Dylan Ratigan leaving MSNBC...

[kentuck]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/10/dylan-ratigan-msnbc-exit_n_1585149.html

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After three years on the job, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan is leaving his TV spot.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that Ratigan will depart from his cable news role, with the final edition of "The Dylan Ratigan Show" airing on Friday, June 22.

“Think of it like ending a Broadway play,” Ratigan told the Times, adding that he is looking to put his words from television into action.

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[GarroHorus]

1. That's good news

He was a tool anyway.

Pretty much Joe Scab in the afternoon.

[jenmito]

2. YES!!! He's SO obnoxious-and he's a phony who claims "both sides are the same." He also

called himself a conservative once. I stopped watching his show long ago. I'm glad Martin Bashir is taking his spot. I hope Bashir will go from 3-5pm.

[RKP5637]

3. Martin Bashir is great!!! n/t

[jenmito]

4. His sarcasm and the way he interrupts RWers is terrific! He's my favorite news anchor

with Lawrence O'Donnell a close second.

[golfguru]

8. Where is the civility?

Demise of every civlization in history began with loss of civility.

[jenmito]

9. The RWers don't have any civility, which is why Bashir cuts them off when they don't answer the

questions & try to filibuster. And he is so polite the way he does it.

[golfguru]

35. Do you remember what the great Mahatma Gandhi said?

"Turn the other cheek"!

Civility begets more civility. Respect given boomrangs more respect.
Love given is returned manifolds.

OTOH rudeness and brutishness boomrangs into more of the same back in your face.
The older I get, the more I realize how true all this is.

[GarroHorus]

18. The GOPers ate civility in the 90's when they impeached a president for a blow job

Civility is dead. The GOP killed it.

[hlthe2b]

5. +1,000,0000

[girl gone mad]

6. One less reason to ever turn on MSNBC.

Bunch of bank shills other than Ratigan, imho.

[Raine]

11. My opinion too, I totally agree. nt

[KoKo]

17. Absolutely....+++++++++

[GarroHorus]

19. Ratigan is a piece of shit. n/t

[girl gone mad]

20. That's neither here nor there.

He does know how to read a balance sheet, which is more than I can say about any of MSNBC's other hosts.

[GarroHorus]

21. I disagree completely

He's a corporate tool who does nothing but spread propaganda. He's just another rightwing propoagadist.

[girl gone mad]

23. A corporate tool who exposed the shit corrupt bank bailouts...

for the despicable mass looting that it was.

Pull the other one.

[MadrasT]

34. Can you even breathe

with your head buried in the sand?

[Spazito]

7. Great news!

I am glad Martin Bashir is taking over his time spot, I hope they are going to extend his time from one hour to two, his show is well worth it, imo.

[malaise]

10. Good riddance

I stopped watching ages ago

[Raine]

12. DAMN one of the only ones who dishes it out to both sides when it's deserved

no one else has the guts.

[WillyT]

15. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

It's the lack of civility, don'tcha know...

Sigh...

[Snotcicles]

13. I wonder if Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo would be as good on tv as they were AAR. nt

[IADEMO2004]

14. See Ya Dylligan. Please don't keep in touch.

[JoePhilly]

16. One less Libertarian pretending that Dems and Repubs are the same.

[jenmito]

25. +1. n/t

[TheKentuckian]

26. Both are fucking up is not meaning fucking up the same ways or equally

His truth percentage was higher than most so I don't see any special reason for animosity. The line of corporate talking heads more corporate friendly and more full of shit is way longer than the opposite.

Above all else being anti-establishment is the crime with a close second to not kissing Obama's ass to the level expected of an M$NBC host who it is expected will hover round about the establishment Democratic line.

[ohiosmith]

22. Good! He's a turd.

With apologies to turds.

[NNN0LHI]

24. Ratigan's good friend Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Pond Scum), will be devastated by this news

[TheKentuckian]

27. Funny cause its true.

He loved to throw up old full of shit Doc Tom as some kind of voice of reason in the TeaPubliKlan party.

[UTUSN]

28. Where to?!1 - Faux, or is that too obvious?!1 n/t

[left on green only]

29. It sounds to me like he is going to.........

become a paid publicist to the highest bidder, whoever it may be. In his own words:

"It is in this context that I have decided to leave cable news to collaborate and join with some of these leaders to experiment and explore new ways to tell their stories"

That has to be the most eloquent verbiage I have ever read used to announce that you are simply going to become a top gun to the highest bidder. LOL

[AtomicKitten]

30. Bah-bye. Can't say I'll miss him.

[ecstatic]

31. Great news!

I always found myself in a dilemma when his show came on--do I risk leaving it on the channel and somehow giving him ratings, or should I change the channel and possibly forget to change back in time for the good shows (Tweety, Al, etc)? I agree with others who said Bashir should go from 3 to 5.

[kentuck]

32. Dylan was more of an independent...

He was not a hardcore partisan, either way, in my opinion.

He presented a lot of useful information about financial matters and banks. He had worked on Wall Street and knew a lot about the subject.

I never disliked him, even though I thought he sometimes crossed the line when he would say that both sides were equally to blame. Maybe both sides were to blame but not equally, in my opinion.

[MurrayDelph]

33. Maybe they should offer his show

to Keith Olbermann.

I hear he's not working these days