are rightly called terrorists by taking 11 UN officials as hostages.
