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NEWS ABOUT: Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs stories: 22 news summaries

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 Dobbs: CNN Didn't Want 
 Obama Criticism 

'What is immutable is that I'm staying in the public arena'

Nov 17, 09 7:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Lou Dobbs guarantees "100%" that he'll be staying in "the public arena" now that he's finished with CNN, he told Fox's Bill O'Reilly last night, but he demurred on whether that means a run for a New Jersey Senate seat. President Obama "isn't the devil," Dobbs... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • CNN • Fox • Lou Dobbs • news anchor • Lou Dobbs interview

 CNN Paid Dobbs $8M to Leave 

Bosses objected to reporting on immigration, 'birther' movement

Nov 16, 09 10:30 AM CST
(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,... More »

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Fox News • CNN • Lou Dobbs • right wingers • birther

interview

 Lou Dobbs: 
 I Wasn't 
 Forced Out 

Ex-CNN host says he hasn't talked with Fox

Nov 15, 09 4:47 PM CST
(AP) - Lou Dobbs says he doesn't feel as though he was pushed out of CNN, where he worked for all but 2 years of its existence until last Wednesday. "I don't know if people will believe it, but we had a very amicable parting on the best of terms,"... More »

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immigration • TV networks • CNN • illegal immigration • Lou Dobbs • anchor • host • news anchor • television news

JOE CONASON

Dobbs 2012: A Nightmare
for Republicans

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

Nov 13, 09 5:42 AM CST
(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... More »

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Republican Party • CNN • Lou Dobbs • third party candidacy • presidential candidates • Election 2012 • birther

musical anchor chairs


 John King 
 Will Replace 
 Lou Dobbs  

Anchor of CNN's 'State of the Union' 'thrilled' with primetime slot

Nov 12, 09 11:09 AM CST
(Newser) - CNN political reporter and State of the Union host John King will replace the abruptly departed Lou Dobbs in CNN's 7pm weekday slot starting early next year. Aside from hosting the network's Sunday political gabfest, King is known for using a touch-screen “magic map” to illustrate his election analysis.... More »

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television • CNN • primetime TV • Lou Dobbs • cable news • election coverage • political coverage • Sunday morning talk shows • John King • State of the Union

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 Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN 

Longtime anchor announces move on tonight's show

Nov 12, 09 5:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Anchor Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN, he announced during tonight’s show—his last after 27 years at the channel. Dobbs, whose contract wasn’t up until 2011, has made waves with his anti-immigration views and his questioning of President Obama’s citizenship; he didn’t shed much light on... More »

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citizenship • Fox News • CNN • Roger Ailes • illegal immigration • talk show • Lou Dobbs • cable industry • host • news anchor • cable news • President Obama • conservative media • birther

 Shot Fired at Dobbs' Home 

Bullet struck siding but didn't penetrate

Oct 29, 09 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A gun was fired at CNN commentator Lou Dobbs’ home while his wife and chauffeur talked outside earlier this month, New Jersey state police said today. Dobbs said the shot came after “weeks and weeks” of threatening phone calls—which he had not reported to police because of their... More »

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Lefty Talking Heads Fan 'Birther' Flames

Debunked rumor gets far more play on MSNBC than on Fox

Aug 10, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - When CNN correspondent Candy Crowley mentioned birthers on Lou Dobbs’ show last week, the host panicked. “Don’t say ‘birthers,’ whatever you do,” he said. “Not on this broadcast.” Dobbs has become a much-ridiculed face of the birther movement, but he's discussed the issue... More »

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media • MSNBC • lefties • Keith Olbermann • CNN • Lou Dobbs • Obama administration • liberal media • Candy Crowley • President Obama • conservative media • birther

(Newser) - Butt-of-hipster-jokes Chuck Norris has leaped into the birther movement, challenging  President Obama to cough up his "long form" birth certificate. Norris wishes Obama happy birthday on Creative.com, then not-so-subtly sequés into: "Speaking of birthdays," why do "you refuse to reveal your original birth certificate?"... More »

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Barack Obama • conspiracy • birth • Chuck Norris • Lou Dobbs • birth certificate • birther

(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... More »

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Barack Obama • media • media criticism • CNN • American media • Media Matters • advertisements • Lou Dobbs • birther

OPINION

Beck, Dobbs Fear the Rise of Minorities: Rich

White elites too often succumb to 'Village People populism'

Aug 2, 09 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - A nation bored by dreary, knotty debates about health care found relief in another National Conversation on Race. “This one,” as Frank Rich writes in the New York Times of last week’s ballyhooed Beer Summit, “ended with a burp,” but the hangover could last well... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Frank Rich • Glenn Beck • Lou Dobbs • Sonia Sotomayor • Henry Louis Gates Jr • birther • James Crowley

Group Buys Anti-Dobbs Ads to Air on CNN

Bring 'em on, says
host caught up in birther controversy

Aug 1, 09 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Liberal watchdog group Media Matters is buying CNN airtime to run anti-Lou Dobbs ads during the host’s own show next week, reports Plum Line. The ads condemn Dobbs’ recent calls for Barack Obama to produce a legitimate birth certificate and will also run on Fox News and MSNBC in... More »

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Barack Obama • advertising • CNN • Media Matters • Lou Dobbs • conspiracy theory • birther

Dobbs' Ratings Plummet After Birther Talk

Questioning prez birth certificate scares off 15% of viewers

Jul 31, 09 5:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even Bill O'Reilly thinks that Lou Dobbs' continuing sympathy with the birther movement questioning President Obama's birth certificate is just a ploy "to get ratings, trying to be provocative." But if Dobbs is pushing conspiracy theories to bump up viewership, it isn't working, reports the New York Observer.... More »

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 Beck Wins It All 
 in Stewart's 
 Jackass Derby 



Beck crowned king in new segment

Jul 30, 09 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - “Apparently, any jackass in a suit willing to go on television and criticize the president can make a pretty hefty living,” Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show. To crown the biggest jackass of all, Stewart trotted out a new segment: "So You Think... More »

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Lou Dobbs Calls Maddow a 'Tea- Bagging Queen'

Insists he's no birther... but wants to see the birth certificate

Jul 29, 09 6:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lou Dobbs is being cruelly oppressed. He says the left is trying to “silence” him for demanding that Barack Obama produce a birth certificate. “My god, you’re talking about the third rail of American journalism, baby!” he said on his radio show yesterday. Among these scary... More »

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Barack Obama • Lou Dobbs • right-wing media • Rachel Maddow • birth certificate • birther

 Stewart to 
 'Birther' Dobbs: 
 Do You Even  
 Watch CNN? 

Scam would have had to start in 1961, after all

Jul 23, 09 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The “birthers” who doubt Barack Obama’s citizenship are multiplying, but CNN performed a “thorough debunking of this silliness on July 17,” Jon Stewart said last night on the Daily Show. So why did Lou Dobbs bring it up again three days later? “Do you even... More »

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Barack Obama • conspiracy • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Lou Dobbs • right wingers • birth certificate • birther

(Newser) - The conspiracy theory that the first black president is an alien and not an American citizen is bizarrely growing a full head of steam and spitting out a wacky cast of characters, notes Eric Etheridge in the New York Times. The fact that Barack Obama has a Hawaiian birth... More »

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Barack Obama • aliens • conspiracy • Lou Dobbs • right wingers • Liz Cheney • birth certificate • birther

(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... More »

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Barack Obama • citizenship • Lou Dobbs • conspiracy theory • birther

 What Comes Around: 
 Limbaugh ‘Hurt’ by 
 Obama's Words 

Radio host doesn't like being called xenophobe

May 23, 08 5:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh's “feelings are hurt” by comments Barack Obama made linking the radio host’s rhetoric to a rise in hate crimes against Hispanics. Speaking in Florida last night, Obama said, “There's a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year. If you have people like... More »

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Barack Obama • Rush Limbaugh • hate crime • Hispanic • Lou Dobbs

(Newser) - It takes more than comb-overs and beer bellies to make the world's 100 unsexiest men list. The Boston Phoenix factors behavior into its list of oh-so-fugly gents. A peek at who snagged the top (dis)honors:
  1. Roger Clemens: baseball (and steroid?) star.
  2. Spencer Pratt: Heidi's smarmy boyfriend on The
... More »

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Tom Cruise • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Roger Clemens • list • awards • Eliot Spitzer • attraction • Larry Craig • Perez Hilton • Lou Dobbs • Dr Phil • Ryan Seacrest • Spencer Pratt

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