Lou Dobbs, You're My Hero

If you blog, then very likely you don't do it for the money. With a very few exceptions, you simply don't hear of people getting rich, or even supporting themselves, by contributing to the global consciousness via the web. And yet the satisfaction of having a small soap box to stand upon and share opinions from is often very thin gruel with which to sustain yourself. You need hope often embodied in a symbol of success -- a hero if you will.

For the lesser of the next 72-hours or the duration of his self-imposed exile, Lou Dobbs is my blogging hero. Lou and his compatriots from Beck to Limbaugh have all the advantages of blogging with none of the disadvantages. They get to share their opinion, but they don't have to do anything as onerous as read, write, listen or think. All they have to do is talk, wrapped smugly in the cloak of the American flag and Father Coughlin populism. And when you get tired, let one of your faithful throw you a softball question over the phone or web to which you can respond with well-rehearsed outrage.

And if Lou has played his cards right, he'll have sold the last vestige of journalism to a the highest bidder. That means no more unruly requirements to follow the news.

 

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Comments

[GinaPera]

Love the Father Coughlin reference, Michael.

It points to the long-running crazy American crazy streak. For an excellent history of a prototypical American flim-flam man -- and his don't-let-­the-facts-­confuse-th­em followers -- read Pope Brock's excellent book "Charlatan." Quackery. Politics. Propaganda. PR. An amazing (and extremely entertaining) social and medical history.

Gina Pera, author
Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?