Dylan Ratigan Honors Seth Reams For His Work With The Unemployed (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)

The Huffington Post celebrated its 2010 Game Changers Thursday evening at Skylight Studios in SoHo. Sean Penn, who was named a 2010 Game Changer, was honored by Anderson Cooper for his work in Haiti. And Dylan Ratigan honored Seth Reams and Michelle King for their inspiring work.


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[General Public]

06:58 PM on 10/31/2010

I like Dylan Ratigan somewhat but recently on his show he was saying that he actually agreed with Rick Santelli's rant on CNBC, and he doesn't seem to understand that CNBC itself, and its close ties to corporate interests and big banks, are problems. As an anchor on sister station MSNBC, of course, Dylan Ratigan is probably not allowed to criticize CNBC or its anchors due to MSNBC's rules, but he does not have to sing the praises of CNBC or Rick Santelli either. Dylan Ratigan does describe himself as a "conservative" and a strong believer in capitalism, so his critiques of large corporate interests are a bit confusing to me, since I do agree with those critiques but I don't quite understand where he is coming from, calling himself a "conservative". Dylan Ratigan's a good guy but I prefer when he has Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks guest-host for him, because Cenk Uygur is always right on target and just has more common sense than anyone else on TV. I'm glad Dylan Ratigan has been so willing to help Cenk Uygur get on television and that shows me that although Dylan Ratigan's a "conservative", he does have plenty of common sense himself as well, enough to know that the banks are ripping us off. I have mixed feelings about Dylan Ratigan but he is doing a good job overall and I like him, even though I'm progressive and he's a self-described "conservative" and former CNBC host.

[beverlyg]

12:03 PM on 10/31/2010

Dylan Ratigan has a great show. He puts the welfare of all Americans ahead of special interests except when he slips into promoting homosexuality.

[Pammy1151]

04:51 PM on 10/31/2010

so you have a problem with his promoting homosexualty??? please explain what your problem is.

Thanks Pam

[General Public]

07:05 PM on 10/31/2010

A sexual orientation is not a special interest group. All Americans have sexual orientations and deserve sexual freedom to do as they please sexually without the government getting involved, and should be allowed to marry whomever they want as well. For instance, some states have laws making things such as oral sex illegal, and these are old laws that have been on the books many decades or sometimes more than 100 years, which are not enforced but are still on the books. Many states also had laws against homosexual acts, which they termed "sodomy", but the Supreme Court struck down Texas's law against sodomy and this would presumably make all other laws banning consensual sexual acts unconstitutional as well. I do not see how criminalizing a sexual orientation benefits anyone, or how denying someone else the benefits of marriage helps out your own marriage.

[booki]

12:03 PM on 10/30/2010

i admire Dylan Ratigan, .....more than any other journalist on the planet...
for his humanity, and caring......
(Rachel is a very close second)

[PhilipTaylor]

11:31 PM on 10/30/2010

I am 100% with you!

He is a hero in solving the MASSIVE WHITE COLLAR CRIME WAVE!

[Simone Hill]

02:38 AM on 10/30/2010

Remember how the Republicans turned a record budget surplus into a record budget deficit and spent trillions of dollars on the war in Iraq.

This is the party that preached fiscal discipline and then cut taxes in time of war.

Remember that Republicans consider tax dollars spent on American citizens to be a waste of taxpayer money.

This is the party that still wants to put the torch to Social Security and Medicare.

Remember that Republicans believe in state rights UNLESS a state passes a law that doesn't coincide with their narrow point of view.

This is the party that wanted to add a "Marriage Protection Amendment" to the Constitution.

Remember how Republican ears are deaf to the screams of the people yet hear the whispers of Big Business.

This is a party that, given a choice between Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, would choose Ronald Reagan in a heartbeat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlBOv8m_Xa8

On November 2nd, remember!!!

[TK Whatever]

12:37 AM on 10/30/2010

his work mitigates corporate damage to people's life i.e. is a misguided effort of "change in people's life." typical for idiocy of "feel good about self" not profit world. just a long introduction for "the man of change" and his non partisan gimics are sick theatre of change, while fraudsters and crooksters "make up" billions of people's debt to them.

[themodernleader]

10:17 PM on 10/29/2010

Dylan Ratigan continues to grow and develop as most Americans are declining. His courage, citizenship and hard work for the good should be emulated by all Americans including our super rich.
People of growing competence who are laid-off experience a crisis that can tear the self-confidence, self-esteem and pshchological balance asunder and recreate a traditional leader of faith, pride and bonding with a compact group. Seth Reams described his estrangement by being idled with a sense of lost purpose and uselessness.
The millions of Seth Reams of our unemployed humanity will turn to faith in some fanatical movement, pride in identifying with the ingredients of that movement' and the security of sacrificing individual autonomy to submission of the group. Such movements may shake the world for evil and good. Where there are only meager opportunties as in the USA, our superfluous humanity may arise in ways that turn our citizens towards a compact membership of a collective mass bent on changing the world and elliminating autononomous individuals and other obstacles in its way.
The role of American leadership is to provide virtually unlimited opportunites for our ordinary citizens such as was done repeatedly by great American leaders throughout our distinguished history. Our affluent Americans of integrity and civic virtues must join with political leaders to bring about a second American renaissance that will be as a beacon and model for the traditional, down trodden people of the world and a badge of courage for American ingenuity.

[GerryS]

08:15 PM on 10/29/2010

really, I would have thought the "dylan" was a GOPher------------

[Skoobs]

09:22 PM on 10/29/2010

He's often an equal opportunity-er. One day you'll see neocons out there espousing the need for more onshore drilling as an answer to the bp fiasco, and the next day you'll see jane hampsher talking about faulty diebold voting machines.

He's all over the map, but mostly acts like his former network, cnbc (still a ge product like msnbc) is not culpable in the financial frauds being perpetrated. He needs to step up to the plate on that one in order to truly represent.