Dylan Ratigan appears to be a chalk board short of becoming Glenn Beck.

[JoePhilly]

In his first segment, he started by saying that both sides are the same. And then he asked his guest what we should do, and that guy said we need to invest more in infrastructure and education, and raise taxes on the rich. Humm, which candidate also says that?

Then DR goes on to explain how both sides will raise over 1 billion dollars. He makes no mention of how much the GOP will raise, versus Obama.

He might as well be telling his viewers to stay home and not vote, they are screwed, and they have no path forward.

If only he had a chalk board to make his point more clearly.

[flamingdem]

1. I couldn't agree more plus I do not think it's an accident

he's leaving. He rubbed someone the wrong way (Ed?) and/or was given the door due to his predictable undermining of the Democratic party.

At least he never said "Democrat party"!

[JoePhilly]

6. I don't think that's what's driving his leaving.

I mean MSNBC lets Joe Scab push RW talking points for 3 hours every morning.

They let Andrea Greenspan Mitchell spew more RW talking points at 1pm.

They are putting weak Dems against stronger GOP pundits during NOW with Alex Wagner.

MSNBC during the day is RW light. Martin kicks butt, and Alex spend bout half her show looking like she's in a hostage situation. Other than that ... GOP talking points pass freely.

[flamingdem]

11. Good observation about Alex Wagner

She does seem to have to regain control a lot.

[JoePhilly]

14. Her show started strong ... and I get the sense that the execs reigned her in

by controlling who the guests are. Ed Rendell ... geeze, what a squid, and one example.

[butterfly77]

20. When Alex wagner first got that show..

I wondered,who is she connected to. Wagner always looks like she is the guest and the guests usually take over.

[JoePhilly]

21. Early on, she kicked ass.

What I notice is that her show seems to, at least lately, have weak Dems, and GOP surrogates who speak in nothing but talking points.

Meanwhile, Alex tries to call out the right wing BS, but she has Ed Rendell or other weak Dems under cutting her.

When you hear her speak about war on women and on many other key topics, you can tell she wants to scream about the lies the GOP tells. But I get these sense they are trying to hamstring her.

Just today ... she, I think inadvertently, said that last week, Obama said the private sector was "strong". That was the word she used. This after a right winger said Obama pounched on McCain for saying the "Fundementals of the economy are strong" during the 2008 election ... ignoring that McCain said this while also praising the financial industry.

She used the word "strong" which Obama did not use. She got tripped up, thanks to the GOP spinners.

[flamingdem]

22. I think she's a liberal

and you are correct that they did this to curb her style

[JoePhilly]

24. Agree

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. "he started by saying that both sides are the same"

That seemed to be the opening theme to every segment on his show.

[Woody Woodpecker]

3. Didn't Ratigan get his ass kicked out

of the show?

In other words, Ratigan is leaving?

When is his ass gone?

[JoePhilly]

4. I'm not sure when he goes, but it will be fun to see where he lands.

[julian09]

8. "His get the money out" petition only has 277,000 signatures after many months.

I think he is frustrated that he has no following. He is looking for a larger audience, but you an't do that while offending everybody.
Martin Bashir's hand off today to Dylan started with a disagreement, but Martin didn't persue it.

[JoePhilly]

16. Martin is going to be tough to stop I think.

He's like Rachel in many ways. He is not just reading what others tell him. He's calling the shots.

I think Alex has the potential, but she may not yet have the internal strength to push through. The fact that she ends up with lame guests doesn't help her.

[julian09]

5. somewhere around 20th June NT

[Bake]

7. But did he cry?

He has to cry. If he wants to be like Beck, he has to cry.



Bake

[JoePhilly]

10. %$##$ ... that's true!!!

DR has the mock outrage ... has the dismissive tone ... the selective details ... but he does not cry.

Maybe he keeps that bottled up. Fights back the tears.

Until he gets his own chalk board?

Yea ... that's what it is!!!!

[Aerows]

17. Hand him some Vicks

and let's get him out sooner than later.

If he can't see the difference, he's an idiot.

[phleshdef]

9. I'm no fan of Dylan Rattigan, but he is a million miles from being anywhere close to Glen Beck.

Lets be fair here.

[JoePhilly]

13. Well ...

Both are angry Libertarians.

What I find interesting is that Beck is a Libertarian Republican. Which means he loves the SMALL GOVERNMENT, but wants it to engage the RW social issues ... and oh, Obama is a Kenyan socialist.

Dylan is a Libertarian who also wants small government, but he cares little about the social issues, and he thinks Obama is a corporatist screwing the middle class via corporate welfare.

Its like Beck and Dylan are libertarians who slightly separated on who to blame and why ... both seem to agree its Obama, but their reasons are separated by 180 degrees.

[phleshdef]

15. I disagree with Rattigan's assessment of Pres. Obama. But I still think he is way higher...

...on the intellectual scale than Glen Beck.

Like I said, I'm no fan. But he can be taken somewhat serious as far as a discussion goes. He has had some good showings on Bill Maher's show. Glen Beck is a rodeo clown.

[flamingdem]

12. The "A Sense of Direction" guy

with a vision of a very boring life for Dylan! Whaaaa

[NNN0LHI]

18. Ratigan thinks of himself as a hot spotter

Whatever the hell that is.

Don

[flamingdem]

19. Male menopause?

[B Calm]

23. There are times I like him, but

for the most part I think he's very confused. .

[flamingdem]

25. Let's hope that Ratigan gets a good round of therapy now

and that his therapist is A DEMOCRAT