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Former CNBC and MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan is getting into politics. On Wednesday afternoon, Ratigan formally announced that he's running for Congress as a Democrat in New York's 21st congressional district, which encompasses several counties in the northern part of the state. Ratigan spent three years at MSNBC before leaving the network — and the television business — in 2012. Before that, he worked as an executive for Bloomberg News and an anchor for CNBC. Last spring, Ratigan was hired by his former MSNBC colleague, Cenk Uygur, as a contributor to his Young Turks Network. Uygur said that Ratigan will...

“Thnx Mr. President!” That’s what former MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan had to say to President Obama in a tweet earlier today. He was saying it sarcastically. You know, like when you say “thanks a lot!” to someone who bumps into you in the hallway, causing you to spill your coffee all over your clothes. But Mr. Ratigan experienced something far worse than a coffee spill. His health insurance premiums are skyrocketing thanks to the hilariously named Affordable Care Act. What happened? Well, for starters, Ratigan had catastrophic health insurance coverage. That means that he sees himself as pretty healthy and...

You'd call this guy crazy if he weren't brilliant, concise and 100% right-on-the-money.

Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan recently got a rude awakening about Obamacare when he received a cancellation notice in the mail for his catastrophic insurance policy. I bought a catastrophic health policy for $170/mo when I left MSNBC. Obamacare cancelled the policy. New rate $600/mo. Thnx Mr. President! — Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) November 8, 2013 Interesting discussion...many seem to think paying a high deductible in exchange for low cost catastrophic should be outlawed? I disagree. — Dylan Ratigan (@DylanRatigan) November 8, 2013 Serious question...do you guys think simple catastrophic coverage should be outlawed? If so, why? — Dylan Ratigan...

“Thnx Mr. President.” That’s all former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan had to say to President Barack Obama on Thursday when he announced that the health insurance plan he purchased on the individual market after leaving the news network was being cancelled. The new plan he was eligible would cost him 3.5 times more than his previous plan. “I bought a catastrophic health policy for $170/mo when I left MSNBC,” Ratigan confessed. “Obamacare cancelled the policy. New rate $600/mo. Thnx Mr. President!”His tweet admission was met with a flurry of ACA supporters who attempted to explain to Ratigan why he should...

niggardly: Not generous; stingy (adjective/adverb) It’s a word that has caused job-ending consequences in the past for politicians and others in the public eye because of its similarities to a racial slur. However, that didn’t deter Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown from using it during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Dylan Ratigan Show” on Thursday, to describe how he thought some of his colleagues were acting toward veterans. “Of course we’re falling short,” he said. “There are people, as you know Matt, in this Congress who will always send a blank check when it comes to spending money on defense...

In an email sent to a private listserv operated by Occupy Wall Street protest organizers, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan pledged to personally deliver to Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin a petition listing the movement’s grievances, The Daily Caller has learned. “Hope you all are good,” Ratigan wrote to listserv members shortly after midnight on Oct. 7. “I’m taking the petition with 140,000 after 8 days as a USB drive to initiate a public conversation with Senator Durbin tomorrow midday about outlawing private money’s ability to purchase the government. He has been pushing this for many years.”

Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement. Someone has made the emails from the Occupy D.C. email distro public and searchable. The names in the list are a veritable who’s who in media. Journolist 2.0 includes well known names such as MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan, Rolling Stone’s Matt Tiabbi who both are actively participating; involvement from other listers such as Bill Moyers and Glenn Greenwald plus well-known radicals like Noam Chomsky, remains unclear.

OMG Stunning Moment of Honesty MSNBC’s Ratigan Admits Left is Scared to Criticize Obama Because He is a Black Liberal http://www.theblaze.com/stories/omg-stunning-moment-of-honesty-msnbcs-ratigan-admits-left-is-scared-to-criticize-obama-because-hes-a-black-liberal/

Way back in 2009, a guest on David Shuster‘s MSNBC program referred to the investigation of former President Bill Clinton‘s affair with Monica Lewinsky thusly: “And your idea is that after investigating Bill Clinton for a blowjob for like five years, we shouldn’t investigate the huge, grossly illegal things that were done under the past administration.” This afternoon, it happened again, and it was an anchor that said it. Dylan Ratigan was comparing the costs of various federal investigations, and he noted that the most expensive one–at more than twice the cost of the 9/11 commission–was the Clinton/Lewinsky investigation, or...

"This is my bias, but I would argue that as certainly as you see the war, the Democrats have shown themselves no different than the Republicans in their willingness to torture somebody like Bradley Manning even though he has not even been tried at this point," Dylan Ratigan said.

Discussing violent revolution as if it’s just another policy optionMSNBC host Dylan Ratigan not only decided it was a good idea to have on far-left cartoonist Ted Rall to discuss his new book The Anti-American Manifesto, which calls for the left to consider violent revolution if its aims aren’t met, but Ratigan overtly endorsed revolution and implicitly endorsed considering violence. If this were on Fox News, the media would be blowing a fuse. It better get working on this one. If it’s suspension-worthy for an obiously left-wing host to give campaign donations to politicians, what is it when one quasi-endorses...

On Dylan Ratigan’s show, liberal cartoonist Ted Rall, author of the “Anti-American Manifesto”, suggests violence may be the only way to save America. Ratigan himself asks “Are things in our country so bad, that it may be time for a revolution? The answer obviously is ‘yes’ ,the only question is ‘how to do it?”

MSNBC Host blows cork, Mark Williams walks off show  The part I loved the most was that the host – a nobody named Dylan RATigan had his producer call he at 6:30 this morning to be on the show at 1:00 PM my time.  After I walked off the air (or was thrown, leftie blogs say I was thrown, I thought I walked but then again I cannot see the program when I am on, all I see is a camera lens pointed at me) he went into a rant about how I “used” him and his show  LOL! As Holly,...

Dylan Ratigan's "Daily Rant" segment was a treasure trove of controversial statements today. You be the judge of which statement rates higher on the controversy-meter: * Ratigan's claim that the "default position" in the USA is to incarcerate black men; or * Blogger Keli Goff's suggestion that to end the cycle of poverty among African-Americans, and to avoid burdening taxpayers, kids should be taught in school that not everyone should have children. Ratigan's America-the-racist accusation is refuted by the facts, starting with the fact that the school district that spends more per pupil than any other in the USA is...

Leave it to Dylan Ratigan, one of the star personalities at MSNBC who seems to be constantly looking for a reason to be angry. On his July 12 show, Ratigan posed his view on how trade between China and the United States operates. According to Ratigan, importing products where labor costs are significantly lower is akin to slavery. He specifically named Foxconn, a company that manufactures iPhones and iPads for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). (h/t @KenShepherd) "Do you want to get raw?" Ratigan said. "Let's say that the American people happily, logically apathetic are perfectly happy basically with a slave culture of...

MSNBC afternoon host Dylan Ratigan took to the ramparts of The Huffington Post on Thursday and urged home owners to stop paying their mortgages as a leftist protest against a government too cozy with the bankers. The title was "They Keep Stealing -- Why Keep Paying?"The crisis was all Wall Street's fault, and now they're back to paying themselves bonuses after a federal bailout. So stop paying them. (Notice Ratigan doesn't suggest you protest Washington and TARP by refusing to pay your taxes.) This piece sounds like a direct-mail letter: You didn't cause this mess. They did. Now you are...

You almost need a flak jacket to go on an MSNBC show these days - at least judging by the rapid fire attacks displayed on the March 2 "The Dylan Ratigan Show." Either host Dylan Ratigan was trying to play to MSNBC's rabid liberal audience or he really has it in for the Tea Party movement based on some exaggerated notion it is nothing but hate and fear mongers. In an interview with Mark Williams, a conservative talk radio host and sometimes spokesman for the Tea Party Express, Ratigan asked Williams what he was doing to separate his legitimate effort...

Host Dylan Ratigan apologized to Debbie Wasserman Schultz this morning for his treatment Friday during a live on air debate on health care, (Video)

Here is video of MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan today where he really lost it in an interview with Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. He yelled at the Congresswoman and demanded she explain why Insurance Stocks have been up dramatically since it became apparent that the Democrats' Health Care Bill in the Senate will mandate everyone have insurance, but not create a Public Insurance Option. Rep. Wasserman Schultz repeatedly tried to answer, but was cutoff by Ratigan, who asked and then answered his own question. The level of anger at Obama and Congressional Democrats by the Left is really something to see....