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BY BLAKE HANSON
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Television’s political pundits are often known for their punchy and emotional delivery. But MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan decided to--let’s just say--kick it up a notch.
“I’m tired of Republicans and Democrats. Republicans who want to burn the place to the ground, and Democrats, with all due respect, who want to offer a plan that gets it through the end of the second term of their presidency, and then screws me and my kids when it’s over. And until we do that, we need to deal with the extraction that is at foot, it is the reason the financial markets are behaving the way they are behaving, that is a mathematical fact, this is not an opinion.”
Benzinga explains Ratigan exploded...
“...railing against the system of corruption that extracts the wealth from America into the hands of a small cabal of elites while preventing Democrats and Republicans from implementing any sort of solution that addresses the root problem.”
Mediaite is calling this a must-see moment for the 24 hour cable news audience, writing...
“It’s a rare moment to see a cable news host speak so passionately, and this is about as entertainingly unhinged as you will ever want to see.”
And Mediabistro calls the segment-- “righteous indignation.”
“When you have 24 hours of time to fill, there will always be moments of greatness… and moments that are not so great. MSNBC saw both yesterday, with the high point being a powerful, emotional editorial on the economy and Washington from Dylan Ratigan.”
And The Atlantic Wire notes a striking similarity between Ratigan’s rant and another “Network” television moment.
“...it's vague disaffected anger smacked of the kind of blind rage immortalized in the 1976 network news drama Network by fictional news anchor Howard Beale.”
Yahoo reports, Ratigan later referred to the rant as his quote “epic ‘Network’ moment”.
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