Lou Dobbs is no longer on CNN, and some are wondering if he may run for president, but for now, he hung out with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night.
It’s a three-parter. The first eight minutes apparently ended up on the televised program, and the second two segments are online.
Here’s Part I:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Exclusive - Lou Dobbs Extended Interview Pt. 1 | ||||
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Here’s Part II, over here.
And here’s Part III, right here.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:08 PM
A Mariachi Band to introduce Dobbs.
Priceless!
November 19th, 2009 at 1:48 PM
Yeah and he’s married to an Hispanic woman. Is there a little of the self loathing thing going on here? Is Dobbs really struggling with wanting to turn his wife over to Immigration for some reason?
Ya gotta love Stewart and even save a little for Maher.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:38 PM
The story floating around the broadcast industry is that Dobbs has been skating on thin ice for a long time with his attacks on Latinos in general but he stepped over the line when he loudly began to champion the lies of the “birthers,” which is why he got canned.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:43 PM
I don’t understand the need for the warning for explicit language at the beginning of the show.
The Daily Show is way funnier than SNL.
In case anyone missed the article in the onion about Lou Dobbs’ being an illegal, here’s the link:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_deports_lou_dobbs
November 19th, 2009 at 3:45 PM
And yes I am aware that ‘The Onion’ is fake news.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Why does Dobbs sound so much like AFY!!! and Glenn Beck all rolled into one?
A fragile nation,
Obama care,
centrists taking their country back,
Liberal media equating racism and the tea party,
going too fast,
spending too much,
and my favorite,
Democrats running the show with their own agenda as if someone had elected them!
November 19th, 2009 at 3:50 PM
But to his credit,
he comes down firmly against both the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions as wastes of ‘American blood’.
November 19th, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Sam, you have a journalism degree. . . . So, uh, just what in hell is “middle of the road journalism?”
November 19th, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I love it when Jon gives a shout out to my man Ron Paul
November 19th, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Todd - I don’t think that’s anything anyone with a journalism degree would say and believe that people would make it out as something coherent or cogent in any way at all.
However, I also wouldn’t call what Lou Dobbs does “advocacy journalism,” either. I’d call it editorial commentary.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Ya, “advocacy journalism” gave me pause also. It’s like calling propaganda “public diplomacy.” Talk about newspeak.
I think Orwell would be astonished at just how far we’ve gone.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:31 PM
The point about editorial commentary isn’t lost on those that know better like us guys here.
But put a regular person that’s afraid already of nearly everything,
in front of CNN with Dobb’s kind of programming message and gravitas,
and you get an Army of Political Zombies that’ll do whatever they’re told.
November 19th, 2009 at 8:33 PM
You could already tell his show was going down the tubes way back before he started upping his ratings with the attack on Latinos that went along with the Minutemen nonsense. He only bought a few years, but at millions a year, that’s not bad I guess. It was sort of like how one could sense, even if one were a political zombie, that Bush was going to find a way to make fearful hay of 9/11. Dobbs hard right swing however gave one the feeling of some lunatic nearly out of control but being kept around out of the loyalty of longevity. I guess enough was enough. Whatever one wants to say about CNN, they surely have the integrity to not take their network anywhere near the truly nasty proclivities of the right wing fringe Fox News.
November 19th, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Dobbs had somewhat of a good reputation as a real newsman at one time, If I remember right.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Orwell was a light weight in the imagination department compared to the neo-cons and the evangelicals.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Also, most of us read Orwell and thought this is something we want to avoid, the neo-cons looked at Orwell and thought “road map.”
November 24th, 2009 at 10:57 AM
“War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength”
Here’s me question; did that come from 1984 or isn’t that what our President advocates today?
AFY!!thesheepdog!!!