Posted on 10/15/2004 12:27:35 AM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
Protecting your country is conservative, ideological fanaticism at the expense of your country is radical extremism. Pat is a conservative and the blowhards with a fat contract to spew old liberal nonsense about ideology uber alles are not conservative.
What I remember about Dobbs leaving CNN, in the middle of a broadcast, was because he was critisizing Clinton too much to suit CNN. After he left, CNN's ratings dropped and they begged him back.
Here's a snip I found:
Dobbs' on-air blast at CNN chief
The rivalry between CNN President Rick Kaplan and CNN.fn boss and Moneyline host Lou Dobbs reached critical mass last week, when Dobbs challenged Kaplan's news savvy on the air during his top-rated business show. The brouhaha erupted last Thursday, when a Dobbs producer was ordered by Kaplan to cut away from Moneyline for live coverage of President Clinton's address at Columbine HS in Littleton, Co. Dobbs, who didn't consider the staged event breaking news, "was absolutely livid," says an insider. So livid, in fact, he ordered his producer to cut back to Moneyline. Kaplan -- a Clinton golf buddy -- immediately countered with an order to go back to Colorado. The tug-of-war ended with a visibly peeved Dobbs telling his audience they were returning to Columbine because "CNN President Rick Kaplan wants us to." Dobbs' comments were edited out of CNN's transcript of the show. "It was a real blowout," a source told PAGE SIX.
"There was mayhem in the studio with all the back and forth." The struggle continued Friday, when the still-steamed Kaplan fired off a memo stating that, between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. -- the Moneyline time slot -- Atlanta headquarters will have "the final call." "Kaplan made it clear that he's still calling the shots," said our source. Dobbs, who is not a fan of the Clinton administration, is often at odds with Kaplan's fawning, kid-gloved treatment of the White House.
http://secure.mediaresearch.org/news/cyberalert/1999/cyb19990609.html#3
Isn't it interesting that with as much intelligence we're led to believe all these "blowhards" are supposed to have......they don't even stop to think what is the root word of the term "conservative" and what it really means.
"He's an economic populist/protectionist. Seal the borders! That's NOT conservative."
Defending the nation's economic and cultural heritage is NOT conservative? Coulda fooled me.
Lou Dobbs- conservative show?? Are you kidding?
Nobody matches Cavuto.
"Nobody matches Cavuto"
For being a fanatical free-trader, that's true.
I have asked the question, "What exactly is it that they wish to conserve?", and of course I never receive an answer. That is telling.
Dobb's is a pinhead protectionist. Sure-fire way to ruin an economy.
"Dobbs isn't doing business coverage perse. His show is about issues like the O'Reilly show. He has very prominent guests. It's excellent."
We must of been listening to the a different Lou Dobbs, the other day he was red faced with anger re: something Bush so I tuned out.
Lou Dobbs is my favorite news anchor of them all. I like his calm, rational giving of the news.
I get so tired of screaming, interrupting, ugly people who think their opinions are next to God's. And I HATE those who PRETEND to be something they are not (like BORe).
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