"Yes, they’re bigoted. Yes, racists, xenophobes - you name it. Also, they’re detached from reality," Cenk Uygur, host of 'The Young Turks,' says in defense of Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump’s supporters a basket of deplorables. "I will defend it, because she is absolutely correct," he says. "How dare she? She disagrees with the other side!"



He also criticized the media for making it seem like Clinton's comment has the same weight as Trump's numerous discriminatory statements.



"‘She’s just as guilty as Donald Trump - who’s encouraging bigotry - the person calling out bigotry is just as guilty’ no, not just as guilty, vastly different," he said.



According to a PPP poll, 65% of Donald Trump supporters think President Obama is a Muslim. 59% think he’s not American. 16% think Whites are a superior race.



"Yes, those opinions are deplorable. And yes, a very significant percentage of Trump supporters hold them."



But he also points out the second part of Clinton’s statement about Trump supporters, which the media has largely ignored, "Some of them clearly love that he’s going to kick out some of the Mexicans... but don’t forget the other half. The other half are just pissed and they’re pissed at the establishment." Not all of them are bigoted, Uygur says, "But it’s true that there is another significant percentage who cannot be convinced…they live in an alternate reality where everybody is out to get them."