Dylan Ratigan Responds To Glenn Beck…With Chalkboard, Red Phone

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by Steve Krakauer | 9:52 am, February 12th, 2010

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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.

“Now in addition to that being completely wrong on so many levels, it’s also a total misrepresentation of the climate change theory I was attempting to explain,” said Ratigan after playing a clip from Beck’s show. Ratigan said that this was his main point: “I do not believe this storm is proof of climate change, and I do not believe this storm is not proof of climate change.”

Then it was time for the chalkboard, and later a red phone. Hey, it works for Beck, why shouldn’t Ratigan try to mix it up on his still fairly new 4pmET show?

There was also this parting shot in which Ratigan would probably welcome a response from the FNC juggernaut. “I also know you can cover the climate change debate without reducing yourself to this level of stupidity, just to have fodder for your lefty-righty games,” he said.

Check out Ratigan’s response below – and after, an appearance by MSNBC’s new climate change pundit, Bill Nye, The Science Guy:

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The Real Royal King

Ratigan is well-informed, clever and articulate. I am very fond of him. I am sure the Beckerheads (thanks, Same2You) would never be able to understand him.
http://trickletown.vox.com/ Trickletown

Ratigan just proved what I’ve said all along. Beck is dangerously guilty of taking advantage of a dim audience.
blueblogger

Ratigan is great. A little manic at times but nothing compared to Beckerhead. ;-). I was disappointed when they changed his show. I can’t watch Morning Joe and turned to Ratigan for my morning show. He has NO problem going after anyone!!!!
Ben Linus

Dylan is okay sometimes, but good God, he needs to dial it down a bit. I don’t know if it’s his voice or what, but sometimes he can be really annoying.
TfT

Dylan and MSNBC need to come up with their own schtick. Lawrence O’Donnell had a major meltdown on MOurning Joe today. MSNBC=the place for meltdowns.
ImNotBlue

Oooh, look! They’ve got a new name! The school yard rejoices!

And they wonder why nobody takes them seriously.
silkworm

Uh! Dylan, were still waiting!! Dylan! Dylan!
writer

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And even if the jury is still out on whether man affects the weather, come on. “Global warming” suddenly becomes “climate change” after a bad winter is forecast? And the left can’t see any humor in that at all?
da-wdc

I guess I don’t see the humor in misinforming people over what is going to soon be a serious national security issue – at least, the military thinks so. I have a pretty good sense of humor, I’m just confused as to why some conservatives are happy to loudly proclaim their stubborn refusal to accept overwhelming scientific evidence, and join the modern equivalent of the flat earth society.. and they think the joke here is on the left? It isn’t!
writer

I stated the jury is out. But come on. “Global warming”? “Climate change”? The far left has no sense of humor, unless by humor you mean mocking anyone who disagrees.
Ted

Dylan ought to know better than to argue with a fool. But dammit, Glenn Beck is America’s Fool. Buck up tea-baggers and tea-bagettes, Glenn Beck belongs to us…Americas Fool-Monger in Chief.

PS – Need more animation, flailing of the arms all over the place, facial tics, and you forgot to tear up. Also lower your voice for dramatic effect.
ImNotBlue

Ted says:
February 12, 2010 at 5:21 pm

You forgot to say, “Spray tan yourself orange.”

Wait… you were talking about Olbermann, right?
StewartIII

NewsBusters — Blizzard of Lies: Debunking The Warm-Air-Holds-More-Moisture Defense
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/02/12/blizzard-lies-debunking-warm-air-holds-more-moisture-defense
http://trickletown.vox.com/ Trickletown

Having been a Minnesotan ‘snowbilly’ all my life, we know around here that it only really dumps snow when it warms up. Really. Blizzards don’t happen when the temp drops below 20 degrees farenheit. If you believe Beck ( the fools prophet), all the moisture in the weather, all the snow piling up, is due to global cooling. I guess you if you enjoy funny faces, funny voices, groundhogs day- type lectures (the same thing every day), you just might believe his crap.
StewartIII

NewsBusters — Blizzard of Lies II: Global Warming Snow In Dallas Shatters Record
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/12/blizzard-lies-ii-global-warming-snow-dallas-shatters-record
pyrope

I’ve heard it said that immitation is the sincerest form of flatter. Too bad no one was watching–well, anyone with an IQ greater than that of an artichoke.
pyrope

Rat-again has fallen into the delusion that humans actually have the capacity to significantly impact the climate of the Earth. None of the climate change fools have ever taken time to learn that a large volcano (there are 15 active large volcanoes on Earth, at present) spew more greenhouse gases and particulate into the atmosphere EACH DAY than has human kind since the discovery of fire. Meanwhile, the huckster Al Gore continues to grow wealthy on the stupidity of his accolytes.
da-wdc

Good lord. Global warming is an issue that affects the long-term security of this country and is going to have catastrophic effects for many nations and .. I don’t know who in the conservative moment decided that it was valuable to them, politically, to put out misinformation and lies on this subject.
NH

I was Ratigan’s first interview on August 11, 2009 at the Obama town hall. He wasn’t quite as unhinged as he is now… and in fact was rather calm. Maddow, Olbermann, Schultz and Ratigan are unhinged progressives with nothing to sell but hypocrisy… and the networks have lost millions because of them.