Goddess bless Dylan Ratigan

[stranger81]

He's doing yeoman's work this week analyzing and airing the tremendous racial disparities that still pervade our society. Our society not only fails to meaningfully deal with these inequalities -- our national political conversation frequently pretends these glaring disparities don't exist at all.

While Andrew Breitbart may be a total d-bag, I'm happy to see he's inadvertently touched off a substantive discussion we've needed to have for a long time, and need to continue to have.

[lob1]

1. Breitbart doesn't want a discussion about race,

he wants a lynching.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. k and r

[gateley]

3. Ratigan, like Rachel and Anderson Cooper (and others, to be sure) doesn't shy away

from the issues.

[Subdivisions]

4. Lots of DUers do not like Ratigan. But I do. n/t

[stranger81]

6. Some days I don't like him much, either. But this week he's earning his keep. [n/t]

[EC]

5. I just wish he wouldn't have

VanDerHie on. He was fired for not checking sources at Truthout(?)I think it was.