MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Yells at Democratic Congresswoman?! On MSNBC?

According to the Associated Press, MSNBC’s Morning Meeting host Dylan Ratigan has issued an apology for a live confrontation with congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat from Florida who appeared on the show last Friday to discuss the health care reform bill with Ratigan.

The conversation became heated when Ratigan pressed Schultz to explain why presumed passage of the bill was spurring insurance stocks to rise in value when logic would seem to dictate the opposite; when she demurred, stating that “I am not a stock analyst,” Ratigan castigated her for “not answering my question,” adding “I do not have time for you to come do talking points because it makes you feel good.”

After a few days of reflection, however, Ratigan appears to have softened his stance, yesterday issuing an on-air apology…

via MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Yells at Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).

No doubt Schultz had words after the show with her Democratic colleagues running the MSNBC network, and pressure was brought to bear on Ratigan to apologize. What was he thinking anyway, criticizing a Democrat on MSNBC? Perhaps he had a momentary lapse, and thought he was back on CNBC’s Fast Money.

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