This Someone-Shot-at-Me Nonsense Is the Last Straw: CNN Should Fire Lou Dobbs

[kpete]

This Someone-Shot-at-Me Nonsense Is the Last Straw: CNN Should Fire Lou Dobbs
Posted by Roberto Lovato, Huffington Post on October 31, 2009 at 7:10 AM.

Conflicting reports about a bullet that hit the top of Lou Dobbs' house in Sussex, New Jersey, are raising new and serious questions about the credibility of Lou Dobbs, CNN and its President, Jon Klein. Reports in the New York Post http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/empty_threats_5tZae33xPuhBCNLLdlGXjP and here on the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/isabel-macdonald/nj-law-enforcement-appear_b_339696.html now indicate that the bullet was likely a hunter's errant shot. Yet Dobbs and CNN have rushed onto the airwaves, treating the incident as a de-facto murder attempt against the news host and his wife.

During Monday's broadcast on his radio show, Dobbs declared in the most urgent tone that "Three weeks ago this morning a shot was fired at my house," and that the shots "followed weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls." Dobbs went on to link the alleged attack to a vast Latino conspiracy made up of Fox News' Geraldo Rivera, LULAC, the National Council of La Raza and other "ethnocentric interest groups," groups that he says are "creating an atmosphere" that led to the alleged phone threats and supposed attack.

Spreading conspiracy theories about immigrants and Latinos is, of course, nothing new to Dobbs. With minimal evidence and maximum bluster, he insinuates that his serious critics -- none of whom endorse violence of any sort -- are somehow linked to a supposedly violent attack on his home. Sadly, such a leap is all too believable to some, like one irate Twitterer who commented "Looks like the Mexican hate groups shooting up Lou Dobbs home" or another who added "Better watch them America. These people are out of control."

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By allowing Dobbs to use the incident to continue and expand his attacks on his critics without corroboration from New Jersey police or gaming authorities that the gunfire was anything more than a stray hunting bullet, Dobbs, Klein and CNN are taking potentially dangerous deviation from journalistic norms for "the most trusted name in news."

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[treestar]

1. With Lou Dobbs, anything that happens is the fault of illegal aliens

No surprise he would think this was, too.

People wouldn't be hunting if it wasn't for those illegal Mexicans stealing jobs! Now what else can we do for food?

:rofl:

[ixion]

2. they deviated from the norm more than a decade ago

and never looked back.

[clear eye]

3. This is a good reason to stop watching CNN

I get most of my hard news from the Guardian online, and political info from DU and Maddow. Who needs CNN? Or the NYT for that matter.

[RKP5637]

4. Lou Dobbs has been using the Glenn Beck playbook for sometime now w/o much success IMO. To me

it's time for Dobbs to go. The guy is a fool. I used to watch him a long time ago before he became whacked out.

[Warpy]

5. I would hope his future consists of a hug me jacket

and a trip to a rubber room while they wait for the drugs to kick in.

I don't think there's a single sane person in right wing media. They're all grandiose and paranoid.

[pipi_k]

6. In his defense...

I once thought some scuzzball driving by my house took a shot at the wooden black bear thingy I had up in the yard.

Boy was I upset!!! Cursed ALL of my neighbors and vowed to find the fucking wooden-bear hating asshole sniper if it took all year.

Turned out to be a screw hole left empty when Mr Pip attached it to a wooden post for support.

oops.

:silly:

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. 9-11 was Bush's Reichstag; this is Lou Dobbs'.

[snagglepuss]

8. This incident certainly comes at a convenient time for Dobbs.

[AndyA]

9. CNN is not the most trusted name in news. They are news WHORES.

This is why their ratings are tanking. They are rapidly losing what little credibility they had. Allowing Dobbs to remain on the air just emphasizes they are not trustworthy.

Really, it's time to get rid of Dobbs, Blitzer, and that woman reporter who's married to Dan Senor. (I'm pretty sure she's on CNN, but whichever cable network it is, they should get rid of her.)

[rhett o rick]

10. I hope CNN does not fire Dobbs. He epitomizes what they have become.

Firing Dobbs would be a hollow act to pretend they dont agree with him.

CNN went to the dark side and I believe they are more dangerous than Faux News.

[imdjh]

11. Dobbs has been living in Yankee country too long if a stray bullet hitting the house makes him pee..

.... his pampers.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. Lou actually thinks Geraldo is out to kill him?

Geraldo would do almost anything for ratings, but he would probably draw the line at murder. :rofl:

[corkhead]

13. He reminds me more and more of Cartman from Southpark as an adult.

[JoeyT]

14. Created an atmosphere?

"groups that he says are "creating an atmosphere" that led to the alleged phone threats and supposed attack."
Yeah! Damned liberals and our creating atmospheres of hatred and xenophobia in an attempt to urge insane racists to violence against defenseless people!
Oh wait, that's Dobbs and his ilk that do that. We're the ones that keep pointing out that fomenting violence is immoral and a bad idea. Never mind.

Screw Dobbs and his race baiting. May his prostate burn with the fire of a thousand suns. To head off a gripe, I'm wishing him inflammation and nothing more. :P