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.
In his rant Tuesday, Ratigan blamed not only both houses of Congress but also the president for failing to address the root of the country's economic problem. He said of President Obama, according to an MSNBC transcript:
I would like him to go to the people of the United States of America and say, People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they wont do it. But Im the President of the United States, and I wont have a country that is run by a bought Congress. So Im not going to work with a bought Congress and try to be Mr. Big Guy ... Im going to abandon the bought Congress like Teddy Roosevelt did, and Im going to go to the people of the United States get rid of the bought Congress." ... Until a President says thats the problem and says hes going to fix it, there is no policy that I can possibly see no matter how brilliant your idea may be or your idea or my idea or her idea or your idea at home, is that idea will not happen as long as theres a capacity to basically fire a politician who disagrees with me by taking funding away from him. Is that a fair assessment?
In conversations with The Huffington Post Tuesday night, Ratigan contextualized the comments, calling the rant his truest and most piercing and emotional expression of fact since he's been in broadcasting. He also said he hoped the president was up to the task of addressing the real economic issues.
"In a nutshell, Hope without Courage is Lost," he told HuffPost in an email correspondence Tuesday night. "And I don't mean the destructive cowboy bravado of the Republican Party either! I mean true courage to observe truth and work through it together."
mcgowanjm has been doing this for years. Nobody listens.
No one expects anything from you fred, least of all a rational response to this video, just keep doing what it is you do....maybe they'll bring back the 'see spot run' stories, or, 'I think I know someone who might be gay'...bye!
mcgowanjm has been doing this for years. Nobody listens.
Thanks for specificity.
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
Nobody cares WTH this flaming 0bama sycophant and Leftist has to say.
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
"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.
Wow, really, Rat-Face?
Figured this all out when? YESTERDAY??
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
No one expects anything from you fred, least of all a rational response to this video, just keep doing what it is you do....maybe they'll bring back the 'see spot run' stories, or, 'I think I know someone who might be gay'...bye!
LOL...
Careful - Fred will remind you of your mis-spelling.
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
mcgowanjm has been doing this for years. Nobody listens.
How long I've been doin' it.
I know Exactly where I was (Miami Beach;).
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And I told the professor that day that this PATCO 'slaughter' would have major implications...
You have some kind of special gibberish translator?
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Wasn't Reagans Fed chairman appointed by Jimmeh Carter?
You can trace 'em back to Nixon if you like.
Paul Volcker: US economist advising presidents from Nixon to ... www.guardian.co.uk/business/.../profile-us-economist-paul-volcker - CachedSimilar Jan 21, 2010 A tall man with a big reputation for economic policy, Volcker has given his name to Obama's attempt to curb Wall Street.
Next.
The Fed Res is a Private Central Bank that is Unconstitutional. Since the Panic of 1907 and creation of Standard & Poors....
Like how come S&P gives us a AAA just before going into WWI and WWII...;}
by SheepDog-One on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 10:39 #1550795
WOW so we got a market rise based upon banning short selling thus destroying the markets and certain plunge to come. Just fantastic work again FED world bankster boys! Standing ovation!!
The Superman president concept. We don't have a superman in the WH. Kennedy and Reagan came closest to that.
We need a president with integrity and guts, who's just crazy enough to try fighting the establishment via a direct appeal to the people. Ron Paul has the integrity and is probably crazy enough, not sure if he has the guts. It also takes a special kind of ability, or stage presence, to get the people of the US on your side and keep them there during the tough transition to a Constitutional Republic. Reagan and Kennedy had it. Note that both were shot.
Such a president would be fighting the MSM and both parties. He'd have to have massive public support to pull it off. Tea Party+++
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Everybody is dreaming. Until we have a serious discussion of how flawed, how corrupt, the world we live in truly is, nothing good can happen. As long as we keep pretending that our political system works, that everything is on the up and up, nothing good can happen. Until we stop deceiving ourselves about every damn thing except ourselves, nothing good can happen. And until we all face the music, and if you've got a scheme for solving all our problemseverybody doesI don't want to fucking hear your fucking plan. Got it?
This video (below) of Dylan Ratigan's recent rant has gone viral in the blogosphere. Ratigan is slowly coming to the realization that he lives in the United States, not in La La Land where reasonable plans work. He's not quite there yet. (He seems to think Obama is less corrupt than the others.) Near the end of the video, MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams says
Money in politics is the root of all political evil
All serious discussions begin with this simple observation. If you skip over it, or pretend money in politics doesn't matter, if you assume politicians are sincere, that they are earnest, you are fooling yourself. Apparently, you prefer to live in a world of bullshit. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Until Americans get serious about solving the root of all political evil, evil is what they will get.
Based on your post, one of the problems with some folks is that you want spectacular presentation without understanding the contents of the message. It is difficult to manage the multivariate elements of requirements for America, however and to achieve perfect presentation while really directing a message is nearly impossible. And that is why America shall always be SOLD OUT.
Many people just want someone that is an actor; that is the problem with contemporary America's elected leaders: all white teeth and gift for gab and don't accomplish anything but muddle the nation.
Plus, Barry's a flamer. He doesn't walk, he sashays his skinny gay azz as though he's vogueing down a designer model runway in Frisco.
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
When I voted for him I didn't realize he was an Ayn Rand worshiper.
Or else you would have voted for....Gus Hall's corpse??
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
Ratigan is slowly coming to the realization that he lives in the United States, not in La La Land where reasonable plans work.
Don't worry - he'll apologize for his brief "slip up" and return to doing what he's paid to do - shill for 0bama and the socialist NWO.
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama