Southern Gal, November 12 at 4:22 pm #

“Give the man credit for his criticisms of corporations and lobbyists running our government, for his long standing support of the middle class, for his criticism against outsourcing of US jobs to other countries, for his stance on bringing our troops home and against our forever military campaigns, and for reminding us that there are social and financial issues resulting from illegal immigration that impact us, particularly on the local level, where jobs are at stake”.

Good post Southern Gal.  Anyone who calls Lou Dobbs a racist, simply does not know the man at all.

It has begun. Lou Dobbs for President…

http://loudobbs4president.com

Lou Dobb’s Biography.
Lou Dobbs was the anchor and managing editor of CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Dobbs also anchored a nationally syndicated financial news radio report, The
Lou Dobbs Financial Report, and is a columnist for Money magazine and U.S.
News and World Report.

In 1999, Dobbs founded Space.com, the first multimedia company dedicated to
space and space-related content. He returned to CNN in 2001 to his current
position. In February 2003, his personal interest in space exploration helped
the network to cover the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. The day after the
Columbia was lost, Dobbs traveled to Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,
Fla., where he reported on the latest information on the story. Later in the year,
Dobbs anchored nightly and reported the latest news on Operation Iraqi
Freedom, interviewing multiple analysts and military experts to provide context
during the conflict.
Dobbs became anchor of Lou Dobbs Moneyline the year he joined CNN and was
instrumental in making Moneyline the most prestigious business news program
in history. During his tenure at the network, he helped CNN become the leader
in television business journalism and oversaw the launch of CNNfn and
CNNfn.com in December 1995. He managed the network as president of CNNfn
and executive vice president of CNN until June 1999 when he left the network.

Dobbs has won nearly every major award for television journalism. He received
the George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock market
crash. In 1990, he was given the Luminary Award by the Business Journalism
Review for his “visionary work, which changed the landscape of business
journalism in the 1980s.” In 1999, he received the Horatio Alger Association
Award for Distinguished Americans and, in 2000, the National Space Club
Media Award. Dobbs was named “Father of the Year” by the National Father’s
Day Committee in 1993. In 2004, the National Television Academy awarded
Lou Dobbs Tonight an Emmy Award for “Exporting America” and the following
year gave him its Lifetime Achievement Emmy for business and financial
reporting.

In 2004, Dobbs received The Man of the Year Award from The Organization for
the Rights of American Workers and the George J. Kourpias Excellence in
Journalism Award from the International Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers for his contributions to the national debate on jobs, global
trade and outsourcing. Dobbs was also presented with the Eugene Katz Award
for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration from the Center for Immigration
Studies for his ongoing series “Broken Borders,” which examines U.S. policy
towards illegal immigration. He also received the Hugh O’Brien Youth
Leadership in Media Award at the 2004 Albert Schweitzer Leadership Awards
Dinner for his commitment to helping high school students seek out, recognize
and develop leadership potential. He is the author of the best selling book
“Exporting America” and co-author of the book “Space.”

He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics. Dobbs
serves on the boards of the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation, the
Horatio Alger Association, the National Space Foundation and Space.com, in
which he owns a minority stake, as he does in Integrity Bank. He is also a
member of the Planetary Society, the Overseas Press Club, the American
Economic Association and the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences.

Bio source CNN

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Samson—yes, yes, yes ...

I recently finished “The Metaphysical Club” and cannot recommend it highly enough. It begins with the civil war. I was astonished both at the long-standing and how once widely accepted many tenets of white supremicism, racism, eugenics and “social darwinism” are—there is an unbroken lineage from before Darwin that is alive and well.

I suspect Dodd and company are also responsible for the “poverty is a life-style choice” meme I keep hearing from the same folks so alarmed by our southern neighbors. This apparently justifies the widely popular conservative “let them rot/freeze/starve” social programs.

Don’t even get me started on the harrassment and stigmatization of Arabs, muslim or otherwise, and furriners in general.

I have begun to suspect strongly that an enormous amount of America’s post-WWII prosperity can be laid at the foot of “Operation Paperclip” and other quite intentional American-inspired brain-drain (with the Military-Industrial Complex—including the Space Progra—directing the research that gave the USA such a technology “edge.”

Too many of those jobs aren’t coming back ever.

Give the man credit for his criticisms of corporations and lobbyists running our government, for his long standing support of the middle class, for his criticism against outsourcing of US jobs to other countries, for his stance on bringing our troops home and against our forever military campaigns, and for reminding us that there are social and financial issues resulting from illegal immigration that impact us, particularly on the local level, where jobs are at stake.

I was amazed that Dobbs lasted so long voicing outrage against illegal immigration, something corporate America strongly supports. This is why both both parties of our corporate sponsored Congress and all our corporate media want “immigration reform” i.e. amnesty, even Bush wanted that. Since the last amnesty, 20 million more illegals flooded across, driving down wages and helping bust unions, like the meatpackers.

But Dobbs led a populist revolt that killed “reform”. The media attacked him, often calling him a racist, even those his wife is from Mexico. The attacks were so widespread that the public began to turn against him, hence all the incorrect posts here.

Now with 20% unemployment, Dobbs was upsetting the poor and working class by asking why the President and Congress still allows over one million visas to import workers each year. Yes, Dobbs had to go, he wouldn’t read the teleprompter like those at CNN.

Susan,

I guess I have the ‘advantage’ of being nearly fifty.  Combined with the other ‘advantage’ of having been raised in Appalachia.  Which means I grew up in east Tennessee in the early 70’s.  Which means that when I was there, they used to still have KKK cross burnings in the next county over.  Trust me, some Americans have most certainly seen racism.

The good news today is that most Americans do oppose racism.  Because of this, the racism that does still exist is much more muted, subtle and often underground today.  Openly racist statements like I used to hear in the early 70’s aren’t socially acceptable in most groups anymore.

So, we get the David Dukes style of racism instead.  We get the racist that looks and sounds like a ‘reasonable’ man in a suit and tie.  We get racism that just muted enough and hidden enough to be socially acceptable in our slowly improving consciousness.

The giveaway is the hatred that’s directed at others based solely on ethnicity.  Although, the general problem is more widespread, in that its the hatred directed at any others who are ‘different’.  Or, to be more precise, hatred directed at any who can be called ‘others’.

One thing that is very clear today is that the racism of the Lou Dobbs’ of the world is used in exactly the same way the Nazi propagandists used it.  The perpetrators know that a government that is a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations will inevitably cause anger and resentment amongst those being screwed in favor of ever greater corporate profits.

These perpetrators know this could be dangerous if allowed to build, and if left unchecked it could lead to the sort of popular revolt that could end their gravy train.

So, racists like Lou Dobbs are employed to try to redirect that anger off at some disposable ‘others’.  If the corporations of America have moved all the good jobs overseas in search of greater profits, the Lou Dobbs of the world come along and try to make the gullible victims who’ve lost their jobs believe that its all because of the ‘immigrants’.

Lou Dobbs is just one of several ways that they try to control the justifiable anger of the American people.

And yes, as someone who grew up around visible old-school racism, Lou Dobbs is most certainly racist.  Just the more subtle type that’s designed to look reasonable and that wears a suit and tie.  And its no accident whatsoever that he is prominently promoted on corporate TV.

Well, CNN just got a little better.

Dobbs has always been a joke as a ‘journalist’.  He comes from the background of business news.  Which in America consists entirely of reading corporate press releases and doing softball interviews with corporate executives.  On the American corporate media, you will never see any ‘business journalist’ that asks serious questions of business.

American business journalists couldn’t tell you in advance that Enron would collapse.  Yet I’ve had ‘business’ teachers show me how anyone could look at their official reports and statements and see trouble.

American business journalist couldn’t tell you in advance that the economy was headed for trouble.  Even though many who aren’t allowed on the corporate channels were doing just that.

If Dobbs were really gone from American TV, that would be a small plus for our society.  In his ‘news’ journalist role, he continued to act exactly as he had as a ‘business’ journalist.  That is, he reads press releases and conducts softball interviews.  Except he added a nasty, racist, anti-immigrant tilt to his ‘news’ that would have made Goebbels proud.

Fortunately, I long ago used the parental blocking features of my TV system to block ALL of the American ‘news’ channels from my home. 

So, frankly Lou, I don’t give a damn.

A third party run. Stand by.

Actually Lou Dobbs validated my (long held) theory that many many Americans wouldn’t recognize racism if it sat down and rode next to them on a long long bus ride.

Many (white and other) Americans believe the racism is a myth. That neither they nor anyone they know or like could possible be a (vile) racist—because as good Americans we (almost) all oppose racism.

Finally, good news.

Now that CNN dumped Dobbs, he’ll sign the FUX NOOSE Contract On America

Well, CNN is losing viewers like no tomorrow; the general state of the news business is dismal. It’s difficult to get any real news, unless you read the foreign press, or go online.

I really liked Lou when he went after the government, and exposed, the B.S., and hypocrisy of our so called leaders..

I felt a little sad to see him sign off… I hope to see him again soon

The great majority of Dobbs’ opponents are corrupt: they support illegal activity because they’re “taking a taste” (as they say) in one way or another. Most Dem leaders don’t like him because he interferes with their attempts to support illegal activity in order to gain power. Some GOP leaders don’t like him because he interferes with their support for “free” trade and importing serf labor.

And, while I don’t think I’ve caught TruthDig lying about him, I’ve caught plenty of others lying about Lou Dobbs, including Barack Obama. There are over 100 posts at my site involving Dobbs in some way; click each link to see the individual post. Pick one and then compare it to what you’ve been told.

Bye bye Lou you xenophobic freak! Good riddance!!

I always liked Lou as a business reporter, But he eventually became the chicken little of immigration, bordering on a kind of hispanic xenophobia. While Lou was correct in his ravings concerning border security and the massive influx of countless people the US cannot afford, he occasionally crossed the line to do a little “beaner bashing”, and that sort of main stream race baiting should have no place in a civilized society. But then again, who said we were civilized?

Maybe Lou Dobbs can make more money being a Congressman or Senator taking payoffs and bribes from Lobbyists.

hello. i never watched, but heard he was maneuvering recently. so there is a higher paying job that keeps you off camera. i am interested. it should be the next class at journalism 303. a reporter czar ...

Fox Dobbs, good night and good luck