Ex-CNN host Lou Dobbs weighs Senate run in NJ

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2012 as a stepping stone to a possible White House bid — a congressional matchup that would pit one of illegal immigration's biggest critics against a champion for immigrant rights.

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Dobbs says his departure from CNN was 'amicable'

Lou Dobbs says he doesn't feel like he was pushed out of CNN, the news organization where he worked for all but two years of its existence until last Wednesday.

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Bullet hits Lou Dobbs' NJ home with wife nearby

Police in New Jersey are trying to determine who fired a bullet that struck CNN commentator Lou Dobbs' home as his wife stood nearby.

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CNN's Latino special avoids Dobbs

CNN is airing a four-hour special on Latinos in America this week that ignores its own commentator Lou Dobbs, whose persistent advocacy against illegal immigration has angered many Hispanics.

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Lou Dobbs challenges his own CNN network

He's become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network's "no bias" brand. And on top of all that, his ratings are slipping.

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CNN's Dobbs not running for NJ governor

CNN host Lou Dobbs on Friday shot down rumors that he has been considering a run for New Jersey governor.

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Lou Dobbs Vs. Gov. Spitzer, Live on CNN

Lou Dobbs is sorry about calling Gov. Eliot Spitzer an idiot.

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The election of the first black U.S. president led to a slew of racially charged comments that were truly shocking, but that's only the tip of the right-wing iceberg.

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Birther Lou Dobbs and climate denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) are concerned that President Barack Obama is trying to turn America into a monarchy.

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CNBC backing away from the prospect of employing Lou Dobbs. Quick read!

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Media Matters of America questions why CNBC would want to tarnish its brand as CNN did by hiring Lou Dobbs given his record of promoting baseless conspiracy theories and engaging in inflammatory hate mongering.

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Dobbs said he now favors the very legalization process for unauthorized immigrants that he's long derided as a brain-dead "amnesty". First, under pressure from above, Lou Dobbs gave up on the birther conspiracy theories.

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Oh, seriously? "In a little-noticed interview Friday, Mr. Dobbs told Spanish-language network Telemundo he now supports a plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers, a stance he long lambasted as an unfair 'amnesty.'" Well. What a fast turnaround, right?

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A radio interviewer on WTOP joked Monday about the "crazy" idea that the former CNN host could mount a White House bid in 2012 - but Dobbs wasn't laughing. "What's so crazy about that?" he responded in the interview broadcast on the Washington, D.C. station.

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Media Matters gives a informative account of Lou Dobbs right wing fringe rhetoric and why he should have been kicked off of CNN. The piece is very informative and a good read.

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Does Ad Revenue Affect Network Editorials?

Televion ads about healthcare reform have been flooding the newtworks, so one might ask if the ad revenue affects the editorial content and reprorts bt the networks. If there is no effect, what is the effect of the ads compared to the editorials?

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America is ablaze with a feverish fervor over race, chiefly, at its core, the acceptance, and legitimacy of its first non-Caucasian president.

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"CNN's Lou Dobbs and Fox News' Brian Wilson and Sean Hannity ignored their own networks' past reporting and continued to forward the discredited smear that, while working as a teacher in 1988, Department of Education official Kevin Jennings failed to report an underage student's  …

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Faced with a growing movement of communities demanding that CNN drop his program, Lou Dobbs responded Friday with one of his favorite postures: the victimized defender of American virtue.

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We have, this week, Fox News' race-baiter Glen Beck calling President Obama "a racist" and accusing Obama of having a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."

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excerpt; ""Lou Dobbs is hardly the only right-wing pundit on the air transmitting bogus right-wing conspiracy theories. See, for instance, Sean Hannity on his Fox News show last night.

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Liz Cheney and Lou Dobbs have recently defended the "birthers," the dumb group of internet psychos who think it's impossible that a black man could've been democratically elected president. Where did they come from and what do they actually believe?

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"In order to prove their point, the conservative media have routinely cropped Obama's statements, including his honest assessment of U.S. failures under the Bush administration while excluding his critiques of other nations.

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President Obama's outreach to the Muslim world has been a welcome development after eight years of President Bush's "us vs. them" approach. "Let me say this as clearly as I can," he told the Turkish parliament yesterday.

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More of the same, there's no change here? We don't need no stinking change! Folks there's more Pork in the Stimulus Package than the Jimmy Dean plant.

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'Astonishing': CNN's Lou Dobbs Blasts Obama Advisor's 'White Male Construction Workers' Comment

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Outspoken conservative author Ann Coulter said Republicans should have "punched" two protesters who interrupted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's speech to the Republican National Convention last September on Tuesday's "Lou Dobbs Tonight."'

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DOBBS GET'S IT: DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS PROTECTED FANNIE MAE AS IF IT WAS A "CHICAGO MACHINE-LIKE" PATRONAGE PROGRAM. REMEMBER: SINCE OBAMA HAS BEEN IN THE SENATE, OBAMA HAS GOTTEN MORE MONEY THAN ANYONE ELSE FROM FANNIE MAE. OBAMA WAS ACORN'S LAWYER AND SUPPORTS THEM. AND ACORN …

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Lou Dobbs talks nonsense to explain Mexican drug violence. Face it: Drug prohibition creates a profit motive that people are willing to kill for.

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He states that he has living kin and friends in the States but won't give away their whereabouts until immigration reform has passed legislation.

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CNN Lou Dobbs Says Bad Word on Live TV - March 24, 2008

Here's something you don't see everyday.

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Many of our political savants and pundits took one in the teeth last night. I couldn't be happier about last night's surprising results, and not because I favor one candidate or another.

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