video Due to Morning Joe's tendency of having colorful personalities from Joe Biden to Donald Trump drop by, Wonkette once elegantly (albeit slightly inaccurately) described it as "the one where some ex-Congressman and a random statesman’s daughter drink Bacardi for like four hours and then have sex on Dylan Ratigan’s ottoman." But today the Morning Joe crew proved they are also providing the most informative and relevant content in morning cable news programming with a debate on reconstructing the public school system that every parent in an at-risk community should pay close attention to. (more...)

video Since moving to the afternoon hour, Dylan Ratigan has been on fire! And while skeptics might claim that he's taking a page from Glenn Beck's playbook, his supporters note that no one is exhibiting such feisty behavior on cable news (save perhaps Tsunami-fueled Rick Sanchez.) Earlier today Ratigan had it out with columnist and radio host Mark Williams, who has also organized the Tea Party Express. Things start out ugly, amid claims of racism, then go predictably and horribly down hill. (more...)

video Dylan Ratigan decided to use Chalkboard Journalism for his response to FNC's Glenn Beck during his MSNBC show yesterday. After Beck (and others, like Rush Limbaugh) knocked Ratigan's climate change/Snowpocalypse segment, Ratigan wanted to set the record straight. (more...)

The recent programming changes at MSNBC - Dr. Nancy canceled, Dylan Ratigan moving to 4pmET, Chuck Todd/Savannah Guthrie to host new 9amET show - signal a shift in the strategy for the network. And MSNBC is explaining why the plan in June has been scrapped fora new one. (more...)

video It was a contentious Morning Meeting on Friday, as MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan had it out with Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz about health care. Today, at the end of the Meeting, Ratigan apologized - but also pledged to continue to air his frustration. (more...)

video MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan had on congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz yesterday, to discuss health care legislation, and its affect on the stock prices of Insurance companies. The discussion quickly went from spirited to pretty ugly, when Ratigan seemed unsatisfied with the responses from his guest. TV Newser noticed that shortly after his show ended, Ratigan tweeted "Will apologize for losing temper" (more...)

MSNBC is set to make some more daytime changes - just six months after it last shook up the line-up. Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie - NBC News White House correspondents - will anchor at 9amET for an hour, while Dylan Ratigan moves to a self-titled show at 4pmET. It's a news-personality swap. (more...)

video Do you want to be like the Salahis and (allegedly) crash parties? Dan Abrams (disclosure) explained the process this morning on MSNBC's Morning Meeting. Apparently he, and host Dylan Ratigan, have crashed a party or two in their, uh, careers. Take a look: (more...)

video Beginning next week Sarah Palin and her book, "Going Rogue," are going to be everywhere. But we got a preview today of one way she'll be welcomed -- with marginalization, jokes and borderline sexist segments. (more...)

Dylan Ratigan is the host of MSNBC's Morning Meeting which airs weekdays from 9 to 11amET. He went to MSNBC on the heels of a successful stint hosting Fast Money, the CNBC show he co-created in 2006. Since joining MSNBC in late June, Ratigan has made a bit of a stir with his quick-wit and sometimes confrontational style. His interview with Betsy McCaughey over the Health Care debate got a lot of attention for being "one of the most brow-beating interviews in history," as McCaughey called it. (more...)

A tipster gave us a heads up that MSNBC's clock is a little off right now for this first hour of Morning Meeting. The Dylan Ratigan-hosted show seems to have already ended Daylight Saving Time - the clock is an hour behind right now (we move them back on Sunday). It was correct earlier during Morning Joe, but as this 10amET hour begins, it still looks like 9amET at the Meeting. (more...)

video Maybe Michael Moore and Glenn Beck should get together and have a tea party. Moore appeared on the Today show this morning to talk about the yesterday's 10,000 Dow, and Wall St. bonuses, and the coming populist rage. Watch this clip and see if his tone rings a bell. (more...)

video Betsy McCaughey (the former Lt. Gov. of New York and "Death Panel" term originator) debated Rep. Anthony Weiner about health care last night in New York City, and they went for an encore performance today on MSNBC's Morning Meeting. But one thing they didn't factor in - host Dylan Ratigan. Weiner was left in the dust while Ratigan and McCaughey went at it for more than 12 minutes. (more...)

video Dylan Ratigan had Michael Moore as a guest on his MSNBC show Friday, as his media tour continued. And during the interview, Ratigan revealed information about his exit from CNBC - and subsequent return to the NBCU family. (more...)

exclusive Mediaite has learned that Carlos Watson, anchor of MSNBC's 11 a.m. weekday show, "Live with Carlos Watson," will no longer be anchoring that hour on the network. An MSNBC spokesperson confirmed the rumor, which we learned via Mediaite columnist Danielle Belton on her website, The Black Snob. MSNBC spokesperson Alana Russo said that yes, Watson's hour had been canceled, but that he will remain a contributor with MSNBC. (more...)

VIDEO "Niall Ferguson has many things: a position teaching at Harvard, a column in the Financial Times — and a child's understanding of race." — Touré on MSNBC, in response to Niall Ferguson's FT column where he likened Barack Obama to Felix the Cat because they were both "black and lucky." (more...)

VIDEO Dylan Ratigan's Morning Meeting on MSNBC doesn't refrain from addressing pertinent topics in, well, unique ways. Spud from Inside Cable News noticed Ratigan discussing the various points of view to Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's angry response to a question she didn't like during her Africa tour. And Ratigan drops a B-bomb. (more...)

MSNBC, 10:47amET: Dylan Ratigan's new MSNBC show, Morning Meeting, has been on the air for one month today, and he had his review on-air. What did we learn? There's some things he needs to improve on. (more...)

VIDEO Well this is not television you'll see everyday. One of Dylan Ratigan's regular guests on Morning Meeting, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, and a "prison coach," Larry Levine of "Wall St. Prison Consultants," contributed to a segment this morning on Bernie Madoff's future life in prison. And of course, the convicted felon ended up cracking a Spitzer joke. (more...)

Dylan Ratigan left CNBC in March, with indications pointing to him heading to ABC. A little more than a month later, to the surprise of many, he was back in the NBCU family - arriving at MSNBC to host a two-hour morning show. On June 29, MSNBC launched Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan, which is up 21% in total viewers from July '08 so far after two weeks. "I know I don't have all the answers, but I know I have a ton of questions," Ratigan tells Mediaite. We talked to Ratigan yesterday afternoon about his bevy of interesting regular guests, why "information is ubiquitous" now (and how he plans to deal with it) and what exactly happened at the end of his time at CNBC: (more...)

We've written earlier about the rotating sidekicks on Morning Meeting Dylan Ratigan (the various "Mikas" to Dylan's "Joe," if you will), which began on last Monday's premiere episode with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. We were told by MSNBC he wouldn't be the everyday sidekick, but has since appeared prominently this week as well. Meanwhile, another major player in the "Meeting" has been former ESPN'er Stephen A. Smith. (more...)

The long-awaited debut of HD takes place today on MSNBC, and also signals the launch of two new day time shows - "Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan" from 9-11amET and "Dr. Nancy," hosted by Dr. Nancy Snyderman (Noon-1pmET). We checked out the premiere episodes. Here's the recap, featuring a lot of Eliot Spitzer, and not a lot of NoonET actual news: (more...)