It's hard to believe a major cable outlet would continue to allow the fools they have working for them to go off on these rants.
Hold up; Ed Schultz, Chris Mathews, Keef and Rachel? Ratigan fits right in there with MSNBC's mission statement; 'We hire the freaks so you don't have to'. Hard to believe? It's what they do.
When Ratigan first came on the scene, he had potential but, his first show of his own, he ran off the rails, essentially like his little performance last night and lost his AM spot, right after Morning Joe. He does have talent so, he got another spot. He just seems to lose, or chooses to lose, the connection between his stated interest in arguing for better policy, going after the special interests and then actually ending up serving their interests when his bias comes screaming through.
I will say this; I was stunned last night just how fast and hard he went off the deep end last night. I was watching that piece. It made me angry to watch yet another opportunity for a good debate, a good argument dissolve into the same old left wing view that anyone who objects to unconstitutional policy is a racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe, etc, etc, etc.
People develop their own narrative and it becomes life and death for them, it seems, that everything MUST conform, more or less, to that narrative or the fear, gravely, that the universe will shatter out of control if they actually explore opposing views.
My God. Obama is long time pals with Ayers and Wright and has far left wing ideologues galore in his administration and, clearly, is an international socialist. By Ratigan's narrow world view, that MUST mean everyone who ever showed up at an Obama rally or, worse, voted for him, is anti American in their international socialist views and hates white people and Obama agrees with them unless he, Obama, specifically denounces them and their views, on a regular basis.
There is a huge, untapped market for intelligent, non partisan argument. Or, maybe not?
