Lou Dobbs said...

"Today's global market means that you pay less for almost everything you buy. This has cost some American jobs, and we have to work harder at creating new and better ones. "

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Mondo Stars editors from Boulder Colorado USA (November 11, 2010)
Lou Dobbs Joining Fox Business Network

-- The Los Angeles Times reported on November 10, 2010:

"Just about a year to the day that he left CNN, Lou Dobbs is returning to cable news, this time as host of his own show on News Corporation's Fox Business Network.

Fox Business Network is expected to announce that it has signed Dobbs as early as Wednesday afternoon. It's the latest high-profile hire for the cable network, which launched a little over three years ago and is in 57 million homes. Although that is far fewer homes than its chief rival, CNBC, Fox Business last week managed to beat CNBC on election night, both in viewers and the key adults 25-54 demographic.

Dobbs' show will premiere in early 2011. He will also appear on other Fox Business programming."

Echo bell from Deming, NM (May 27, 2008)
The only solution to the drug wars is to legalize them and take out the profit. It is not the drugs that cause the violence its the money to be made just like prohibition. It has created a crime wave. Go checkout the Law Enforcement against prohibition saw\y on the issue. At least Gov Richardson has tried to get it to where sick folks can buy Marijuana legally with a prescription. Good for him

Ike Watts from cisco texas USA (October 24, 2007)
in my mind-----
Senator Reid is NUTS

B. Thurman from Bakersfield, California (September 6, 2007)
I forgot to change the channel after Situation Room and so got a good blast from Lou Dobbs to his latest guest. Mr. Dobbs, why do you invite guests to your show and then interrupt belittle,harass them? Shame on you. Your point is not made when you interview your guests as you do. I can't stand to watch your program anymore, I feel so sorry for the guests on your show. You come across as a geat, big, bully. UGH!

B. Thurman

jeremy from las vegas, nv. (August 20, 2007)
I think Adam Capenter is one of the best tortures from Irvine, California. he does good stocking, and is above the law with the Irvine P.D.

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A Blithering Idiot!

Lou Dobbs was the anchor and managing editor of Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN until November 11, 2009. He had worked at CNN for many years, with some interruptions. CNN paid Dobbs $8 million in severance pay to walk away. Like Bill O'Reilly at Fox News, Dobbs ranted about a variety of pet causes (birthers, immigrants, foreign trade) under the guise of presenting the news.

Dobbs grabbed the attention of viewers with his rants about business and society, but some of his news colleagues were less than impressed. He has been described as a "blithering idiot" by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Friedman was quoted in The New Yorker saying "And then you have a blithering idiot like Lou Dobbs, in my view, who's using the platform of CNN in a news frame. This is not news."

Dobbs was born in Texas, and his father was the co-owner of a propane business and a bookkeeper. After the propane business failed, the family moved to Rupert, Idaho. Dobbs attended Minico High School in Rupert and served as president of the high school student body in 1963. He attended Harvard University, graduating in 1967 with a degree in economics. He married Kathleen A. Dobbs in 1969 and they have two children: William Chance and Jason S. Dobbs.

In the early 1970's, Dobbs worked at KBLU-AM in Yuma, Arizona as a police and fire reporter. He then became a television anchor and reporter in Phoenix and in Seattle at KING-TV.

Dobbs began working at CNN when it was launched in 1980, serving as chief economics correspondent and host of Moneyline. Dobbs founded CNNfn (financial news) and anchored Business Unusual.

In May 1999, after clashing with Rich Kaplan, the president of CNN who Dobbs felt was a partisan who favored President Bill Clinton, Dobbs left CNN to start Space.com, an online business providing astrological news. The business did not prosper, and Dobbs returned to CNN in 2001 at the urging of Ted Turner. Along with his CNN work, Dobbs hosts syndicated radio show The Lou Dobbs Financial Report, and is a regular columnist for Money Magazine, U.S News & World Report and the New York Daily News.

Dobbs expresses strong political views on CNN news programs, most of which are populist and jingoistic. Some of his feature issues include "Exporting America" and "Broken Borders." He leans toward protectionism and is wary of outsourcing and offshoring, particularly with China. He is a self-described "lifelong Republican" who has become disenchanted by the Bush administration. During the 2006 debates over the Federal Marriage Amendment, Dobbs asserted that traditional marriage was threatened more by Bush administration economic policy than by gay marriage.