Dylan Ratigan gets his own show on MSNBC 9 - 11 AM Eastern

[eleny]

Keith O had him on his show tonight to introduce him.

Here's an article about it http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/2009/05/dylan_ratiganback_to_nbc.html

[ShortnFiery]

1. I'm less than enthused but they could have done much worse.

:shrug:

[eleny]

2. I thought his face looked familiar and then read he was on CNBC

:(

[ShortnFiery]

6. When I used to watch Morning Joe (before Xmas) I'd see him on. He's as exciting as Mike Barnicle

but not nearly as Progressive. :(

[JI7]

3. i still couldn't figure out what his show is supposed to be about

[Fuzz]

4. Me neither

[eleny]

5. It's on kind of early for me so I'll have to wait for DU comments

I couldn't figure it out, either. I guess discussions of current events.

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Here's a piece of his Wikipedia page

In Ratigan's final CNBC broadcast from the floor of the NYSE he reported on what he called "an important story developing" that Goldman Sachs and "a variety of European banks", in his assessment and that of his guests, essentially "perpetrated securities fraud" and an "insurance fraud scam" against AIG—and, by extension, the government and taxpayers funding that insurance company's "bailout"—by insuring their questionable investment vehicles and, upon their devaluation, making claims on them to be paid by AIG "at 100 cents on the dollar" despite all of the markdowns "being forced upon every other" entity including the government, banks, shareholders, bond holders, taxpayers and homeowners.

"I think that it should be a bigger political issue than whether somebody bought an airplane... Forget the private jets, forget who got a million dollar bonus. Fifty billion dollars", he emphasized, minimizing what he saw as populist side issues to "the real question" of how "government policy makers" are to deal with the "problems of contract law" inherent in the agreements of businesses receiving government assistance during the financial crisis.

"The banks are being asked to take 'haircuts' on their toxic assets, why are the Goldmans and the Deutsche Banks of the world not being asked to take haircuts on their toxic credit default swaps? It's a real question. I will continue to pursue it for sure, I hope others will as well." Ratigan praised New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's subpoena of AIG to determine the bank payouts as "legitimate inquiry" and looked forward to "a body of lawmakers in Washington D.C. who are going to ask, it appears, some of the same questions that I'm asking."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Ratigan

I never watch CNBC, so I don't know if his separation from that network had anything to do with the above, nor am I likely to ever see his new show, given the hours. But if he was serious about pursuing the criminal bastards at Goldman Sachs and AIG, then he's a welcome addition to the MSNBC lineup.

[ShortnFiery]

8. I didn't sense any of that "moral courage" when he'd comment on Mourning Ho-Jo.

Guess we'll see with time?