Ratigan to be a guest on his own show to talk about the rant yesterday

Guest host said he was "off to work on his new book" but would "stop by to talk about his amazing rant" and how it is flooding the blogosphere.

Wonder if this is walk it back or double down time?

Taking Wednesday off to "work on a book"?

and he came so close to saying "vampire squid sucking the country dry" it was almost funny.

When people as establishment as Ratigan and Tweety are sensing something in the air and talking like they just bought themselves a clue, something is happening. But it's probably far too late.

but he was going fifty kinds of ballistic about the money men looting every dime they can find from everyone except their top 2% peers.

how we need to raise taxes.

from the rest of the country by bankers and (clearly implied) the rest of the oligarchy.

Just a little more animated than he usually is about it all.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x607880

Edit - he is ranting about corruption, and how while the Republicans want to burn the whole country to the ground, the Dems want to kick the can to 2017 to protect the next election - and NO ONE is doing something about the system has been gamed for the last 2 decades.

Although he doesn't mention it, NAFTA and dismantling Glass-Steagall set us up for this failure of 2008 - which is another rant he goes on every so often.

This was quite a rant! Thanks!

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/dylan-ratigans-mad-as-hell-moment.html

He basically said the country is f'd cause all our congress members are bought and paid for because of citizens united and that the wealthy elite and corps are extracting money and wealth and labor from the country.

Made him popular with all but the top 1% for a day.

of course.

He might get his buddy Bloomberg to fund it after all.

writing a "Third Way" new party idea with himself as it's leader?

Please show how he and Bloomberg are buddies.

Just sling shit and see what sticks.

:rofl:

Anyone who listens to Ratigan knows his entire schtick is about these free trade agreements and how they suck money out of the country. He is not a progressive, but he is about as anti-DLC as they come and constantly exposes the corruption in the business/government relationship.

Noting, that "more free trade agreements" is one of our President's platforms as of last week (along with jobs and 'patent reform')

Yeah right.

Damn I hope he doesn't apologize.

my eyes to the goings on there behind the scenes, although Rachel, Lawrence and Ed sure don't seem to pull any punches.

This was more like a grenade. :D

republicans are trying to burn the country down while Democrats were only trying to get by until the next election.

That's what he said.

with his guest who was a Democrat.

I am sure Karen's face is familiar to you as a Dem strategist, but the blonde sitting next to her was a Republican.

Dear lord, take off the blinders once in a while.

and his comment (in agreement with Dylan) was that money in politics is the root of all evil in politics.

However, that wasn't the end of the clip, but thanks for the opportunity to expose another misstatement.

You amaze me. Seriously.

Thats why I love transcripts. They all so often show that what was said and what was heard are too often two very different things.

Oh and BTW - Ratigan's new book (that I didn't know he was writing) is about taking the greed out of the system and how the DLC (Third Way) and Republicans screwed the economy with deregulation of financial systems and free trade agreements, so feel free to walk that meme back at your convenience.

Sorry, it's useless trying to argue the point with he/she. Ratigan has really been out in front about how OUR government is SCREWING us through Stock Market, Trades, etc.

CHECK HIS SITE OUT!

I didn't check to see if it still works, but try it anyway. Still would like to see a link of his phone call today if anyone can get it. He talked about what he said yesterday when he called his show today.

From yesterday...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44079837#440798...

during the cold war, controlled propaganda to the masses. Fortunately we still have the Internet, but believe me, they will try to bring that under control too. None want the serfs stirred up.

just talked about "educating yourself & others" about how our government uses our trade deals. The rant yesterday was GREAT even if some here DON'T GET IT.

He also said you can track him at madashell@dylanratigan.com and get involved. Also said that it didn't matter if you were a Democrat, Repuke, Independent, or what you wanted to call yourself, it was just IMPORTANT to get informed and try to inform others too. That what our government is doing with China, Korea and other countries is just WRONG headed trade policies. Not those exact words.

I hope someone has a link, I don't know how to do that kind of stuff, but he's been working on a book called "Greedy Bastards" that he's been working on for a while. This is the reason he's been taking time off lately. And apparently he got GOOD feed back on his rant. I actually went to the MSNBC website and read some of the facebook & tweet responses. I didn't read anything negative there. But I DIDN'T read them all, so don't jump at me if I MISSED one!

So, things are GOOD for him at MSNBC. I think I can retrieve the link from yesterday though because I emailed it to others.

Here is his site http://www.dylanratigan.com/

I would anticipate in a day or so, his team will have some easy to understand information out there for the masses on how corruption and free trade (and deregulation) have destroyed our economy.

Book sounds interesting.

righteously pissed-off like everybody else for having been invested in an imaginary wealth that is now crumbling away?

he has been talking about this for years.

part of the program, then they have to admit that they believe in a gigantic conspiracy theory. Then they should explain how such rants as the one Dylan laid down yesterday serve the purposes of the people he's ranting against.

Because they told him he couldn't talk about corruption.

Going to poke around and see what he is up to.

:applause:

too coincidental. He probably pissed off TPTB and Comcast.

taxes, trade and banks (and the corruption of free trade agreements) complete with graphs. Likely for the people who haven't heard him on this topic before and didn't understand what he was saying yesterday. (And apparently some here who still don't get that anti-free-trade is the antithesis of DLC).

I agree with you given their track record, and remain suspicions, but that looked like a Double Down to me.

call to his show today. He's NOT in any trouble, he's BEEN working on this book for some time and I think he needs to GET IT DONE... SOON.

Best I can come up with, but what he said today did NOT sound like ANYTHING negative happened. He got a LOT of good feedback from what he said. Check out his website and MSNBC's site that has replies.

He will never have as much attention as he does today to draw attention to the book. They needed to call attention to that and capitalize on it. I think it was brilliant. I didn't know he was writing anything, and if this book, "Greedy Bastards" lives up to its title, I will be one of the first in line to pre-order it.

Greed sucks and IMO, is our #1 problem in society (and the main argument against Randianism)

birthday, but unfortunately I don't recall the year. I DO recall all the stuff about it though.

October 25th, will never forget the month & day. Could not believe it!