“Anger in America,” MSNBC-style
Someone named Dylan Ratigan is apparently auditioning to take Keith Olbermann/Larry Scary O’Donnell/Chris Matthews’ place on MSNBC. These angry white men sure can work themselves up into a lather about angry white men. Watch him foam and hyperventilate while Tea Party activist Mark Williams sits quietly on the right:
Dude, look in the mirror:
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He is definately three cards short of a full deck.
This is outstanding. The leftocrats need more of these obnoxious imbeciles to represent the mindset of the self proclaimed intellectual and moral elite. Keep talking Ratigan. Please!
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable, on certain occasions, that I wish it to always be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
I like a little rebellion now and then.It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas Jefferson – 1787
Watch out Olberdorkeeeeeee you have a wanna be clone lurking at the studio!
Watch out Hissyyyyyyyyy Matthews there is somebody looking to be your suckcessor.
Scarborough this guy wants on your show!!
SUCH ANGER…….misplaced and ignorant at best.
Tough to engage in dialogue when you’re rendered speechless.
Radigan is a certifiable nut.
Get this man some meds! Why would anyone want to be on his show? Why would anyone watch his show?
Ratigan has an anger management issue.
Dylan Ratrump is concerned about the dialogue in this country?
Who cares.
Not sure what to think of this.
What are the rules? Do you not get to answer questions? Are you allowed the time to formulate your thoughts? Are you allowed to change the subject, redirect and avoid? Is this how you treat your guests?
Both of these guys need a time out.
Ratigan threw fire bombs and the premise of his questions were offensive and were meant to solicit an emotional response. This serves no one.
What are Ratigan’s expectations? To hear only ‘yes’ and ‘no’ answers?
What are William’s expectations? To go on tangents?
A higher level of sophistication is required of both individuals. They should share their expectations with one another before appearing on the air. It makes flamboyant TeeVee and is more heat than light, and it does not advance the conversation.
I’m not a big fan of news personalities screaming over people. This is why I don’t like guys like Bill O. and Chris Matthews. But at the same time, why didn’t the guy just say, “No, we don’t accept them in the Tea Party.” Maybe it was a stupid question, but at the same time, the answer was simple.
Don’t think Williams will return to MSNBC but surly he had to have known he’d be throttled.
Maybe MSNBC paid him big $$ for the appearance and I hope he’ll put it toward Tea Party causes. That’s healthy revenge.
You can’t possibly be saying Williams was inappropriate, are you? He was answering the question the entire time.
What a wiener…!!!!
Where DO they find these idiots…!?!?!?
I’m quite sure what to think of your analysis.
L a m e L a m e L a m e L a m e L a m e L a m e L a m e L a m e L a m e L a m e
Is it any wonder why this network’s ratings are in the toilet?
Memo to Dylan –
Dude, it takes absolutely zip, zero, nada talent to shout down a guest. And please, where is the evidence that members of Tea Party organizations want to shoot black people? I have seen black people at Tea Parties. Not one of them ever got shot. The worst thing I’ve read about is a black man who got beat up by … no, not a Tea Partier … but rather, one of your comrades in arms, an SEIU thug. I think there some projection on your part going on here.
Is there anyone on the air at MSNBC that isn’t a complete a-hole?
Jeez, Dylan — next time provide the guest with the answers that you are looking for – it would save time. Too much “Red Bull” perhaps?
Am I the only one on the internet who sees MSNBC’s staff as WANTING to start a race war in this nation?
It’s damned obvious to me.
They are inciting to violence, on purpose.
Went to NewsBusters to read the comments. Nobody there sees it. Nobody here sees it. It’s all “Wow, they’re stupid and crazy!”, but not “Wow, they are intentionally doing this to incite racial violence!”
The latter is the case, and folks would see it if folks would open their eyes and not treat each of these “events” as a wholly separate rant, totally unrelated and disconnected from every other similar rant.
MSNBC WANTS A RACE WAR AND THESE RANTS ARE THEIR BATTLECRIES. Every day it becomes more evident, to those with their eyes open.
No doubt the Dylan Ratrump thinks the bomb threat at Jim Bunnings office came from Tea Partiers. What a tool.
The detail might have escaped some, but before the interview with Williams begins, it appears as though, they have just finished an earlier segment with Mark Potok (the curly haired dude shown on the right, but does not speak) of the lived-way-beyond-it’s-usefulness, and quite irrelevant SPLC. The race/ethnicity/grievance lobby just doesn’t know when to stop I guess.
Re: MSNBC…it’s so darn popular where I live, that my cable provider bumped it from the basic cable package all the way out to channel number 15,396 – or something real close.
1. “short of a full deck” – no.
4. “such anger – misplaced and ignorant” – no.
6. “certifiable nut” – no.
7. “get this man some meds” – no.
8. “anger management issue” – no.
14. “these idiots” – no.
18. “too much Red Bull” – no.
INTENTIONAL INCITEMENT OF A CLASS AND RACE OF PEOPLE BY DEVIOUS PEOPLE USING THESE PLANNED TACTICS IN ORDER TO START A RACE WAR – Yes.
Anyone else want to chime in about how Stupid the Democrats are? Look who took your nation, and THINK AGAIN.
Has anybody ever seen a sign that says “kill blacks” or “kill jews” at a Tea Party rally? Isn’t his whole premise based on a fallacy?
I am proud to condsider myself a follower of the tea party. To me, the tea party is about liberty and freedom and has nothing to do with race.
Well, I’d be angry too if I was batting below the Gutfeld Line.
FOXN RED EYE MTWTF__ 03:00A -04:00A
0.4 347 400 155 19
MSNB DYLAN RATIGAN SHOW MTWTF__ 06:00A -11:00P
0.3 268 300 66 16
That would be a great blog post by someone. The headline would be,
Is MSNBC Trying to Start a Race War?
The villian in a Disney cartoon titled “The Great Mouse Detective” was named “Ratigan” (narrated by Vincent Price).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Mouse_Detective
Somehow it all seems so appropriate.
So when is this guy going to take on CAIR about muslim extremists?
what an unadulterated JERK!!! He definitely is Keith Olbermann’s heir apparent! For sure, he’s a Saul Alinsky acolyte….Rule 13: pick the target (the tea parties), freeze it, personalize it (call them racists), and polarize it. MSNBC continues its descent into the depths of ignominy.
WOW!
America is going to the dung heap unless they can overcome male skanks like that Williams fellow. After that spittle-spurt from him, all I can do is pray that your young will see him as the ignoramus he is. And to think, in Canada we have another like him who wants to be our Prime Minister and spent most of his youth with Obama and friends In greater USA. Just another commie!
The torch has been passed…to the next msnbc retard.
Yes. Less so than Ratigan, but it would have been entirely too easy to answer the question directly.
Say, ‘No, and I will explain why. Would you like to know why? Would your audience like to know why?”
Say, ‘Yes, and I will explain why. Would you like to know why? Would your audience like to know why?”
I have the expectation that people who appear on TeeVee have a level of professionalism. It is not always the case, but I am hopeful.
Yep, it is a combination and balance of style and substance for me.
[WARNING, Sports analogy: I enjoy seeing a good cross check, but you gotta put the puck in the net to win.]
Speaking and yelling over one another accomplishes very little. Avoiding the question accomplishes little.
Ever see MM on TeeVee? Ever see Coulter on TeeVee? Well, the former gets her point across with far less venom and far more substance. The latter might be good and entertaining but solicits far too much emotion.
I like substance, and niether Ratigan or Williams provided any in that exchange.
Dr. Buddy Rydell: Now then we need to go over some ground rules. You are to refrain from any any acts of violence including verbal assault and vulgar hand gestures. You may not use rage enhancing substances, such as caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, crack cocaine, slippy-flippy’s, jelly stingers, trick sticks, bing bangs or flying willards.
Dave Buznik: How ’bout fiddle-faddels?
Dr. Buddy Rydell: Under my supervision. Also, if you are unable to stop masterbating please, do so without the use of any pornographic images depicting quote, unquote ‘angry sex.’ That having been said, I’m a pretty good guy and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised how much fun we can have together.
Dave Buznik: Geez, without slippy-flippy’s or angry masterbating I don’t see how that’s possible.
Dr. Buddy Rydell: Sarcasm is anger’s ugly cousin… from now on, unacceptable.
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Help me! I love real women and Progressives should not use their names in vane.
Another illustrated reason why I ‘never’ turn the ‘mote to MSNBC, even by accident. I don’t care for venom delivered by any media outlet and simply refuse to participate. The Boss is a master at proving the points with complete clarity and references. Hard to argue with being able to crosscheck those nasty sources.
Must add though, I do get a kick out of Ann Coulter. She is actually brilliant but plays the blonde bombshell to perfection and gets a lot of mileage out of digs that somehow makes an issue perfectly clear.
Failed to add….I have given Coulter’s books to young novice girls/women and told them when they’re ready for grown-up political reading I have Michelle Malkin’s books ready to be devoured.
Demogoguery is not intelligence. Vinny the Sham-Wow guy doesn’t make millions for his employers with intelligence. Sham-Wow will make your life soooooo much better. And you get a two fer and other stuff too! Dear Leader’s Hopey Changy pitch is a Sham-Wow…nothing more.
Barry is a good pitch man but a rather pedestrian pseudo intellectual. Reid and Pelosi are neither. It’s not their evil genius you need to worry about but their hubris, arrogance and idealism. After a while no one believes a pitch man who sells them junk.
And, yup – they are stupid. Think again.
In order to grant Ratigan a smidgen of comfort, I hereby denounce with utmost sincerity that Nazis and racists are evil scum of the earth, and I do not accept them as part of the Tea Party movement. It would behoove the rest of the ninety percent who aren’t loons to make the same declaration of the obvious to the rest of the world. Sign petitions, make signs, and wear t-shirts to spread the message. After all, that’s what the Tea Party is about — defending against false generalities.
“After a while no one believes a pitch man who sells them junk.”
That adage has yet to be proven in America, and, in fact, it’s probably not true at all. Obama’s base is still Obama’s base, and they will vote for whoever the television tells them to vote for. The Democrat pitchmen have been selling junk to the inner cities and to the television-addicted for the last 30 or 40 years, and people are still watching, and still voting, and still buying the junk that’s peddled.
If the progressives are “not stupid”, well, what can I say? America, 52% of her anyway, are not even THAT smart.
I didn’t say they were rocket-scientist-philosophers, only that they are not stupid. That the “they’re so dumb” argument which you see forming the foundation of every other conservative comment on forums net-wide, doesn’t hold a drop of water when viewed against the backdrop of D.C. and the reality of the US ghettos.
They are subtil, to use an archaic OT word used to describe the serpent in the Garden. Con-men can’t be stupid and succeed. These cons have succeeded beyond Khrushchev’s wildest imaginings.
Where are these groups that want to kill blacks,Jews,etc?Im sure there are some out there.What are they,4 or 5 people that meet in basements or COFFEE SHOPS and do the planning?I never hear of the killings or any arrest being made.Am I missing something?
They’re smart enough to re-enslave the black population for forty years.
Smart enough to pin the history of racist governance on the political party which fought against it hardest, and smart enough to convince every single member of that party to just shut up about it and hang their heads.
Smart enough to convince thousands of auto-workers to vote for them while they simultaneously destroy the very automobile industry they work for through over-regulation.
Smart enough to take our country and destroy it while enriching themselves and their marxist buddies.
No, they’re not stupid. Think again.
The progressives are highly intelligent AT WHAT THEY DO BEST.
Their intelligence is FAR beyond conservatives in that field.
We’ll NEVER be as good as them at what they do: DECEIT.
We’ll get a lot better at exposing their deceit the MINUTE we realize that it’s not about how stupid they are.
Many on the right are starting to wake to this fact.
We need to get as smart and effective at telling the truth as they have at practicing deceit.
And it is all about practice and study. They have had oodles of both. They have whole college departments and fields of study dedicated to controlling the population with deceit. They have practiced deceit since the time of Lincoln. They got really good with practice.
Wow. You must have been watching another video.
Wow…this Dylan Ratigan appears to be one pre-scripted dude.
It’s always embarrassing to see a host call out a guest as undeserving of a response before that guest can even complete a response.
I guess that’s where we must agree to disagree. Madoff seemed like an evil genius, but at the end of the day his crash and burn was forseeable and in fact inevitable. All Ponzi scams are. He lived in fear of the inevitable and will spend the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately not too bright.
The progressive socialist agenda is a ponzi scam. You can have a utopia with universal health care, not burn any fossil fuels and have entitlements for evrybody – and it won’t cost you anything! Sorry, but this is, er, stupid.
Your serpent metaphor is appropriate. The serpent used their desires to deceive them. Subtle doesn’t mean smart. Satan chose to oppose God. Doesn’t sound very intelligent to me.
Does anybody actually believe that the Tea Party embraces racists? How stupid to you have to be to believe that?
“Satan chose to oppose God. Doesn’t sound very intelligent to me.”
LOL, indeed!
Regaring their belief in their Utopia…I don’t think many at the top truly believe the lies they are peddling about it. They know that they are lying – that they will be the ones with the money and healthcare and entitlements galore, and that the common people will work and work and work and die in service to them, the priveleged class. Like always.
I think that most of the truly dedicated marxists know this, and choose to lie about it (of course, you couldn’t sell it otherwise), be they media members or J-school profs or elected members of our government.
I am in current negotiations with Cargill to transform one of their major products into something the hosts of MSNBC will need before, during, and after their shows.
It is the Ritalin (salt) lick – to be sold in 50 lbs blocks. From what I have seen, this clown Ratigan could use one up before the first half hour.
gridlock…
Just stupid enough to turn on your television reflexively when you walk in the door, to fill your space with the sound of tv-people telling you what’s what. Years of this behavior, this auto-brainwashing (think about it, in Clockwork Orange, they had to strap the dude to a chair….we willingly undergo the treatment in our country, and we call it entertainment) is enough to make anyone’s mind just “open” enough to soak it up and believe it.
It’s not a hard leap for people who have been conditioned by their televisions and movies and pop-stars to believe ALREADY that conservatives are the ones with the history of racism, to believe that these specific conservatives are racist. Not a leap at all.
We obviously agree these cretins lack integrity and veracity – I just don’t see them as all that smart. The headline at Drudge is that they are going to pull the nuke option, reconciliation. I find this stupid on many levels – and predict it will backfire.
I was always ammused at the far left assessment of Bush – He is as dumb as a rock, yet an evil genius capable of pulling off the 9/11 attacks without leaving a trace of evidence. He was, of course, neither.
Ummmm. OK. Your opinion is of course your own.
Wow, what a spectacular display of left wing propaganda! Rude, crude and uncivilized. Exactly what we have come to expect from MSNBC.
Tell me Mark Williams, when did you stop beating your wife?
I am guessing that was his next question.
That there was just plain funny!! Dylan Ratigan is a hoot! I bet he gets invited to all the parties.
Do they still prescribe Lithium for schizoids?
Watching the hosts on MSNBC, all you get is a group of humorless, dour, angry men and women. Take your pick, Olbermann, Maddow, Matthews, whomever. They are all so angry all the time. Don’t these people ever have a beer and just chill?
Regarding the posts on MM and Ann Coulter, I find Ann Coulter too much like Obermann for my liking. She is always sneeringly contemptuous of whoever she is arguing with and shouting down. It makes the conservative cause look hysterical. In contrast, I recently watched an old tape of Ronald Reagan and Booby Kennedy from 1968. Then Governor Reagan was humorous, convincing and sunny as ever. That was the measure of Ronald Reagan: Not an ounce of meanness in his body.
Here is the good thing about watching Michelle Malkin on television. Even if the sound on your TV is not working (as mine was not a few nights ago), she is still quite easy on the eyes.
I am willing to bet that Dylan Ratigan is one of the reasons they are coming out with the new version of the DSM-IV. Why, he is probably featured in a good percentage of the manual.
Read George Will’s latest here.
One thing that is disappointing with this offensive behavior of that “host” is that there are likely many people who viewed that who are stupid enough to buy into that host’s rant as face, when clearly he was bullying the guest and spewing his own hate filled pabulum, without allowing a response from the guest.
The Tea Party representative handled himself well.
The host revealed himself to be a deranged, racist, bigoted, hate filled idiot.
How did he get that “gig?”
Does the station filter their host list so that only raucous, mean spirited, loud mouthed, over bearing, misinformed, close minded, hate filled, vindictive people are put into the position of “host?”
More than mildly disturbing. This is the same thing that O’Donnell does, never letting anyone else talk, just ranting over them and demanding they denounce things they never said in the first place. And then to have the audacity to call out his guest for behaving badly and “wasting oxygen”?
Again, I say: more than mildly disturbing.
Dylan worries he is being used for propaganda. I would pick a network people actually watch if wanted to spread propaganda. Who is Dylan Ratigan? If I never see him again, it will be too soon.
“MSNBC”? hmmm.. “MSNBC”??..it sounds familiar, but I just cant place it…give me a moment… “MSNBC?”…hmmm…
You can’t win with MSNBC. First, Olbermann calls out tea partiers for not being diverse enough. Then Dylan Ratigan calls them out for being too diverse. Make up your mind, MSNBC. Is the Tea Party supposed to be more inclusive or more exclusive?
The problem with doing what MSNBC wants is that no one officially runs the tea party. So, who decides who goes and who stays? If someone at a Tea Party violates the law, local law enforcement should remove them. If they are not violating any law, it becomes a free speech issue. Is Mr. Ratigan calling for an end to free speech or just an end to speech he doesn’t like?
If the Tea Party included only those MSNBC likes and excluded everyone else, it would become identical to the left-most wing of the Democratic Party.
I think we can now conclude that MSNBC intends to do their best to destroy the tea party movement, or anything that represents a conservative threat. They are the Liberal’s Hunting Club.
MR.RATIGAN… You Sir are a #@%#&@@ Commi, @*%##& Annoying, @@&%$*## Poopy Head.
And I am a Proud Tea Party member. I also happen to be what you Leftist Nuts refer to as “Birther”… Well my definition of a Birther happens to be someone who is Totally Against Abortion!! Your definition is most likely as insane as your Tea Party Rant.
Dylan Ratigan did not do well and so represents PMSNBC well.
It’s got to be hard to go out and find someone as deranged as this guy to appear on that madcap network.
“Evil never surrenders its grasp without a tremendous fight.”
John Henry Jowett
This should be a lesson to anyone in the Tea Party. DO NOT go on MSNBC!! I think it is still safe to go on CNN and of course, FOX News. But…MSNBC??? Don’t be sucked into that again. I think the Tea Party members have already figured that out! PMSNBC is not the proper forum for our cause. They are deranged, and their few listeners are lost causes anyway.
It reminds me of the Tea Partier’s sign that said “it doesn’t matter what my sign says the media will call it racist anyway”.
That’s one of my all-time favorite signs!!
Is MSNBC run out of the basement of a looney-bin? Where do they find these people that “host” their “shows?”
Not only is it looney, it is an old shtick. This is pretty much the “have you stopped beating your wife yet” question that is nearly as old as Moses.
If these people were so bright don’t you think they could come up with something new from time to time?
Until today, I hadn’t even HEARD of Dylan Ratigan. And maybe that’s the real point – this guy wanted to act like an arse to stir up a bit of publicity for his low-rated (obviously, he’s on PMSNBC!) show.
Wow! I never watch MSNBC, so I don’t know who these people are. However, every time I see a clip from this network, I’m amazed. I can’t imagine any normal person working with those loons. They must all be nuts.
Team USA vs Team Canada in the Olympic hockey preliminary round. Check back again in about four years for anything else worth watching.
This rant is beyond reason! Editorial yesterday’s morning by Leonard Pitts again classifies tea partiers as racists. I’m so over this. My wife holds back from tea party support because she fears this racist label. I will show her this red faced rant to help her get a true picture of tea party opposition.
My last point made at our local tea party meeting was to encourage all members to bring as many of their black conservative friends to the next tea party demonstration as they can find. Is that racist? I guess it is, in a way ,but we must find a way to fight back.
Williams made three points very clear. His first point was that there are nutjobs and normal people, CLEARLY answering labeling racists as nutjobs. When you label someone as a nutjob are you aligning with them or not? CLEARLY not.
When pressed Williams gave the analogy that someone in NBC had gone on an anti-semetic rant but was promoted. The point is nutjobs exist within organizations, that doesn’t mean the entire organization is like said nutjob.
When pressed further Williams said, OF COURSE we do not condone racism.
If you that is the wrong thing to do or somehow anything close to what Ratigan did, we all need to pray for this country because we’re screwed. Rational thought is gone.
Two words: Straw Man
An argumentation technique whereby one arguer misdefines the other’s postion then tries to blow the ‘effigy of straw’ away, but instead destroys absolutely nothing. Except maybe his own reputation.
I remember this Ratigan guy from CNBC. I thought then that he drank his lunch.
Looks like getting shipped to MSNBC hasn’t changed any of his habits. Wonder where he’ll end up next — maybe taking Gibbs’ spot, eh?
This is the first time I have seen or heard of Dylan Ratigan, but he is the reason the saying: “It is better for a man to keep his mouth shut and have people think he’s a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.” rings true.
“thefoundingfathers,”
Thank you for reminding me of that great quote! It is fitting that Rattigan be adorned with such a pretinent statement.
I also recall the saying, “It is not wise for a wise man to argue with a fool. Bystanders often cannot tell the difference.”
Which is the bigger fool, the fool, or the fool who follows him?
Both guys? Williams had nothing but a “time out”, as he wasn’t able to say more than three words.
I agree with your first premise, but Williams wasn’t anywhere near “off on a tangent”. Seriously. Does a complete sentence count as a tangent? Count the number of words he was allowed to speak.
Again, your criticism is misplaced when criticizing Williams based on this “interview”.
Check out this, Dylan – your arguments hold no water; this is Mr. FirstShirt holding his Tea Party sign proudly.
http://www.theospark.net/2010/02/thought-for-day.html
Sick.of.liberal.thugs