Lonely Lou
How did Lou Dobbs — once a respectable television host and author — manage to get himself so far out on a limb, he finds himself to the right of Fox News??? Even the Faux News Channel (Dobbs’ natural home, truth be told,) which pursued the Bill Ayers nonsense to the ends of the earth, and thought the tea parties were so awesome they joined in … is now ridiculing Dobbs as a flat-earther, a birther weirdo, and a “grassy knoll nut” who’s fanning the flames of racism with his constant peddling of the birther conspiracy. The birthers, by the way, have become so toxic, even that dude Ann Coulter won’t touch them (scroll down to the comments here to get a gander at the birthers in their habitat.) Watch, as Dobbs is pitched under the bus by both cable competitors, and even within the House of CNN:
Next, enjoy the irony as Fox News’ Chris Wallace explains what “journalism” is supposed to look like on a “credible” news outlet. And, he does it without bursting out laughing!
Meanwhile, Matthew Norman of the UK Independent has the must-read birther-bash of the day. An excerpt:
That rag-tag coalition of shock jocks, publicity hungry attorneys, the credulous and simple-minded, plain nutters and above all frustrated racists collectively known as “the birthers” have spent a year banging on about Mr Obama’s arrival in this world, and their successors will be banging on about it long after he’s left it for the next.
With the hissing wrath of those struggling ferociously to repress the volcanic pressure to screech “uppity nigger” at their head of state, these people conveniently conclude that Obama isn’t their head of state at all. The second article of the US Constitution dictates that “no person except a natural born citizen” can be president, and the birthers argue that since Mr Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya, he is disqualified.
Read the whole thing here.
UPDATE: The birther obsession is starting to impact Lou’s ratings… and not in a good way. TVNewer’s Wednesday ratings chart shows Dobbs barely — and I mean barely — edged out the Chris Matthews re-run at 7:00 in the 25-54 “money demo,” or for that matter, in total viewers (neither show touched Fox News, whose geezer viewing population is nothing if not faithful.)
And TV Newser also answers the question: what ever happened to that Lou Dobbs-O’Reilly booking? Could CNN execs be in fear of Dobbs discovering his natural audience? No inside scoop here, just a prediction, but I’d bet that by the end of the year, Dobbs will either be full-time on winger talk radio (and off cable news entirely), or he will have migrated to FNC.
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