“Tom Perkins, a founding partner of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, over the weekend compared the current wave of ostracism towards the incredibly wealthy to attacks on Jewish people by the Nazis during World War II in a letter to the editor in The Wall Street Journal.

This, naturally, caused an Internet uproar. So today Perkins went on Bloomberg TV to apologize. Except he didn’t apologize at all — other than saying he regretted referring to the Kristallnacht, the the Nazi-organized pogrom against German Jews in 1938 that foreshadowed the Holocaust.”

Read more from Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattlynley/tom-perkins-bloomberg-tv-interview

Read the WSJ Op-Ed Agreeing With Tom Perkins: http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-journal-tom-perkins-was-right-2014-1

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks discusses Tom Perkins’ interview on Bloomberg, Cenk also discusses an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal defending Perkins’ comments.

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