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No More Lou (On TV, Anyway)

| Wed Nov. 11, 2009 5:13 PM PST

Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective immediately.

“Some leaders in the media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond my role here at CNN and engage in constructive problem-solving,” Mr. Dobbs said just after 7 p.m., suggesting that he would remain involved in the civic discourse, but perhaps not on television.

Hey, maybe he's going to run for office! Wouldn't that be fun? Maybe mayor of some border city to start. I'm thinking El Paso. Then, after Sarah Palin wins the presidency in 2012, she could appoint him to head up Homeland Security. From there, the sky's the limit.

For more on Dobbs, here is Sridhar Pappu's profile from our January 2007 issue. Enjoy!

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Comments

I wish him well. I

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed Nov. 11, 2009 5:27 PM PST.

I wish him well. I disagreed with many of his positions, but he has been much more honest in his opinions and shared those positions, and so much less career oriented than most of his douchebag peers who pretend that if they have no positions and don't vote and don't mention the Washington Cocktail Parties than they are actually objective and neutral.

So good for Lou, who wasn't afraid to take a stand.

http://www.motherjones.com/po

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed Nov. 11, 2009 5:30 PM PST.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/01/angry-white-man

Does anyone need to read that prior write up to know how simplistic and biased it is?

So Lou's positions are those of an angry white man, and only angry white men?

Like there aren't many African Americans (Ward Connerly) that would agree with him? Like if you visit Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, many cities in Texas, you can't find many Hispanic families here legally that don't agree with Lou?

What a stupid simplistic reductionist article.

It's okay because Sridhar Pappu has an ethnic background and couldn't possibly be a racist fuck.

I heard the real reason he

Submitted by Simplicio on Wed Nov. 11, 2009 6:19 PM PST.

I heard the real reason he was let go was that CNN found a Mexican who would do the same show for less the half the salary.

Is he "anti-immigration" or

Submitted by Luther on Wed Nov. 11, 2009 11:28 PM PST.

Is he "anti-immigration" or anti-corruption on the illegal alien problem?

Lou is a scumbag

Submitted by Jon (not verified) on Thu Nov. 12, 2009 3:50 AM PST.

Dobbs wasn't just anti illegal immigration. He was anti legal immigration. He wasn't just anti legal Hispanics either, but anti legal immigrant Chinese, Indians etc. (including skilled well paying immigrants).

Furthermore, he was a hypocrite, and quite often lied and distorted facts. Good riddance.

I even remember his ranting (back in 2007, when commodities prices were high) against Chinese in China, claiming they were driving up the price of commodities by buying and consuming more. Think about that for a moment -- the US consumes far more than China per-capita, but Lou Dobbs will never speak out against consumption by the US, but if poor Chinese start consuming more, its a catastrophe.

"I wish him well. I

Submitted by JOn (not verified) on Thu Nov. 12, 2009 3:51 AM PST.

"I wish him well. I disagreed with many of his positions, but he has been much more honest in his opinions "

Yes, he was honest in his opinions. Just not with the facts.

"Like if you visit Phoenix,

Submitted by JOn (not verified) on Thu Nov. 12, 2009 4:04 AM PST.

"Like if you visit Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, many cities in Texas, you can't find many Hispanic families here legally that don't agree with Lou?"

I doubt it very much. I'm a non Hispanic immigrant myself, and I found Lou not just anti illegal immigration, but anti immigration, anti immigrant, and even anti foreigners. A xenophobe, and a racist.

I would agree with his opinion on illegal immigration, but his scapegoating of illegal immigrants (and legal immigrants, and even knowledge workers in India and China) clearly indicates his biases.

"Is he "anti-immigration" or anti-corruption on the illegal alien problem?"

he's anti immigration, anti legal immigration, anti immigrant, anti everything.

Alas,

Submitted by bob h (not verified) on Thu Nov. 12, 2009 4:23 AM PST.

NJ already has a fathead rightwinger in the Governorship.

Lou Dobbs

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu Nov. 12, 2009 7:21 AM PST.

As a illegal, free market capitalist leper immigrant we have lost a voice in the media! Maybe it was a biased, irrational voice but it was ours and even negative attention is attention.We had appreciated the contempt and loathing and now will have to return to self-loathing. Curse you Lou for leaving us!

He was

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu Nov. 12, 2009 11:03 AM PST.

He was not anti-immigration - he was anti criminal behavior such as entering this country illegally.

He, along with the 13 dead at Ft Hood (and no, I don't think they are equivalent in severity but in thought) are just the latest victims of the left's imposition of Political Correctness on this country.

Can anyone identify one, just one benefit of so-called "diversity"?????

One benefit of "diversity"

Submitted by mister moonlight (not verified) on Thu Nov. 12, 2009 11:00 PM PST.

is that the world is just a little bit less dominated by dickheads like yourself.

"He was not anti-immigration

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu Nov. 12, 2009 1:25 PM PST.

"He was not anti-immigration - he was anti criminal behavior such as entering this country illegally."

A plain lie. He is completely anti immigration, anti immigrant etc. Anti legal immigrant, xenophobic, you name it.

"He, along with the 13 dead at Ft Hood (and no, I don't think they are equivalent in severity but in thought) are just the latest victims of the left's imposition of Political Correctness on this country."

And you accept that the right is to blame for Timothy McVeigh ?

'Can anyone identify one, just one benefit of so-called "diversity"

Well, you would clearly prefer a lily white US. Sorry to disappoint you and Dobbs.

Stop

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri Nov. 13, 2009 7:54 AM PST.

Stop already with the "equivalencY' of McVeigh and people like Hasan. McVeigh said he was once a Catholic but was not religious. McVeigh's act was loudly and universally condemned by Christians and conservatives. Where is the Muslim condemnation of the hundreds of thousand of people killed by Muslim terrorists? Where is the Muslim and left's condemnation of Hasan's act as that of a terrorist? Why is his act also not a "hate" crime - was it not carried out for religious reasons???

And thanks for the responses about diversity ( I should have had specifically asked about "state imposed" diversity). Clearly there is no benefit to America when the state imposes PC diversity on our society.