Granted, pointing out hypocrisy on MSNBC is like shooting fish in a barrel, but sometimes it’s even easier than that. Sometimes the fish are already dead and just floating on top. Like on Monday’s Dylan Ratigan Show.
The topic was the Ground Zero mosque and Ratigan – surprise – supports the structure. He opined that New Yorkers like himself who walk past ground zero every day have no problem with the mosque. It’s the people outside of the city, “like people from Alaska that say, ‘Oh my God, the sky is falling, the Muslims are going to kill us’ who stand against the building.”
After the cheap attempt to slag a quote on Sarah Palin for something that she never said, Ratigan offered no proof showing residents of the area agree with the building of the mosque. But this is MSNBC, where truth is irrelevant and facts are merely bothersome.
Ratigan suggested that people outside of NYC are clueless, that their opinions are uninformed and thus matter less than local residents’.
Contrast this with the same network’s coverage of Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law. Are the voices of the Arizona residents who live in danger because of elevated crime rates more relevant than the collective voices of the MSNBC hosts, all of whom stand in support of the federal government’s opposition to the Arizona law?
Will Ratigan’s network stop calling Arizonans who support the bill racists, since they live there and thus know better than outsiders?
The question is rhetorical, of course.
– Written by Sonny Palermo
This post was last modified on August 18, 2010
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Typical liberal... everyone who is not him or thinks like him are stupid and onlyhe and people like him know what is best for everyone else even if the situation has NOTHING to do with them or are outside of their expertise.
This is a typical Coastal attitude, more prevalent in New York City than elsewhere. Anyone NOT living in the area is stupid, ignorant, incapable of learning or caring for themselves. That is why we in the "fly over" states need them to tell us how to live. This attitude is compltely consistent-we can't tell them anything, but they are wiser than we and can direct our lives for us.
When your parents name you "Dylan" you are probably destined for MSNBC.
Dylan Ratigan is hardly a household name. I suppose he feels he must be an ass to get noticed, which is not altogether surprising.
Consider Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, and Chris Matthews. None of them got noticed at first, not until they showed what dumb asses they were. They sure don't have a message or a lot of viewers, but they know how make themselves look stupid.
I guess it all boils down to three things: Marketing, marketing, marketing.
Thank you IHTM for doing the nitty, gritty, dirty work of actually reading and listening to the splatter of vomit these elitist want-to-be journolistas hurl onto otherwise pristine pulp products. It saves the rest of us the unsavory and disgusting task of reading or listening to it ourselves. If it weren't for your selflessness to duty of exposing them, no one would know how ridiculous and stupid they really are. After all, if IHTM quit reading or listening their splatter, their audience may decrease by up to 100%.
Dylan Ratigan is low rent, even by BSNBC standards. He needs to try harder.
Doofus.