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What Happened With Lou Dobbs
Today, Media Matters, the liberal watchdog group and a Dobbs antagonist, staged a conference call of anti-Dobbs activists to crow about his demise. “I think this is a powerful affirmation of what can be accomplished when progressive voices come together,” said Media Matters official Eric Burns, who also called Dobbs’ departure a “major victory for America’s growing Latino community” and “a victory for journalism.”
Participating in today’s victory lap were members of the two-month-old “Drop Dobbs Coalition,” including several Latino groups, which pressured CNN to fire the anchorman after he gave a prominent forum to the Minutemen, a self-styled vigilante “civilian defense corps” to police U.S. borders, and made erroneous on-air claims about an alleged connection between Latino immigrants, violent crime, and leprosy.
“While it is a good day that CNN has made this decision, CNN has on no occasion corrected any of the errors, falsehoods and defamations that Dobbs has regularly issued from their air,” said another Dobbs adversary, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok.
Dobbs’ admirers also weighed in. William Gheen, head of the North Carolina-based Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, told The Daily Beast: “I certainly hope this doesn’t set a precedent of these pro-illegal immigration groups declaring some kind of victory… I think the biggest problem for CNN is that large portions of the people around the country are not watching it because they are notoriously politically in the bag for the globalists. There is also a free-speech issue here.”
Gheen said he hopes Dobbs runs for president, and that nearly 3,000 supporters have already pledged nearly $600,000 for a prospective campaign on his group’s Web site, loudobbsforpresident.org. “We stand ready to support him in whatever he does,” Gheen said.
Beyond Wednesday’s high-minded on-air statement that he intends to “engage in constructive problem-solving and contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day,” Dobbs’ next move remains a mystery.
On his syndicated radio show this afternoon, Dobbs laughed off listeners’ suggestions that he run for president.
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CitizenBloggerX
Lou !! The Fecal Noise Channels on line one !!
ThinkAgain
If you didn't have such an obviously undeveloped adolescent mind, I'd say you hate Fox because it exposes your liberal lunacy for what it is.
But that would involve way too much thought for such a weak mind so you'll just have to stick to the name calling until a few more brain cells kick in.
goldcanyondon
Again? That would mean you had an original.
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nb-moe
Too many? They're all liek that.......the only good one left that I can trust is 60 minutes........that's it!
mycountrytoo
Good grief, if you listen to CNN at all, it is so one sided and manipulates the facts better than anyone, which is why they are losing viewers.
The man "challenged" the establishment, which is what we all should be doing to keep it honest and responsive. I have not seen one story on CNN that challenges the President. Not one.
I have seen many that disparages the opposition.
Those are the facts, and frankly I am okay with it, as it is just one source for news for me to fiter through. However, don't ever state that CNN is unbiased, because it is horrible that way.
Wellstone
NOBODEE manipulates the facts better than FOX Noise.
Take a look at Sean Manatee doctoring the videoclips until Jon Stewart caught him, and you see the tip of the iceberg of misinformation and vile, hateful propaganda that is FAUX.
Dobbs will fit right in from Day One, tag-teaming with Glenn Wreck.
sophia5
It is . . . what it is.
MSNBC leans to the left, and Fox leans to the right,
and CNN is somewhere in between.
roger37
Yes, MSNBC leans to the left. But I have never seen a statement of fact from them that is not backed up with a video clip or another checkable source.
Zelduh
ROGERS37, I TOTALLY AGREE. WE CAN ALWAYS VERIFY WHAT IS SAID ON MSNBC. Alternatively, we cannot verify anything said on Faux Noise.
oldpunk
If you can get BBC America on cable i recommend you try them,
I think their early news is the only international news on American TV around that time?
LordAlexTrebek
Agreed.. BBC World News America is about the only reliable international newscast available, free from "news" about Octomom, Jon and Kate, or the incessent pharmaceutical commercials that dominate the Big 3 newscasts.
calhar
Was he opinionated or did he just tell the truth and shame the devil.
megagood
Dobbs is one of those people who I actually think is pretty smart and probably would offer an interesting perspective on the issues, if he wasn't selling his soul to create controversy and gain viewers.
isabella
He put his career on the line to tell the truth in a political climate that doesn't permit it.
incognito-ergo-sum
When he stuck with facts and verifiable statistics, I really liked him, but he wondered off into opinion land and that exposed his pet biases.
Illegal aliens have become his nightmare. Had he experienced, as I did, working alongside such people, knowing at any moment they could be swept up in a raid, and loving them as people, he might feel less fear. Of course they break the law coming here, and many of them are criminals beyond that, the problem he addressed is real, his opinions and emotions are what did him in.
He has become a parody of the little old lady who shivers in fear because a biker moves in next door, never knowing the man as a person. Hope he gets over this brain panic and I mean that sincerely.
floridabob
This is a very good move for CNN, We need Objective reporting as much as possible, this helps. MSNBC and FOX preform a disturbing diservice, CNN is appreciably better, but none of these come near to the quality of PBS.
zrodfx
florida bob.......your statement just shows how naive and uninformed you are. Watch Fox...it will clear your mind and make you a more informed, and just a better person, overall.
PigFarmer
Huh? Fox is essentially a voice piece of the extreme far right of the Republican party. I doubt that many of the talking heads on their even believe the garbage they spew. Fox has the same journalistic integrity as the National Enquirer. At FOX the truth is a major inconvenience to the slant on their stories. No doubt Lou Dobbs will be at FOX in a short matter of time.
mycountrytoo
PBS? are you nuts? PBS has a clear agenda, and panders to those who want a more socialist answer to the world. I like their non news shows, but their news is extremely one sided.
david7134
Dobbs was the only reasonable voice on CNN. The station is now 100% liberal and will go broke in short order. I note that some commenters have indicated that others on the station do not have an agenda. How about when Blitzer has a panel to discuss the poor Muslim who shot up Ft. Hood because he was harrased, or maybe the fact that the two guns made him do it.
bobvious
david7134 - I see, it's not about having an agenda, it's about WHICH agenda. And I'm sorry, Dobbs is not a reasonable voice. Dobbs is anything but that. His mind may be reasonable, but his voice is pure show biz.
crypto
I would't say he was the only reasonable voice, but as others have said in the negative, I have no reason to watch CNN now that Dobbs is gone. Guess I'll go back to the locals.
roger37
Just the opposite for me. Now that Dobbs has gone, I'll start checking CNN's coverage of events.
Dobbs was totally biased, just like Fox "News." I wouldn't watch a channel that employed somebody like him.
redrik
CNN's & MSNBC's bias is the fact that they only report "favorable" or "approved" news stories on a consistant basis.
No wonder they are both sharing the cellar in News ratings.
Resolute
John King is fine, sort of, but I'd rather see one of the more effective CNN reporters take that slot. I'd love to see Fareed Zakaria or Christian Amanpour take the spot, but as they are really more about intelligent, in-depth analysis that requires more time to distill, I'm not sure they'd fit a 5-nights-a-week format. It'd be great if instead they brought over someone from the International channel like Hala Gurani, but I guess I'll give John King a shot.
wrathofkhan
I so completely agree with you. I was once an obsessive CNN watcher, but I've pretty much cut down to Zakaria and Amanpour. They are the only stellar journalists on the entire channel right now. They need to bring in more people like that and dump trash like King and Campbell Brown.
Southpaw
Fareed Zakaria's weekly broadcast is the only CNN program I make a point of watching. As to John King, I best keep my feelings to myself.
zrodfx
Two A-rabs ??? What's your agenda ??
my3sons
Let's give Amanpour the show. I am sure she can fill one hour a day just with her "unbiased" reports on Israel alone.
ThinkAgain
Sure but nobody will watch. That's the problem. Unbiased news is the tree falling in the forest that nobody hears.
zrodfx
ThinkAgain.........sarcasm, ever hear of it ? my3sons was being 'sarcastic'.
Look it up.....
winston1
CNN non-partisan and non-opinionated, what a line of BS.
tolatetocry
if Lou Dobbs does go to Fox at least he'll have an audience. CNN is in the basement, wouldn't be a surprise to see mass exodus from there
conchitalolita
I'm try to leave a comment but it has to be reviewed for a few days. WHAT?
flyoverland
I haven't watched CNN since the first Gulf War.
conchitalolita
This country will soon be waking up to what's going on here. I hope! Can't people think without the blogs, facebook, twitter and any other butinsky social nonsense. My goodness how did we survive when I was growing up? Shut your mouths and Open your ears for a change.
Hotfrostins
Dobbs was a Hamster running inside the CNN circle wheel surviving on plagerised Fox talking points. Look at him, he even is beginning to look like a Hamster
Bengalidan
Can he run for president? Was he even born in the US? Why hasn't he shown his birth certificate on television? Why isn't anyone else like say, Orly Taitz asking these questions...?
wes14451
He would gladly do it I am Latino born in Corpus Cristi and I want to see Obama's illegal birth certificate. The only reason I watched CNN was to see Lou Dobbs. As I said I am Latino and Larrazza and all of them other so called latino org. do not repersent me or any of my familia and freinds. CNN is a complete joke amongst us true Latinos
Dolmance
About as "classy" as Julius Streicher.
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