Geez Louise. What in the hell does Lou Dobbs have to do next before CNN decides to reign him in or can him? Apparently Dobbs didn't take too kindly to Karen Finney calling him out as using hate speech for the comments he made about her former boss, Howard Dean on his radio show. Our friends at Media Matters posted that one: Dobbs on Howard Dean: "[H]e's a bloodsucking leftist -- I mean, you gotta put a stake through his heart to stop this guy".
DOBBS: Do you think they are also evil mongers? Is that the latest from Senator Reid? We've gone from un-American now to evil mongers.
FINNEY: Our American values say that we believe in free speech. We believe in --
DOBBS: Then why is everybody trying to constrain expression?
FINNEY: Because what we're seeing is, I believe that tyranny is when you organize for the purpose of being disruptive, or when you use hate speech like "I want to drive a stake through Howard Dean's heart."
DOBBS: Really? Did I say I wanted to do that through Howard Dean's heart?
FINNEY: I heart that on your radio program.
DOBBS: You heard me make a reference to Bram Stoker, an allusion to Howard Dean and, as a matter of fact, I was --
FINNEY: That is a convenient correction, Mr. Dobbs. But you called him a blood sucking liberal.
(CROSSTALK)
FINNEY: But how does your saying things like that --
DOBBS: Excuse me. Excuse me. If you will permit me, I called him a blood sucking leftist because of the approach he took.
(CROSSTALK)
FINNEY: Oh, excuse me, leftist, not liberal.
As Finney pointed out, the "leftist" vs "liberal" part wasn't exactly the portion of his comments that concerned her the most. So what does Dobbs do? He plays this from Ed Schultz as some sort of defense that there is hate talk from the left as well.
SHULTZ: Sometimes I think they want Obama to get shot. I do. I really think that there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out. They fear socialism. They fear Marxism. They fear that the United States of America won't be the United States of America anymore.
So there's your left wing hate speech in Dobbs' world folks. Pointing out the obvious. And what does Dobbs finish the segment with? Attacking Finney again, and defending the idiot who brought a gun to a town hall. Wow.
Full transcript below the fold from CNN. Apparently they decided to leave out some of the ugliness with "(CROSSTALK).
DOBBS: These polls are showing that independents are deserting the president both in terms of approval rating, in terms of health care. And we're seeing independents side with the protesters in these town hall by a two to one margin. What's that about?
FINNEY: I think it's a little hyperbolic to say that they are abandoning the president. And to say that you, sympathize with the protestors --
(CROSSTALK)
DOBBS: It's 65 percent of the unaffiliated -- I'm sorry. I used shorthand and said independent.
FINNEY: Well, again, speaking to what we're seeing at the town halls, I think that some people believe -- I believe people should have the right to go and speak out and ask questions.
But that's not what we've been seeing. What we're seeing is people organizing against letting the questions asked and asked. And I wonder if we'd ask that question if we're talking about, when they say they sympathize with the protestors, are they sympathizing with the people who are asking the questions, or are they sympathizing with the people who are actually creating -- causing violence and hate speech, which I think is the absolutely destructive to the process and un-American.
DOBBS: Do you think they are also evil mongers? Is that the latest from Senator Reid? We've gone from un-American now to evil mongers.
FINNEY: Our American values say that we believe in free speech. We believe in --
DOBBS: Then why is everybody trying to constrain expression?
FINNEY: Because what we're seeing is, I believe that tyranny is when you organize for the purpose of being disruptive, or when you use hate speech like "I want to drive a stake through Howard Dean's heart."
DOBBS: Really? Did I say I wanted to do that through Howard Dean's heart?
FINNEY: I heart that on your radio program.
DOBBS: You heard me make a reference to Bram Stoker, an allusion to Howard Dean and, as a matter of fact, I was --
FINNEY: That is a convenient correction, Mr. Dobbs. But you called him a blood sucking liberal.
(CROSSTALK)
FINNEY: But how does your saying things like that --
DOBBS: Excuse me. Excuse me. If you will permit me, I called him a blood sucking leftist because of the approach he took.
(CROSSTALK)
FINNEY: Oh, excuse me, leftist, not liberal.
DOBBS: I don't see where in the constitution that you have a right not to be offended.
FINNEY: My question to you...
DOBBS: I'm sorry, you do have a right not to be offended?
FINNEY: My question to you though is --
(CROSSTALK)
DOBBS: Evil mongers, un-American. You want to worry about language? Let's hear about Ed Shultz today. Roll what Ed Shultz had to say today. Are you familiar?
FINNEY: Yes, I am.
DOBBS: Actually, he said it Tuesday.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SHULTZ: Sometimes I think they want Obama to get shot. I do. I really think that there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out. They fear socialism. They fear Marxism. They fear that the United States of America won't be the United States of America anymore.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FINNEY: I don't totally agree with everything that Ed said. I'm not as far to the left as Ed is.
DOBBS: No. But you are an ideologue.
FINNEY: I am not.
DOBBS: You are pursuing an agenda.
FINNEY: Absolutely not.
DOBBS: And you're being rude.
DOBBS: Let's go to Errol and get your thoughts.
(CROSSTALK)
LOUIS: Let me say that my friend Ed Shultz has put his finger on something that is important, which is that there is a lot -- day in and day out --
DOBBS: He's put his finger on something important?
LOUIS: Yes. There are people, Lou, and I don't want to call any names, but there are broadcasters out there who have been saying day after day after day that White House is preparing is concentration camps, that there are death panels s.
DOBBS: If anyone is saying that, we should be saying their names. Who are they?
LOUIS: Michael savage. You hear similar kind of talk from Rush Limbaugh.
DOBBS: Not similar. You used very specific language. Who used that language?
LOUIS: Death panels, all over the place. All over the place. I mean all over the place. Seriously. On your station, Lou.
DOBBS: You said concentration camps.
LOUIS: They have described them in detail, that order is going to come.
DOBBS: Answer the question.
LOUIS: And when you see somebody show up --
DOBBS: Has anyone done what Ed Shultz said? Has anyone done that? This is beyond the pale of ideology.
LOUIS: I think there are people who are doing the exact equivalent, or the radio, the media equivalent of fulminating, sowing discord, and in effect placing almost, metaphorically, a loaded gun on the table and then walking out of the room.
DOBBS: My god, to even use that metaphor. I have to be honest with you, you and I have known each other for a long time. That is a patently ideological --
LOUIS: Lou, wait.
DOBBS: Go ahead, Chris, I don't -- we don't want to leave Chris out of this debate.
STIREWALT: I think what is illustrated here is that --
(CROSSTALK)
STIREWALT: No. The only thing I see here is nobody is talking about health care anymore. We are talking about the mob. We're talking about the president.
DOBBS: The Congress wasn't either, Chris, in all honesty.
STIREWALT: Exactly. But I think the point here is that White House has lost control of this discussion. Congress has lost control of the discussion.
They didn't put any -- they didn't put a final idea forward, a proposal to the American people, which is understandable. The president wanted one done by August so there would be something to talk about. They failed in that goal and right now people are understandably upset.
The anger, the discussion, the outrage that we hear, I think, is illustrative of the fact that the Democratic majority has done a good job of selling this thing to the American people and now they're attacking the people who are upset about it.
FINNEY: I obviously take issue with that. We're not attacking people that are upset. We're suggesting that at these town halls --
DOBBS: You take exception to what?
FINNEY: People that come to the town halls --
DOBBS: We don't care what you're taking exception to.
FINNEY: Then why are you having me on the show to talk about health care reform?
DOBBS: I'd love to hear you talk about it. But you started talking to me about something I said on radio about Howard Dean. What's that got to do with it?
FINNEY: That's exactly my point, Lou. What does that have to do with it?
DOBBS: We appreciate you bringing up those points to us. Errol, thank you very much.
(CROSSTALK)
LOUIS: When people are bringing guns to town hall meetings, and it's happened more than once, that is a problem.
FINNEY: You think it's appropriate to bring guns to town hall meetings?
(CROSSTALK)
DOBBS: You are doing everything can you to absolutely distort an event that occurred that was absolutely benign. A man was making a point. He happens to live in a state in which guns are permitted to be carried. It's open carry. It's a constitutional right.
Now you not only went to constrain freedom of speech and freedom of expression, you want to attack the Second Amendment and distort it into something sinister when you're sitting here talking in language that I frankly, Errol, I think is highly irresponsible.
(CROSSTALK)
DOBBS: We'll be right back.
Put this senile old git out to pasture already.
He no longer brings anything except pompous condescention and partronizing nonsensical rhetoric!
Besides , his dye job is no longer working..email CNN.com and tell them to replace him with who you choose--I am for Rick Sanchez because he keeps the crap from being repeated non challenged!
When I hear "liberal" I think of douchie power hungry pseudo leftists, who want little change, more bribes and lots of press. I won't name names but you know who I mean.
"Progressive" is the word I like. Because our history is a progression of more and more people becoming true citizens. This progress ended slavery, ended child labor, gave women the vote, gave working people rights, gave us clean food and water and a chance at an education.
We are not through yet. Keep thinking in terms of a progression. This latest spat with the baggers is just another bump in a long long road. But you know that we are going to win. We are going to win!
We are going to get the LGBT people married up, we are going to empty the prisons of non violent drug convicts, we are going to end our aggression overseas, we are going to bring peace and justice to all people. Believe it!
I will stick with the term socialist.
Let the blood be drained from the Vampire Corporations.
After all, they stole it from we the peons.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
...........of the peóns wash out of corporations forever!!!
I am sorry you bought into the whole framing by the right of the term "liberal."
They were right for once.
And progressive is deeper and more active, to me anyway.
It infers a work not yet completed. I can always count on you Ty old buddy old pal! Remember I am a recovering "neocon" clean and progressive since 1987!
Socialist is too pejorative. National Socialism, Soviet Socialist Republic...those are the most common usages of those words, in modern history anyway. I am a Socialist as are all Americans. I am also straight but I don't introduce myself with , "Hi I am Morgan and I am straight!"
... wow, that is pretty sad state of affairs. No wonder the left is in such a pathetic state in this country.
Someone put rock salt in your KY?
NP. I will stick to the topic and not cuss you.
It is nice to have a word that separates us from establishment Democrats. You ignore the meat of my comment and go for the douchebag "micro-semantics" ploy.
eyes on the prize and all that.
Semantics.
Really, what difference does a damn label make?
We're all pretty much simpatico right?
Libs, lefties, progressives...what the fuck ever...how about Americans who love their country, and want to see it move forward as a nice and shiney beacon o' goodness, and awesomeness?
Sounds good to me.
I hate labels, especially the left and right ones.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
I like both "progressive" and "liberal." The definitions for both are positive, it's just that the right-wingers have used "liberal" as a slur for so long that many people - including some "progressives" such as yourself - have adopted their framing. Sad.
We should proudly call ourselves "liberals," not shy away from the term.
There may be differences between the terms leftist/liberal/socialist/etc.... however those differences do not stem from whatever framing conservatives may have came up with for said terms.
Which is what I was trying to point out: it is a f*cking sad day when a progressive defines the differences between "progressive" and "liberal" by using the framing from the right of said terms.
Cosign that Right on.
... you just proved what I stated in my original post, that you totally bought into the framing of the right of the term "liberal."
I don't particularly care about labels, I do however care about the framing of those labels by people who are opposite to the agenda behind those labels.
BTW, I love how you said how you were not going to "cuss me" right after you had done just that. ;-)
Is that why America is in such a pathetic state also? Becayse we were in charge of the Government for the last eight years? Loser!
what? ... need I say more?
Damn, Karen Finney is good looking. And smart and makes excellent points.
And Lou Dobbs is a horses ass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzc_DA6MPCg
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
CNN is digging their own grave as long as they keep this conservative republican on their outdated news service.
It would be so nice if we could live in a world without these narcissistic pundits spewing their crap on their freaking pedestals. I might have to give up blogging and learn to fish or surf or something. Or maybe blogging would be about important things that matter like health care and economic reform instead of fighting monsters every friggin' day.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
Uh lou...
This guy would like a word with you:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/graff%20or...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Dobbs says "A man was making a point. He happens to live in a state in which guns are permitted to be carried. It's open carry. It's a constitutional right."
I wonder if Dobbs would have expressed this same opinion if that guy had appeared outside a Town Hall where GW Bush was speaking. You think he would've?
The morning after the guy took the gun to the town hall meeting, Joe Scarborough, Mika and Pat Buchanan said almost exactly the same thing that Lou said about him.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
..I hope the next time w sobers up enough to step away from that neighborhood of his...no I don't but if I did, I'd love to see what happens when some patriot brings a weapon to whatever event it is that w attends. Tell me the Secret Service detail won't be all over him. Go ahead, you can tell me....
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
doesn't mean that you should carry, it means you can carry. There are appropriate times and inappropriate times and places.
..and town hall meetings and Presidential speeches are not the proper venues. How many times in the ole' westerns did Dean Martin as a deputy, have to take away guns from the bad men? Well, once in Rio Bravo but seriously, they would remove guns from EVERYBODY before they were allowed into town. I know, they were all wild west territories back then, not states, but it was pretty obvious bringing a loaded firearm into a civilized and civilian venue was not a good idea. Even then, when a man had a gun and then developed issues, it was a recipe for death.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
at his home?
I haven't watched Dobbs for a long time but I have been reading stuff about him on the net. Jesus this clip seems to prove the guy has lost his mind. Is he on drugs or something? He didn't used to be a crazy man but he sure sounds like one now. How does one go from being a pretty regular guy to a total fu*k up without some sort of disease or drugs or something. Something is seriously wrong with him.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
just askin'
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
I don't know anything about his background but that might explain the anger and meanness
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
he just a mean ol' crusty sumbitch!
Could you be any more willfully blind to reality Dobbs?
Ugh..this guy is beyond disgusting he's my new poster boy for right wing corporate complicity and greed driven lust after ratings.
Dobbs is just plain fucking EVIL.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
..tomato, tomato, let's call the whole thing off!
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet!
lou dobbs working for any other corporation (except FAUX) would've been canned, fired, let go, retired, asked not to let the door hit him on the fanny on the way out, hasta la vista baby (if he worked in CA.), cya'.
But hey, gotta' keep the wing-nuts fired up with stupid rhetoric from stupid entertainers on faux news programs. Heaven's forbid serious discussion on serious topics.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
You're a goddamn nazi propagandist!
Oh..my bad...I meant you're a motherfucking nazi propagandist.
Lou is such a dick, he wouldn't even answer the question, Lou Dobbs is asked a direct question about what Lou Dobbs said and what does he do? "Well Ed Schultz said..." what are you fucking 6 years old?
Kiss my ass Lou, you would be just fine with someone shooting Obama. He says he doesn't like the picture of himself leaving a gun on the table in a room with a mob and walking away, however if someone does anything violent because of Lou's words he will simply say "I can't control what people do" - Sweet Jesus I can't stand these people!!!
Karen Finney would have whooped Lou's ass if he would have just let her speak
..
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
A half-wit Glen Beck enthusiast with an exquisite feel for irony but lacking the self-awareness to detect it in himself intercepts covert idiotic radio and television messages and uncovers archived secrets and scandals of deceitful proportions, this, as the moderator intones "Some times you just have to believe in something, even if it isn't true!". Aghast, he goes next door to his WASP neighbor, cautiously excited, as the aforementioned was a over-medicated GOP precinct worker whom the teabagger enthusiast wanted friendship of. The lanky, thick-skulled, pie-eyed neighbor is slumped over the imported compressed sawdust dining room table, poisoned just thirty seconds before by his wife, just home from target practice, who most likely already knew of the patriotic enthusiast's forthcoming revelations. A prickly line of sweat covers the enthusiast's forehead now, as the realization hits him that the same pundits and other agitators him and his now brain-dead compatriots once cowered before and backed and talked of in hushed tones, have tricked him into their war against himself and the very same comrades, whom, through the years, the enthusiast and brain-dead supporters would have wished torture upon each other. A dick-less peon of the patriot walks in and casually assaults the Glen Beck fan in his kitchen for murder and sedition against the government. The mad bitch swings crazily to the enthusiast's left side, towards his new dental work, while briefly remembering that his mother was a helicopter dust-off operator and had a large black dog. Just as a wild roundhouse whizzes by is left temple, the alcoholic lemming-like imbecile drops to his knees, almost punching his own unit and flings a can that was crammed in his pocket onto the lawn, littered with previously deposited cans of spud-free Lackey, an alcohol-free lager. A grime-smeared full sized Chevy pick-up truck is parked outside, with pro-nicotine pro-nuclear crap on the side panels. I digress however; The mad kid, two days before, had just got back from a backwoods cookie party, catered by the same quasi-religious zealots and Pharma-corporation manipulators. He had his black horse-hair coat, and a black party archbishop's hat with three bars for a skull-and-crossbones. And this day he looked like the victim of a pogrom.
...
Uh...er....uhhh...
I don't get it...
"Ronald Reagan is DEAD! His policies live on but we're doing something about THAT!"
... but some paragraphs and line breaks are in order that is for sure.
LOL. "Clarity" indeed...
Maybe switch to unleaded coffee?
;)
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Thank you!
Oh, CNN! You used to be so respectable. Now look at you. You have Lou Dobbs going full-on, bat guano, fascist, Michael Savage on you!
Free Speech doesn't include standing with your fingers in your ears screaming "DA DA DA DA" at a debate.
The right to bear arms doesn't mean you should bring your damn gun to a public rally or insinuate it's time to start shooting "tyrant" Congressional representatives.
I give up. If this isn't obvious to you, there's something wrong with you. Sorry, but if you really think that Obama is going to take your guns, kill your grandma, and force you to abort your baby before he converts everyone to Islam and moves home to Kenya--
wait for it--
YOU ARE A COMPLETE IDIOT!!!!!
That more than half of the South doubts the citizenship of the President of The United States, is F$#@ING CRAZY!!!
And, quite obviously racist.
Lube Jobs is showing signs of mental imbalance. His argumentative style is childlike based as it is on semantics and not concepts. He acts like a former media heavyweight who is pissed that the world has passed him by and fail to defer to the opinions we are privileged to hear him pronounce. There is little sunlight between his expressed opinion and Bill Oh Really and CNN should be considered complicit in formenting turmoil and mob rule.
Karen Finney ran rings around Lube jobs and his precious ego couldn't take it. He was nasty, boorish and full of puffed up self importance. He must have a very small penis methinks.
..very funny!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Loo Dabs somewhere
Sounds Limey, in Amelica we call them Cling-ons
are propagandists and don't give a happy damn about actually informing the public, as is their duty under the Constitution. But the trouble that they, FOX and others are stirring up is leading us to a path down which I don't think we want to travel. They may not give a damn about actually doing journalism, but these idiot executives and producers may want to stop and consider the war crimes trials that followed the Rwandan genocide, specifically how prominant broadcast personalities were convicted for their role in fomenting the atrocities. Since the FCC isn't going to do anything to stop non-protected hate and fraudulent speech, it may well become, in the aftermath of crimes that these clowns incited, the task of future courts/tribunals to hold the creeps accountable.
I may tune into CNN just to find out who advertises on that network, so that I can contact them and tell them I will refuse to buy their goods and services so long as they are advertising on CNN. Or FOX.
Maybe Lou is having a mid life crisis. He needs to have his meds checked and perhaps updated.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Buy a Lamborghini and have lots of sex with a 19-year model from Sweden. It might take some of the edge off a bit.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
now were getting somewhere...
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Do CNN and move on over to Fox. You fit in nicely there and by doing that might actually help CNN get its reputation back. This was the most inane and defensive segment I've seen in a while. It had nothing to do with health care. It was all about you trying to twist what you said and throw the focus on to anything else.
of unrelenting, unrestrained toxic sludge coming from the mouth of Luo Dobbs with little pushback. Now that he's finally getting called on the carpet he screams "Censorship!"
What an effin moran.
Dobbs false indignation is blatant and condescending and sickening.
...on the Lou Dobbs threads.
har!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvqT13dStpc
"Who am I? The sign on th' front that says Lou's Tavern. I'm fuckin' Lou. Who the fuck are you?"
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
hmm, lets see, a cracker, rude, did i say fat?, oh right i did. and many other words and pejoratives i wont list here. and a birther oh yeah. and you can shove it Lou. and yes im white also.
some use the terms interchangeably, but there is a difference.
either way, this lefty says dobbs is a fucking waste of carbon
"No. But you are an ideologue." No you are Louuuuuuuu. You whole program is ideological. Dick errrr, Louuuuuu
"Not similar. You used very specific language. Who used that language?" You are a simpleton Louuuuuuu.
"My god, to even use that metaphor. I have to be honest with you, you and I have known each other for a long time. That is a patently ideological –" Did he have is hand over his mouth in righteous indignation? My god! I can't believe my ears.
"DOBBS: You take exception to what?
FINNEY: People that come to the town halls --
DOBBS: We don't care what you're taking exception to."
WHAT Louuuuuuu???? WTF?
Since Dobbs has his own radio show where he makes such outlandious comments, is CNN going to fire Dobbs also, along with Bennett and all the other republican shills?
Bill Press, Ron Reagan and Stephanie Miller are but a few that are gone from CNN from now on.
Dobbs, this Right Wing-Nut moron needs to be fired. He's talks over everybody to get his Reslug lies in. Just boycott the big, fat liar.
CNN = The new Faux Noise....
I think Lou needs to get laid more often. Maybe his Hispanic wife stopped giving him any since he started railing against illegal immigrants.
Fine. I'm a blood sucking liberal and Lou you are a cocksucking corporatist.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Obviously Lou is a far right wing loon- and he'd fit right in on FOX- I wonder how long before they offer hims a show?
Boneheaded troglodyte republicans watching pond scum.
Tomato, tomahto,
You still suck a giant bag of d!cks, Lou.
It's not fair.
You suck one little dick, and they call you a cocksucker.
I don't remember any right wingers defending liberal critics of GW Bush or the war in Iraq by saying we had the right to voice our opinons...The right attacked our patriotism, and labled us terrorist sympathzers...
The right demanded all liberal protestors STFU, and they labled us all as unpatriotic...
What is sad is that many on the left allow right wingers to bully us this way- when the right tells liberals to shut up, liberals shut up- and when the right demands that liberals shut up and let the right voice their twisted views, the liberals shuts up....
He's a fucking republican fool! No matter what they do the ends justify the means. They don't care about anything but themselves and cannot be allowed to make decisions that involve other peoples well being!
republicanism is a mental illness!
http://pic.photobucket.com/spacer.gif
WTF?
Stooooopit Photobucket!!!
Work damn you!
Alright...better work this time...
http://media.photobucket.com/image/lou%20dobb...
One common thread i've found amongst all these right wing talking heads, from Dobbs to oReilly to Savage is that they are VERY obnoxious and rude....Did Dobbs seriously call his guest rude, even though he was constantly talking over her???
I guess acting like an 'asshole' is just part of the playbook of the right wing....
At this point in the decay and death spiral of the Republican Party, the only people who remain are mostly sociopaths/psychopaths. Because the party leadership made a decision to purposefully appeal to the dark side of the human repertiore, in order to attrack disaffected Democratic voters back in '66-'67 (their Southern Strategy), they put themselves on a one way path. They have attracted and given a home to every twisted and diseased personality in the country, by appealing to every base and ignoble instinct there is. They used a large tool box of assorted manipulative techniques to do it. One of their handiest tools has been turning sins into virtues and virtues into sins. After 40 years of this, the malgnant personalities make up the core of the party, and pretty much every elected Republican official at this point is a malignant and deviant personality.
The DSM-IV gives a list of qualifying characteristics for a diagnosis. Tey now lumpt he sociopath and the psychopath together and call it an antisocial personality disorder, but I think the old distinction is still relevant: a psychopath never had any trace of a conscience, while a sociopath had one but chooses to ignore or suppress it into silence...the distinction leads to different pathways of behavior as regards whether one rationalizes their behavior or not. check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_perso...
If you read through the diagnostic personality characteristics, you'll see Lou Dobbs described.
Has anyone noticed that Lou uses every stereotypical newscaster expression known to man?
Just watch his presentation,the head tilts,the phrasing,the phoney smiles.
CNN REINS (not reigns) him in?
Controversy good. Serious news boring.
If he starts to cost them money, them may respond. I don't see that there is anything else they will respond to.
I love the smell of boycott in the mornin'...smells like...VICTRY!!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
just makes some wonder how far these radio pundits, aka assholes, will go to keep their ratings high.
What on earth has happened to Lou Dobbs? Is it my imagination or did he used to be a respectable journalist? Perhaps he's suffering from early dementia. Or maybe the Republican Borg Apparatus has plugged into his brain and stolen his identity.
he's a blathering moron, is all! ;)
I've never seen change without a fire
Why is it that these right wing nuts think it is polite to constantly interrupt their guests and cut them off in mid-sentence? Why are they so afraid of even hearing opposing views?
These type of Sean Hannity media tactics are debasing and inexcusable. If these guys can't listen to opposing views and then calmly respond, it makes me think they know the other guy is right and they are unable to rationally debate opinions with others.
I bet anyone $20 that this clip is on the Daily Show tonight. What an elitist asshole, as usual.
except the daily show isn't on on Fridays... so on Monday's show
I stop watching Lou more than 2 years ago. He was preaching independent that was equal republican.
I did not want to see him anymore.
Monday, I am back to the USA, home.
I watched it live last night,and Karen totally owned Louis Dobbs.
Is doobs still at it? Dobbs just sucks man.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
DOBBS: Point of order! Point of order! I never said your mother blows Satan... I said your mother sucks cock in Hell. Why must you lie and distort my statements like some kind of mindless ideologue!
Yep. Dobbs misses the point, again and again and again. A lost cause.
You're a lost cause Lou! You Birther!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
crazies, like Rush and Sean get that he's trying to out crazy them at every turn. His ratings may not reflect it, but he sure is catching up in the crazy department.
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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