Ratigan: Venezuala of BS?

I feel confident saying that Rachel Maddow is unanimously liked and respected by all two Furriners bloggers. My colleague may have decided that watching America's Biggest Loser or The Real Fat Housewives of New Jersey Surviving In The Wild is better use of his time than watching The Rachel Maddow Show but, you know, to each his own. It is certainly less embarrassing than his love for Justin Beiber.

Anyway, the respect for Ms. Maddow is not shared for Dylan Ratigan. I am the only one who takes him at all seriously. What can I say? He can be fun to blog about because, at times, he gets so over the top. I will say that as long as the airwaves have the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, & Rick Sutcliffe, he may not be the "Saudi Arabia of Bullshit"... but he seems to be a lot closer than he thinks.

For example, I consider the following to be a striking contradiction in rhetoric. To be fair, there can be a nuanced interpretation where he does not seem like a hypocrite but to paraphrase Anderson Cooper: I'll report, you decide.

First quote is from his introduction of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La) on June 22nd where he calls out the Obama administration for the deep water drilling moratorium:

As it stands, it seems insane to prevent anybody from being able to work that lives there.

Then, on June 29th, Ratigan says this:

"If nothing, it (the BP oil spill) teaches us that relying on off-shore drilling, relying on traditional fossil fuel as it stands right now is simply not sustainable and works to the direct potential future diminishment if not meaning destruction to portions of our country. Not only is it grossly inefficient and expensive, as we saw on April 20th, it's deadly."

Is that not somewhat bi-polar?

And consider the phrasing on that first quote: "insane to prevent anybody...". Insane?!!? Is that not too forceful an adjective for what is admittedly a very difficult issue? And prevent anybody? Let's be clear, we are talking about less than 33 rigs out of the approximately 3,500 rigs operating in the Gulf. Does this sound like "prevent anybody" is the appropriate terminology for this situation?

I guess my argument is that, unlike the Rhodes Scholar (Dr. Maddow), Ratigan has yet to develop a coherent (or at least a consistently coherent) ideology for what is the role of government in today's society.

I suppose if I could stomach Glenn Beck, I would have tons of bullshit to blog about. That said, Saudi Arabia is one step too far for me.