I wrote about how the political web talk show The Young Turks (also heard on Air America and XM radio) a while back, specifically noting how The Young Turks had successfully engaged “web soldiers” to promote and push out their content.

Now the news has come that the Turks have hit 50 million YouTube hits. From the press release.

With a staff of just five people, the progressive Young Turks Show has received almost twice as many views this election cycle as former presidential nominee John McCain’s YouTube channel (25.7 million) and half as many hits as President-Elect Barack Obama’s (113.6 million), which was run by an Internet staff of 95. The show’s explosive success is proof that progressives are mastering the web with numbers that make the die-hard-red talk radio world green with envy.

“We’re also one of the leading shows on XM satellite radio, but in politics the web is the future – the right just doesn’t get that.” said Young Turks founder and host Cenk Uygur, who lives in Los Angeles. “We are so proud of what we’ve built with The Young Turks and our audience is only growing as people increasingly turn to the Internet for news.”

Not too shabby. Not too shabby at all… That’s going in our book!