MSNBC host and author Dylan Ratigan visited Morning Joe on Thursday, giving his two cents on Mitt Romney‘s recent comments about keeping his focus on the middle class and not being “very concerned about the poor,” and on Romney in general.

Looking at the screen without the sound on, one might think that MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan had brought back Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous live from South Beach, with the requisite beach chairs, mai tais and bikini clad women strolling in the background. No, this was The Dylan Ratigan Show, hosting on the road as part of its “30 Million Jobs Tour.” That’s right, Ratigan is offering solutions to bring more jobs to America live from one of the most expensive and exclusive resorts in America.

They grow up so fast, don’t they? Online political media giant Politico turns five years old today, and to celebrate, the site posted a video roast by some quotable notables in the political media world. While the site has arguably earned the right to toot its own horn at least once every half-decade, did they really have to overshadow the birthday of Saved By The Bell actress Tiffani-Amber Thiessen?

I don’t know what it is they’re putting in the coffee over at MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner, but I want some. On this afternoon’s show, a segment on the GOP and populism started out loose, with Wagner editorializing under her breath during a Rick Santorum clip, then went full-tilt nuts when Dylan Ratigan began doling out amped-up mini-rants on campaign finance and the financial system. The segment ended with Wagner, in the midst of her outro, laughing, “Nobody’s even listening to me.”

TheLoop21.com‘s Keli Goff capped off Monday’s edition of The Dylan Ratigan Show with a “Daily Rant” about the state of internet criticism, both via email and comment forums, that nearly caused me to stand up and cheer in my living room. Sending vile comments into the “trash” folder, or deleting them from the comments section, is a barely-noticeable reflex action, but just above that low bar are types of comments that are really irksome. Goff offered some great advice to the cellar-dwellers.

MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams made a stunning personal revelation on The Dylan Radigan Show Tuesday afternoon, during a discussion of the Penn State child rape scandal, bravely revealing he also was sexually abused.

On Wednesday’s edition of The Dylan Ratigan Show, former Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer spoke about his new book, SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden, wherein he offers a strikingly different account of how the much-publicized raid of Osama bin Laden‘s Pakistan compound unfolded.

Now, one could make a reasonable argument that once a person accuses a group of, say, being potential murderers in the making, that first person has shown themselves to be slightly opinionated on the subject. That’s why it’s a good thing Glenn Beck sent an unbiased documentarian, Ami Horowitz, out to get a clear view of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Following a bit of a dust-up during yesterday’s post-POTUS press conference coverage on MSNBC, The Ed Show host Ed Schultz appeared on Dylan Ratigan‘s The Dylan Ratigan Show to clear the air. Ratigan began by apologizing to MSNBC’s audience (for an awesome bit of television?) for distracting from an important debate, and to Schultz for interrupting him. “Both of us are not only passionate about America and jobs, but we are friends and colleagues,” Ratigan told his audience.

They don’t call him Big Ed for nothing. During some post-game analysis of President Obama‘s press conference this afternoon, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz laid down the law with colleague Dylan Ratigan for interrupting him. Responding to Ratigan’s framing of the American Jobs Act as a dud for both sides, Schultz tried to explain that “you can’t do this overnight.” When Ratigan tried to interrupt, Schultz was having none of it.

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 that “I think you guys are crazy!” but 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.”

MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan devoted part of his show Monday afternoon to the “mad as Hell” protesters demonstrating as part of Occupy Wall Street. Ratigan visited the protests in lower Manhattan on Friday, Saturday and Sunday to get a closer look at the demonstrators and what it is that “the 99 percent” is trying to accomplish.

“I love what you’re doing!” he told several of those gathered, before sharing that he himself is attempting to start a debate about the “unholy alliance” between business and state. “And so my argument to you guys,” he continued, offering his own possible solution, “is that we have an opportunity to convert the energy that you’ve already harnessed into a channel, a flow of energy into next year where we can push collectively for a constitutional amendment to get the money out.”

The past few weeks, the debate over the death penalty has rocketed back into the forefront of the public consciousness starting with the cheering at a GOP debate and culminating with the outcry over the execution of Troy Davis. Today, Touré focused his segment on The Dylan Ratigan Show and came out clearly against capital punishment. He began by saying that, while he was almost always proud of his country, this past week was not one of those times.

Finger-pointing is perhaps Capitol Hill’s most beloved pastime, though some may argue that in light of America’s first credit downgrade and a month of financial gridlock, it has evolved from hobby to obsession. Mediaite has already looked at some of the media figures whose profiles have risen and fallen over debt crisis, but who were they blaming to get there? The answer is a hodgepodge of President Obama the Tea Party, and, given it’s 2011, a surprisingly frequent President Bush references.Below are some highlights in the Political Mediasphere Blame Game over the past month that say little about who is actually to blame for our current economic roles (other than, of course, “everyone”) and a lot about how easily recyclable political narratives can be.

MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan moderated a discussion of the debt crisis with his regular panelists. Yet one guest, Democratic commentator Jimmy Williams exploded with anger over the idea that anyone treats the Tea Party as a real movement, since according to him, it’s merely the same far right-wing that the Republican party always had.

On The Dylan Ratigan Show today, Touré joined the long line of cable news contributors giving his thoughts on the Casey Anthony verdict. However, unlike some of the other segments, Touré’s was pretty calm as he saw the verdict as proof the system works, feeling the Prosecution didn’t put forth enough facts and you can’t convict “on a feeling.” However, don’t let that make you think he’s on Team Casey or anything as he ended his rant with a little warning to the acquitted: Watch out for karma.

The last time Zach Galifianakis visited Bill Maher, the two bonded over their liberal approach to drug laws and, well, their liberal approach to drug usage. But when the last outrageous antic done on live air was to smoke “marijuana,” how do you outdo yourself this time? Luckily, Maher had a heroin kit handy, which Galifianakis was more than happy to use. He didn’t talk all that much after that.

The Common hip-hop scandal is thankfully necessarily over as his White House performance went off without any controversy. On last night’s Dylan Ratigan Show, regular Touré gave his post-mortem to the scandal, highlighting an interesting point lost in the whole kerfuffle: if Common raps about carrying a gun, should conservatives applaud him for exercising his Second Amendment rights?

Dylan Ratigan, it appears, is not a Belieber. The MSNBC host delivered a comically Abe Simpson-esque rebuke of pop sensation Justin Bieber, complete with old-guy explanation of whippersnapper slang. Bieber had the unmitigated gall to tweet about how the press and the paparazzi were cramping his Israel vacay, prompting Ratigan to put it all into perspective for Biebs.

The big media winner this week? Well in terms of garnering attention (well deserved or not) you would have to say Donald Trump gets the honor. His repeated attacks on the Obama Administration and continued questioning of the validity of his presidency (and birth certificate.) The big loser this week? Well that would be the United States of America, at least in the eyes of MSNBC contributor Touré who completely eviscerated the Donald’s controversial rhetoric while guesting on The Dylan Ratigan Show. Watch the clip below, courtesy of MSNBC:

As beat up as the media sometimes gets regularly, the threat to journalism as an institution can often bring out the best in reporters. Dylan Ratigan regular Toure dedicated his regular rant to the tremendous work journalists following the unrest in Egypt have been doing, and to remind viewers that, in the 21st century, trying to shut down the media will, ironically, only reinforce the spread of information.

Not content with cliché year-end wrap pieces, the voracious political media machine has resorted to reanimating the rotting corpses of memes past. Now, not only do we now have to avoid the stumbling, vacant groans of “Brains!” from Birther queen Orly Taitz, MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show has also thrust open the cemetery gates for “Death Panels.”

Using a report from Newsmax (Newsmax!) as its impetus, a panel that includes Jonathan Alter, Jane Hamsher, and Matt Lewis kicks the Death Panels around for awhile, but fails to deliver the requisite double-tap.

Given the polarized nature of American politics in the last several years, accusations of inciting violence on both sides have become somewhat cliched. But this afternoon, MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan took to his show to yell fire in a crowded theater, asking viewers, “Are things in our country so bad that it might actually be time for a revolution? The answer is obviously ‘yes.’”

MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan doesn’t toe any party line, and his take on the American political process is unique and unpredictable. Suffice to say, he’s not happy with the direction of the country.

We talked to Ratigan on Mediaite Office Hours last week about the culpability of the press, the airplane/peanuts analogy and more.

Progressive firebrand and MSNBC staple Alan Grayson may have lost his congressional reelection bid this Tuesday, but it doesn’t appear that he will abandon his progressive causes anytime soon. In an interview that parallels Bill O’Reilly‘s chat with Christine O’Donnell on Fox News, Grayson evaluated his strategy and defeat this week with MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur.