The Anti-Lou Dobbs Movement

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Updated Apr. 25, 2017 2:08PM EDT / Published Aug. 03, 2009 9:44AM EDT

Down with the king of the birthers: Media Matters has released an advertisement calling for CNN’s Lou Dobbs to give the subject of President Obama’s supposedly illegitimate birth certificate a rest. The commercial— set to air on CNN during Dobbs’s program Tuesday night as well as on Fox News and MSNBC—calls the notion that Obama is not a legal U.S.-born citizen “racially charged paranoia” and asks that “'the most trusted name in news' live up to its slogan.” Dobbs called Media Matters "a rabid, left-wing operation."

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The Anti-Lou Dobbs Movement