MSNBC's Ratigan: Tea Party 'Full of Crap;' Guest Compares It to Terror

July 16th, 2010 5:45 PM
On Friday's Dylan Ratigan show on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan reported on Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann attempting to form a congressional tea party caucus and proceeded to rant: "...the tea partiers were nowhere when it came to ending the mass extraction in Wall Street, so I think they're actually full of crap." [Audio available here]Ratigan then wondered: "...for a movement, however,…

Dallas Tea Party Calls Olbermann, Matthews, Schultz and Ratigan Racist

July 16th, 2010 12:31 PM
The Dallas Tea Party on Thursday accused MSNBC hosts Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, and Dylan Ratigan of racism.Since January 20, 2009, all four of these men have criticized Barack Obama for one reason or another.As MSNBC has been one of the strongest proponents of the despicable concept that anyone critical of this president must be a racist, DTP's founder Phillip Dennis believes…

Ratigan Gets 'Raw': Says America Didn’t End Slavery, Just Outsourced

July 12th, 2010 5:25 PM
Leave it to Dylan Ratigan, one of the star personalities at MSNBC who seems to be constantly looking for a reason to be angry. On his July 12 show, Ratigan posed his view on how trade between China and the United States operates. According to Ratigan, importing products where labor costs are significantly lower is akin to slavery. He specifically named Foxconn, a company that manufactures…

Dobbs Calls MSNBC’s Ratigan ‘Insane and Inane

July 10th, 2010 8:19 AM
In a July 9 post on www.loudobbs.com, Dobbs let fly bashing the staff at his one-time competitor for "two gems that can't be ignored.""MSNBC guest anchor Cenk Uygur filled in for the equally insane and inane Dylan Ratigan and pushed the crazy idea that President Obama is a conservative," he wrote. The video of the segment is all there because Dobbs embedded it from the Media Research Center.Dobbs…

MSNBC Fill-In Host Absurdly Claims Again: Obama a 'Republican Presiden

July 8th, 2010 5:03 PM
For the second day in a row, liberal talk show host and MSNBC guest anchor Cenk Uygur pushed the outlandish notion that President Obama is a conservative. Filling in on July 7 for Dylan Ratigan on his 4 p.m. show, Uygur exclaimed, "I didn't realize we voted for a Republican president!"Uygur preceded this statement with a rant on how ridiculous it is for Obama to express concern about the ever-…

MSNBC Fill-In Host: Conservative Liberal Media Claims Based On Racism

July 7th, 2010 5:37 PM
Cenk Uygur, host of the left-wing internet talk show 'The Young Turks,' filled in for MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan during the 4PM ET hour on Wednesday and decried the nation's "shift to the Right." He lamented: "...when I started out I was a liberal Republican. No such thing exists anymore." [Audio available here]He wondered why the media hadn't reported on the supposed radical shift in American…

MSNBC Guest Host Absurdly Claims: President Obama More Conservative th

July 7th, 2010 5:25 PM
So is President Obama more conservative than the late Ronald Reagan? MSNBC substitute anchor Cenk Uygur thinks so. Filling in yesterday for Dylan Ratigan on his 4 p.m. show, Uygur moderated a segment based on the preposition that President Obama's policies have actually been more conservative than those of President Reagan."That's the silliest thing I've ever heard," former Reagan White House…

Dylan Ratigan Condemns 'Arizona's Anti-immigration Law,' Calls for Mob

July 1st, 2010 6:22 PM
You have to hand it to Dylan Ratigan.The MSNBC bloviator melded immigration reform, the military industrial complex, and congressional gridlock into a scatter-brained diatribe at the top of his eponymous program on Thursday.In the wake of President Barack Obama's speech on immigration reform earlier in the day, Ratigan railed against "Arizona's latest anti-immigration law" and praised Obama for "…

MSNBC's Ratigan: American's Don't 'Give A Damn' About Iraq and Afghan

July 1st, 2010 6:13 PM
On Thursday's The Dylan Ratigan Show, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan went after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and complained about the lack opposition to the conflicts: "Why isn't there an alarm that we've been perpetrating this war?...there aren't enough people in this country that honestly give a damn. No one really cares." His solution to the supposed apathy? A draft. [Audio available here]…

Scarborough Blames 'American Apathy' and Republicans for the Continu

June 30th, 2010 11:56 AM
Joe Scarborough on Monday continued to spin for Barack Obama, this time defending the President’s war strategy in Afghanistan and placing blame on the American people. Citing a New York Times columnist, the Morning Joe host complained, "And as Frank Rich said, the President's best political ally on Afghanistan is apathy. Americans don't care that their sons and daughters are going off to fight…

Rudy Giuliani, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Eviscerate Joe Scarborough for Bl

June 17th, 2010 3:39 PM
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) and MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan on June 17 joined forces to lambaste "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough for continuing to defend President Barack Obama's handling of the BP oil spill.Scarborough presented a litany of arguments in Obama's defense, but Giuliani and Ratigan countered with specific examples of the president's failed leadership.…

MSNBC's Ratigan Guns for McDonnell Over Use of NRA Eddie Eagle Program

May 26th, 2010 5:26 PM
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) is "missing the target when it comes to whose interests he's really looking out for" but "then again, that's nothing new for us, is it," MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan complained in the "Busted" segment of today's program.Ratigan lamented that McDonnell stripped out the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) as an alternative organization that Old Dominion educators could…

MSNBC's Ratigan Attacks NYT Over Blumenthal Story, Conn. Dem 'Simply M

May 21st, 2010 6:33 PM
In the "Busted" segment at the end of Friday's The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan went after the New York Times for "accusing" Connecticut Attorney General and Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal of distorting his military record: "We think the Times should investigate some of its investigative reporting." Ratigan dismissed a quote the Times used of Blumenthal…

Captionfest: Has Bobby Jindal Had Some Work Done

May 20th, 2010 5:09 PM
On Wednesday, MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show briefly mislabeled Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser as the state's governor, Bobby Jindal: