Birthers don't want proof of what they don't believe. They want to hold onto doubt regardless of evidence.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Backing the "Birthers" may be a good way to gain notoriety and attract criticism, but it's proving to be ratings poison for Lou Dobbs. The New York O...
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
For years, Dobbs has used his program to spread misinformation and paranoia. CNN needs to move quickly and remove Dobbs from their lineup to prevent further embarrassment. It's been a long time coming.
Michael Wolff | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Does Lou Dobbs feel sheepish about finding himself the troglodyte of American broadcasting? He has broken through to the sweetest spot in the media business.
Bill Mann | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
When CNN's Big Lou Dobbs recently went off the deep end, did he also drain the press (as well as the swimming) pool?
John Milewski | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Do we really need to be respectful of the views of the scarily unhinged, tragically misinformed, or strategically dishonest?
John McNamara | Posted 08.30.2009 | Comedy
Lou Dobbs, you're a journalist and you believe there's something not quite right about the whole Obama birth certificate thing. Go with your gut on this one, arrange a trip to Hawaii, expose the web of lies.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Lou Dobbs, whose flaxen locks change color and hue depending on how terrified he is that day of the coming Mexican reconquista, is all about the birthers now. And everyone is yelling at him. Who's yelling at him today? Chris Wallace and Don Imus, for starters!
Richard Laermer | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Today is not a wasteland of slow news. The Government is having its most thorough health care discussion ever, the climate is doing all sorts of strange things, and Vick is once again a free man.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.30.2009 | Comedy
Jon Stewart went after Obama's craziest detractors last night in a new segment called "So You Think You Can Douche." He began with Sean Hannity who sa...
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
Last Tuesday, CNN host Lou Dobbs, became a focal point of the "birthers" brouhaha, when he hypothesized on his radio show that Obama may not be a pro...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media
Last night Rachel Maddow responded to CNN's Lou Dobbs calling her a "tea-bagging queen" on his radio show yesterday. She said Dobbs called her that b...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
CNN's Lou Dobbs has come under fire for recent comments he made suggesting President Obama might be undocumented, and that, as a result, Obama's presi...
J. Richard Cohen | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
Dobbs' ratings game is so dangerous because there is a segment in our society that is not ready to accept the fact that we have a black man in the White House.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Fringe Democrats looked ridiculous when they suggested McCain wasn't eligible to be president because he was born in Panama. The grown-ups in Democratic leadership put a quick end to that.
Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Did you catch Liz Cheney on Larry live?/Allowing the birthers' claims to thrive/Carville, quite exasperated on Mr. King/Telling us this is, indeed, a very "nutty thing".
Eric E. Burns | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
On July 23, CNN president Jon Klein acted like the head of a serious news network. On July 24, he acted like an intern for Lou Dobbs.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
If Limbaugh won't back the birthers, that means most right-wing AM hosts won't either.
The Progress Report | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Birthers claim that the birth certificate posted by the Obama campaign was "a false, fake birth certificate," but its authenticity has been independently confirmed.
Bill Mann | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
Cable news, it's been noted, is the beast that must be constantly fed. And lately, with the coverage of the Birthers, it's been on a junk-food diet.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media
Many ask why I incessantly write about our wars and our television coverage, and I have no reasonable answer other than what is going on makes me nuts.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
This week, Barack Obama made the mistake of speaking out on Gatesgate before he had all the facts. On national TV. Which is a shame because his larger point -- that there is still much work to be done when it comes to racial discrepancies in our justice system -- has gotten lost in the back and forth about the stupidity of his use of "stupidly." He's tried to make it right with an offer to work things out over a beer at the White House with Officer Crowley and Professor Gates. This has the rare chance to turn into both a teachable moment and a great beer commercial. "Tastes great, less jail filling." But he needs to pick his brew carefully. An import will drive Lou Dobbs crazy. And if he picks a dark beer, we'll get a week's worth of stories on Fox.
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media
UPDATE 2:30 PM, July 25 MSNBC president Phil Griffin called the claim that President Obama is a foreigner, which has received significant media cover...
Michael Seitzman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Comedy
I hear you, lady. And thank you for bravely holding up your birth certificate and tellin' that Congressman Castle you want your country back! Hell yeah, darlin'! Hell frickin' yeah!
Keith Boykin | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
The most disturbing aspect of the news coverage about Henry Louis Gates' arrest has been the running commentary by white men about appropriate decorum for black men.
Tina Dupuy | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics