Dylan Ratigan Loses His Temper With Debbie Wasserman Schultz
From MSNBC's Morning Meeting, Dylan Ratigan loses his temper with Debbie Wasserman Schultz when she starts spinning about what a good bill HCR is going to be but doesn't answer his question about why Wall Street is so happy and all the health insurance stocks are going up. Ratigan tweeted that he will apologize for losing his temper but not for "challenging lies and misinformation".
Here's the terrible thing about the administration and Reid allowing this health care bill to be watered down so badly by the ConservaDems in the pocket of the insurance companies. Now you've got someone like Debbie Wasserman Schultz who you know probably doesn't like what's going on any more than most of us do being forced to try to defend this crap sandwich to the likes of Ratigan, and not being able to. She really did not look like she was prepared for this interview at all. I think Ratigan was extremely rude, but I don't disagree with his points.
Wendell Potter followed up on the phone and gave him some plain spoken answers about why the stock market is so happy. Then he let hack KT McFarland follow up and act like Republicans aren't as happy about this as the insurance industry. They get to sit back and play populists and let the Democrats own this mess.
Eli over at FDL has more on this--What’s The Matter With Democrats?:
Not only have Obama and the Senate Democrats adopted pro-corporate policies that will hasten their own political demise, but they have allowed the Republicans to keep their hands clean and pretend to oppose legislation that they would have happily championed a few years ago.
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Unless Obama and the Democrats pull their heads far enough out of their corporate donors’ asses to hear the transpartisan outrage brewing outside the Beltway, the 2010 and 2012 elections will be very very bad for them. They will reap all of the pent-up rage and resentment that was aimed at the Republicans in 2006 and 2008, and we know how that turned out.
Given Rahm's statement to Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, the administration is looking pretty tone deaf these days--Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Worry About the Left. Not helpful Rahmbo. We've got Axelrod trying to calm down left wing bloggers one day and Rahm Emanuel telling us to stick it the next. Talk about mixed messages.
suddenly becoming assjacket, kneejerk, meme-spouting fuckknuckles for this piece of shit bill? (R)ahm must be pulling all the strings he can. It's about time more in the media took their asses to the shed.
Some stuff you can't make up!
they'll get their funding cut if they don't go along. That and I think some of them honestly think that passing the bill and trying to improve it later is better than the status quo. If they would actually try to improve it later, then I think they'll settle down their base. If they pass this as it is now and do nothing, they're going to have real problems come next election, and rightfully so.
but apparently, any (R)ahmocrat will stand up for the corporate deals the WH makes.
Some stuff you can't make up!
This woman is no saint. Her and Jane Harmon are not to be trusted.
This whole thing stinks. People who have stocks in ins co's are just making a killing. Meanwhile, they tell us we have to pay.
Not me. I have the VA. When we were talking about single payer. I would have paid it. I was fine with that. But now?
I won't do it. Not a snowballs chance in hell.
I will not line the pockets of the rich with the sweat off of my brow.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I still don't think Schultz or any of the Democrats in the House are happy about where things are headed with this bill in the Senate. Schultz is a breast cancer survivor and I think on this issue, she'd like to see some real reform. I don't see any of them crossing the administration and voting against it though.
Regardless of how anyone feels about the healthcare bill, or about Debbie Wasserman Schultz (who I think is great), it's ridiculous to bring someone on to rant at them and then answer your own question. I don't like it when Bill O'Reilly does it, and Dylan is just as big a d*ck.
Not to speak to the fact that it was a nonsensical question to ask someone in Congress. And Dylan, 11% is not an astronomical increase in stock value. Healthcare stocks have been depressed because of the uncertainty surrounding reform, and the 11% can be explained simply by the removal of uncertainty. A stock analyst should know that.
What a jerk. I won't be watching him any more.
thinks Dylan Ratigan is a gigantic prick. He's a loud, obnoxious gorilla in a suit. It's a shame that people give him a pass.
I think he acted like a jerk. I do think it's a valid point that Wall Street is loving this bill. I don't think he should have treated Schultz the way he did and that it was obnoxious so I'm with you there.
the larger point I was trying to make being lost on how Ratigan treated Schultz. The bill is so bad that the Dems who vote for it are going to have a hard time defending it, just as she did here, Ratigan acting like an ass or not. We have more of this to look forward to if the bill passes sadly.
I wasn't singling you out particularly. But while you're reading, John McCain wasn't calling Sarah Palin irrelevant...
that he wasn't taking a shot at her and I did say that I understood why others disagreed. I'm not getting into that pissing match again. I post a whole lot of stuff that the site doesn't promote and if I put one thing up they decided to promote that a lot of people disagreed with, well, that's the way it goes. I'll take my lumps but I did not post it just to drive up traffic to the site. I thought he was being a shit and getting his digs in on her and after Palin's visor black out fiasco, I'd say the two of them have some issues they'd rather pretend don't exist in public. I'll just say again that I'll agree to disagree but I respect that anyone has another point of view.
having lived within DebWZero's representational districts for the many years of her political career, it is time her ramblings and rantings are exposed for the true fakery it is, she has taken her constituents on the true path to absolute oblivion with her falsehoods and mis- and mal-representations. I surely hope you are correct, and this time may it be: Debbie, be gone!
So maybe Ratigan was on the rude side, but, really, usually it is DebDeb doing all the interrupting, and she really deserved this impromptu taking to task for a lot of past transgressions on her part. She clearly should not be trusted by any seniors or other vulnerable human beings. Another V for sure.
is it rude to call out liars, and put them on the spot for the bullshit they spread. I have a long list sub-human snake-oil salesmen who deserve the same treatment. Do you treat people who lie to you in everyday life with respect?... I sure don't, if your not to be trusted, you deserve no respect and indeed deserve what you get. CEO,citizens,eyes,open
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