Where was Lou ‘prima donna’ Dobbs during IA caucuses?
By on Jan 8th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Where was Lou ‘prima donna’ Dobbs during IA caucuses?
The New York Post reports that CNN anchor Lou Dobbs — who has turned into a “real prima donna” — was “supposed to be a big part of the network’s coverage of the Iowa caucus last Thursday.” But at the last minute, he “pulled out after a fight with CNN president Jon Klein”:
A source at CNN said, “He got into a huge screaming fight with [Klein] and refused to go on set at the last minute. Jon started yelling at him to go on [air], and Lou yelled back, ‘No,’ before leaving the building for the night.” According to TVNewser, Dobbs was upset about lack of airtime.
Dobbs is not slated to cover tonight’s New Hampshire primaries.
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where was lou?
who cares.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:00 amWow — I didn’t even miss him!
January 8th, 2008 at 10:01 amThey should have hired an illegal immigrant to spout nonsense about illegal immigrations effect on the election.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:02 amDobbs has lost his mojo. He has that in common with GDumbya and Darth Cheney.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:02 amComing up in the next episode of The Old & The Irrelevant….
January 8th, 2008 at 10:05 amWelcome to the bleachers, Lou. They were going to put you on the sidelines, but you had to have the limelight.
Why don’t you just resign, and go on to your next calling, running for President
of your local homeowner’s association. Del Boca Vista, phase III, right?
January 8th, 2008 at 10:07 amHis absence will not be missed at my house!
January 8th, 2008 at 10:11 amAlthough, last night, his comment on the media’s interpretation of the relatively insignificant Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire primary in re Clinton’s candidacy, were surprisingly perceptive.
The Repugs and the media set out to bring down Howard Dean and succeeded admirably and they are replaying that on Clinton and the sheep all say, “Baaaa”!
January 8th, 2008 at 10:14 amDobbs and his ego were not missed in this house – so not having him anchoring in Iowa or NH is no loss.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:17 amWhiners all please step on the plane…. to OBLIVION..HA!
January 8th, 2008 at 10:18 amScrew Lou and the anti-immigration horse he rode in on.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:21 amTP ~ Why’d you change photos? I liked the one with his big fat mouth wide open!!>>~?
January 8th, 2008 at 10:24 amTP ~ Why’d you change photos? I liked the one with his big fat mouth wide open!!>>~?
I think they changed pictures because the first one made him look exactly like Flush Limpballs.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:29 am(Actually, I think those two morons were “separated at birth” . . . they are both arrogant gas-bags)
I heard he was just still upset about Tancredo dropping out of the race. And they wouldn’t let him ask the candidates about this controversial proposal. http://tshirtinsurgency.com/modest-proposal-schip-reform
January 8th, 2008 at 10:32 amPoor Louie
Just because he can’t describe to us the problems of immigration and get any headway. just because no one with any sense listens to him anymore and his boss is having second thoughts about him.
Doesn’t mean he has to go back to local broadcasting. he can hawk some new kind of wonder drug or something else for the Bluhairs.
Louie Louie, now you gotta go
January 8th, 2008 at 10:33 amHe was in New Hampshire…
on patrol at the Canadian border.
January 8th, 2008 at 10:43 amI support Lou, he is the nearest thing to normalcy that we have on the American Airways!!
January 8th, 2008 at 10:50 am“Dobbs was upset about lack of airtime.”
Those cursed illegal immigrants are taking American’s jobs!!!
January 8th, 2008 at 10:54 amBut Dobbs is for the middle class working types…
January 8th, 2008 at 11:54 amAllow mw to quote myself on another thread…
I have been watching Dobbs for years and I dont think most of you can get past his objections with illegal immigration. I’ll submit that I don’t watch him that much anymore because I too am a bit tired of the immigrant issue. HOWEVER, most of you have him wrong! He truly is for middle America which is what the Democrats used to be for. He is not a racist, he has said that we should make the immigration process more transparent and efficeint and perhaps raise the cap on the number allowed in the country. That is not being racist, that is being a realist. Illegal immigrants only enrich the corporations and lower wages for Americans.
He rants against falling wages, big corporations run amok, unsafe imports and outsourcing jobs…. gee that sounds a lot like what Democrats used to be for?!?!
January 8th, 2008 at 12:26 pmAccording to a blogger at the conservative site Townhall.com who overheard sleazy Repube operative Ed Rollins talking at a diner during breakfast, Rollins made a call to Lou Dobbs’ personal number and had a friendly chat with Dobbs. They agreed to get together for drinks when Rollins returned from Iowa.
Dobbs is a phony. He’s a phony mouthpiece for conservative corporate interests masquerading as a populist. His job is to trick people into thinking they don’t have good jobs because some Mexicans are coming across the border. I hope people will begin to notice some day that Dobbs pops up every four years to helpfully argue that there are no differences between Repubes and Democrats.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:28 pmOverall, as a progressive, I like Lou Dobbs. Dobbs has been more consistently critical of Bush over the years than most Democrats running for office. Dobbs has excoriated Bush day after day over the Iraq war, over healthcare, the economy, jobs, and a variety of issues. He’s been more progressive than many progressives on these issues. Sure, he’s been a bit whacko about immigration. I’m not sure but he might support crazy goups like the Minutemen, which I cannot support. But Dobbs has always laid the blame for the immigration problem directly at the door of George Bush, always accusing the American employer as the number one culprit in the immigration issue and also criticizing George Bush for not enforcing the law by prosecuting and closing down these employers who illegally offer jobs to those who do not have the right under the law to take them. Anyone who compares Lou Dobbs to the dirtbag Rush Limbaugh has obviously never watched his show and seen how highy critical Lou Dobbs is of Bush. Next to Keith Olbermann, who detests the stinking monkey, I don’t think there’s anyone on television who has been so critical of George Bush than Lou Dobbs.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:34 pmjpoke: “He rants against falling wages, big corporations run amok, unsafe imports and outsourcing jobs…. gee that sounds a lot like what Democrats used to be for?!?!”
Maybe you’ve been listening to Dobbs more than me, but I don’t believe I have ever heard Dobbs seriously discuss the reasons for the loss of middle-class jobs. Yes, he rants. Yes, he sounds good. But, the reason we have no manufacturing jobs in America is because of modern libertarian/conservative political philosophy which has eliminated tariffs as a trade tool and the push by corporate boards to cut labor costs by firing American workers and using cheap, third-world labor in other parts of the world. In addition, Dobbs continuously pushes the outrageous and illogical conservative meta-lie that cutting taxes INCREASES revenue. It’s a lie, and a silly one at that, but Dobbs and people like him have been saying it in your face for so long that many of us somehow believe it.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:34 pmStarve a bush: “Dobbs has been more consistently critical of Bush over the years than most Democrats running for office. Dobbs has excoriated Bush day after day over the Iraq war, over healthcare, the economy, jobs, and a variety of issues.”
That’s his role – to fool you into thinking that. Tell me where he was on Bush when it mattered. He supported Bush against Gore in 2000. He made no bones about it. In 2000, he was part of the same crowd who sold Gore to you as a phony and a liar. Wake up, people. Dobbs is a corporatist phony and he seems to be successful at fooling liberals into thinking he speaks for their interests, all the while having friendly get-togethers for cocktails with sleazy republican operatives like Ed Rollins. Dobbs is a multi-millionaire – when someone says that about John Edwards or Al Gore, it’s supposed to make you think they’re phonies. Why don’t you hold a guy like Dobbs, who supported Bush for president in 2000 to the same standard?
January 8th, 2008 at 12:38 pmI wish O’Reilly would go at least half as bonkers as Dobbs has been lately.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:48 pmMaybe Lou can go to Fox News, where he belongs. He fits right in with O’Reilly’s and Hannity’s and Gibson’s fear of dark skinned people taking white males’ rightful dominance in this country.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:50 pmCol. Jack – respectfully, I disagree wholeheartedly with your assertions. I dont believe Dobbs is a phony. I may not agree with him 100% all the time, but what you describe as the causes of the loss of the middle class is EXACTLY what he describes.
We must be watching different Dobbs.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pmjpoke, the day that I hear Dobbs put the blame where it belongs – on the corporate boards and corporate oligargies that actually make these decisions to screw American workers, I might begin to think he’s not a phony. But Dobbs is all about criticizing politicians and illegal immigration as the reasons for our middle-class collapse. Dobbs runs in elitist Wall Street corporatist circles. Dobbs is a mouthpiece for a multi-national conglomerate. Dobbs supports republicans when they run for office and then spends the next four years spinning nice-sounding fairytales about how much he hates their policies designed to make you feel good and make you think he’s a “populist.” These days, he wants you to think that the reason people don’t have jobs in steel factories, automobile factories and shoe factories is because of Mexicans coming across the border. Think about it. Where was he in 2000?
January 8th, 2008 at 12:59 pmCol, I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Dobbs DOES put blame on corporations as he rants on how much they make and how little responsibility they bear as good corporate citizens. You are right, Dobbs blames the politicians because he sees regulation as the only way to stop corporate abuses. THAT fact alone boots him out of the free marketeer’s camp and sounds a lot more progressive than anything else.
Sure, he comes from big money and business, but he knows that things have gone too far and no one is helping the middle class. I can’t see how you can believe that it is all lip service, he spends EVERY night on the destruction of the middle class. He does this to effect change in the political arena – and it works.
As far as 2000 is concerned, I cannot speak of him then. I only started listening to him after loosing 2 well paying jobs to H1Bs and outsourcing – 2 of his biggest issues.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pmThat’s his role – to fool you into thinking that. Tell me where he was on Bush when it mattered. He supported Bush against Gore in 2000. He made no bones about it. In 2000, he was part of the same crowd who sold Gore to you as a phony and a liar. Wake up, people. Dobbs is a corporatist phony and he seems to be successful at fooling liberals into thinking he speaks for their interests, all the while having friendly get-togethers for cocktails with sleazy republican operatives like Ed Rollins. Dobbs is a multi-millionaire – when someone says that about John Edwards or Al Gore, it’s supposed to make you think they’re phonies. Why don’t you hold a guy like Dobbs, who supported Bush for president in 2000 to the same standard?
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper
Colonel, I don’t care whether Lou Dobbs is rich or not or who he attends parties with. Our own Democratic candidates are all rich for the most part (maybe with the exception of Dennis Kucinich). The last Democratic candidate I voted for, John Kerry, was so rich he was in another universe than me. I wasn’t voting for his bank account, but for the ideas I hoped he would represent in Washington. I don’t want to be Dobb’s friend. I just care about what he says, night after night. It puts some of our Democratic candidates to shame to hear someone who actually confronts the Bush Administration, insurance companies, healthcare companies, the employers who hire illegal aliens, the corporations that ship jobs overseas. Dobbs has been doing this consistently, while also criticizing the Iraq war. I don’t remember watching Lou Dobbs back in 2000. As far as Gore-Lieberman is concerned, I thought Gore was an extremely weak candidate in 2000. He’s become a far different figure today, one I would readily vote for. As for Dobb’s “role”, I don’t think he has one. His role I believe is to advance his career through his TV show. I don’t know who he is personally. All I care about is the fact that he is one of the very few on the airwaves consistently critical of Bush and his policies. That’s what matters to me.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:17 pmCase in point – Dobbs has said on occassion how he can’t believe the difference in corporate taxation from Eisenhower to Bush – making the middle class pay even more of their share of taxes. He is outraged by this fact.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:19 pmStarve-A-Bush, I couldn’t agree with you more!
January 8th, 2008 at 1:20 pmRet. Col Jack Ripper
January 8th, 2008 at 1:48 pmI was going to make a comment, but your comments have been right on point, and said far better than I. Obviously, I agree entirely with your views and opinion of Dobbs.
Thanks, Marie, but I have to say that due to jpoke and starve-a-bush above, I’m going to listen a little more to Lou. They are claiming that he favors regulations on corporations and I have to admit that I’ve never heard him say such a thing. If he really does advocate regulations, I need to reevaluate my opinion on what I think is his agenda. I don’t like him personally – I think he’s rude, abrasive, racist and full of himself but that’s actually not what I’ve been criticizing him for.
January 8th, 2008 at 5:14 pm#34, yes, jpoke and s-a-b each made good points about Lou Dobbs. I do like it when he rails against Bush, but despite the few ocasions when I am in agreement with Dobbs, 99% of the time, he is as you say, rude, abrasive, racist and I would add egotistical.
Regardless, I gain much from reading posts here.
January 8th, 2008 at 7:05 pmThis story doesn’t even make sense, why would you tell your boss no and storm out of the building because you weren’t getting enough airtime? This effectively gets you NO airtime when you were fighting for MORE airtime.
There’s more to this story that’s not being told.
Yes Dobbs is a blowhard and egotistical but Klein isn’t exactly a boss I’d wish on my worst enemy.
http://www.observer.com/2007/cnn-s-jonathan-klein-campbell-brown-couch-potatoes-and-plans-2008
“klein couldn’t be less respected by insiders, just as he was hated everyplace he’s ever worked.”
January 9th, 2008 at 4:05 am