The Tolerant Left

OMG there's so much more extremism in the left, for crying out loud!

That interviewer is offensive. OMG there are so many more wingnuts, freaks and extremists on the left....

The snake (the MSM) is angry. They don't like it when their agenda is challenged.

MSNBC

'Nuf said.

The conduct of the interviewer is deplorable.

I was confused at first as to who was actually being interviewed. When the interviewer goes on a diatribe while not allowing the guest to finish a statement, well...

The interviewer should be fired and given an industry "time out" period such as is done with children that cannot behave.

Wow! MSNBC should be raided...too much crack flowing... the guy can't stand still. I wonder if anyone is awake on the production deck.

Epic fail.

Must say, there was a point that was made there.

I'm convinced.

Yes, the left are scared. Since WWII they have gradually walked towards socialism in the first world with little resistance. They see resistance now to their plans, what are their long-term plans that they dare not reveal?

Yes, the left are scared. Since WWII they have gradually walked towards socialism in the first world with little resistance. They see resistance now to their plans, what are their long-term plans that they dare not reveal?

Outstanding...rarely do you see the Left so exposed. What fun!

Another example of how the MSM is accelerating its downward spiral to irrelevence. Don't think I've ever seen a more offensive interviewer. What I can't understand is why is it ok for former communists to be in the dumbocratic party but not national socialists in other parties? I wouldn't want socialists of any pursuasion to be in a organization of which I was a member. In terms of who is the most offensive, right now the commies are quite a bit ahead of the national socialists in terms of body counts.

Dude's as nuts as Olbermann.

Wow. A real "how long have you been beating our wife" moment.

But it tells you what we are up against when the socialist and nanny-staters start to see that maybe they won't get their way after all.

I'm starting to wonder what will happen after Obama loses the next election (if the Repubs can find an acceptable candidate).

Dylan Ratigan is an an out-of-control airhead who is inviting, and earning, a fistfight. He'd be kicked out of a rubby bar for doing that.

He should be fired immediately, and be barred from ever working again as a journalist.

Shameful, pathetic, and a lingering black mark on MSNBC.

Tee Party v. Tea Party

Wow, that was pathetic. Does anybody know what he was on about in terms of advoacting killing blacks and jews? Was there really some such person at a tea party event or is that just his way of saying "people who oppose affirmative action policies".

That interviewer reminds me of a Global Warmest/Climate Changer who refuses to listen to answers. He never gave time for a proper answer to his questions and will never change his mind no mater what the answer.

Remind me of Elizabeth May and her so called debates.

I had no idea that racist's and jew haters and klan members were even in the tea party i thought it was a conservative peaceful democratic diplomatic movment by the people becasue they were tired of there lfet's socialistic agaenda being shoved down there throats.

just my thought's

Paul in calgary.

Clearly insane. They now have enough of these guys to have their own ward at the asylum. The 'Soros' Ward.

I didn't realize the Right was onto something as big its turning out to be, namely tea parties and Palin. It's easily judged, measure the visceral hatred by the left.

The man is a certifiable nut. Is it any wonder their ratings are in their boots?

lefty debating style....
This is truly the inspiration for the Tea Party movement....
Ask a question and then shout down the answer and shout the lefty position---totally fabricated.
This video must be cherished and replayed again and again and again........

I couldn't write a script better than that. Almost parody.

DrD...calling this guy a "certificable nut" is an insult to certifiable nuts.

This kind of s--t happens here too. Just moments ago on CTV a host reported that the "extreme" right represented by Sarah Palin, was coming to Calgary.
With the added disdain for the fact that the event is "sold out"!!

Opinion served up as fact.

sasquatch, what you said. This is a prime example of the left's debating style and can be heard on talk radio interviews all the time. Overtalk and do not allow the other side to answer or make their point. Clown Party brings up a perfect Canadian example of this methodology.

There were several interesting things in this "interview". The rudeness of Ratigan was the most obvious.

The second thing of interest was Ratigan's statements about "killing of blacks, Jews, and women" at 0:45-1:06. While new movements do, from time to time, attract some unusual people, these unusual people are not killers, nor do they make statements about killing other people - even if they do make statements that are of the form "we do not like such and such..." It would have been helpful had Ratigan played some footage to allow the viewers to make up their own minds. In the absence of any data, I presume that Ratigan is either exaggerating the severity of any claims made by an "unusual" person or exaggerating the number of persons making such a claim. In other words, 1) have actual undesirable, even racist, comments been made that have been extrapolated by Ratigan to "killing" and/or 2) has such a "killing of ..." comment been made but its frequency is so low that the one or two incidents may be safely dismissed as agent provocateurs in consideration of the millions of people who have attended Tea Parties across the country?

The third item of interest is between 1:50-2:05 when Williams is actually allowed to speak for an instant. In his comments, Williams points out that NBC promoted a Sacramento employee from reporter to anchorwoman after she had made an antisemitic statement. Ratigan responds with "Do I look like I run NBC?" A lot could be said about Ratigan's response. Something about "removing the beam from your own eye..." or "people living in glass houses..." should suffice.

In view of Williams' charge that NBC has not dealt properly with the Sacramento anchorwoman, Ratigan should have made a better reply because he works for the same network. Because extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, the claims of "killing of..." require sourced material.

On all three counts, Ratigan scores far below a solid B+.

If there's one thing the Left fears, it is the will of The People. The TP represents the grass roots and it has the power in American. The Left will consistently call them the uneducated, backwater, racist, unsophisticated, unlearned nut roots. How does Kate put it?-- yes, scratch a lefty and you'll find an anti-Semite. I'd expand that to other antis but you get the point.

How the heck does MSNBC stay in business? Who would buy time on a show like this?

I find it humourous how folks like MSNBC slam O'Reilly and then parrot his antics and methods to some ridiculous exponential factor.
O'Reilly would now be considered tame when compared to some of the blow hards that are out there today. Truth be told, O'Reilly was poor and has improved, whereas the left has fallen through the hole in the outhouse floor.

Wow, talk about being radical.
Ratigan really showed his true colors there.
What an empty suite!

And good on Mark, for pointing out the fact msnbc promoted, instead of demoted a reporter after an anti semetic rant.
no wonder msnbc rateings are in the tank ....and going lower!

sooner or later they will have to turn out the lights at MSNBS!

did anyone else get the irony of his comments at the end about lack of discourse? Especially after he was the root cause of the lack of discourse?

This interviewer, for all his shrieking about racists and Nazis, probably wouldn't recognize a real racist or Nazi if his life depended on it.

The label racist or Nazi has become a throw away epithet in the complete absence of a calm and collected debate.

Mr. Radigan is so hooked into promoting a particular ideology he can't even recognize his shrill behaviour. He starts off the interview in a reasonably calm manner and ends in a diatribe talking over and above his guest with no interest in hearing the guests answer in explaining the Tea Party movement which Mr. Radigan at the opening stated had many admirable principles.

This is a the classic 'gotcha type journalism' which the Tea Party representative simply refused to play, when he pointed out MSNBC's own anti-Semitic behaviour throught one of its employees.

This is the classic smear of 'guilt by association' which is a logical fallacy.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

The left really don't care if someone who attends tea parties has said, or would say, kill the Jews. That's not their focus. It really isn't even kill the blacks, although they make an issue out of that also. This is merely a smokescreen in order to save Dem seats and Obama's a**.

It's total control by the left at stake here, and they can see it slipping away.

When it takes people who would have been mostly reasonable prior to Obama's rise out of the ashes of Chicago and turns them into raving nutcases, what will it be like when the real Anti-Christ appears on the scene?

I have never wanted to kill Blacks and Jews, but I would love to off that lunatic interviewer in that clip.

He is a man who is sweating imminent unemployment and not much of a career to look forward to in his chosen field.

He actually hates himself for not planning a real career when he was being brainwashed in university or college.

It should be mentioned that there is a far greater number of murderous leftists in the USA today than there are murderous tea party folks.

Let's make an analogy of the same type as this interviewer ... Americas prisons are full of Blacks and Hispanics ... Blacks and Hispanics are mostly all Democrat voters when they vote ... therefore Leftists are mostly all criminals ... hmmm ... actually that may be true.

Well, thanks Kate. Now that you have posted this rant you have doubled NBC's viewing audience.

The Tea Party guy should have said to the interviewer....Mr. Obama accepted and listened to an extreme racist in his church for 20 years and only cut Rev (Wright) loose when the media got on to it...so he must be a racist. These leftie are crazy and we shouldnt forget who they were the day comes....

If this moron didn't want an answer, why did he ask the question?

MSNBC will be gone soon, who would watch this kind of journalistic excellence twice?

"It's easily judged, measure the visceral hatred by the left."

Yup, that's my barometer; the angrier they get, the more correct I must be.

"On all three counts, Ratigan scores far below a solid B+."

lol

This is a classic technique employed by the left- take the most extreme members of a group, and use them to smear the rest. Only it's not working anymore. The tea party is too big, too mainstream. They've taken the "community organizer" lessons and adopted them. Without the 100% lock that the media used to have on the "truth", the real facts are coming out.

He says we are hate mongers? and he is what???a concerned loving government puppetamazing how the nut bags think who is drinking the coolaid thank god we all are not like them

The worst three people in the world - Olberman, Mathews and Ratigan.

[ Craig Crawford leaves MSNBC…

Longtime MSNBC analyst Craig Crawford has left the network…according to Craig Crawford…

For those who might be interested – and you have every reason not to be – I am no longer with MSNBC. Three months short of my current contract I sent the following to the boss, Phil Griffin: “Phil, Just wanted to give you the heads up that my situation with MSNBC has become so unrewarding for me that I’ve decided to move on. — Craig”

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[ thanks bethy, i have never and never will forgive Chris for calling me a racist after the West Virginia primary (the last time I will ever go on air with him). Probably should have resigned then and there, but better late than never.

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Crawford was a mainstay on MSNBC for a very long time and also one of the more level headed analysts they had. If the Craig Crawfords of the network are getting fed up with what’s going on, that’s bad. One can only infer from Crawford’s tweets exactly what at MSNBC is going wrong in his eyes (“lefty games”, while a pretty provocative term, is also maddeningly inexact and unspecific) but it’s obvious he really got fed up with Matthews. But aside from Matthews, what else?

Ratigan was made to look foolish. He knew it. You could see it on his face at the end.

So...why didn't the guy repudiate the racists?

Why not ask the Isreali consulate on Bloor Street who screams "Death To The Jews" outside their windows, while the police stare in the wrong direction?
Tea Partiers they are not.

Nazis! Nazis! everywhere's Nazis!

Wonder if these are the same neo-Nazis and racists who joined in the "liberal" anti-Israel protests here in our own country?

mouth, maybe you were watching a different clip than me. I didn't see the guy being given a chance to speak, let alone repudiate anything.

She's right! They're all over the place! Help us, MSNBC!