Dobbs Takes Aim At HuffPost Critic

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CNN birther-monger Lou Dobbs apparently reads the internets and had many nerves touched by one of our own bloggers, Roberto Lovato, who recently wrote this piece entitled "As Movement Demanding CNN Dump Him Grows, Dobbs Plays Victim." This article apparently irked Dobbs greatly, causing him to bleat several run-on sentences in which he fumbled basic concepts such as the English language and the U.S. Constitution, whilst doubling down on playing the victim.

I just got to bring this to you. This guy, Roberto Lovato...he's a non-entity but he's one of my fleas, writing in Alternet, saying "Dobbs plays the victim as movement demanding CNN dump him grows." I mean, he is one of those delusional left-wing activists who doesn't care a whit about the truth, he has nothing to do with the truth, but what's really interesting is he's trying to, he's just, he's playing one heck of a...stupid game. He writes, "Faced with a growing movement of communities demanding that CNN drop his program, Lou Dobbs responded Friday with one of his favorite postures: the victimized defender of American virtue." Let me be real clear with you, Roberto. I'm not a victim of anything. I'm just a dog and you're one of my fleas. You know... this nonsense that he writes, "Not surprisingly, Dobbs is waving the First Amendment flag to change the subject"... Well first, Roberto, don't be a bozo anymore than you can help. The First Amendment metaphor would not be a flag, it's an amendment.

Huh? No. One cannot metaphorically refer to an amendment as an amendment. This is not the way "metaphor" works. I despair that people like Dobbs are out there defending the primacy of the English language yet wielding it so ineptly.

It's in the Constitution. It's one of my rights, it's one of yours. You are the one trying to deny my rights. And you know... don't be so silly.

What rights does Dobbs think he is being denied? Is there a part of the Constitution that stipulates that all Americans have the right to host news shows? Because I seem to have missed that. What I didn't miss was this part of Lovato's original piece:

Not surprisingly, Dobbs is waving the First Amendment flag to change the subject, which is not about disagreement on immigration policy, and has nothing to do with free speech. Dobbs has the right to his opinions; but there's nothing in the Constitution that says he deserves a "news" platform to disseminate hurtful and dangerous myths about immigrants.

That's true! There's no talk at all about prohibiting Dobbs's freedom of speech. He could, right at this very moment, start his very own Tumblr and wax poetically about the Mexican leper invasion to his heart's content and the majesty of the First Amendment would be wholly unsullied. This is just one of those examples of a serial platform abuser asserting that the Constitution grants him the right to continue abusing his platform without facing criticism.

In any case, Dobbs continues:

And the fact is, you wouldn't be accusing me of anything if I were supporting illegal immigration and amnesty, and you're not even man enough to admit that straight up.

That is a sentence that really should be preceded by the phrase, "Apropos of nothing in particular..." But, hey, maybe it's true! But say the script was flipped in this way. Clearly, this only means that there would be some other group calling for Dobbs's head and making him sad. Maybe Dobbs should reflect on whether the outrage targeted in his direction is because he has opinions on illegal immigration or that he presents these opinions in a multitude of uninformed and irresponsible ways, placing him at odds with the traditional standards of what is known as "the news."

You are a typical left-wing activist coward propagandist trying to use the Constitution that enables all of to have free expression trying to deny my rights.

I'll refer you back to the part written above where I point out that campaigning to remove someone from a news show is not the same thing as denying anyone their rights. I'll go on to say, "YES. HOW DARE MR. LOVATO ACTUALLY USE HIS OWN RIGHTS OF FREE EXPRESSION. Doesn't he know that some people's rights of free expression are MORE EQUAL than others? Does Mr. Lovato have a news show, on the teevee? No? Well then he should realize his rights are less equal."

You're trying to deny me my rights while turning over this country to those who have no regard for our laws, for our rules, for our customs, and the legal foundation of this country.

It would be terrible if such people assumed control in this country! Our phones could get wiretapped or something!

I mean, you're just...Mr. Lovato you're a joke! And I would like you to come on and defend, if you will, your own, yourself, against what I'm saying. Because I consider you to be an outright fraud and those who would follow you or listen to you, you're simply duping, and you're silly. You're utterly silly.

Actually, what's "utterly silly" is begging the person who's campaigning to get your show dropped from CNN to come on the air with you to bring you more viewers and listeners.

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Comments

[georgenjop]

Teddy Roosevelt said it better than anybody:
Are we "SLOW LEARNERS" or what?
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

[nanya]

I think he will eventually go where all biased and self-righteous news reporters go- and that is to Murdock's Republican news haven, Fox. Talking about free speech, the only freedom on this network is what thus sayest their news anchors and that is the gospel according to Fox. No other views wanted or accepted.

[Shayrae]

Lou referred to himself as ''a dog'' and dadgummit, I totally agree with him for once.

[learntofly]

CNN should wise up, pay Lou Dobbs out of his contract, and move on as fast and as far away from his drivel as they can.

[demomntgirl]

Lou is killing himself, as well as CNN. We used to watch him...then he became to self rightous and full of himself, that we lost interest.
His comment of "i'm the dog, you are the the flea" is pretty much says it all. Instead of speaking facts...and speaking his point in an intelligent argument, he reverts to the GOP attack manual. He used to have good conversations with people on his show, to get out both sides of an argument, in a fair way. now he sits like a pompous ass, interrupting, talking over, and intimidation people!
If we liked that kind of thing..we would watch fox, which is NEVER on a tv in this house!

[spinns17]

lou used to be for the middle class.that was before he sold alot of books .

[revko]

aye carumba !

[miksmaster]

...and nobody cares!

[miksmaster]

This story has been out here a couple of days and it only has 504 comments. Kind of puts Lou's importance into perspective. Lou is killing CNN.

[yioughta]

I love it! Awesome breakdown of the obvious breakdown in Dobbs's communication! He should've just said, "I know you are but what am I?" At least that sounds a little more grammatically correct and a lot more coherent.

[ggirl]

I stop watching him a long time ago. He is a hater !

[KOSMOCITIZEN]

I was watching this guy for couple of years and i thought he was O.K.
And then he start the non sense about immigration......
i am an immigrant my self . i am living a model citizen life for over 30 years and this guy make me feel like a second class citizen
and he claims he is a Harvard grad. oh boy...
i know he makes millions. somebody tell him go to the dentist fix his teeth.....

[Gabriel Medina]

I don't understand how a "journalist" on the most trusted news network doesn't even understand the First amendment. Lou, you have the right to say whatever you want. You just don't have the right to say it with the credibility of CNN or television at all for that matter. Lou Dobbs must go.

[nini516]

If you can't take the heat, get off the air!!

[DevonTexas]

The irony is that Dobbs is rasing the visibility of HuffPost's Lovato by his response. Similarly I found out about K Obermann when Billo the Clown mentioned him on his show. Keep it up Dobbs! You're the best salesperson HuffPost has!