I trust J R "Bob" Dobbs more than Lou Dobbs.
Posted on 08/25/2005 4:14:06 AM PDT by CorbyCard
Trade Secrets: ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight’ Hides Good News Behind Negative View of Free Market
CNN promotes “Lou Dobbs Tonight” as “news, debate and opinion.” But it doesn’t explain that Dobbs defines those words his own unique way. “News” is often economic distortions presented as fact. “Debate” doesn’t always mean that both sides get to comment. And, for Dobbs, opinion is something injected into every aspect of a news report.
Dobbs heads an hour-long news and “business” show that assaults business, rails against free trade and relies on union members to paint a dreary economic picture. Yet the network that advertises itself as “CNN – The most trusted name in news” says Dobbs “helped CNN become the leader in television business journalism.”
Dobbs, dubbed “the Dan Rather of financial journalism” by Daniel Griswold, director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies, has roused numerous critics with his skewed view of the news. But what’s more, opponents argue that one of the foremost names in TV business news is often simply wrong. As a result, his viewers are missing the real story behind free trade.
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, 94 percent of the show’s stories about trade over a four-month period blamed elements of free trade for “destroying” the U. S. middle class and leaving a “legacy of environmental degradation, lost jobs, and increased illegal immigration.”
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He's a few bricks shy of a full load.
Lou is an idiot, and a JERK! Oh yeah, he's also a lying POS!
LLS
Of course he is; he works for CNN; those characteristics are a requirement for employment with CNN.
He is right on the money concerning border security though.
Wow man, I think I'll go smoke another bowl of hash.
;-)
He's not at all unintelligent, he's just got a heavy-duty agenda ............ and it's not freedom.
Who's on first?
I trust J R "Bob" Dobbs more than Lou Dobbs.
Lou Dobbs is a great American. Of course, the libertarian ivory tower known as the Cato Insitute who want free trade and open immigration at all costs don't like Dobbs. And Dobbs gets a lot of criticism from the politically correct left. I see Dobbs as a sensible center-right kind of guy who speaks for the folks who don't get their marching orders from Michael Moore or Rush Limbaugh.
Maybe you'd like to tell us all who is it that "gets their marching orders" from Rush Limbaugh? I've been listening to him for years and he has yet to send me my orders.
It might be a great thing in the short run to allow illegal aliens into the country with little or no hindrance, but it is not a conservative policy to do so.
Likewise it may sound great to say things like "all jobs being outsourced are no longer jobs that we in America want or need" but it is a long term recipe for dependence on undependable countries such as China and India.
Lou Dobbs is OK on border security (and even on this issue, he can be all over the place), but on economics he sounds like some fat drunk sitting in a tavern in Queens ranting about how he's "getting screwed" while consuming copious quantities of alcohol.
He also doesn't follow standard usage of logic or reasoning. For example, he states that Dobbs complains unjustly that China pegged its Yuan so that it could undersell American companies.
He then goes on to say that if China prices things too high, they will have to worry about being undersold by Malysia or Bangladesh.
How does that have anything to do with the original point?
Does he really thing Lou Dobbs will be happy if China loses business to Bangladesh?
You bet. Lou Dobbs is top gun.
That's why the "business as usual crowd" hates him.
The open border, "business as usual" crowd hates Dobbs. He puts Rush, Hannity, Snow and most the rest to shame.
I am surprised CNN even allows him on the air. He's the best thing that ever happened to that network, and the only reason we watch it.
Rush tends to use mostly "talking points" from the Republican National Committee. You hear all the same arguments rehashed every day by Laura Ingram, Sean Hannity and Michael Reagan. I agree with Rush Limbaugh on some issues, but many fans tend to accept whatever he says without reservation. Michael Moore has a similar hold on many progressives even though some of his assertions have no basis in fact. My point is that Lou Dobbs is not a leftist nor is he someone making a sales pitch for the GOP every day. I don't know which party he belongs to. Dobbs could be a Republican or a conservative Democrat. He presents an independent center-right view on issues.
I think Lou is supposed to be a journalist? I know they're bad, but he doesn't have a clue about being unbiased.
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