Lou Dobbs

[[File:Lou Dobbs by Gage Skidmore.jpg|right|thumb|165px|Dobbs speaking at CPAC 2015.]]
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'''Louis Carl Dobbs''' {{lived|1945|2024}} was a former [[CNN]] anchor. He graduated with a degree in [[economics]] from Harvard University in 1967, joined CNN in its infancy, and quickly climbed its ranks. Dobbs first started receiving negative scrutiny in the early 2000s by calling the [[War on Terror]] a "war against [[Islamists]]". His [[Xenophobia|staunchly anti-immigration stance]] provoked protest by the [[Hispanic]] community; [[Hypocrisy|despite these views]], Dobbs [[irony|hired]] [[illegal immigrant]]s to take care of his daughter's [[horse]]s.<ref>[https://www.businessinsider.com/lou-dobbs-hired-illegal-immigrants-2010-10 BUSTED: Lou Dobbs Hired Illegal Immigrants To Care For His Horses] by Joe Weisenthal (Oct 7, 2010, 5:55 AM) ''Business Insider''.</ref> Dobbs was a major [[conspiracy theorist]] who made [[Obama citizenship denial|birther]] noises &mdash; first on [[CNN]], for which he was not-quite fired<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-07-18/lou-dobbs-dead Lou Dobbs, veteran TV news host and conservative commentator, dies at 78] by Nardine Saad and Meg James (July 18, 2024 Updated 4:18 PM PT) ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> (given a sinecure and a desk by the toilet), and then on his radio show.

He was the host of ''Lou Dobbs Tonight'' on [[Fox Business Network]] and was one of [[Donald Trump]]'s most prominent fanboys. Likewise, Dobbs was one of Trump's "favorite media toadies".<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-doesnt-believe-his-own-damaging-rants-about-fake-news/2019/02/04/b368b526-2881-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html Trump doesn’t believe his own damaging rants about 'fake news'] by Margaret Sullivan (February 4, 2019) ''The Washington Post''.</ref> In 2020, Dobbs stated that Trump's former-National Security Advisor/[[chickenhawk]]/[[neoconservative]] [[John Bolton]] had "been reduced to a tool for the radical [[Democrats|Dems]]" because Bolton dared to insinuate that Trump had [[Impeachment#Trump and impeachment|violated]] the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]].<ref>[https://theweek.com/speedreads/892119/foxs-lou-dobbs-declares-john-bolton-veteran-4-gop-administrations-tool-left Fox's Lou Dobbs declares John Bolton, veteran of 4 GOP administrations, a 'tool for the left'] by Kathryn Krawczyk (28 January 2020) ''The Week''.</ref> Fox finally got fed up with his support of election conspiracy theories and other [[Trump]]ian bullshit and canceled his show on 5 February 2021.<ref>Stephen Battaglio, [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-02-05/fox-news-cancels-lou-dobbs-tonight Fox News cancels Lou Dobbs’ show; pro-Trump host not expected to be back on air]. Los Angeles Times, 5 February 2021.</ref> As it turned out, the Fox firing was too little, too late. Fox settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million; Twelve of the twenty defamatory statements in the lawsuit were attributed to Dobbs.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/20/lou-dobbs-dead-fox-conspiracies/ Anti-immigrant hatred led Lou Dobbs into the conspiratorial abyss In one career, a spiral from old-fashioned reporting to dangerous — and actionable — falsehoods.] by Erik Wemple (July 20, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EDT) ''The Washington Post''.</ref><ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/media/dominion-fox-news-allegations/index.html Here are the 20 specific Fox broadcasts and tweets Dominion says were defamatory] by Eric Levenson & Marshall Cohen (April 17, 2023) ''CNN''.</ref>

==See also==
*[[North American Union]], his other favourite conspiracy theory.
*[[Myths and facts about immigration to the United States]]

==External links==
*[http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/lou-dobbs-to-depart-cnn/ ''The New York Times'' on Dobbs]
*[http://www.thenation.com/article/155209/lou-dobbs-american-hypocrite ''The Nation'' on Dobbs]
*[http://www.biography.com/articles/Lou-Dobbs-225197 Biography: Lou Dobbs]

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