I'm Worried For Lou Dobbs......

[global1]

listening to Lou yesterday - and again I caught the replay of his show just a few minutes ago - it appears that there is an attempt to intimidate him into shutting up about this Port deal. It doesn't look like he's going to back down on this - so I'm worried for his well being. Is he married? Does he have a family? Does he have someone else start his car for him?

Bill Frist was intimidated (taken to the woodshed per Lou) to flip-flop.

Somebody is pretty good at doing that sort of thing to people.

Let's say a prayer for Lou.

[wakeme2008]

1. C&L has Dobbs on this

:)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/27.html#a7324

[Chipper Chat]

2. I dont watch him that often, but I noticed a week ago

that his face reflected a mood that can only be described as agitated and under pressure. I think he was sincerely shaken by this port deal and spoke out honestly on his show. I'm sure his producers and the CNN upper eschelon went bonkers. Maybe Lou is the new Walter Cronkite? Stay safe Lou. Avoid the subways (or Cobb County if you're in Georgia!

[BlakeB]

3. Lou is the closest...

to Cronkite we have in this day and age.

[RebelOne]

5. Why should he avoid Cobb County?

I work there. Is there something that I don't know?

[LiberalPartisan]

11. Cobb County

Probably a reference to how very Conservative Cobb County is.

[RebelOne]

14. Not everyone. I have quite a few liberal friends who live here

in Cobb County. I live next door in Cherokee County and it is a bright red area.

[fasttense]

4. He has been attacked regularly by the bush* regime

He is one of the few reporters and journalists who stand up to the threats and manipulation of KKKarl. Lately the administration has gotten more aggressive in its attacks on Lou. They can't understand why CNN wont roll over and get rid of Lou. After all, most of the other TV news outlets roll over for the republicans.

I have always loved watching him, even though he says things I don't agree with. His determination to report the truth on illegals and the shrinking middle class and his unflinching criticism of government officials determined to destroy our country is rare and exhilarating.

I've written him several times and told him to keep fighting. Here is a link:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?9

[Brazenly Liberal]

21. Thanks for the link.

I followed it and sent this:

"I stopped watching CNN last year because the Foxification of the network was so appalling.

I've tuned back in the past week or so just to see what Lou Dobbs had to say on the ports situation. While I don't agree with him on many issues, he's a principled man with a strong moral compass. He speaks his mind honestly and from conviction.

I understand he's been under some pressure to shut up. I also understand you (CNN) are standing behind him and supporting him. If that's the case, kudos to you! Perhaps the Foxification wasn't quite complete."

[rooboy]

6. Well, his wife was stopped once at an airport carrying a gun...

so I wouldn't fuck with the Dobbs family. ;)

[Selatius]

7. They WILL get to him. Time will show they will get to him.

Nothing in the past has stopped the corporatist agenda. If people like Wellstone or Martin Luther King can be silenced, so too can Dobbs.

[PBass]

8. This story is way bigger than Lou Dobbs. The genie is out of the bottle

and it's too late to put him back in.

Almost 70% of Americans are against this Ports deal (according to polls, but I'd guess the actual number is higher). I don't care what kind of 45 day review the White House does, or how much spin they put on this story, it's not going to change those poll numbers by a large amount!!!! You can't explain away this deal, no matter what kind of justification you use... on an emotional level, this deal will never pass the smell test with most people.

[Telly Savalas]

24. Don't you dare drag the names of Wellstone and King through the mud

by comparing them to that nativist Know-Nothing paleo-conservative douchebag Lou Dobbs.

King and Wellstone offered a positive vision for American. Dobbs is just a curmudgeon who likes to whine about furr'ners (and the "Black Power Structure" in New Orleans that failed its citizens in the Katrina debacle, according to him). Just because he's harping on an issue that happens to be popular at DU for the week doesn't mean he's remotely close to being a champion of progressive causes.

And I don't wanna hear this "he's for American workers" shit, because he isn't. He's just against non-American workers. It's not the same thing.

[spooky3]

9. A company that tries to silence honest reporting is not

a company in whom anyone should place trust, let alone paying them $$$$ to run vulnerable ports.

[WODIN]

10. Dobbs is his own man.

He appears at least to live by his own sense of right and wrong and doesn't waiver yet isn't brash or arrogant about such matters. I don't think he will be intimidated by anything that the Rove camp would say or do in the same manner that Bill Frist is. Frist afterall has no moral compass.

[salin]

12. not to mention that Lou doesn't have presidential aspirations

so threats and carrots of a political sort ala Rove won't work on Dobbs as the seem to do for Frist.

[patricia92243]

13. I can't figure out why he has not been canned long ago - does he own a lot

of stock of CNN or something? I don't fear for his physical safety, but I'm sure he will be going home to spend more time with his family soon - or made to shut up. I don't know if he would be willing to shut up to keep his job.

[area51]

22. Lou Dobbs

Isn't he a founder of CNN? (I don't have the time to go look it up.)

[pecwae]

15. Last night

he mentioned that CNN management was behind him and this story. I don't think he'll cave into pressure on this.

[IsItJustMe]

16. CNN has been kicked out of the UAE because of Lou's reporting.

stated so on CNN last night

[high density]

18. Yeah, that sounds like a country which embraces "freedom"

:eyes:

[Chipper Chat]

23. Someone in Dubai must have reported that

a CNN staffer was gay!

[zulchzulu]

25. That proves that the UAE CANNOT be trusted

If they don't allow "dissent", otherwise known as the truth, surely they don't value keeping America secure.

[obxhead]

17. lou has been an

ass for quite some time....

This is just another one of his waffles.

[IsItJustMe]

19. Time will tell, but he has been talking about immigration for as long as I

can remember, and he's never deviated from that.

[obxhead]

20. klink

:toast:

I'm still looking for some "real" news in the US though....