When I worked there, as co-host of “Crossfire,” CNN was known as “America’s most trusted news network.”
And rightfully so. Alone among the cables, you could count on CNN to deliver the news right down the middle. Yes, there were commentators on the right and the left, but the anchors played it straight and stories with no legitimacy never made it to air.
Sadly, that’s no longer the case. Lou Dobbs has changed all that. And Jon Klein, CNN’s president, is letting him get away with it.
Yep, Klein has seemingly backed off his previous concerns — sent in a memo to staffers — about Dobbs’ birther stories.
Press adds,
Dobbs has gone off the deep end. He’s become a big “birther,” raising questions about whether President Obama was really born in Hawaii and might therefore be an illegal president. … Now, that’s the kind of mindless partisan crap you expect from Fox News. But not, until now, CNN.
…
What I want to know is: Dobbs or no Dobbs, CNN will never be trusted by the lunatic fringe that watches Fox News. So why is CNN letting Lou Dobbs destroy the network’s reputation for honest reporting?
Good question.
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Fitz!
A dam good question. I used to watch Lou as he seemed to make some sense on some subjects but ever since he had tonsils out he has become a raving blathering idiot!
And now it seems most of CNN has gone wacky and very slanted against the Democrats!
CNN had crediblity ?!!
Lou Dobbs has his own show, according to Jon Klein. In Dobbs-world, CNN hurts Lou’s credibility. He’d be better off at FOX, and he might just take his viewers there, I suppose, if Klein tries to stop his current insanity.
Popcorn time.
CNN’s credibility left with Ted Turner.
Loud Obbs has to show that he can be as loose with the truth as Bill Orally, Hannity, Beck and the rest of the Faux Noise crowd.
It is really greed that drives Dobbs. He must deliver eyeballs to CNN to keep his massive compensation coming, and he will say anything it takes to keep the nutbags tuning in. The man is a graduate of Harvard University, and is a disgrace to them.
I have never had cable in my house, and would never want to subsidize this crap by doing so.
Yes Grasshoppa.
Emphasis on had.
Dobbs could get really wacky and go after Palin’s citizenship. Rumor has it that she and her family walked across the frozen Bering Straight from Russia when she was very young. That’s why she knows which way to look to keep an eye on those pesky Russians. Of course, since Palin is a Republic, Dobb’s will just let it slide.
And thus leave CNN flailing with no one left…a network run rightly into the ground by its progressive masters.
Harvard?!! How in the world does the Ivy League maintain its reputation producing the likes of Lou Dobbs?/rhetorical question.
I haven’t watched CNN in years. Can’t take it. They have some of dumbest reporters I’ve ever seen.
Having granted, and never revolked, an MBA to George W. Bush, Harvard University has demonstrated a complete inablility to acknowlege disgrace.
CNN lost me when they pimped the original invasion of Afghanistan.
There are no laws that I know of that prevents coporations from lying on or off the air, print or magic box. As long as it is legal to commit corporate fraud we must just forget about fair or balanced. Remember..for every truth presented by Progressives there must be a corporate lie for balance.
What credibility? Ted Turner’s vision of CNN was monetized into oblivion after the Time Warner/AOL deal.
Ann Coulter calls Lou Dobbs a crank
CNN s-u-u-u-u-cks. I keep telling people this is so, and yet they don’t believe it — seemingly Candy “Jabba” Crowely and Cooper “180″ Anderson hold sway in their lives. Fox is practically respectable by comparison.
I’m hoping for a new show starring Lou Dobbs and Nancy Grace where Lou in the first half hour buries illegal aliens, and Nancy spends the last 90 min digging them back up
Coulter thinks Geraldo is a liberal? Ho, shit, she’s really gone off the deep end.
ROFLMAO
That’s very funny. Lou and Nancy are a match made in …well, hell.
Heh. I forgot the chimp’s MBA was from Harvard. Yeah, Lou Dobbs is a gem of a graduate in comparison.
Back to the cesspool.
Namaste
Wow, Ann, they’ll be calling you a liberal next.
What’s CNN?
Let’s face it: Coulter makes Caligula look pretty progressive by comparison.
And, make no mistake about it, this woman knows her cranks!
Try and keep your head above all the shit!
Regarding the war criminal in chief’s CV, it doesn’t say much for either Yale or Harvard. I love the smell of legacy admissions in the morning. Keeps the upper in upper crust.
can we get the CBO to tally the 10-year profit projections for health insurers in America and the contributions to Blue Dogs projected forward?
Citizen Badwater:
And don’t forget that Larry Summers is a distinguished EX-president of Haaavad who told everyone that women didn’t have the chops for mathamatics and they lost the last head of their Black Studies program to Princeton and they tried ta get their most distiguished Black professor arrested for living in his own house…old Ralph W. Emerson is laughin’ it up BIG time!
Geraldo IS a liberal. He is for all kinds of illegal immigration and benefits thereto.
I have said the same thing about David Brooks at the NY Times.
A legacy admission perhaps a Gentlemen’s C student?
Speaking of trust in authority and access to information, Amazon.com really distinguished themselves last week by deleting Orwell’s 1984 from kindle subscribers who had paid for the download.
Roll over Shakespeare — It’s a play within a play within a play.
Is Lou mad at immigrants perhaps because he is afraid Legacy admissions might end and his grandkids if they are like Dad won’t be able to compete?
I wonder if Lou and Supreme Court Justice Alito have something in common about college?
I’m hoping for a new show starring Lou Dobbs and Nancy Grace where Lou in the first half hour buries illegal aliens, and Nancy spends the last 90 min digging them back up.
Now there’s programming we can believe in. I’ll start queueing up the DVR.
http://www.dickipedia.org/dick…..ancy_Grace
http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Lou_Dobbs
Dobbs and GWB exemplify the Heinrich Heine quote, “Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.”
How could Mr. Heine possibly have known about Glenn Beck? Damn, he was prescient.
I’m pretty sure Beck is in Revelation somewhere.
Several years back,Lou Dobbs was the voice in the wilderness about the outsourcing of American jobs.
Around the time Obama announced his candidacy,Dobbs got on the illegal alien bandwagon-which has some merit,to be sure…..
BUT THEN,he got a radio show.
It was anti-alien all the time. He LOST HIS MIND,but found a niche audience for his bigotry…both on TV and radio.
Another set of clay feet.
And to top it off, his wife was a news staffer,when he met her-AND she’s Latina ,to boot.
Politics and money sure make strange bedfellows.
What’s with these fat white guys like Dobbs,and Mr. Oxyincontinent(Rush).
Good point.
My favorite recent CNN moment: “reporter” Dana Bash fleeing with a public official (Mike Ross), who didn’t want to answer questions from the public.
For any real reporter, this encounter with Mike Stark would have been great footage for her story, of a citizen demanding answers from a public official. Instead, she chose to help him flee!
For anyone who missed it, the links to Mike Stark’s two-part video of the episode are in Jane’s post here.
Thanks for the post, Blue Texan.
Indeed he is-located directly under the tail of one of the four horses.
To be found under the remaining three horses’ asses are Hannity,Limbaugh,and BrillO’Reilly.
I think Heine had Beck & Limbaugh in mind when he said, “I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.”
Someone had to take Glenn Beck’s place when he made the switch to FOX. Frankly, I find John King the most offensive because his bias is more subtle, but he a GOP shill nonetheless. King on CNN and Gregory on NBC on Sunday mornings has turned me off to Sunday punditry. I don’t consider Dobbs much of a threat because he primarily appeals to the 15%ers.
lou is going for the rush limbaugh crowd; rush’s money from paid advertising was just too good to pass up.
O/T
Did you know that John King of CNN and Dana Bash are engaged to be married?
He even converted to her religion.
@48
I guess my wedding invitation got lost in the mail. According to WIKI,they got married last year.
Dana Bash – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDana Ruth Schwartz Bash King better known as Dana Bash (born June 15, 1971 in Montvale, … On May 25, 2008, she married fellow CNN correspondent John King, …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Bash – Cached – Similar
I think they are already married. They seem to be well suited. Both are more than willing to carry water for the GOP. Both are willing to softball conservatives and spew the daily talking points.
are they serving bud at the wedding?
Birds of a feather and all that, eh? One of my other favorite CNN moments was Glenn Greenwald’s takedown of John King. *G*
Here are the links to the Greenwald pieces:
McCain Spokesman John King of CNN
CNN’s John King Responds
This has gone on long enough, so it’s time for capital letters:
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE OBAMA WAS BORN BECAUSE HIS MOTHER WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN!!!!!!!!!!!
My siblings (AF brats like me) were born in Germany. BIG FUCKING DEAL. They’re just as American as I am.
Dobbs is just Archie Bunker in a suit.
Several years ago FOX NEWS CHANNEL got sued for lying on the air. I don’t remember what the issue was at the time, but the court ruled that there is NO LEGAL OBLIGATION TO TELL THE TRUTH!
Hey John. THANK YOU, DUDE!
I’ve been thinking about all the US citizens I know that were born in Germany too. Bout time you showed up and said that! :]
I remember that. horrifying. I think it had something to do with firing people who were telling the truth…in Florida.
Wilson & Akre v. Fox News
I thought they were pretty good in the days of Arron Brown. When he got the ax, it was the beginning of the all the distracting glitter stories.
re: upper CRUST
A bunch of crumbs held together by their dough.
Wow… Roland Martin spanked the shit out of Dobbbs “Is this keeping you up at night?” Seriously, Lou… grow the fuck up. And thin-skinned? Wow.
He did all of his schtick except call Obama an “illegal” immigrant (from exotic Hawaii, right?)
LOU DOBBS is a waste of oxygen.
Nope. Coors Lite in a crystal cup.
Regarding your definition of upper crust
“A bunch of crumbs held together by their dough.”
ROFLMAO
Dana Bash is only 38?
I thought she looks much older.