Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective immediately.There's lots of reaction to the announcement, especially among the lefties. Pam Spaulding's ecstatic, "Glory be ..." Media Matters has this banner headline up right now, "Under Pressure, Dobbs Announces Immediate Departure From CNN," and their YouTube title reads, "Dobbs' History of Hate and Paranoia." Think Progress claims Dobbs had become a "publicity nightmare" for CNN, and gay hate-merchant Joe Sudbay announces, "CNN's On-Air Racist, Lou Dobbs, is Gone After Tonight's Show."
Sitting before an image of an American flag on his television set, he said “some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem solving as well as to contribute positively to the great understanding of the issues of our day.”
“I’m considering a number of options and directions,” Mr. Dobbs added. A transcript of his remarks is available here.
Of course, these are the same folks who fist-bump the degenerate Keith Olbermann, and there was no outcry on the left when the MSNBC host attacked Michelle Malkin on air, for what he said was her "total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it."
It's all power no principle with these totalitarians.
See CNN's announcement as well, "Lou Dobbs leaving CNN."
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I wish him the best. Lou Dobbs is a thoughtful and intelligent newsman the likes of which we rarely see in today’s partisan news shows. While I don’t always agree with him, he thinks issues through without a Republican or Democrat agenda. I think he will have a lot to offer in a different format.
Definitely no place for him on CNN then.
But it's the conservatives who don't have the 'big tent'. LOL.
Lou Dobbs' Cable Ratings are 100K higher than Campbell Brown, his unwatched 8PM colleague on CNN and almost as high as Anderson [Teabaggee?] at 10 PM.
For real bellylaughs, read CNN's hapless Jon Klein's response to finishing fourth of the four cable news networks in October for the first time since 1980 [!] in the LAT:
“No one expected us to deliver the same numbers this year as we did during the election,” Klein said this week.
Still, after crowing about its ratings victories last year, CNN is now in the awkward position of trying to explain why its declining audience is not an issue.
“We are not going to try to boost numbers during fallow news periods by running cartoons, as our competitors do,” Klein said. “We’re going to cover the news and we’ll attract an ever more loyal audience as the result of it.”
“They are in a completely different business than we are,” he added. “We are not putting out the same product as they are. And we shouldn’t be compared to them on that account.”
"Rival executives scoff at that assertion. Newscasts dominate the daytime lineup of MSNBC and Fox News, whose Bret Baier and Shepard Smith anchor news programs that ranked among the top five most-watched cable shows in October.
“Jon’s correct: It’s unfair to compare CNN to Fox News,” said Fox News spokeswoman Dana Klinghoffer. “Based on his network’s dismal ratings, it’s more accurate to compare CNN to the G4 channel.”
Yeh Dave,
Apparently, "cable ratings" are the best barometer for success as a political pundit/news broadcaster/public intellectual.
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