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MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Takes A Break From TV's Airwaves After Meltdown Hits #1 On You Tube
2010-03-06
Tuesday night's meltdown by MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan (while interviewing Mark Williams of the Tea Party Express) has become a viral sensation for news & political junkies.

And now MSNBC's Ratigan has announced on his Facebook page that he's taking the next few days off. MSNBC's Ed Schultz is filling in for Ratigan.

A video clip of the meltdown posted on YouTube earned 13 Honors from around the world, and became the #1-Most VIewed News/Politics video of the day and was the 26th Most Viewed clip overall on YouTube. Ratigan's ranting and raving wasn't just a viral Internet hit, the segment was served up for fodder by Fox News Channel's Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. Gutfeld found great joy poking his competitors over at MSNBC:

Mark Williams said the experience was overall a positive one:
"As a talk radio host I learned long ago that when you've got a crazy person who is about to make themselves and their movement look foolish, you let them have all the rope they need to do it.

"If this is the best those who oppose the tea party movement can come up with, then I submit that the tea party movement may have already won the day in the battle of ideas.

"And as for Mr. Ratigan, I suggest a Beer Summit."
Posted by:Fred

#11  Again, proof that violent radicalism isn't the problem, guys like Ratigan are just fine with violent radicalism as long as it is left of center in ideology.

Works for me.

Ratigan was behind a camera and a lot of thugs hired as bodyguards. He'll be a pliant as as pussycat in the real world or he'll be dodging roundhouses.

And the great thing in America is he gets to choose.

FTW!
Posted by: badanov   2010-03-06 17:20  

#10  Why is anyone surprised by this?

Get it through your heads, people - pretty much anyone who is left of center politically in this country in 2010, be they a radical like this Ratagan guy or Pres. Obama or Michael Moore or Pelosi and Reid - or less obvious like the soft-spoken English professor on your street who has NPR on his radio all day or most of the librarians in your public library or the AFSCME or SEIU members at your town hall or county courthouse - have already made up their minds that anyone who believes in free enterprise, Christianity, small government, firearm freedom, or American exceptionalism is literally a Nazi and a member of the KKK.

Not "like" those groups, literally one of them.

They MUST maintain the fiction that this is true, and they MUST maintain the notion that people who believe those things pose an existential threat to the universe, because if it isn't true that all of us on the center/right are nazis, then their entire narrative is for shit, and for the postmodern left the narrative is all.

When someone on that side looks at you or me, they see Hitler or a Grand Wizard 100% of the time. Do not be fooled when they say "Well, I'm tolerant of moderate conservatives". It's BS. They still look at you and see a Nazi, just a slightly less dangerous one. Ratigan's rant is prima facie evidence of this.

Was Ratigan's rage equal when dangerous and overt communists joined protests against the Iraq war? Did he demand that the organizers of the protest call shame on those evil radicals? He didn't and they didn't. Again, proof that violent radicalism isn't the problem, guys like Ratigan are just fine with violent radicalism as long as it is left of center in ideology.
Posted by: no mo uro   2010-03-06 17:05  

#9  Dear Mr Ratigan please consider taking the rest of the year off, because what the kid says is right.


Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Omise9876   2010-03-06 14:17  

#8  Well.......this did take place on MSNBC. I wouldn't expect anything different. They're a bunch of far left freaks who are running scared because it's all slipping away barely a year removed from seizing power. They know that this years elections are going to be a blood bath for them and they're becoming unhinged. I love it!
Posted by: Jefferson   2010-03-06 12:33  

#7  I haven't seen such grotesque projection since watching The Exorcist.
Posted by: Bulldog   2010-03-06 11:29  

#6  Good lord - what a loon.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-03-06 11:16  

#5  Does MSNBC actively recruit the deranged?
Posted by: tu3031   2010-03-06 09:51  

#4  --Linky ; Williams couldn't get a word in edgewise--
Posted by: Tom--Pa   2010-03-06 08:42  

#3  errrr. Wrong linky, Bad. That one goes to Rodger
Posted by: Frank G   2010-03-06 07:57  

#2  Here is Fox's Red Eye's "analysis" of the event.
Posted by: badanov   2010-03-06 07:29  

#1  Where's the Link to the you-tube rant?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2010-03-06 07:11  

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