I miss Keith Olbermann

[Dirty Socialist]

Especially his “Worst Person in The World”.

[USALiberal]

1. Me too!

[Deuxcents]

3. Me, too

[gab13by13]

2. msnbc took a sharp right turn.

I miss Dylan Ratigan. I knew when he started to report on crony capitalism that he was gone. Martin Brashear, Melissa Harris Perry.

I hear that Kornacki is in the running to replace Williams.

[House of Roberts]

4. Kornacki replacing Williams won't hurt me.

I'm in bed by then.

[Celerity]

7. His August 9th, 2011 MSNBC rant is the stuff of legend

Video: MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan has a meltdown over the meltdown

https://news.yahoo.com/news/blogs/cutline/video-msnbc-dylan-ratigan-meltdown-over-meltdown-031046281.html

MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan is mad as hell about the U.S. financial crisis--and he's not gonna take it anymore! While convening a roundtable discussion on the market meltdown on his eponymous MSNBC show on Tuesday, Ratigan exploded.

"We've got a real problem!" an exasperated Ratigan shouted. "This is a mathematical fact! Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren't doing it, Republicans aren't doing it. An entire integrated system, financial system, trading system, taxing system, that was created by both parties over a period of two decades is at work on our entire country right now. And we're sitting here arguing about whether we should do the $4 trillion plan that kicks the can down the road for the president for 2017, or burn the place to the ground, both of which are reckless, irresponsible, and stupid."

"I'm sorry to lose my temper," he continued. "But, I tell you what, I've been coming on TV for three years doing this, and the fact of the matter is that there's a refusal on both the Democratic and the Republican side of the aisle to acknowledge the mathematical problem, which is that the United States of America is being extracted."

Later, on the show's website, Ratigan called it his "epic 'Network' moment." The clip of the entire rant is worth watching, which you can (and should) do after the jump:

longer clip

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x320zfv



Another great Ratigan rant (this one from 2010 on Morning Joe)



Dylan Ratigan Blasts Bill O'Reilly, 'War On Islam' On 'Morning Joe' (VIDEO)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dylan-ratigan-oreilly-islam_n_764598

[marble falls]

8. Kornacki. Like sending in the waterboy.

[themaguffin]

5. He was great especially in the earlier days of W. Unfortunately, he

clearly has an attitude that created issues at every network that he was at.

Also, he became more hyperbolic - everything was at turned up to 11 which takes away from the very urgency that he wants to convey.

[marble falls]

6. He's been paid a lot not to work for any network. Good for him, bad for us.

[niyad]

9. As do I.

KOEB

[Tomconroy]

10. Yup!

[MFM008]

11. Me 2

We need his anger.
Democrats need firing up.

[frogmarch]

12. Me too. I've never recovered. :(

[lindysalsagal]

13. At one point, He, Mark Maron, Randi Rhoads, and new face, Rachel were all on TV & radio.

As much as I despised Bush2.0, he kid bring out the talent.

But most people can't handle the truth, so, his anger put him on the curb. Huge loss.

[Silent3]

14. I loved his show

If it's true what's been said about him being hard to work with, I can understand MSNBC not wanting him back, but otherwise it would be great to have Olbermann back again once Maddow is only doing specials and whatnot, rather than a nightly program.