Over the last few years Dobbs has become more erratic and hyperbolic. This is one more symptom.

Palin will try to out hate Dobbs, Tancredo, or anyone else. You betcha.

Now, that’s officially over.

watched the interview w/ Lou Dobbs and Jon Stewart recently. They genuinely seem to like each other.

‘Course, Stewart did say something to the effect of “well, your policy views are abhorrent and (?), BUT…” Jon wasn’t working him over like he did Jim Cramer – it was a pretty civilized interview.

Still kinda begs the question of whether the term “media whore” might be applicable in Lou’s case.

Sorry, this reminds me of the many tearful farewells to Nixon, and then more recently to the worst president ever, from cartoonists. Such a wealth of material for mockery is sadly missed, and in Jon Stewart’s case, appreciated heartily.

Will watch anxiously for the Spanish language greetings from Loud.

Palin/Dobbs – 2012? That might piss off Glenn Beck (and/or Michele Bachmann), but it would be for the greater good, right?

OT: I notice that Andrea Mitchell is on the air today, while some big names are taking the day off. I didn’t hear her intro, but i wonder if it went like this:

“Hello, this is Andrea Mitchell reporting from New York. Now my seniority at this network would entitle me to take the day off, and spend it having wild, steamy, damn-near-unmentionable sex with my husb-….errr…”

“Hello, this is Andrea Mitchell reporting from New York.”

seems to me that if someone really needs to be mocked and ridiculed, Jon’s pretty much The Guy.

Tancredo goes off the air with more flair.

t…m…i…

heh.

I was raised by wolves. cuts way down on the comedic peer group.

BT is the pic from Treasure of the Sierra Madres?

As in “Badges? We doan need no steekin’ badges”?

(I’ve won a LOT of bar bets with folks who think that line originated with Blazing Saddles

How apropos, the character in Treasure of the Sierra Madre who asked to see their badges was Fred C. Dobbs.

Here is the actual exchange:

Gold Hat: Hola, senor. We are Federales. You know, the mounted police.
Dobbs: If you’re the police, where are your badges?
Gold Hat: Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!

Not BT, but yes it is.

Loudobbz is insane. Now that the disciplining pressure of going on teevee is over for him, his erratic nature will become more apparent. I mean, if you can’t trust Loudobbz on shamnesty, who can you trust?

“Now my seniority at this network would entitle me to take the day off, and spend it having wild, steamy, damn-near-unmentionable sex with my husb-….errr…”

She’d probably take the Barstow desk to get out of that…

Well, the mere fact that he was on Telemundo in the first place might be enough to taint him in the eyes of the hardcore anti-immigrant people such as these folk — or Volk.

Aw, give poor Lou a break, he wore a poncho during the Telemundo interview to demonstrate his sensitivity.

He can go away now?
I don’t watch TV, so if he gets on Fox, I won’t miss a thing.

I’m hoping he had a true and genuine conversion with the realization about
the dignity of all people… maybe his inspiration will spread to some other folks who have mouthed ugly bigotry.

or anywhere from Tuscon to Tucumcari; Tehachapi to Tonapah :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrCMlSWlDX8

I was pretty sure it was. As I say, that scene has won me more than few dollars over the years.

he *was* on CNN, but he told Jon Stewart that CNN told *him* that CNN wanted to go with more (crap – now I can’t remember) “center-based”, “un-biased” (?) reporting.

Never was The Lou on Fox, however.

Did a medicine like thorazine cause Lou Dobbs to change so radically? Or, if we gave Lou Dobbs the thorazine, would he go back to his xenophobic ways?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Jason Rosenbaum has a fresh cross-post ready: “Charges dropped against Joe Szakos, the Anthem Blue Cross customer arrested for questioning rate increases”

A nit to pick. Thorazine is no joke – I’ve been to court too many times fighting to have clients released from forced thorazine administration.

When thorazine enters the picture, you can effectively scratch one human mind from the total equation.

Dobbs used to make a lot of sense in his calling out of outsourcing and the hollowing out of the economy that created American middle class jobs.

from zero to full blown asshat hypocrite in lass than 10 days

lou dobbs political career died faster than princess pandora’s

I Just watched that movie. I recognized him as well, he was a famous (in Mexico) Mexican actor.

It is one of my favourite movies.

He still does. He’s got some good–and popular–populist-nationalist ideas on the economy; plus he supports withdrawal from Afghanistan. In other words, he could quite nicely fill the opening left by two parties whose leaders are prowar and in the pocket of Wall Street. Interesting that’s he’s playing down his nativism; it suggests, perhaps that he’s positioning himself for an independent run based on economic populism. Hell, anti-bailout, antiwar, that’s a platform right there. Plus he’s comfy on TV and not dumb.

I don’t want to overstate his political potential–his descent into birther-batshit would hurt him (or would it?), and I’m not sure that without his nativism he could generate enough grassroots excitement to raise significant money (although he’s personally rich)–but the dismissiveness among progressives toward a potential Dobbs run is short-sighted.

Lou Dobbs is nothing more than a bloated, uptight, racist, old fart. After all these years he thinks he can convince the world otherwise? Get a metal detector and hit the beach old man. Have an affair with Orly Taitz. She really seems like your soulmate. Your minds together would be like… sorry I think I’m going to be sick. I’ve just drawn a picture I can’t erase. UUURRRRPPP GAKKK.

Yes, but she will smile and laugh and nobody will notice the hate. /s

Don’t forget one of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti flicks. But, in the original it was just “we don’t need any badges”. There was, AFAIK, no “stinking” in it.

Still, I like the phrase with ‘stinking’ in it. It really sings that way.

We don’t need no stinking badges!

‘Course, ya gotta say badges with a great deal of disgust and practically spitting it out.

What was the source movie(?), Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Bogart?

Did he eat a taco? Heh. Where was Pat Buchanan during all this?

Thanks for that