Dylan Ratigan (with an MSNBC show) is a Teabagger......

he loves them.

He defends them,
and went to the convention.

I'm watching MSNBC now.

Far as I'm concerned,
I've just turned him off,
and won't be watching him anymore.

although we all know he came from CNBC, the biggest wall street whores on this planet.

In fact, the Tea party movement was started on CNBC.

It's Orwellian.

Anti-establishment. That's what he said.

What a %#$%#%ing crock that is.

Everyone in the Tea Party is a far right wing WHACK JOB and a current or former REPUBLICAN.

What a dick ... suggesting that some from the LEFT would be part of such idiocy.

Many of the rest are just confused people who don't know yet that they're on our side.

that they were fucking quiet until the inauguration of Barack Obama
should be a great big ass flashing red light to him....
IF HE WAS TRUTHFUL ABOUT THE MATTER...
which of course, he isn't.

much common sense. That's all this country needs is to have some pundit up there on corporatemedia giving cover to the ignorant racist teabags.

"Anti-establishment" my

or give credibility to these lunatics?

that get thrown around all over the air and they think the people can't think or see what is going on for themselves. They also try to portray the left as either all one way in their thinking or the other. I and others on DU don't agree on all issues..

But you are right, he is a jerk when it comes to his political views -- at least as far as I can tell.

But then, I don't watch TV. I just pick up short clips on the internet, so I probably just watch the best of Ratigan and miss the rest.

To separate them doesn't do anyone a favor
except Republicans.

Of course, in my view, CNBC just tries to sell stocks and does not provide serious coverage on the economy. Ratigan is basically a stock salesman. He has moved away slightly from his CNBC job. I'm wondering where he will end up. He seems to like Elliot Spitzer a lot. I think he might be a person in transition politically. We shall see. Probably a libertarian. That's my guess.

will continue to love Elliot Spitzer.

As soon as Elliot Spitzer starts liking what the Obama Admin is doing,
Ratigan won't like him as much.

I think Ratigan is a whore, first for CNBC as a Stock salesman,
and when that became passe, he became a "Populist".

He's been talking down the economy only since Obama swore on Lincoln's bible.

for "explaining" a certain reality about Corporate Communists! He's a very savvy guy, don't know his politics, but anyone who doesn't at least listen might just be in for a bigger surprise than they thought!

He seems to be trying VERY hard to let the PUBLIC know about what is going on behind the scenes, or at the very least drawing a road map about how THIS economy is screwing us!

And one more thing... I believe that the "movement" we keep making fun of, The Tea Party is something we should start paying attention to! Time for US to get a movement going to counter-act because they are getting ALL THE ATTENTION!! And we sit here and call names and laugh.

Go ahead, call me crazy... I'm preparing for the worst because I think things WILL get worse, and even if I'm wrong, then I'm ahead of the game!

I feel Ratigan is trying to get out a message TO THE PEOPLE, to DO SOMETHING! I think many here are simply wrong about him!

Time will tell!

he's got T. Boone Pickens doing an infomercial.

was doing his morning show and one person who is FREQUENTLY on his show is Eliot Spitzer AND also Ed Schultz!

As I said, I don't know what he calls himself, probably Indy or Libertarian, but there have been many times he's had Democrats on too! Many times! I like the fact that he lays it on the table about Corporations, and HE'S THE ONE who first called them Corporate Communists!

We can disagree, but what he's been saying for quite some time, AND he does come from CNBC and knows the market, I prefer his in your face truth as opposed to many who dance around every single issue!

I like him, I think he's trying very hard to be a thorn in the side of D.C., but that's just my perception! What he's been saying for some time, IS actually TRUE!

We here, need to get something going to COUNTER the T-B's!! I don't like having to feel this way, but we ARE being played by too many people with too much money! Time to fight like THEY ARE!

and I know you listened to him for a real long time too.

I disliked both fellows, one which I detailed over and over again
during the primaries my reasons why,
and now this one, whom I dislike for the obvious reasons that I am currently stating.

We will see who's right in the end.

But thus far, your record isn't very strong,
while mine is impeccable.

again be in for a let down. HOWEVER, Ratigan isn't saying we should join up with the T.B's, or at least if he did, I missed it.

I'm just very worried about what is going on economically and he does seem to have some very strong arguments. AND, he isn't running for office either. I've seen his other shows and I can't say he's right or left. Just need the info because it pertains to my future.

One more thing, IF you know much about me by my posts, I state my opinion but I'm not one to get into a pissing contest with anyone. You have every right to feel as you do, and you've been here a very long time. We can agree to disagree.

So just because I supported Edwards doesn't make me a freak, many here did and did so fervently! In the end I worked my butt off for Obama down here in the HOT Florida sun! Many days, almost all weekends too! I'm no turn coat.

JMHO!

and when tax cuts expire, and when Wall Street is better regulated,
it doesn't help someone like him. So he has his motives....
which is why he is so much more "disgusted" now,
then at anytime while Bush was in office. Now, why is that?

So as to whom one should believe? His credentials a better.I doubt candidate loalty equates to his finacial and journalistic background!

Ratigan won the Gerald Loeb Award for 2004 coverage of the Enron scandal.<3>

In Ratigan's final CNBC broadcast from the floor of the NYSE he reported on what he called "an important story developing" that Goldman Sachs and "a variety of European banks", in his assessment and that of his guests, essentially "perpetrated securities fraud" and an "insurance fraud scam" against AIG—and, by extension, the government and taxpayers funding that insurance company's "bailout"—by insuring their questionable investment vehicles and, upon their devaluation, making claims on them to be paid by AIG "at 100 cents on the dollar" despite all of the markdowns "being forced upon every other" entity including the government, banks, shareholders, bond holders, taxpayers and homeowners.<7>

"I think that it should be a bigger political issue than whether somebody bought an airplane... Forget the private jets, forget who got a million dollar bonus. Fifty billion dollars", he emphasized, minimizing what he saw as populist side issues to "the real question" of how "government policy makers" are to deal with the "problems of contract law" inherent in the agreements of businesses receiving government assistance during the financial crisis.<7>

"The banks are being asked to take 'haircuts' on their toxic assets, why are the Goldmans and the Deutsche Banks of the world not being asked to take haircuts on their toxic credit default swaps? It's a real question. I will continue to pursue it for sure, I hope others will as well." Ratigan praised New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's subpoena of AIG to determine the bank payouts as "legitimate inquiry" and looked forward to "a body of lawmakers in Washington D.C. who are going to ask, it appears, some of the same questions that I'm asking." <7>

I have been toiling in economics for a while. He does a good job screaming out whatever he thinks is the economic populist rant of the day, but he never does a thorough analytical job of actually looking into issues. And he attacks a lot of the wrong people.

I did a blog post on him once. A play on his segment, Busted.

Dylan Ratigan, Busted
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2010/01/dylan-ratigan-bus...

But yes, I can smell bullshit from miles away
(just like I smelled John Edwards bullshit on Day two),
and Ratigan's stink is strong thus far.

and working at CNBC doesn't make one an economic anything....
as economics and the stock market aren't the same thing.

of the companies than a lot of other newscasters and journalists.

as an expert of economist. They are not usually TV commentators, but here are some that appear on TV that have some creds (although I don't always agree with them) :

- Elizabeth Warren, the Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP (although she is a law professor, she has a good grip on this thing)
- Robert Reich
- Paul Krugman

There are others, but look for their economist credentials, not their TV pundit credentials, please.

about the market. These shows talk about politics, not finance. The 4 commentators were all arguing over tax cuts and how they create jobs. That is a political discussion not a financial one.

All pure BS.

He's a tool, and a loud tool.

because his only point is making sure that the Obama admin
doesn't experience any success at helping those who need help.

He is a faux populist and has always been.

"nuff of these faux populist blowhards already.

standing with the Teabaggers,

and yet panning the economic system, that gained him
both his fame and notierity on CNBC that earned him
an MSNBC show?

Easy. He's a fake.

He's a Republican hard Free Market guy
who's playing a role due to how Wall Street fucked up.
Nothing less, nothing more.

Volcker, more reform for health care than either the House or Senate could muster, wants money out of politics, wants out of both bogus wars, and thinks Elizabeth Warren is the best thing since sliced bread.

What he is attracted to is any signal that people are dissatisfied with the current failed policies and structures we are saddled with.

Is he a liberal? Not in my opinion but he's nothing close to a teabagger in policy direction and I suspect you're just bent because he calls Obama, Summers, Timmah, and Rahm to account for failed economic policy, knuckling under to corporate influence, and half-stepping on their good days.

He's the only person in the mass media actually hammering away at our broken economic and political systems and he gets called a teabagger. I bet you can't find enough teabaggers to fill a clown car that are calling for things like clawbacks or health care reform well beyond what Democrats could muster.


***edited to advise of unrec as that is my standing policy. I think a faux case is being rigged to silence a truth teller, the poster is fixated on a particular day because the pundit does not shil for the status quo caucus and when the broad content of the program is pro-regulation and anti-corporate influence.***

Just because he had you fooled; that's not my problem.

He fooled a lot of people once too.

But of course the op doesn't like him cuz he isn't an Obama acolyte. As far as I'm concerned he is a great critic of all bad behavior including the dems. Our guys are part of the problem too.

Ratigan is of course "suspect" but as far as corporate media goes he's far less suspect than most you'll find. Of course some here think people like Hillary, Obama, and Rahm aren't suspect.

Hell, I only trust Bernie to a point. Any of these public figures had best be on any wise person's suspect list but a person who is honest enough to even MENTION the shambles that most of our systems are in on a fundemental level has to be given the benefit of the doubt.

Even folks I agree with more fully like Maddow seem to be happy to pretend that we just need a few adjustments and all will be well.

Period.

and that is about a million times more crazy then the unimportant nutbaggers who are literally nothing but a corporate front taking advantage of the stupid.

This thread is fucking insane.

and he's been on 42 minutes now.

They all have been spewing pure bullshit,
and he has yet to call them out on it....
which backs up exactly what I say; he's a teabagger
who supports Republicans, and enjoys demonizing this Administration....

he's full of shit, and anyone believing otherwise is full of it too.

I think the tea-baggers are clowns. But it would be nice if we were given quotes of what Ratigan has said, so we can make up our own minds as to whether Ratigan defends their views, or whether he defends only some of their views and not all, etc.

a teabagger rally is enough evidence for me. He never held my interest. I'll stick with KO and well, there WAS tweety, but ........

I don't watch cable news so I've only recently heard of this guy.

Defend a teabagger at your own peril, stupid.

So did the ratings of his morning show. His contract at MSNBC most likely won't be renewed. He is probably using his show now to audition for FOX.

that Lou Dobbs wasn't really an Independent,
and that John Edwards really lived only in his America.

Ratigan is a fake, and the faster we understand this,
the better off we will be.

I don't know how ratings have to do with merit.

I used to think, and still think, that Air America was much better than Rush Limbaugh.

some of the time.

I don't think he is a true teabagger because they are far to the right on what he actually believes. However, he is not my cup of tea. Far too many Rethugs on his show. He reminds me of Jack Cafferty...hating everyone in politics at their own peril. "The left and right are both bad", except the right is way, way worse.

"Leftist anti-establishment" type as Lou Dobbs was for the working class.

is not a teabagger, just an asshole. At least in my opinion. But he naively believes teabaggers are not left or right which is completely false. They started with Ron Paul and are more conservative libertarians. I think he sucks at politics just like Krugman can at times.

Teabaggers don't have a right wing or left wing ideology, they are crazy people.

and ignorant. He DOES have RWers on and he buys whatever they sell him. He yells constantly, interrupts everyone, and believes all the RWers on his show.

Don't confuse him with Big Ed, Olbermann, or Maddow.

More like propagandist.

other rank and file MSNBC talking heads. I'm not saying I follow his every word. I think buying into MSM talking heads to hard is a mistake because at the end of the day they're getting paid by corporations.

Not for fleecing Americans as a matter of course, which is Ratigan's line of attack.

and thus far today, he's had on his show; 1 Republican congress person on, Chuck Todd, a Politico Reporter, and a NCNBC former colleague.

and thus far, only a passing mention about Sen. Shelby by Woodchuck, only to say that he and Sen. Dodd had reached an "impasse" on financial regulations.

and for that I will pull your tail!

By the way, I like "Woodchuck" as a nickname for Chuck Todd--he has a foolish leer, kind of like a woodchuck. I usually call him "Chuck Toad," though.

There are some serious points of distinction between Ratigan and right-wing teabaggers (leaving aside the mere fashion-followers, angry people who've mindlessly bought a line, etc.). Right-wing teabaggers want uncompromising laissez-faire; cut all taxes to the bone, gut government, including regulation, and let business do what it damn well pleases--just don't give it taxpayer money. Ratigan advocates expanded and tougher regulation of business, and although he lapses into they're all bums cynicism too much for my taste (cynicism almost always redounds to the benefit of conservatives by reinforcing their line that government can't do anything good), he certainly does not peddle a economic libertarian line. Also, unlike right-wing teabaggers, Ratigan advocates public programs for the public good, such as single-payer health care, and has touted public option as a compromise (whereas a conservative agent provocateur would predictably demand single-payer or nothing). Now, I don't know whether he's a dedicated liberal or lefty, or just going along to get along at MSNBC (as even Tweety has been libbing it up since Olbermann came to rule the MSNBC roost). But I don't think it's fair to say he's acting as a cryptobagger.

Cause thus far, he has only ragged on the government, but really Democrats.

Thus far, Woodchuck, WH political reporter hasn't raised the issue,
or called Sen. Shelby out by name.

Let's see if Dylan brings this up at all.

Now he has a Republican congressperson on.

Let's see if he'll have a Democrat that is an elected official on as well....
one who is on the side of this administration.

Cause that's how one can tell who this guy is really shilling for....
and I say he's a GOP/Teabagger guy all of the way...not a populist, not a libertarian,
no, none of those things.

He knows how to throw out red meat buzz words, but he's actually full of shit.

Anyone fooled by this guy is clueless.

whether he'll talk about the fact that there aren't even 600 of them. Whether he'll mention that of that "Nearly 600" of them, almost half are Media folks.

If he doesn't, then he is a teabagger, no matter how much he denounces them......as long as he discuss them as being viable and honorable, then he's full of shit, and he's on of them...which is what I truly believe.

Too late to unrec, unfortunately.

but thus far on his show he's interviewed anyone but a Democrat....and is covering the Teabagger's convention amply (thus far for the last 10 minutes), and interviewed two of them, and didn't ask them any questions that would give me the idea that he wasn't a teabagger.

But keep laughing...since you are one of the ones most likely in line lapping up AP's bullshit
as well like Corporate media gives a shit about you.

was to ask what was an obviously sympathetic question about how he feels about big banks having control of our money or whatever, the guy went on to talk about how he wants to kick the butts of the govt. (he called it the "tyrannical government" earlier) and went on and on about how this admin. doesn't follow the Constitution, blah blah blah, and Dylan's answer: "Understood. And I like your hat." (paraphrased)

I like your hat.

Not why are you a piece of shit of a racist, and where were you the last 8 years.


At least he is reporting on Shelby now. But he's saying that Shelby has a point.

Fuck him.

but when he interviewed Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, she couldn't get a word in edge-wise and he ended up having to apologize on tv after getting so many complaints.

"Understood. Nice hat." So he fully endorsed everything the racist nut said.

"since you are one of the ones most likely in line lapping up AP's bullshit"

- that assumption/accusation is just plain idiotic.

as long as it's anti-Obama.

Lame and malicious, as always.

as an enemy. Most realize that the comic potential of massive hyperbole, though.

What I'm NOT doing, however, is actively working against the Democratic party,
in order for the Republicans to end up in control......
and in order to be proven right like some of the Kucinich/Edwards/Nader (they all lost,
so they ain't governing) contigency of this forum are so invested in.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

Ratigan is not to the left of shit.
CNBC Wall Street commentators normally aren't,
unless of course they "Convert" or seem to
as soon as Obama is inaugurated.

I don't believe your advocacy is issue based...

Cause you are soooo "Issue" oriented, or whatever....
cause of course, my views on any policy can't mean anything
as long as I support this President.

Well, let me tell you something so that even you can understand,
I'm interested in progress. That's my issue. And I'll take it as it comes,
and as long as I don't feel that we are going backwards, ...considering the roadblocks,
and the alternatives, I'm there.

I came to this forum initially ranting against the media,
and supporting another Democrat.

I'm still ranting against this corporate piece of shit media,
and yes, I still support Democrats,
in particular those who have the power to give us progress.

It doesn't have to be more complicated than that.....
except for those who want to try and look down on others,
simply because some of us aren't here simply to rail against
power, no matter who has it. That may be your schtick, and more power to you for it,
but it simply doesn't make you better than anybody else. Sorry.

You probably don't think he's broken any promises thus far.

If my quest was to bring him and Democrats down so Republicans could be elected
so they can further fuck up our country, than perhaps I'd get in that
long line that you keep getting in each and every day and do just that.

See, I'm not a teabagger, so I don't call this President a liar at every turn,
and try to question his every move every time he scratches his ass,
and I certainly don't post bullshit articles that twist the truth,
and attempt to read in negative hypothetical bullshit in every move he makes.

and I sure in the fuck aren't gonna make it easy for him to be demonized
by spoiled ass brats who think they are entitled to something
just because they held their nose and voted, and decided to
see who they want to see in Barack OBama to make it easier to their Kucinich-made ideals,

My issue is progress....after 8 long ass years....
not simply in being right in how I think things should be ran.
If that makes me "conservative", I don't think so.....
and there are plenty who would agree with my view that progress is paramount...
just like I'm sure you have your folks who see things exactly as you do.
Vive la difference!

The only reason your...ummm...let's say "steadfastness" is under attack is that you love to throw stones at those who are more critically engaged with policy, and less interested in horseracing.

have their head examined.

are?

and they don't represent the entire Obama administration,
except for those who choose that view, cause it fits
with their spin.

But that's you saying Ratigan is a Leftist, or some bullshit like that!

and their influence on this President.

and Barack Obama is NOT a tall tan Kucinich.
He wasn't ever going to nationalize the banks,
and padlock the insurance companies, even if
that's what you and the teabaggers believed.

As for who has influence on the President.....
I think that he listens to a lot of views
and decides for himself......
and that's who I voted for and I knew that
when he was campaigning....

and Dylan Ratigan is your enemy (to your Left).

But Goldman Sachs retreads, investment bankers and insurance reps? Good friends.

and now they hate him because he didn't. What I don't get is folks pretending that corporations are just NOW controlling too many things, now that Obama is in office. Corporations have held way too much sway over us for a long time.

I'd like to wish the "capitalism is inherently evil" crowd a lot of luck in their quest to do away with it. I agree with much of what they say. I also know, because I'm a pragmatist, that it's not going to die an easy or quick death. In fact, it may never die at all.

To quote a good friend, having the government handing out capital to rich people, isn't capitalism.

Who the hell do you think you are? Some all-knowing God for fuck's sake? Frenchie is NOT a conservative Democrat by any means.

At the worst he is a teabagger.. at the best a libertarian ideologue..

and banning of derivative trading

In fact, they blame the government regulation for causing the problem in the first place.

financial reform.....because he fucking doesn't.

He only rants if it makes the Administration look bad.
He is very selective.

Or are you talking about the Bullshit that we were talking about pre-Scott Brown.

If you think Ratigan was bad you should have watched Matthews aka Tweety today. He was praising Sister Sarah like she was the new sliced bread.
Tweety called Palin's newly discovered ethics problems "small potatoes."
I mean he was really crawling up her xxx.
I guess MSNBC got their official marching orders for the 2010/12 elections.

anyone who has anything critical to say about the administration is now a Tea Bagger?

I don't know many Tea Baggers arguing for a return of the new deal. Dylan is making outreach to them, he basically calls them disorganized nuts who are rightfully angry, but don't have a clue what they are angry about.

I thought you were over writing at the old Elm Tree or some site like that.


Racist are much more than disorganize nuts....
and these fucking nutbags garnet more press control
than the entire Democratic party.

I know an asshole when I hear one, and Ratigan is just that.

But go on and believe!

Here's where the Teabaggers got started...cause I wrote about it then,
45 days into this President's term:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rick-Santelli-Chicagot...

http://www.demochttp://journals.democraticunderground.c...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/FrenchieCat/4...

The site was lacking some economic knowledge, I try to stay focused on that.

However, I watched Ratigan's segment yesterday, and he wasn't very complimentary. In fact, I believe he called them weeds instead of grass roots.

he wasn't uncomplimentary.....
and certainly didn't call them out on anything.

He is a Teabagger who simply talks a good game....
but when it comes to what he knows, most of it are verbal missives,
similar to the ones repeately lobbed here at DU,
long on name calling and demonizing, but short on depth and/or substance....
and he most likely quite understand that what he rants on
is something someone like you would want to hear.
Face it; he's good at it! Good at getting the non-informed nincompoop together with
those who believe they know too much to march in unison and pretend that
Obama is the bad guy who started it all, and will finish us all.

He was mocking them. Do you honestly think showing two Tea Baggers yelling at each other or a guy dressed up like a fake revolutionary soldier talking in a fake accent was meant to make them appear in a positive light.

He called the convention an exploitation by the big wigs in the GOP.

I really want to see what the hell you watched today.

Teabaggers aren't being exploided;
they are the ones exploiding the Average American.

These fucking Teabaggers know exactly what they are doing,
which is why a mere 600 can get together and end up with
200 reporters, and major time on all of the cable shows...
including Ratigan's piece of shit.

This is what he shows us.....
http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002548 /

and laughing at an outfit doesn't mean diddly,
except to those who want to see signs
that this guy isn't a teabagger,
although he is.

Watch this piece that you posted on that thread
over at GD (which is now locked)
and tell me where he actually calls them out and on what.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/#35262786

He's triangulates his way through that entire segment,
and leaves folks believe that these are just folks
who have had it with Banks and Government,
and that a few of them are a bit odd.

But if you think this is a confrontational piece,
then you are worse off than I thought!

In that segment, what he doesn't tell you is that
they, the teabaggers are aiming their ire only at this Administration,
and started doing this 45 days after Obama was sworn in....
and they haven't let up yet. He doesn't mention that this movement
was started by his friend Santelli of CNBC when they both worked there...
What he doesn't tell you is that these Teabaggers ain't nothing but a bunch
of Republican racists who can't get over the fact that Obama was elected.
What he doesn't tell you is that Republicans Congress members have met with
teabaggers, because as far as they are all concerned, they are all on the same side;
against this particular administration.

That's what he doesn't mention.....at anytime, anywhere.

They are just folks. There is racism in there, racism that has been stoked for 200 years by the white upper class to the white lower classes. There is no excuse for it, but is a common practice by the ruling elite that has taken place in every single culture since time began. Read the story of the good Samaritan again and remember the meaning of the story. Samaritans were the discriminated ones of the Jewish State under Roman occupation they shared the same God and heritage, but were others, and the Temple Priest took advantage of it.

They are exploiting no one. They are confused people, not certain why the world has totally blown up and are acting crazy.

Oh and just so you know, he probably was told he has to do that segment. As Rachel and Keith were tonight.

I don't know about you, the worst insult you could ever hurl at me was that I was unwittingly being used by powerful people to do things against my own interest.

They are just Angry Republicans that are mad that they lost the election,
and that a Black Man is in charge.

that's why their asses were out there protesting 40 days after Obama's inauguration.

They are your fellow citizens and have every right to be as ridiculous as they want to be.

Honestly, you should be thrilled about the nonsense they are saying, it ruins their credibility and the last 3 GOPers that won big races, have totally ran away from them.

I'm pretty sure they have families, lost jobs, hopes and dreams like the rest of us.

Your claim is completely and utterly ignorant and is an opposite of truth.

There is simply no other commentator in the MSM right now who's been as harshly critical of Wall Street as Ratigan.

He brings up stuff that no one else in the MSM would touch, and he's been brutal and unafraid of speaking truth to power.

Dylan Ratigan is not a shill he is simply a loud mouth hot head that's bounced from show to show and network to network simply because the most important thing to Dylan Ratigan is hearing the sound of his own voice.

Carry on.

He was mocking them, some people are pretty dense.

so that you can note Ratigan's triangulation on what these
Teabaggers really believe and who they are really going after.

Milktoast ain't even close to what Ratigan represented during that segment.

If you really think anyone came off with a positive image of that mob after watching that segment.

He just said, "Understood" after his rant and added, "Nice hat." Why wasn't he his usual obnoxious, interrupting self, getting on the guy for claiming the Obama admin. doesn't understand the Constitution for one thing?

and not a person in a position of any real power. I don't know about you, there is something about shooting down a pathetic fool in a costume, I think the fake accent and tri corner hat spoke for themselves.

therefore endorsing him by not condemning or refuting him. I don't know about you, but there is something about giving a teabagger a platform to lie (and not challenging him) that I find distasteful to say the least.

Sometimes letting someone talk, is the best defense. Honestly, you think Tri corner hat guy convinced anyone, they found the most ridiculous idiot at the convention and put him on TV, trust me Tea baggers aren't happy.

The guy he was debating with, said somethings that 99% of DU would agree with and frankly isn't something I hear most Tea Baggers say.

The government is taxing people and than handing money to corporate sponsors who in turn back the politicians during elections.

His solution is to cut off government spending, the left's solution is to ban corporate donations.

His evaluation of the problem was correct, up until he issued his solution.

dumb costumes seriously. It's not his fake accent-it's his words. And they were false and accusatory-not incoherent. If you want to excuse Dylan for not challenging him, that's on YOU. I think he should've challenged him like he does everyone else-usually liberals like Debbie Wasserman-Shultz.

The candidates that won in the GOP, distanced themselves from the nutbags. There was a nutbag on the ballot in 2 out of the 3 races, and the GOP guy who won claimed to be an independent who was going to fight for change.

The idiots in the costumes are a side show.

Debbie is a person in power and in 2008 wasn't all that helpful to her fellow dem candidates in Flordia, I might add and is hardly a liberal, the guy in the costume, is about as dangerous to the President's political ambitions as Code Pink was to President Bush's.

Obama. His message of HATE in the teabagger convention, where they make Obama out to be nearly a terrorist, sends the message to other people who can get right up to the President and hurt him physically-not politically.

and the fact of the matter is, the President has not pissed off the people who would really have the ability to actually hurt him physically. If the President was ever hurt physically, I'd look to Wall Street or the Pentagon, not the crazy Tea Bagging convention in Nashville.

Put it this way, a good size of the population has hated every single President since I was born, the last one who was physically assaulted was in 1981, and the President doesn't go out in the open anymore like that.

I've seen them in action and have worked events for candidate Obama and Biden.

Anything happens, it was an inside job.

that Ratigan, normally ready to call out this administration at the drop of a pin, couldn't call out this guy on his political beliefs. Furthermore, when another Teabagger was interviewed and was saying that this was Bipartisan, Ratigan didn't say boo.....and we all know damn well this ain't no "bipartisan" outfit.

Ratigan gave them coverage, and he also gave them cover...cause normally he's all in everyone's face, and there, in terms of the political issues that the teabaggers stand for, he was more or less mute......

And nothing about their racist ass views. No calling them out on asking them where were they during the Bush administration. Not even calling out the size of this so called convention.
In other words, Ratigan = Nada on the subject of what a Teabagger believes and how it is inconsistent with the truth.

That's showing them....and most important, that's showing us!

His producers found the most ridiculous person at the convention and gave him air time. This is the equivalent of when CNN finds the most ridiculously dressed war protester and interviews them. It is why when I organize protest I tell people to middle class it up and screen signs.

He may have tried to make them seem harmless and kind of funny,
but he certainly didn't question why in the fuck they keep getting
so much press, now did he? Why they carrying fucked up signs of the
President wherever they go.

Please, I wasn't born yesterday.

I'm not slipping, but you are hanging by a thread.

You do understand that the hateful signs, as much as they may offend you and me, also offend pretty much everyone else outside of their silly movement and that people don't take people seriously who dress up in costume and talk in fake accents.

You understand that right?

when one of those ridiculously dressed teabaggers tries to hurt the President, maybe you'll change your tune.

think they're harmless.

which isn't necessarily a good thing.

how Ratigan let him say whatever he wanted without challenging him.

and let him ramble for 3 minutes and showed a clip of them yelling at each other, and a few of you are angry.

Laughing at someone is more dangerous than taking them seriously.

Remember the order, first they laugh at you...

Glenn Beck-the most hateful fearmonger of them all. These people are dangerous. Their words are dangerous. I hope we never find out HOW dangerous. But the point is Dylan didn't even challenge them on ANY of their stances. But go ahead and keep defending him.