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AMERICAblog: CNN's on-air racist, Lou Dobbs, is gone after tonight's show

  • ArizonaWill · 1 month ago
    This is sad news. Lou Dobbs was everyone's proverbial cranky and crazy Uncle or Grandpa, especially if you come from the Deep South (as I did as a pretty little blonde boy). My Uncles and Grandpa would get together and talk John Birch Society politics....such nostalgia. Dobbs was always a little bit of the old Deep South for me. When I'd hear him ranting, I'd get such a hankering for grits.

    Seriously, I suspect Dobbs will make tons more money doing whatever he does next. Like Limbaugh (who admits it is all about the money), I think Dobbs has just found a better gravy train.

    By the way, is there any conceivable way that Obama could apologize for this on behalf of the Democrat party, and perhaps make Dobbs a WH consultant?


  • SCLiberal · 1 month ago
    Your comment had me laughing this morning (especially that last sentence). Thanks.
  • RitornaVincitor · 1 month ago
    Poor Lou. Lost his job. Well, I'm sure there's an opening somewhere patrolling the Mexican border with the Redneck Militia.
  • PorridgeGun · 1 month ago
    FOX Propaganda Nutwork awaits.
  • PorridgeGun · 1 month ago
    To be honest, I'd swap John King being let go ahead of Dobbs in a heartbeat. Both King and his missus Dana Bash are Republican shills of the highest order. State of the Union is unbelievably biased, and King has been a disgrace on both his own show and whenever he subs for Anderson Cooper. The extended airtime this neocon assclown gives to John McCain and Dick Cheney is inexcusable. Kings always rolls out the red carpet and treats them like Yodas of foreign policy. I mean, even a buffoon like Lou Dobbs thinks Cheney hasn't a leg to stand on when it comes to Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran.
  • 19531112 · 1 month ago
    Happy days are here again.......Yippeee!!! Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya there, Lou baby. Who's gonna miss you?
  • BGryphon · 1 month ago
    anyone giving odds against his signing with fauxnews before the year is out?
  • leliorisen · 1 month ago
    A lot may depend upon possible non-complete clauses in his contract. But he will get wealthy off of his hate speech.
  • JustAnOldLady · 1 month ago
    Great news..... I just tuned in to see/hear it myself....
  • UAFA_NOW · 1 month ago
    Change we can believe in!!!
  • leliorisen · 1 month ago
    Don't cry for Lou Dobbs, Argentina.

    Dobbs has to be aware that, in America, right-wing extremism is a huge money-making industry. I suspect that his increased rhetoric was done with an eye towards his wallet.

    Make no mistake, Lou Dobbs will make a killing, either via Faux Snooze or any number of right-wing venues that pay big bucks for purveyors of hate.
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 month ago
    This has got to be the best November 9th since 1918!
  • nicho · 1 month ago
    Tear two pages off your day-by-day calendar.
  • ezpz · 1 month ago
    LOL!
  • Chris From Maine · 1 month ago
    hes running for office I think.

    I dunno for what, but it definately sounded like he was saying "i cant do what i want to do next while still hosting a show on CNN"

    I dont think Dobbs would go to Fox Business.. no one watches that.
  • nicho · 1 month ago
    And TPM reports that the Moonie Times is teetering on the brink of extinction. We may have to make this a double holiday:

    http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/...

    As far as Dobbs, don't count him out yet. Remember last November when tons of people were rejoicing because, they said, we'd never hear from Sarah Palin again?

    None of these bastards are gone until they are in the ground -- with a stake through their hearts.
  • megatronbomb · 1 month ago
    He probably got hired by the Obama administration. :)
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    yeah one more victim of the right to free speach!
  • PeteWa · 1 month ago
    Please explain, in detail, how this has anything to do with the right to free speech.
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    get a life!
  • PeteWa · 1 month ago
    is that your way of telling me that you can't explain how this has anything to do with freedom of speech?
  • Gridlock · 1 month ago
    FRII SPEACH FUR AWL!
  • PeteWa · 1 month ago
    lol
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    the way i see it your no better then a racist yourself! so grow up! im sure youd be the first one to go to harlem and stand around on the street and make fun of someone who comes up and axe;s you a question! ,
  • threadmonitor · 1 month ago
    Need a time out?

    I can help with that.
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 month ago
    "stand around on the street and make fun of someone who comes up and axe;s you a question! ,

    Yah got a point there. That's a question I'd consider carefully.
  • Gridlock · 1 month ago
    I'm racist because I'm a proponent of proper spelling and grammar?

    Are you implying that people of other races are ill educated or stupid, utterly unable to write legibly?

    Good lord, I hope *you* never wander through Harlem!
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    you elitest believe you speak for the average man but i dont think so !and you think everyones daddy sent thier butts off to college ? think again the reson you dont run into worse spellers on here are .........they dont use a computer ....... they are afraid of running into elitest peckerheads who will go after them because they dont spell good, you see im not afraid of the peckerwoods like some are , like i said pack mentality!
  • leliorisen · 1 month ago
    WOW. Just wow.
  • PeteWa · 1 month ago
    I asked you a question, but instead of answering it, you told me "get a life!"...
    and now I read this mess you just posted...

    you, sir, are hilarious.

    and it really would do you a world of good to look up the 1st Amendment.
    I'm sure that you're smart enough to understand how that right only pertains to the Government not infringing on the speech of citizens, and has NOTHING to do with Dobbs losing a job with a corporation.

    You are smart enough to figure that out, right?
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    when you get rid of the real hate mongers on tv like rush limpballs , beck, and the others come back and see me sonny , till then you got nothing!
  • PeteWa · 1 month ago
    What does any of that have to do with the fact that you do not understand one of our most basic rights?
    It's like you have a crush on Dobbs or something.
  • Gridlock · 1 month ago
    .. what the hell is "speach"
  • PeteWa · 1 month ago
    For mudsnark, it's just part of a misspelled right that he does not understand at all.
  • nicho · 1 month ago
    Lou had plenty of opportunity to speak and you can be sure as hell he didn't do it for free. He was well paid by his corporate masters to spout his racism.
  • synical · 1 month ago
    Oh, the rank injustice! Someone call the Supreme Court! Help! Help! Lou Dobbs is being repressed!

    Yeah, leaving his soapbox at CNN means he'll never ever be able to spew his speech freely elsewhere. Please.

    Unless someone or another permanently duct tapes his mouth shut or surgically removes his vocal cords, I believe he'll be free to speak about whatever comes into his head at any time he chooses. At least until the time he shuffles off this mortal coil.

    He's not a victim, CNN just prefers he exercises his free speech elsewhere. Somehow I think he'll survive.
  • FunMe · 1 month ago
    Miss Butter Fingers is probably saying "come on in and join the fun. It can help you sell books, even at 99 cents!"
  • SoCal Guy · 1 month ago
    He and Glenn Beck are going to get married and move to Mexico.
  • FunMe · 1 month ago
    shhhh ... that was SUPPOSE to be a ~secret!
  • Canadian Visitor · 1 month ago
    I a sorry but Lou Dobbs is not a racist nor anti immigration. He is anti illegal immigration and always has been. My husband and I watch him nightly and he has been mischaracterized and the man has been hounded by pro amnesty and Hispanic groups who don't like his views that illegal immigration should be stopped.
  • freelancewoman · 1 month ago
    I've occasionally turned on his show, only to have to bleach my brain afterwards, so I know what Lou Dobbs is.

    He's a liar and a racist: if that turns you on, it says more about you than him.
  • Canadian Visitor · 1 month ago
    It seems you have issues with accepting a comment from a nightly viewer without making it personal. That's too bad.
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    exactly! when push comes to shove and these bleading hearts kids are starveing because thier are no jobs they will be tearing the ileagles heads off trying to get thoes jobs americans wont do such as meat packers , drywall installers , carpenters , ect ect ,
  • Gridlock · 1 month ago
    *packs mudsnark off back to school*
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    oh sonny i know how the game works you dont run with the pack they all jump on and tare you to pieces , good luck with that!
  • Gridlock · 1 month ago
    ... tear.
  • PeteWa · 1 month ago
    you don't even know how your country works, let alone the fictional game you are talking about.
  • nicho · 1 month ago
    Bingo -- Lou's job was to set up immigrants as the scapegoats for the economic havoc caused by the right wing corporatists. As always, innocent people will suffer for the crimes of the ultra-wealthy.
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    you might rethink that statement , thiers a difference between , immigrants and illeagle immagrants , check it out in the dictionary!
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 month ago
    "jobs americans wont do such as meat packers , drywall installers , carpenters , ect ect ,

    At five bucks and some chump change per hour...Those wages wouldn't maintain and old beater to commute to work. It's not that people are unwilling to work, they are just going to be exploited and condemned to abject poverty.

    PS you might try working on that spelling! I know Canadian spelling better than that.
  • Gridlock · 1 month ago
    Companies should be forced to provide a living wage by law. It's practically slave labor.
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    well thoes jobs at one time paid 25 35 bucks an hour , familys were well able to raise familys with thoes wages , many were union jobs then they went to ileagles and went to five bucks an hour and it wasnt because americans wouldnt do thoes jobs it was because of cheap labor, and money grubbing companys willing to break the law by hireing them! have a nice night im off to bed !
  • freelancewoman · 1 month ago
    Maybe if you could spell, you could find better-paying work.
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    no dear i dont need better work or work at all! im a retired union worker with a payed off house , new car, checking account ,retirement checks , social security checks and i owe no one , and you know what i did it all without going after someones education, now if youll excuse me im done for the night its time to get my veterans day dinner at the golden corral to be with my fellow vets !
  • Vetalso · 1 month ago
    You'll have to wait till Monday 16 November to do that since that is when golden corral is giving free meals to all veterans, check their website, hope this helps.
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    yes thanks i was thinking golden corall but ment appelbee's , anyway when i picked up my wife from babysetting she reminded me so we went there and will go there on the 16th,
  • nicho · 1 month ago
    Lou Dobbs' job was to set up immigrants as the scapegoats for when the corporatist plans come to fruition and people are scraping to get enough to eat. Instead of going up to Greenwich, to Grosse Pointe, or to the Hamptons to get revenge, people will just start beating on immigrants -- whether documented or undocumented -- to get revenge.

    It's a lot like the Jews were set up in the '20s to be the scapegoats for Germany's economic problems.

    And, for the record, there are no such thing as "illegal immigrants." It is not a crime to be in the country without papers.
  • PeteWa · 1 month ago
    Only a racist doesn't see racism where racism exists.
  • Countervail · 1 month ago
    WHAT!?! Does that mean I can have his soft focus lens and the dentures from his perma-condescending smile for my video work?
  • UnitedHealthDeathPanels · 1 month ago
    1 down every other cable news anchor left to go.
  • Crazy8 · 1 month ago
    I think Fox would be perfect for him as well as myself. I never watch Fox. Knock your self out Lou. No Really, Knock Yourself Out.
  • micbro · 1 month ago
    It's tough for me to blame immigrants fleeing a corrupt government for a better opportunity in the US. We are the "melting pot," ya know. But, I think we should have addressed this issue yrs ago. There should be a "work-in" period or some type of updated work visa program, so that people wouldn't feel like they need to hide all the time. Their income would be taxed like everyone else, but at least they could work. Well, maybe not right now :(

    I didn't watch Lou Dobbs very much, so no big loss for me.
  • NotTimothyGeithner · 1 month ago
    Most of the "illegals" in this country were already on a work program. They just didn't leave when their visas expired.
  • NotTimothyGeithner · 1 month ago
    Which I think is understandable. They built lives here.
  • micbro · 1 month ago
    Yes, I agree. I'm referring to those entering without visa. "Undocumented" or "Illegals", as I have heard them called. We need a program for them.
  • NotTimothyGeithner · 1 month ago
    If I recall a lot of immigrants who illegally crossed the border came from Northern Mexico when they couldn't afford to sell their crops because U.S. subsidized agricultural products made their farms unsustainable.

    Now their farms were nothing more than inefficient sharecropping backwards little things, but they did provide livelihoods. Those things had to go with growing populations, but we do need to do something about this problem. NAFTA screwed over a lot of people.
  • FunMe · 1 month ago
    The hater was probably fired ... and told to "quit" so he could save face.

    A hater face.
  • Henry · 1 month ago
    God bless Lou Dobbs
  • Indigo · 1 month ago
    Wel, well, well. Somebody got a phone call from upstairs.
  • mastrick · 1 month ago
    Wow, great news. CNN has extinguished it's flaming asshole~
  • feijoada · 1 month ago
    He must have been an incredible embarrassment to CNN. They're pure fluff, but they like to pretend they're not as bad as Fox. With Dobbs gone it'll make it easier to pretend they're a serious news organization.
  • leliorisen · 1 month ago
    'Pretend' being the key word. CNN is nearly as bad as Faux Snooze. They're just a little more subtle about it.
  • Anon · 1 month ago
    I always enjoyed watching Mr. Dobbs perform, much as I used to enjoy watching Mr. Rogers. Predictable, always left me wondering if he had recently had a stroke or something, voice with a slight quaver... stoked the fires of nostalgia for simpler times when poor white folk still were in charge of the neighborhood. Gone, all gone now. What a shame. I suppose someone will give him a half-time job at a local foodbank so he can berate the poor and the misbegotten at his leisure.
  • dennie525 · 1 month ago
    Dobbs will probably go to work for Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who is another immigration detractor
  • galen697 · 1 month ago
    Next gig: Cohosting with Beck
  • pauljwlr · 1 month ago
    I'm no fan of Mr. Dobbs, but he never crusaded against immigrants as Media Matters states. He did however crusade against ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. There is a huge differenc between the two.
  • Webapparition · 1 month ago
    True. But this just goes to show you that the left is just like the right. They all spout thier own bull-sh*t that they want everyone else to believe! To become slaves and vocal serfs of the party they service.
  • pauljwlr · 1 month ago
    And that's a fact.....
  • mudsnark · 1 month ago
    well i feel the same way , i never watch him every night but i never saw anything racisit about him, he brought up lots the other news shows wouldnt handle , the rise of the chinese military, the nafta and cafta sellouts, the mexican semi trucks boondogle of clogging up our highways , the jobs being taken from americans by illegales and how the companys hired them without checking for legalization and driveing down the wages from a decent wage to slave wages, trade deal sellouts by both administrations, im sure they will find some one less ojectionable to replace him , maby bill mahers ! im sure dobbs has made enough money that he wont have to sweat it, and im sure not going to lose any sleep over it ! none of the news shows cover everything anyway!