Posted on 03/01/2006 7:31:58 AM PST by george76
Globalization guru Tom Friedman called Lou Dobbs, "a blithering idiot" in a lecture at Yale Law School last week...
Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of bestsellers "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" and more recently "The World is Flat" (which sold a million and a half copies, far more than Dobbs' viewership), begins his answer.
"One of the problems", he begins, explaining that we need leaders who can explain the complexity, not who will just stir the pot, "is we have politicians that are making us stupid, who are throwing sand in our eyes."
But then he goes on:
"And then you have a blithering idiot like Lou Dobbs, in my view, who's using the platform of CNN in...the frame of a news show.
This is not news.
And so we have a political class not making sense of the world for people and that's why the public...is so agitated."
Ouch.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Generally, I can't stand anyone who works for the NY Times but I'll have to agree with Friedman on his criticism of Dobbs.
Friedman blows around like the wind, but now and then he gets something right.
Tom Friedman,member of the Council on Foreign Relations club of traitors.
You'll love the new Socialist Community of North America ha has planned for you.
It is fun to see the DUmmies call each other names.
"And then you have a blithering idiot like Lou Dobbs..."
We agree on this.
I just sent Tony Snow an email talking about Lou Dobbs..
-- Remember when Lou was pro business, pro competition, and had grey hair?
-- Remember when his hair was suddenly red - and he was anti-outsourcing?
-- Now he's a cute little blond - and he anti anyone who's skin is not lilly white..
Lou's sense has shifted with this hair color - that's as the only consistency I see in the man.
Well even a broken watch tells the correct time twice a day...
bump
You call a man a racist, because he sees a leaky border, and wants the problem fixed?
What did Dobbs say to provoke this reaction?
I call him a racist because he is against the Latino's (I favor tight borders BTY) - he is against the Chinese, he is against outsourcing to India - or anywhere outside the U.S. borders, and now he against our true Arab allies.
The man is hysterical - he thinks anger is the same are reason - it's not.
Tony Snow is also a member of the Council.
He and Freidman have a lot in common, with George Soros.
Yeh - Tony Snow and George Soros have a lot in common....
Hmm -- you're out there
There are many things that Dobbs says that are false and misleading, it is hard to choose just one.
Here are a few points with a link...Quote :
Dobbs Watch: New Report Calls Dobbs the 'Dan Rather of Financial Journalism'
-- CAFTA "never even received neutral consideration" on Dobbs' show. Seventeen separate stories took the hard anti-CAFTA position. How's that for balance?
-- Dobbs continually uses the phrase "so-called" as a modifier for "free trade". This from a so-called journalist?
-- Lou devoted some 33 stories to China during the four-month period of the study. (Actually it was a week -- it just felt like four months). Of those, 89% criticized trade with China. More balance from the big man. This is journalistic vertigo!
-- In his haste to further his obsession with outsourcing, he failed to mention the 5.4 million jobs that are insourced by non-US companies doing business here. It's why they call it "global" trade, Lou.
http://blog.nam.org/archives/2005/08/dobbs_watch_new_report_calls_d.php#comments
For Lou Dobbs, It's Always Groundhog Day
As anyone who has ever suffered through Lou Dobbs' show can tell you, to see it once is to see every episode. We've said it before: He has the best gig on television -- or anywhere for that matter -- in that he does the same show night after night. Every night he serves up a daily dose of misery and mayhem wrapped around a singular theme: America is going to hell in a handbasket. Indeed, it is the darker, TV equivalent of the movie, "Groundhog Day."
http://blog.nam.org/archives/2006/02/for_lou_dobbs_i_1.php#comments
Fun Fact #1: US Still First in Global Manufacturing
A while ago we wrote to rebut Lou Dobbs' twisted view of the state of the union. We pretty much got it all out of our system except to correct one very important fact. He was alleging that China was now the world leader in manufacturing. Not true, but that doesn't mean folks don't believe it.
Here's the truth: the US is the largest manufacturer in the world and accounts for nearly a quarter of global manufacturing output. This makes the US manufacturing sector over two and a half times bigger than China's manufacturing sector. No doubt about it, they are growing, but the early obits for US manufacturing are, well, premature. We continue to be the largest manufacturer in the world and we continue to be the best manufacturers in the world.
http://blog.nam.org/archives/2006/02/fun_fact_1_2.php#comments
They are both in the same club.
That club has a vision for North America.
http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=8102
Sounds like a nightmare to me.
yep in the blacklagoon
Don't trouble yourself by reading the link.
There's too many big words there for you, anyway.
You are wrong, if you call the UAE allies. What is their voting record in the UN? I think it is something like 25% agreeing with our votes. That is about how often Ted Kennedy votes with the Republican party, and I don't think he is an ally of the conservative cause. Of course President Bush thinks he is.
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