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Dylan Ratigan To AnimalNY Blog: Occupy Wall Street Has ‘An Opportunity To Transcend Politics’

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MSNBC’s money guy Dylan Ratigan seems to be serving regular hours down at Occupy Wall Street’s lower Manhattan hold, Zuccotti Park. Ratigan first showed up on Saturday, teasing “you guys are crazy!” while assuring that, “I am here because I agree with you.” Having fallen in with the crowd, Ratigan returned to the park last night, where AnimalNY’s Bucky Turco caught him for a taping of “The (Unofficial) Dylan Ratigan Show, Live from Zuccotti Park.”

If Ratigan is to be believed, the Occupy Wall Street movement far exceeds the known reaches of politics, encompassing wholly the “principles of our humanity that are being breached by the bought government.”

“This movement has an opportunity to transcend politics,” he tells Turco, who asked about the potential of the movement as compared to the Tea Party. ”We are at a moment where it is just ‘us.’ We are just one enormous group of people, not in this square, but in this planet and in this country. All of us are Tea Partiers on some level, all of us are occupiers, all of us are that intention which is the frustration with the world that lacks fairness,” he continued.

Professing profound faith in the movement’s energy and potential, he says, “I can’t speak for myself, I could get hit by a bus walking home tonight, but I can speak for the permanence of the energy here.”

Check out the rest of AnimalNY’s Occupy Wall Street coverage here, and watch Turco’s full interview with Ratigan below:

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  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Dylan is destined to have his own prime-time show…

    Albeit only on MSNBC… but still !!

  • Anonymous

    Liberals are so desperate to have Carpet Bagger Party!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A4OJ2F7ADXSD7OMEUUEQDQDZ2Y Dustin Baker

    If Ratigan can bring the Occupy people and Tea Party people together more power to him.  I just don’t see it happening.  The two groups know the bailouts and banking industry are corrupt but one blames the lack of government regulation while the other blames the excessive government involvement. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A4OJ2F7ADXSD7OMEUUEQDQDZ2Y Dustin Baker

    I also find it interesting that Ron Paul’s message of anti-bailouts, anti-government corporatism, anti-Federal Reserve/Wall Street has taken over the Republican Party and now, with the Occupy movement, is making inroads with the left.  Ron Paul, whether he wins the Republican nomination or not, has been the most influential voice in politics over the last 4 years.  Pretty remarkable.

  • Anonymous

    The professional left has already co-opted this movement. It won’t be long and there will be purple shirts out there trying to direct things and every other leftist group trying to channel people for their purposes. MoveOn.org is already out there with them. When the unions and leftist special interests get there (if they aren’t there already), this will become just an astro-turfed protest. These people should get a message and not let it become some rally cry for groups like SEIU and MoveOn. I’d tell them to step off.

  • Anonymous

    The poor unemployed white kids are at it again.

    MG, the NYC police force shows more diversity than that mob does!

  • Tripled32

    I never thought about Ron Paul in that way, over the last few years, but you make a great point. I’ve been a follower of Paul over the last 3 years, and he is with out a doubt the most honest, and genuine politician there is in this country, along with Bernie Sanders. Paul’s voice is more influential tho. I love his message for its consistency, even though I only agree with him up to a certain point. But I have to agree with you. Pauls voice has been the most influential since the last election

  • Anonymous

    Any intelligent person who understands the different forms of government knows that the demands stated by this group of children and deluded adults is a call for fundamentally changing our governmental system to a communist one. This is not transcending of politics.

  • Anonymous

    Uh hoh geez….that was hilarious.
    Was he on mushrooms or something…?

  • Jason

    What is the end game for these unwashed, hippy re-treads? I don’t even understand why these idiots are doing what they’re doing, and why they waited over 3 fucking years to do it. Furthermore, why do all of these jobless morons not hold Obama accountable for anything? Why don’t they demand money from all their uber-rich, leftwing sugar daddies?

    It’s almost as if this was orchestrated by some magical fairy who would have something to gain from the country being distracted from our real problems because a bunch of idiots are protesting money.

    I wonder who that magical fairy might be……

  • Anonymous

    I find it ironic that Tea Partiers are mocking #OccupyWallStreet folks.  Tea Party gets couple hundred folks together, its news for a week.  #OccupyWallStreet has been there for two weeks, and its taken dragging the media(kicking and screaming) to even cover it. 

    Tea Party is not grass roots, Occupy Wall Street is.  When the Tea Party defines grass roots, it means Dick Armey and his machine.  But the Tea Party is partnered with CNN, so what do I expect until Occupy Wall Street partners with some news org?  I guess too much.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    He was obviously drinking. Cut him some slack.

  • ganymede

    I understand that George Soros is backing the Occupy Wall Street gig. Only joking! I’ve been down there a few times over the last week and it’s all very impressive. Great discussion, food, community, entertainment, and it’s obvious here is no one behind this movement which is why it’s catching on. I should add that it’s probably the majority of people in this country who are and/or will become part of this movement, because we all know that Wall Street owns both political parties, especially the Republicans.  The last time I experienced anything remotely like this was right before Geo Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq when millions of people worldwide were out on the streets – I almost got arrested on Lexington Ave in Manhattan! Of course, what did we know, or, rather,  anyone with half a brain knew the war would open up a Pandora’s box of horrors, and turn Bush’s presidency into an alltime freakout. It’s also obvious, that this is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. We’re witnessing the beginning of a genuine Tea Party which will quickly supplant the erzatz Tea Party that’s been causing us all so much grief. Yes, the Tea Party has serious legitimate grievances but they’ve allowed themselves to be led by the nose by some very unsavory people whose only objective is to destroy Obama and, unfortunately, take the country down as well.

  • Cecelia

    Oh, help us, Obi-wan kenobi,  You’re our only hope!”

  • Pablo

    Look at all those white kids, bitching about the government. They must be racists.

  • Latin2

    True, they are mostly WHITE (like what the Liberal MSM said about the teaparty) and heaven forbid these protesters get a job flipping burgers, a job many of my people do as an entry level type of job.

    I have heard many of these PRIVILEGED kids say they won’t do jobs at McDonalds, that shows they are NOT with the people. When I was going to school I also worked at McDonalds for awhile. I even picked grapes and tomatoes as a child. The problem with many of these kids is they want high paying jobs, with benefits, without having to do any hard work.

  • Latin2

    He is better off getting an article on Mediaite….he will get more views.

  • Latin2

    Protester; “I have my degree in Liberal Arts and I can’t get a 40 dollar an hour job”.

  • Latin2

    Liberal MSM is saying that Hippies, Anarchists, Communists are going to “transcend America”, but the tea party can’t?

    lol….just proves who the real idiots are = the Left.

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Hah !!

    How you been?
    Fine I hope! Stop by TVN sometime. We miss you !!

  • unmutual

    “This movement has an opportunity to transcend politics”
     
    Wow. What a delusional loon.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Derek-Rife/1253520073 Derek Rife

    Your comment just proves you did not even watch the first five seconds of the video, and therefore you’re the one who ends up looking like an idiot.

  • Infantry LT

    He sounds like one of the possessed people in a Stephen King novel.

  • Farnsworth

    Great quotes. Did you interview these guys yourself?

  • Farnsworth

    Where did you hear many of these privileged kids say this?

  • Farnsworth

    Hah! What a dope

  • V-Monster

    Don’t forget to remind all Ron Paul supporters to register as a Republican so they can vote for him in the primaries!

    Many
    states AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, NH, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME,NE, NV, NJ, NM, NY,
    OK, OR, PA, RI, SD, UT, WV, WY HAVE CLOSED PRIMARIES! Which means if you are
    not a “Registered Republican” you MAY NOT vote for RON PAUL in the primaries.
    It is sad most Americans do not know this. It takes about 5 minutes at the DMV
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    October 14 check your states laws….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

    At first it was only the students in the streets and more men were killed in Vietnam. And then it was the adults with the kids in the streets, and then the war in Vietnam came to an end when Nixon pulled the troops out. The youth can see what’s happening when the adults still are blinded by the money that runs through our economy for political benefit, of which the one percent benefit from the most.

  • Doylegirard

    this country has been corrupted by greed and a bought government for so long now that we expect it.  finally a movement starts to stop the rape of the american people and some of you mock it.  shame on you, you puppets.  you cannot think and have no guts.  you are lead and told what to do.  long live mr. ratigan for caring.  long live this movement.  impeach them all , indict them and export them.

  • Anonymous

    Proud of you all.  I’m old, in Fla., the state so crooked they elected a thief for governor, but wish I was in NYC,

    Tactical tips: fascists on fox news and elsewhere are calling you un-American, clearing the minds of right-wing retards to accept anything that might happen.  So- if you see cops take out guns, leave. Fast.   Remember, the protests against the Vietnam war were ended by the murders of demonstrators.  If they use gas:– it can make you feel like you are going to die.  You are not going to die, but you may panic anyway.  The way to end panic is to find someone more confused than you, or who is seized by coughing, or who has tripped and fallen, and help them.  Your panic will clear away almost immediately.  

    Best of luck. This has been needed for a long time, so congratulations on doing it.

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