They’re calling this Dylan Ratigan’s “Network” moment, so I thought that I’d present the two scenes together and let you decide how appropriate the comparison is.
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[note: Ratigan is good for at least one quality rant a year.]
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heh- someone just posted this on google+, so I decided to check your blog.
I preferred when Ratigan did the Marcellus Washington piece from Pulp Fiction about a pair of pliers and a blow torch.
And I do like how things are streamlined now, with posts being crowsourced at Google+. It’s quite elegant.
Something else to be “mad as hell about”. There are charges of vote tampering in yesterday’s Wisconsin recall election.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwMFpl1KLb8
The cynic in me thinks outbursts like these are nothing more than attempts to attract this kind of attention. I don’t think that’s the case here though. I think everyone who pays attention to this stuff is frustrated, if not just pissed off. I’m surprised we aren’t seeing more people lose it.
good rant
He needed to smash something. Smash it with a hammer.
That was a Deacon Dark reference.
Who here would really open up the window and shout, and who would keep glued to the TV to watch inspirational footage a man ranting and people shouting?
Part of me would want to shout. But most of me would want to watch the shouting. Even if there was a TV news crew outside my window, I’d hesitate to shout and risk missing footage of myself shouting.
TV is made for watching. Despite all the PBS PSAs telling kids to go outside and explore, Curious George is up next and he’s a monkey. He can do things you can’t do.
“Network” gave a call to people to act. Ratigan has rightly given up on us to get off our couches. He wants a TV superhero to motivate us. Problem is, if Obama starts shouting it’ll be such fantastic TV that we’ll all be glued to the set.
Who?
Jiminy, Ratigan is trying in his way to get people to translate the anger into action. The following is from his website:
Granted, it’s still all stuff that can be done on the couch, but at least it’s something.
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/10/americas-mad-as-hell-moment/
The revolution will not be Tweeted.
James, are you suggesting that because you saw this Ratigan rant in your Google+ feed that it shouldn’t have been shared here? I’d like to know the rules. Is it uncool to share something, regardless of how noteworthy it might be, if someone else has done so?
South Korea is exactly the kind of country we should be signing NAFTA style trade deals with. I don’t see how South Korea can be in the least bit compared with Panama and Colombia.
Mr. X:
Sorry- I was just commenting on how quickly this kind of thing tends to spread. There is nothing wrong or against etiquette on resharing links like this.
International trade is going to stop anyway, as fuel prices rise. Manufacturing will return to the U.S. The only reason to have things made in Asia is because of the cheap labor, and, in the post-labor union United States that won’t be an issue.
I don’t agree that “international trade will stop” any time soon, but that’s ok. I’m sure that you won’t waste any time posting a few doomsday style links, and that’s ok.
To me, that’s a pretty simplistic view of not only global economics, but of Asia. South Korea is important, not only as an exporter and manufacturer of goods, but also as a large importer of American products.
Honestly, I have no idea who this Ratigan guy is.
He was on CNBC and spoke out against the policies that led to the financial collapse of 2008, and ended up at MSNBC. He’s seems to believe in integrity and the purpose of the Fifth Estate.
Pete,
The following is from Wikipedia:
I got a good laugh out of that. That Ratigan guy does that about once a week. He’s great. He reminds me of Mel Gibson.