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.

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:

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. Friday on MSNBC, Dylan Ratigan spent a few minutes during his Morning Meeting to address, “what is it about Palin that drives America wild?”

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 right earlier during Morning Joe, but at this 10amET hour begins, it still looks like 9amET at the Meeting.

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.

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.

“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.”

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.

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. On June 29, MSNBC launched Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan. 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.

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. [...]

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 it out the premiere episodes. Here’s the recap, featuring a lot of Eliot Spitzer, and not a lot of NoonET actual news.