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Lou Dobbs For President?

Here’s a scary thought: Vetertan journalist Lou Dobbs is considering a run for the White House in 2012.
During an interview with Washington’s WTOP Radio Monday, the former anchor — who abruptly abandoned his nearly 30 year post at CNN two weeks ago — further fueled rumors that he’s eyeing the Oval Office.

“Well, I’ll tell you [...]

CNN Paid $8 Million To Get Rid Of Lou Dobbs

CNN was so tired of Lou Dobbs’ anti-immigration rants, the left-leaning but still officially “neutral” network forked over $8million to get the veteran newsman out of their hair, according to The New York Post. The host joined CNN two years into its creation and was one of the last surviving anchor before he abruptly [...]

John King Replaces Lou Dobbs On CNN

John King will replace Lou Dobbs on CNN, CNN president John Klein said Thursday. The veteran reporter will move into the 7PM ET slot vacated by Dobbs, who abruptly resigned from the network on Wednesday after 29 years of service.

King will host a cutting edge show about politics beginning next year.
“The program will reflect what [...]

Lou Dobbs Leaving CNN

Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration stance allegedly made him the target of a “drive-by shooting” last month, has announced that he is leaving the cable news channel after 29 years — effective immediately.
“Some leaders in the media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond my role here at CNN [...]

Lou Dobbs Shot At? Gunshots & Threatening Calls For CNN Commentator

Police in Wangate, New Jersey — just northwest of New York City — are trying to determine who fired a bullet that struck CNN commentator Lou Dobbs’ farm home as his wife stood nearby.
State police Sgt. Stephen Jones says Dobbs’ wife and driver were outside the home Oct. 5 when they heard the gunshot. Jones [...]

Michelle Schweiger Schecter: The Spurn Of The Native

Did you catch Liz Cheney on Larry live?/Allowing the birthers’ claims to thrive/Carville, quite exasperated on Mr. King/Telling us this is, indeed, a very “nutty thing”.

Eric Boehlert: How Lou Dobbs Scared Rush Limbaugh Off the Birther Story

Have you noticed Limbaugh’s deafening silence about the birthers since July 20th? Have you noticed how the birther movement was in the news virtually every…

The Progress Report: ‘The Wacko Wing’

by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ian Millhiser and Nate Carlile To receive The Progress Report in your email inbox everyday,…

Donna Schaper: God Is Still Spanking….Lou Dobbs? Sargent Crowley?

For many people, God is not still speaking. God is still spanking. Setting up too high a bar. Telling us we are bad. God is…

Keith Boykin: White Men Can’t Judge

The most disturbing aspect of the news coverage about Henry Louis Gates’s arrest has been the running commentary by white men about appropriate decorum for…

Bill Scher: Will The Birthers Kill Health Care Reform?

The Weekly World News reports this week: “The official copy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate was stolen this week by Republicans wishing to halt his…

Bill Mann: CNN’s Lou Dobbs Joins Glenn Beck’s Tinfoil-Hat Brigade

Glenn Beck must be looking over his shoulder these days. CNN’s well-tailored droneologist and resident crackpot, Lou Dobbs, has just joined cable’s tinfoil-hat crowd…

Lou Dobbs Speculates If Obama Is Undocumented (AUDIO)

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CNN host Lou Dobbs contributed to keeping alive the conspiracy theory that President Obama is not an American citizen when he speculated on his radio show that Obama may be undocumented:

I’m starting to think we h…