I thought MSNBC was liberal??

[RockaFowler]

Turning off Dylan Ratigan now. He has given this Breitbart guy way too long to talk. And he agrees with him regarding the Tea Party. Then he posts a word (sorry I forgot it) and references Free republic. Done and Done.

[LiberalLoner]

1. Yeah I'm not happy with this program today either. Maybe he's trying to reach out to stop the anger

I dunno.

[Dappleganger]

2. LOL

:yoiks:

[walldude]

3. LMAO... the TV is your enemy

There is no "liberal" when it comes to tv... You have a couple of shows among hundreds with a "liberal" slant. That box has made morons out of millions of people. Turn it off.

[spanone]

4. you've never seen joe scarborough????????

[jwirr]

5. Mornings tend to be wishy-washy but starting with Big Ed the fireworks

begins. Though not always with Hardball. I turn him off most of the time.

[Kutjara]

6. As others have said, there is no "liberal" TV.

There are a smattering of liberal programs, but the only reason they exist is to give the right a hook to hang their "librul media" hat on.

[Roselma]

7. Dylan Ratigan is not liberal

He never said he was. He was on CNBC for a couple of years. I never got the idea that he was liberal there either. He just believes in regulated capitalism.

[Quantess]

8. MSNBC has an undeserved reputation as being liberal

just because they have Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann.

[RockaFowler]

17. Oh I Know

Everywhere I go people tell me how liberal MSNBC is. It is a f---ing joke!!

[City Lights]

9. The earliest I turn on msnbc is when Ed comes on.

It's been about 2 years since I watched daytime msnbc.

[CakeGrrl]

10. NO corporate-owned outlet is "liberal"

They just throw a few bones at the mixed demographic to increase viewership.

Except for FOX, who's full-tilt GOP mouthpiece.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. And it works, too.

If not for Big Ed, Keith and Rachel I'd never turn it on.

[tom_paine]

15. Sadly correct. GEM$NBC pushes the BushoCorporate "conventional wisdom"

at all other times besides their evening shows (that and those grotesque Lockdown shows).

But it does give them "plausible deniability", and that's what's important.

[Stables2010]

11. trash

[YOY]

12. All TV is "Liberal" compared to Fox.

And no channel is it's "Left Wing Equal" No matter what the jackholes of this world think.

They're all owned by corporations.

[hfojvt]

14. no, they are a big corporation

Chris Matthews has now flipped and is mostly attacking conservatives, and then there's KeithO and Rachel and Ed Schultz who are sorta liberal. But the station is not as dedicated to the left as Fox is to the right.

[Subdivisions]

16. Then you missed the good part at the end? n/t

[RockaFowler]

19. Yep - what happened??

I couldn't take it anymore . . .

[Subdivisions]

21. He challenged Breitbart and Tea Party to come out and outright

denounce racism and to denounce the violence and inflammatory rhetoric that's resulting in things like bricks being thrown through windows and propane lines being cut. Then Dylan makes a statement that he and his show denounce racism and declared himself an ememy of racism.

Edited to add: Rather than join Dylan in doing just that, Breitbart wanted a signed deal between him and MSNBC that, in return for such a denouncement, MSNBC would agree not to make them look bad. Finally, Dylan ended in the interview by saying {paraphrasing} "We're just going around in circles now so I'll let you go. Thanks for coming on."

[emulatorloo]

18. It is liberal for 2 or 3 hours a day. That's it. The other 20 hrs is mostly to the right

[stopbush]

20. MSNBC is conservative in the morning until Shuster, then goes back to conservative

until Shuster AGAIN, then goes libertarian with Ratigan, then goes quasi-progressive with Tweets and real progressive with Ed, Keith & Rachel.

[NotThisTime]

22. Ratigan is an ass

[Subdivisions]

23. By all means, do go on ... n/t

[The_Commonist]

24. MSNBC is Corporatist.

Just like all the others.

General Electric gives a couple of hours a week to "liberal" yakkers, like Keith and Rachel, and a couple of hours a week to "liberal" entertainment like SNL and 30 Rock.
This is only because there is a market for it, and they make money from it.
However, their bottom line is, of course, the bottom line, and that's all G.E. cares about.
Remember... Ronald Reagan was a spokesman for G.E. for many years, and Jack Welch ran that company for a long time.

Don't be fooled by a few hours a week of content that you happen to agree with.
That's just a way to get your eyeballs in front of their advertisers...

[MrSlayer]

25. Ratigan is right on the problem of Corporatism in governement.

But wrong about the teabaggers standing against it. The teabaggers may have started that way or claim to have but they have been taken over by far right Republicans. They do not resemble an anti-corporatist movement at all. They stand with the Republicans who are entirely comprised of corporatists. Why he doesn't mention that fact to them is beyond me.