Lou Dobbs is an idiot and he should be booted off CNN for his obsession with President Obama's Birth Certificate. How can we "trust" CNN when it promotes right-wing fantasies ?
In July 2008, another conservative hack - Bernard Goldberg, inspired Mass Murder when gunman James Adkisson, walked into the Tennessee valley Unitarian Universalist Church and opened fire.
We need to get these far-right haters off the air.
Someone was recently looking for the email addresses for the CNN top brass.
Senior management at CNN :
Jim.Walton@turner.com (Jim Walton is the president of CNN Worldwide)
Susan.Grant@turner.com (Susan Grant is executive vice president of CNN News Services)
Jon.Klein@turner.com (Jonathan Klein is president of CNN/US)
Rena.Golden@turner.com (senior vice president and executive producer of CNN.com)
David.Payne@turner.com (senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com)
Mitch.Gelman@turner.com (senior vice president and senior executive producer of CNN.com)
Lou Dobbs: "Limp-Minded, Lily-Livered Lefties" Attacked Me Because I Had The "Temerity To Inquire As To Where The Birth Certificate Was".
In the same week that Jon Stewart is named the most trusted news man in America, Lou Dobbs continues to propagate the far right fantasy about Obama's birthplace despite all the evidence proving otherwise. I know that we should not bother with the likes of Dobbs and that CNN's ratings continue to tank. 4th place in the ratings and going further south all the time. But should millionaire presenters on national TV stations get away with deliberately lying to viewers especially when this network advertises itself as " the most trusted name in news" and tells viewers that it relies on " hard news, evidence and factual information" ?
Wouldn't it be nice if the Blogosphere could get this stupid, overpaid, racist, xenophobic wing-nut off the air once and for all ? Dobbs belongs at Fox - he would make a great toilet cleaner for Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.
Even conservative columnists like James K. Glassman has accused Dobbs of repeatedly inciting xenophobia. Dobbs, like most of the far right media hacks, peddles an endless diet of fear and hatred - this is now focused more intensely than ever on Obama himself (Obama is a socialist, Obama wants to destroy America, America is a secret Muslim terrorist etc.). These cynical people continually encourage violence against against the POTUSA and incite extreme reactions among their followers. The Feds turn a blind eye to the venomous hatred spewing out from Talk Radio and Cable Tv.
CNN continually promotes itself as the most trusted name in news but how can this outlandish claim have any grain of substance when one of its top presenters keeps pushing a false claim about the citizenship of the President ?
If anyone wishes to contact the bigwigs at CNN about the obnoxious behaviour of Lou Dobbs, here's some contacts :
Jim.Walton@turner.com (Jim Walton is the president of CNN Worldwide)
Susan.Grant@turner.com (Susan Grant is executive vice president of CNN News Services)
Jon.Klein@turner.com (Jonathan Klein is president of CNN/US)
Rena.Golden@turner.com (senior vice president and executive producer of CNN.com)
David.Payne@turner.com (senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com)
Mitch.Gelman@turner.com (senior vice president and senior executive producer of CNN.com)
Isn't it amazing that we have to go to Comedy Central for the most rational news around ? Jon Stewart Eviscerates The 'Birther' Movement (VIDEO) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
To keep alive the ridiculous conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama is not an American citizen, Dobbs speculated on his radio show that Obama may be undocumented:
"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 agreed with a caller that Obama's Presidency and actions as president could be deemed "illegal."
Chris Matthews correctly observed that the Birthers' problem with Obama "isn't documentation, it's pigmentation."
It is becoming very frightening when you hear that unhinged woman at Rep. Mike Castle's town hall, wailing "I want my country back!" It only takes one nutcase and one gun to act on this right wing incitement.
Remember how gun sales increased dramatically in the early weeks of Obama's Presidency as people believed the far right lies about how the new President will " take your right to bear arms away... ".
Guys like Bernard Goldberg, Hannity and Glenn Beck may have already incited carnage this year by their most unhinged followers - at the American Holocaust Museum by a white supremacist in June.
President Obama has, in fact, presented a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate that includes a raised seal and the signature stamp of Hawaii state registrar, Alvin T. Onaka. While guest-hosting Lou Dobb’s own television show, CNN’s Kitty Pilgrim said there is "no basis" for the birther theory. Dobbs obviously doesn't watch he own show while someone else is filling in for him and continued to rant when he returned.
Janice Okubo of the Hawaii Department of Health confirmed that the short-form birth certificate released to the press one year ago verifies what the state has in its records; that the President was born in Honolulu in 1961.
Surely this evidence would be enough for the dittohead wing-nuts ? Of course not.
Part of the right's strategy leading into the 2010 midterms is to brand the Obama Presidency as illegitimate in much the same way as they did with Clinton in 1994.
They never accepted that Clinton won and they feel the same about Obama only more so due to his skin color, success, inspiring life story and his non threatening, affable personality. While Dobbs' colleagues at CNN, like Rick Sanchez and Kitty Pilgrim, his own guest host, have debunked the birthers' claims, Dobbs himself says he's learned a lot about birth certificates and the whole issue from Orly Taitz and Alan Keyes ( ie. he's learned loony right fantasy conspiracy from loony right nut jobs) and he continues to promote lies every day.
Paul Krugman was unfairly attacked over a recent column in which he wrote that "right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment." Krugman is also right that we need to fight back and not ignore this.
Back in July 2008,Bernard Goldberg Inspired Mass Murder :
James Adkisson, the gunman who walked into a Unitarian Universalist Church with a shotgun and opened fire on the congregation (who were watching children perform their rendition of Annie). As part of his final statement, Adkisson released a four-page manifesto, which he had originally intended to be his suicide note if he was killed by police during his rampage.
Adkisson : "This was a symbolic killing. Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book. I'd like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I know those people were inaccessible to me. I couldn't get to the generals & high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chickenshit liberals that vote in these traitorous people. Someone had to get the ball rolling. I volunteered. I hope others do the same. It's the only way we can rid America of this cancerous pestilence."
CNN should be made aware of the effect of the type of poison that Dobbs spews out of his sewer and get his filth off the air.