FLASHBACK -- Lou Dobbs's Past Bluster: "It's Killing The Left... That They Can't Force CNN To Fire Me"

Here's a reminder of how now-resigned-from-CNN Lou Dobbs used to bellow on and on about his various persecution complexes, and as recently as August 14, blustered to his radio audience that "It's just killing the left... that they can't force CNN to fire me."

DOBBS: You know, it's just killing the left wing in this country that they can't force CNN to fire me. They're coming after me with everything they've got. I'm used to it. They've been doing it since...what would it be? I'm going to say 2000, 2001, 2002, when I started criticizing, in earnest, the Bush administration, and ultimately was blackballed by the Bush administration. The left wing, this time, is just as committed as the right wing used to be, coming after me for talking about free trade policies and they wanted to absolutely destroy me, and the National Association of Manufacturers dedicating entire websites to me because I was criticizing manufacturing policies -- or the lack of a manufacturing policy. This is just crazy stuff.

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Well, it was "just crazy stuff." But ultimately, the lion's share of "crazy stuff" -- the weird leprosy claims, the legitimizing of the "birther" movement, the weird "North American Union" conspiracy mongerings, the overheated anti-immigrant rhetoric -- was authored by Dobbs himself. And that's what brings pressure from quarters where rational thought is held in esteem.

So, while Lou Dobbs had a healthy coterie of detractors, as well as a vivid imagination that permitted him to think that enemies lurked in every shadow, it's important to remember that Dobbs himself is ultimately responsible for his own misfortunes. And CNN? Well, they aren't going to miss Lou Dobbs one little teensy bit.

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Comments

[Obamanaut]

So, you're saying you left CNN of your own volition? Right. Good luck writing those "Elvis was an alien" stories.

[Melchedekan]

He didn't get fired. CNN paid him $8 Million to quit.

There goes any reason for me to ever watched CNN again. In saying goodbye to Lou Dobbs, I'm also saying goodbye to CNN.

[AspenSyzygy]

The most amazing thing is how Dobbs has been 100 percent right.

Just look at the economic collapse of the State of California now. Dobbs warned that the lunacy of "sanctuary cities" would eventually drive out all the economic viability of the west coast, and that's exactly what is happening.

Property values are a full year into free-fall with no end in sight.

The US dollar is in free fall. China is taking over. Obama just went to kow-tow to the Communist premiere there, begging them to continue buying Treasury bonds, and acknowleding that they are the lender - and therefore are now in charge.

The California treasury is bankrupt. They are begging for federal assistance, yet the federal Treasury is overspent for the same reason.

State workers are losing their jobs.

Unemployment is now zoomed past 10 percent. The "real" unemployment figures are more like 20 to 25 percent.

All of this and worse is exactly what Dobbs has been warning about for years.

He was right.

The only people laughing at him now do not live in America, do not pay their taxes, and have not lost their jobs over this.

The people LAUGHING at Dobbs are the people in Mexico and China who GOT those jobs.

To say "we won" does not mean "we defeated Dobbs."

It means "we are defeating America."

[Obamanaut]

You're absolutely, 100 percent right. He warned of all these things (or most of them, at least). The stage was set for all of it by the Bush White House. These things ALL were the result of Bush's policies with some exceptions regarding California. There are things that they should have done differently. The problem is this: Lou Dobbs doggedly supported the party and the administration that caused ALL OFF THIS and he wasn't shy about applying a thick coating of extra-paranoid Bullsh*t to much of his findings on any subject. It's when informed people hear a load of bunk on a news program that they do something about it. Hence, Lou is history. He WAS paid to leave CNN, ergo; he was fired.

[AspenSyzygy]

No country on Earth throws its borders wide-open. Certainly not Mexico.

All Dobbs wanted America to do was enforce existing immigration laws.

Calling him a "xenophobe" for that is like criticizing your neighbor because she won't allow 500 people per night to come into her house and eat her out of house and home.

How idiotic is everybody?

[Obamanaut]

It isn't that we wouldn't enforce our immigration laws, it's that it is very difficult to: #1 catch everyone coming into the country illegally, and #2 finding them and sending them back. Our system is ridiculous in that fashion. Something you should think about, though. Most of these people (Mexicans) come up her to do farm labor because we (Americans) won't pick produce for so cheap. Therefore, if they weren't here, you'd be paying quite a bit more for your fresh produce or anything made from produce because you'd be paying pickers who form a union and get paid what they want or your produce rots on the vine, unharvested. Almost all of these people pay taxes. that means your streets are paved, your water is clean, your garbage gets picked up; etc. AND when these people are caught and sent back, they leave that tax money behind. If they don't get caught and they live here until they can retire, they don't get Social Security, they can't take advantage of Medicare. But you can, and it is, in part, because of the free money you get from these people who are "eating you out of house and home." So, when you bite into a nice, juicy apple, I hope you don't choke on it too much when you think about some Mexican laborer having his hands all over it, getting it off the tree for you because doing that kind of work is beneath you.

[jecg 97030]

I like Lou Dobbs a lot. He's not beholden to any party or ideology. I do believe that the administration pushed him out. Unfortunately for the far left, he'll probably end up on Fox News and have a audience that dwarfs the failing CNN and MSNBC combined. Now his voice will reach even more people. Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.

His voice is too important to silence, Lou will be back.

[AspenSyzygy]

I agree, I like Dobbs a lot as well. He is one of the few I know in the national discussion putting forth a comprehensive and coherent argument in support of third party politics.

Fortunately that voice is growing, and quite dramatically given the current economic disaster brought on us by the current one-party-­disguised-­to-look-li­ke-two-par­ty politics America has to deal with.

I've lost a lot of respect for CNN over this. Big mistake on their part.

[Obamanaut]

"Not beholden to any party or ideology-" I'm sorry...I may have vomited in the back of my throat a little bit. "Not beholden to any party or ideology?" He's about as repugnicant as repugnicant can get and he proclaims it with his opinions everyday. Also, the administration did not send him packing. I did. Me and John and Jane Q Public.

[AcePilot101]

Right, Fox News isn't a person.
But I always enjoy watching Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.

[WhereToStart]

Good for you. Now you can catch all of them without changing the channel never more have to venture outside the Fox reality. It's a paradise of the right wings... a channel build by them , for them only... the true MSM with its massise ratings and now 24/7 hours of indocrination.

[jecg 97030]

or you can watch CNN and get that pillar of journalism Joy Behar and that checked out fossil Larry King. That's good stuff.

[AcePilot101]

The only person worth watching on CNN was Lou Dobbs.
The only person who wins here is Fox News!

[AspenSyzygy]

Agreed!

[CO2feedsPlants]

How low can cnn ratings go NOW? They better get nude pix of wolfie just to bring some viewers back

[den1953]

Go to your happy place there Lou you'll feel better so you can't get people to listen to you no big deal!

[b1rd67]

Yeah Lou, the left has been coming after you ever since you started criticizing the Bush adminstration. You've got a mind like a steel trap.... that's been rusted shut!

[blizb]

What did Lou expect?

He had some criticsm of Bush but not enough.

When Lou veered off course by bringing middle class issues to the front and only focused on immigration it got extreme.

The job situation is due more to Bush tax cuts, deregulation, and the wars; not immigration.

Every show Dobbs did seemed to present only one angle of a problem and it became obvious he was pushing his own agenda, not the reporting on middle class issues.

[jecg 97030]

you obviously never watched his show, you just read talking points and regurgiatate what you think you are supposed to say. Lou Dobbs was a relentless critic of the Bush Administration and to say otherwise just makes it obvious that yoiu don't have a clue. He's also been relentless with the current Loser In Chief and both of them deserved his constant criticism. The Bush Aministration sucked and so does the Obama Adminsitration, Lou Dobbs had the guts to point this out.

[jecg 97030]

and I love how you slobbering drones leave the word "Illegal" out when you talk about his position on ILLEGAL immigration. If you had a clue, you'd know that he's married to a woman he immigrated to the US legally and always made a clear distinction between legal immigrants and criminal, tax dodging, services stealing, gang organizing, ID stealing ILLEGAL aliens.

[HLL]

Dobbs + Faux news = perfect match. Hasta la vista, baby.

[Amalek]

In a world that has been full of unfairness in the past week, it is wonderful that some things work out exactly as they should.

[MAUIMONKEY]

It must kill Lou that we won. Now I don't have to race past CNN to avoid being blinded by his "Something About Mary" fake teeth. Matt Dillon must laugh every day he sees Lou.

[AspenSyzygy]

And what did you "win", exactly?

You sound like one of the Obamabots who voted for "change" without a single thought for what it was you were "changing".

[Jesster]

Fuuny, most of the people I know on the left blew off Lou years ago...

And yet somehow, here it is: Mr. Dobbs is gone.

Good Riddence to a genuine "Nattering Nehbob of Negativity."

[gigli]

Oh, LouLou,
What will all the xenophobes do without ye?
Well, I guess there's alway Fox.
But it just won't be the same.
Pity.
RIP LouLou.