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Lou bids adieu

Lou Dobbs has quit CNN after creating all kinds of furor with his often inaccurate and fiery comments about topics such as immigration and the birther controversy.

It was an inevitable departure; he was costing the struggling news channel credibility and bucking his bosses, even when he was obviously wrong.

Wonder where he'll wind up.

My money's on Fox (which, I admit, is hardly a bold prognostication).

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Posted by Allen Johnson on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 9:06 am

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Interested

November 12, 2009 - 9:52 am EST

We've all heard the joke about what you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean. The same could be said for the departure of media personalities who use their position to spew their hatred - it is a good start. Referencing the above-linked article: How could anyone consider a news anchor who fails to ascertain his facts a potential candidate to constructively problem-solve anything?

left-wing conspiracy theorist

November 12, 2009 - 12:21 pm EST

My dream ticket: Palin-Dobbs '12

brian444

November 12, 2009 - 12:53 pm EST

Is that metaphorical money you're wagering, or the green kind? If the latter, I want a piece of the action. Fox New's "We Report, You Decide" philosophy has no place for Dobb's leftist populist wackiness.

Doug Johnson

November 12, 2009 - 2:04 pm EST

Interested,
You mean like the kind that run MSMBC , NBC, ABC, HLN, and CNN?
I never watch Dobbs because he was on the far left CNN.

Allen Johnson

November 12, 2009 - 2:43 pm EST

You're both joking about Dobbs as a leftist, I presume?

brian444

November 12, 2009 - 4:28 pm EST

No joke. His anti-corporate, anti-free trade, anti-immigrant, nativist populism is straight from the William Jennings Bryan (D-IL) "Great Commoner" playbook. Besides fairness and balance, Fox embraces the free market.

Andrew Brod

November 12, 2009 - 11:12 pm EST

Of course it's wrong to say that Dobbs is a leftist. But he is a populist. You find plenty of populists among Fox's on-air personalities. Glenn Beck rails against corporations quite regularly. And being anti-immigrant is hardly "alien" to Fox. To be fair, the most prominent politician of that school is probably Pat Buchanan, who yaks at MSNBC these days. But over there he's the conservative counterpoint. Dobbs is much more closely aligned with Fox's ideological message than Buchanan is with MSNBC's. Besides, Dobbs is a birther, a conspiracy theory that's ridiculed on MSNBC but not on Fox.

Andrew Brod

November 12, 2009 - 11:15 pm EST

The point is that conservatism--like liberalism--comes in different flavors. There are libertarian conservatives, populist conservatives, neoconservatives, and so on. And populism can be either liberal or conservative in orientation. Dobbs is a populist conservative.

Allen Johnson

November 13, 2009 - 9:22 am EST

Good points, Andy. Blanket labels are often shallow, deceiving and just plain wrong.

brian444

November 13, 2009 - 4:12 pm EST

Well, he's a populist with conservative and liberal positions. More of the latter. He's strongly anti-free trade, anti-globalization, and anti-big business, positions usually associated with the John Edwards left. He's an isolationist (like Pat Buchanan), but that's a position (esp. in Iraq) usually associated with the left, and in any event diametrically opposed to the robust neoconservatism said to characterize the Republican party under Bush. He's pro-union (as antidote to big business). Anti-immigration? Yeah, that's more associated with the right than the left, but it hardly breaks down neatly.