Olbermann: Send Dobbs To Telemundo

After briefly responding to the news on "Countdown" Wednesday night, Keith Olbermann expanded on his thoughts about Lou Dobbs leaving CNN Thursday in Politico's Arena.

Olbermann said that Dobbs is plagued by "the ultimate self-contradiction" — while he rails against illegal immigrants, his wife and daughters are Hispanic and his daughters are competitive horse riders, a sport that is staffed heavily by undocumented immigrants.

If that isn't the ultimate hypocrisy, it must be the ultimate self-contradiction and very painful psychologically," Olbermann said.

"I worked with Lou as long ago as 1981 and I never heard any of this back then," he added.
"He's always been a bully and one of those put-up-your-dukes clowns, but I think the immigration stance was mostly opportunistic. The insincerity of the xenophobia would explain how he went from 2nd place to 4th. As to what he should do next, his soul would benefit from a few years at Telemundo."

Watch Olbermann's commentary on Dobbs from "Countdown" Wednesday, where he named him one of the worst persons in the world:

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Comments

[battlez]

Bathtub Boy.............

[samEz]

wait ... wait... 300 comments later... i'm still laughing at KO calling Lou Dobbs a bully from knowing him in 1981.... What a sad grudge holding twit KO is! Not bad enough he was a lousy sports commentator. He is a hateful character assaassin and now he's going to try to psychoanalyze Lou Dobbs. KO... You, Rachel and Mr. Ed need one more clown on that network to start skipping down the yellow brick road to OZ!!!!

[BOin08]

"Mr Olbermann peddles ignorance to nitwits. Keith is a stupid person's idea of a smart person." Mahatma Gandhi

[KevinFitzz]

What is wrong with you?

[ryunkin]

Actually, Lou Dobbs was the only reason I watched CNN. I usually tune into Cspan because I can listen to what's going in Washington without some pinhead offering me his spin on the topic. So now that Lou and his conservative but independent and logical viewpoints is off the air, I'll go back to watching Cspan, listening to NPR radio and challenging ideologues to stop committing suicide. If I can't do that, then at least I can try to convince them not to take me along with them.

[cobraxus]

I hear Dobbs' work visa expired and he's being deported.

[ryunkin]

It would be nice if Oberman and his buddy O'Reilly were deported for misleading the American public with their Conservative, liberal nonsense. When is America going to wake up and realize that logic, not ideology, is the only method to solving seemingly insolvable problems?

[mindoro33]

lol

[sarabono]

Olbermann is a fairly good sports announcer and baseball analyst. I would like to see him sent to Cuba to scope out the new players for the next year or so. Even the Yanks need new talent now and then and Olbermann certainly could help out.

[GrandmaBEE]

I hope Lou ends up on Fox. That is where he belongs. KO will still be able to do his impression of Lou and all will be well.

[CPR]

There is no one like K. O.

Love him.

[MadeandBakedintheUSA]

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[GrandmaBEE]

Honest News? Come on this is a joke right?

[rmct]

It is as much of a joke as MSNBC being relevent is

[demdan07]

Send Olbermann to ESPN - oh wait! He can't even enter the building!

[oldguydude]

One supposes that MSNBC is perfectly content being in last place all the time since they continue to have this jerkwad on the air.

Someone has to be last place and it might as well be MSNBC.

[blizb]

This is about Lou Dobbs and his decline from covering middle class issues to an extremist focus on immigration.

MSNBC never attempts to mislead the public about this show. Keith states that it is commentary.

Take it or leave it.

Fox on the other hand allows the viewers to believe many of their hosts and programs are "news" when they are also commentary.

If you don't agree with Keith that is your choice, ratings aren't the whole picture.

[michellbrow]

TRY to be fair at least. Fox News also lets the viewers know which shows are commentary, which is primetime.
If you bothered to watch Lou Dobbs lately you would know him leaving CNN has nothing to do with Immigration and everything to do with his stance on the issues and Obama. MSNBC is always misleading the public that's why they only have no audience until another station plays one of thier clips.

[oldguydude]

I see nothing extremist in Dobbs view on illegal immigration. It's just that he got on the wrong side of extremists who seek to circumvent the lawful immigration process that is in place today.

[hearmeloudandclear]

Keith: Keep speaking up.... you, Mr Ed, Rachel.... There's not enough media that will tell the "other side" with facts and data (video/print data). And too many are frightened when it comes to the radical-right like Limbaugh....FOX NOISE folks...etc

As they say - "don't stop thinking about tomorrow...".

I never miss a show.

[audadvnc]

The Clean Coal gang was a big contributing org at last year's RNC. They had the nicest food line of any of the GOP vendors.

[BOin08]

They are now a welcomed sponsor on Countdown? Clean coal? WFT?

[Nelk]

Poor Keith. All these his right wing counterparts are getting big buck book deals and landing on Fox which has 3 times the audience of MSNBC. I think he's just jealous. Maybe Keith could apply at CNN now that Dobbs is gone.

[blizb]

Keith has done very well with his books and his show.

He has many, many times drawn higher viewers during the same time slot against O'Reilly.

The Daily Show and some hosts on MSNBC have provided corrections to false footage that Fox shows to dupe the viewers into believing things that aren't true.

I think it just goes to show that ratings aren't everything.

Just because the viewers believe the falsehoods Fox throws out to see if it will stick doesn't make what they throw out the truth.

[daultman463]

Please show me one time olbermann beat o`rielly.Olbermann brings up winning some odd demo like 16-18 year olds and claims he beats o`rielly. O`rielly`s repeat beats olbermann primetime show 2-1.As for book sales,do you really want to go there.

[WhereToStart]

Well, getting rich by opportunism is indeed a talent of the right wingers... From Prejean, to Palin, Coulter.... made rich by the conservative crowd, they sure know how to take the money of the gullables that believe in them.