The ludicrous new ad from Cenk Uygur, contending that Americans pay high prices at the grocery store because of the cost of U.S. aid to Israel, is not new at all. He ran the same ad, back in 2024, as part of his push for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
This is the ad that’s going viral right now on TikTok. This #CeasefireAd can help us get delegates in the Democratic primary to fight for #CEASEFIRE_NOW. Please share and help us run this ad in the upcoming primary states at https://t.co/X3hSRUkBz0 https://t.co/cvA3malRUt
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) February 15, 2024
That’s one reason why the ad features a bizarrely outdated complaint about expensive eggs costing seven dollars per dozen. As of last month, the average egg price was $2.72.
The new ad just has a tacked-on ending, contending that Mike Rogers is for “they/them” — i.e., the Jews — and not for you.
This Rebellion ad about Mike Rogers is the best Rorschach test. If you live in DC, you see someone saying Jews made the price of our eggs go up. If you don’t live in DC, you see average American family frustrated that they have to pay for a genocide when they can barely get by. https://t.co/y2qurdATcc
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) October 27, 2026
The ad is appalling; it doesn’t count as a dog whistle because dog whistles are supposed to be difficult to hear.
But it’s also weird that Uygur is rerunning an old ad and getting a whole new round of controversy out of it.