Group Buys Anti-Dobbs Ads to Air on CNN

(NEWSER) - A media watchdog ad attacking CNN anchor Lou Dobbs for his "racially charged" support of conspiracy theorists who question President Obama's birth certificate is all set to run tomorrow on CNN. But there's fat chance you'll ever see it on CNN. Five of the six cable providers who sold ad time to Media Matters rejected the ad for CNN. More»

(NEWSER) - Lou Dobbs, not known for his subtlety on questions of immigration, has added his voice to the fringe chorus insisting that President Obama was not born an American citizen. "I'm starting to think we have a document issue. You suppose he’s un—no, I won’t even use the word undocumented, it wouldn’t be right," Dobbs said on his radio show. He agreed with a caller that his presidency could be "illegal." More»

Left creates 'toxicity' by harping on controversy

(NEWSER) - Lou Dobbs might’ve softened on illegal immigration as he weighs politics in his post-CNN life, but still isn’t sold that President Obama was born in the US. “When you can create a controversy by asking what seems to me still a perfectly commonsense question?” he says in an Esquire interview. “I ask a question, and I am attacked from the extreme left as a quote-unquote birther. I mean, what the hell is that?” More»

Bosses objected to reporting on immigration, 'birther' movement

(NEWSER) - CNN was so outraged over Lou Dobbs’ conservative reporting that they paid him $8 million just to leave, an anonymous source tells the New York Post. “They wanted him out,” the source says. Dobbs still had a year and a half left on his $12 million contract, but CNN boss Jonathan Klein objected to the show he was doing, particularly his stories about the “birther” movement and illegal immigration. More»

Ex-anchor could split the tea-bagger vote as an independent

(NEWSER) - Lou Dobbs has dropped big hints that he plans a career in politics, and the GOP should be worried, warns Joe Conason. A presidential run by Dobbs seems like a strong possibility, but he won't be running as a Republican, Conason writes for Salon . Instead, the newly departed CNN anchor looks likely to run as an independent, drawing on the same "resentful remnant" the GOP is counting on in 2012. More»