Lou Dobbs at the border with the Minute Men.
Lou Dobbs at the border with the Minute Men.
Lou Dobbs with Minute Men...
Interesting. I'd chalk it up to most of us like to hear news from a perspective that echos our own core beliefs. Fox is too middle of the road to suit me.
Lou definately has my respect on this issue. He doesn't pander to the left and he does not back down for what he believes in.
Lou Dobbs and Wilford Brimley talking over Hollywood.
However, this says to me that the stop illegal immigration cause has a huge following and will follow the news to where there is support for that.
It also suggests that FOX is vulnerable due to their neo-wishy/washy "fair and balanced" stance.
But what the hey, when you get desperate gotta promote your CNN hack somehow.
A tipster asks: "Did you notice that Lou Dobbs beat Special Report with Brit Hume last week in the Demo?" Well, no I didn't, but thank you for pointing it out! Using TVNewser's daily scoreboard, here's a 6 p.m. ratings track from the week of April 3:
SHOW: M / T / W / T / F
Hume: 185 / 183 / 215 / 222 / 189
Dobbs: 159 / 269 / 186 / 233 / 198
That's an average of roughly 199 demo viewers a night for Hume, and roughly 209 a night for Dobbs. (Notice how Hume's viewership is more constant than Dobbs though.) Hume still had more total (older) viewers.
Dobbs doesn't give a d*mn about illegal immigration. All he is trying to do is use the issue to help the Democrats in 2006 and 2008.
Says a lot about the people who have fallen for his shenanigans and suddenly proclaimed him the savior of the United States.
Hispanics 17 to 32 years old?
Eh, Brit is still Da Man! As for Fox being pro-illegal, I guess somebody forgot to tell Sean Hannity, John Gibson, et al. O'Reilly is "Pro" only in the sense that he says he understands why they want to come here.
I like Brit Hume best, though. He's a real news man, imho.
One problem with Britt is he is never there.
It has nothing to do with Hume's absence. Most people don't know who's on in advance when they tune in, and Jim Angle is pretty damn good as the regular sub.
The problem is that nearly half of the show is given over to some worn out twits, all of whom (Barnes, Kondrake, Liason, Kristol, Williams, and to a lesser extent Krauthammer)are all for illegal aliens and amnesty. These clowns make millions just for BS'ing and live in fancy gated communities far removed from the problems average Americans face with illegals devaluing their property, corrupting their culture, and taking their jobs.
Their average day has them in communion not with average working folks, but with those inside-the-Beltway parasites of politicians, lobbyists, corporation moguls, special interest zealots, and fellow pundits. One would think "fair and balanced" Fox would allow other opinions, but with regard to illegal immigration, it is a monolith of elitists presenting only one side of an issue.
A lot of Dobbs' new listeners are Hume Special Report faithful like me who just can't take the constant drumbeat for illegal aliens on that show and know they can hear some honest discussions by Dobbs who has the courage to put the pro-illegal morons in their place.
Watch all the tap dancing from these pro-illegal talking heads next November when they try to explain the Republican's loss of power. All of us know it will be because the party would not back up the will of the people but would only consider the corporate greed mongers wishes.
The faithful will stay home because of immigration, but the pundits will try to pass it off as the war problems or corruption or 6-year fatigue. But we will know the real reason.
Karl Rove thinks we hate brown people. This "genius" who nearly wrested defeat from the jaws of runaway victory in 2004 can't fathom that we hate law breakers. Let's see Karl Rove deal with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and the impeachment trial in 2007 that occurs because of his thick-headedness.