MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan: Obama 'Rather Screwed Up' for Writing Memoir Before Age 50
Dylan Ratigan joined Andrea Mitchell Monday on the list of MSNBC anchors who appear to be losing faith in President Barack Obama's leadership.
Discussing the type of president required to lead the country in times of crisis, Ratigan remarked, "Wouldn't anybody who wrote a memoir before the age of 50 be rather screwed up anyway?"
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Ratigan made the comment during a segment with Dr. Nassir Ghaemi, a psychiatry professor and author of "A First-Rate Madness," which explores the relationship between mental illness and successful presidential leadership.
"He's been packaged as no drama Obama, well-adjusted and normal. And if that's what he is he may not be up to the task of what we're facing," observed Ghaemi, referring to Obama's capacity to lead the country out of financial trouble.
Last week, Andrea Mitchell lamented during her afternoon program that "everyone is feeling a lack of hope."
Obama's memoir, "Dreams of My Father," was published in 2004 just days after the future president turned 43.
Ratigan, who is 39, has not published a memoir.
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Dreams of My Incompetence (a better title)
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:49pm.
Poor Barry Hussein.
No talent. No hope. No change. No magic teleprompter with the magic answers.
What to do?
Quit. Leave. Disappear.
Now
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
Excellent title. It fits him to a
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 9:45pm.
tee.
They say that child molesters can't be rehabilitated. So it is for hardcore Leftists.
Ok...but so what...
Submitted by Spud on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:50pm.
What does Newsbusters chronicling Ratigan taking a shot at Obama have to do with this site's stated mission of "Exposing & Combating Liberal Media Bias". I don't get it.
~Gee, what to do when you don't have anything cogent to say?
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:09pm.
Oh yeah.
WHINE, PISS, MOAN, WHINE, GRIPE, MEWL, and PUKE.
If you check Tater Tot's Track page you'll see that whining about NB's content is his sole schtick. We got ourselves a one-trick donkey, here.
Bru---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:15pm.
What a great name for a rock band. (h/t columnist Dave Barry in Florida)
MD
~My mom loves that guy
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:18pm.
Nice tag, very slimming.
Personal fave....
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:21pm.
Jaded JJ & the Auditors.
*curtsey*
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Blonde---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:43pm.
Author, author.
Applause, rim shot, and a tip of the hat to Floridians.
MD
Wow, I always wanted to meet Mr. Potato Head
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 8:47pm.
Welcome to NewsBusters, tuber.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
How about the BIG picture
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:51pm.
How about the BIG picture here? He's worried about his legacy and book?
The Kenyan SCREWED ALL of us.
"Profiles In Buck-Passing"...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 5:51pm.
...should be the name of his next book since he won't take responsibility for anything...
~Seriously?!
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:24pm.
Seriously?! This blindingly obvious observation is only just dawning on his dumb ass?
Wait one!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:25pm.
Didn't he "write" two? By all means, we must give credit where credit is due. Or does "Barack Obama in His Own Words" not count?
I mean, this guy is practically another William-friggin-Shakespeare! And, who could blame him? He thinks he's pretty spectacular!
One more thing - Rat-face is only 39? Man! I'm 63 and he looks worse than me!
I doubt
Submitted by dock383 on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 6:54pm.
that he even wrote these books. I think he worked with another writer, and hid this fact. I believe him to be practically illiterate. certainly not a shakespeare. But only an ego of his size could generate two books about his favorite topic, himself.
The books refer to
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:10pm.
Sailing quite a bit. But to everyone's knowledge Obama has never been sailing, let alone having any knowledge of it. But, Bill Ayers does? The writing style is also very similar
Dylan is 39???
Submitted by Marsh on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 7:08pm.
That is a rough looking 39.
Looks more like 39 plus 15.
No kidding!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:32pm.
I'm 43 and I don't even look ANY where near that bad.(I still get accused of being in my thirties...the early thirties.)
That is a guy who has a bad diet and a bad pill plan.
But that's also what liberalism does for you, it eats you up from the inside out. Just look at Helen Thomas.....if you can.
-Jon
jon_torlin.....Glenn Beck agrees with you. This is what he said:
Submitted by Rush Fan on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 11:44pm.
"...if you're an ugly woman, you're probably a Progressive as well. " It certainly applies to Jew-hater Helen Thomas.
Interesting Observation....
Submitted by Dutch on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 8:05pm.
It's funny, this actually reminds me of a conversation I was having with some Obama-supporting friends during the election. I mentioned one of the things that bothered me about him was how unbelievably arrogant he was. One of my friends asked, "Why do you think he's arrogant?"
To which I replied, "How many autobiographies have you written?"
The first three
Submitted by gwalt on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 8:08pm.
....letters of his last name is all I need to know about him.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
I'd like to see someone come
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 8:23pm.
I'd like to see someone come forward to say they knew Obama, in a time before 1995.
grade school, old girlfriends, high school, anywhere.
so far only one person came forward I know of and he described drug using and homosexuality.
Is kinda suprising
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 9:10pm.
This crap doesnt come out? I have heard a few rather benign comments from fellow student suggesting he was pretty disinterested and like to talk about himself.
Well then, you've got to give
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 1:10pm.
Well then, you've got to give Boy Barry some credit for being consistant - he's STILL disinterested (and disinterstING!!!) and STILL loves to talk about himself...........if he got paid a dollar for every I, me, my, and mine.............he'd be approaching the same wealth status as say.............George Soros???
Ratigan made the comment
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 8:48pm.
Ratigan made the comment during a segment with Dr. Nassir Ghaemi, a psychiatry professor and author of "A First-Rate Madness," which explores the relationship between mental illness and successful presidential leadership.
well I'd vote he's nuts!
By the way they sound more a dissertation of past president then someone current. an eulogy
There are two articles tonight from the msm on sanity..we are seeing I believe the first time ever , the infamous group therapy sessions the Democrats love. Rather than hidden in group session behind closed doors they are now out front. a New tv series could develop "democrats are analyzed live" channel 7...sponsored by Google.
Is "rather screwed up" Ratbrain's wording for "narcissist"?
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 10:01pm.
With the way they love to throw around psychobabble, you would think at least the ultralib would bother to come up with a more clinical sounding term. He would have zero idea what it meant and how it would be properly applied, but at least he might sound more like a semi-serious Obamaniac than a 13-year old.
Who's more screwed up: the author or the reader?
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 10:12am.
Ratigan remarked, "Wouldn't anybody who wrote a memoir before the age of 50 be rather screwed up anyway?"
It's not really a matter of him writing his memoir. Afterall, he is a narcissist.
But who really wanted to read it? Memoirs are all lies anyway.
Why did Nobama "write" those books? Well.....
Submitted by nanabanana on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 12:32pm.
I kinda think maybe he wanted to get HIS version of himself out there first. If it's in writing it "must be true", right? Nah - we're pretty doggoned sure he's a liar. And he sure seems to be a narcissist as well - so I wonder how many times he's read himself to sleep with his own books.
I'd say Barama is 'rather
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 1:13pm.
I'd say Barama is 'rather screwed up'..............PERIOD.............and he didn't need to 'write' any books to do it!!!