Am I a bad DUer if I don't know who the hell Dylan Ratigan is?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Whenever I look at GD in the afternoon, I see about a dozen threads saying "Dylan Ratigan just said this" and "Dylan Ratigan just said that". I have to admit I was totally 100% oblivious as to who the hell Dylan Ratigan was. I actually broke down and did a Google, and turns out he is a host of a MSNBC show. Up to that point, I didn't even know whether Dylan Ratigan was a man or a woman, that's how in the dark I was about Dylan Ratigan.

[rcrush]

1. If you're not glued to the cable news teevee all day then I say you are doing something right.

TV news is crap.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. It's the same thing with The View....

....people in GD give a play by play description of what's going on in the View.

Being tucked away in the office all day without a TV, it's just a whole other world to me, what goes on in TVland during the day.

[rcrush]

3. There is nothing on tv during the day

Maybe Jeopardy but thats only 1 half hour of daytime TV thats watchable. I don't know how anyone can stand it.

[NoPasaran]

4. I thought he was an Italian shoe designer

What's this MSNBC thing?

[Bucky]

5. He's that guy who does the thing that's not such a big deal

[Common Sense Party]

7. You mean... *I* am Dylan Ratigan?

I had no idea.

[Bucky]

11. We are all Dylan Ratigan. There's a little bit of Dylan Ratigan in all of us.

Whenever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, Dylan Ratigan is there. Whenever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, Dylan Ratigan is there... He's in the way guys yell when they're mad an'--he's in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build--why, Dylan Ratigan is there, too!

[Common Sense Party]

6. I'm with you. I still don't know who the hell this "Cenk" person is,

either. And I don't know why I'm supposed to care.

[rcrush]

8. Cenk said you would say that.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. You are the worst sort of DUer...

We are all required to know everyone on the cable news shows, especially MSNBC, which is spelled M$NBC by the congnoscenti.

Further, every morning a crew is drafted to watch and complain about something this guy Joe said or did, and comment on his probability of sobriety. Points are awarded for comments complaining about his main female sidekick, but everyone else seems ot be off limits.

During the day, it's mostly boring actual news, so although everyone who is able to is still required to watch, most fall asleep but one or two remain awake to scream bloody murder in the event a Republican is interviewed without being drawn and quartered. Or if, God forbid, something nice is said about a Republican, even a dead one. Once a week, outrage is allowed for interviewing someone like an actor or musician who isn't political enough for our tastes-- how dare they offend us and waste our time with such fluff!

In the evening, the Dylan person, along with a Keith person and a Rachel person, are required viewing and there are often tests. No boring news there, just uncensored opinions and Pure Truth. There's a Tweety in there somewhere who once worked for Carter but now is considered generally a bad person because he doesn't use at least half his show to trash Republicans. There must be at least one thread a day trashing him for something.

(You really should read the rules.)

[trof]

10. That's at least two of us.

[elocs]

12. I've heard of him, but I don't rightly know exactly who he is.

To be honest, I don't watch or listen to the people that I constantly read DUers gushing about how they are on fire and what-not.