Lou Dobbs exits stage left

Posted on November 12th, 2009 by ecthompson md

I know that I’m not anywhere close to the first, nor will I be the last person to talk about Lou Dobbs. He’s been a fixture on CNN for a long while. There was a time, way before we had heard of Barack Obama or even before George W. Bush seriously considered running for president, when CNN ruled the airwaves and Lou Dobbs was part of that kingdom. I thought Dobbs was a respected journalist.


Something happened. I don’t know if he was in a car crash and hit his head or the real Dobbs was abducted by aliens and this is a clone, but Lou Dobbs has changed over the years. He went from being a thoughtful, hard-hitting journalist to something else entirely. He wasn’t Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly, but something just short of that. I first noticed it on the subject of immigration. This is when I first noticed that he was over the top (Mexico was our enemy). He didn’t even try to be objective or present anything thoughtful on immigration. He compromised his journalistic integrity over this immigration issue. He praised the folks at Hazleton, Pennsylvania for their ordinance which targeted undocumented immigrants (economic refugees) without revealing that he had pumped money into the town’s legal defense fund. Dobbs was also part of the birther movement.

You’ll never see me celebrating when someone loses their job. Jobs are extremely hard to come by these days. It’s kind of sad to see the downfall of someone who I thought had significant integrity, but that was over a decade ago.

Tags: Media // 3 Comments »

  • libhomo

    I’m celebrating big time.  They put CNN on the TV right above where I do abs at the gym.  I got so tired of being his captive audience.

  • ecthompson

    you are now free! Free at last, free at last thank God Almighty you’re free at last.

  • johnnyG

    I guess if you don’t have a liberal agenda, you can’t work at CNN. Lou’s opinions were his own and I thought that’s what America was all about. I guess the other 2 opinion writers believe that the other CNN shows are great because they agree with their view of what America should be. I think having differences between fox news and the rest of the media is a good thing if it were’nt for fox news we wouldn’t know half of what is going on in America because for so many years we were getting one side of the story.

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