Lou Dobbs becomes a real problem for CNN (Flop Sweat continues...)

Baltimore Sun ^ | 8/2/09 | Dave Zurawik

[pissant]

Just when you thought 24/7 cable news TV couldn't get stranger, starting Tuesday night, viewers are likely to see advertisements on CNN "attacking" Lou Dobbs during his prime-time show on the same cable channel.

And if that simply seems to be one more instance of the polarizing rhetoric and toxic nastiness of cable news TV, it's not. Dobbs has become a real problem for CNN, and a liberal media watchdog organization has found a way to highlight what it sees as reckless behavior by Dobbs.

Dobbs has consistently been lending credence to the "birthers" movement, which claims President Barack Obama is not a U. S. citizen, and thus, not eligible to be president because he was not allegedly born in the United States. The view has been widely and thoroughly discounted -- most notably by Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate. But despite such facts, Dobbs has persisted.

The Media Matters ads on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News will take Dobbs to task for his on-air actions in relation to that issue. It is a clever and sound strategy in the world of corporate TV.

CNN can't really afford to ditch any ads that don't violate standards and practices. And if they refuse this one, which can still be seen on their competitors, they have a credibility problem.

Credibility is the real issue here, and loss of it is the great danger for CNN.

While CNN generally has lower prime-time ratings than its angry, opinionated competitors on the right and the left, it does have credibility and a kind of journalistic highground by "playing it down the middle." And that pays off on big news events when viewers want verified facts and information provided without partisan spin. The ratings during the election -- and even on events like

[pissant]

Let me correct you Mr. Zuradick - Lou Dobbs has Becomes a Real Problem for Obama

[BradyLS]

While CNN generally has lower prime-time ratings than its angry, opinionated competitors on the right and the left...

Wow! And left??? Aw, c'mon. You can name names!

[bareford101]

YEAH!! people don’t spend money on ads against someone who is irrelevant! Good going, Mr. Dobbs!!

“MR DOBBS TAKES ON WASHINGTON”

[allmost]

I'm a birther. I want to know the truth.

[Borax Queen]

The Bolsheviks at the SPLC and other places have been desperate to take Lou out for awhile now. They brainwashed the dumbed-down leftist masses into thinking that Lou “lies.”

They’re STILL bringing up how he wounded them and their criminal pals when his reporter researched leprosy. But as we know, the leftists can never let anything go.

[Always Right]

The view has been widely and thoroughly discounted -- most notably by Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate.

Either they are ignorant or liars or both. Do they really not know the birth certificate has not been released?

[End Times Sentinel]

a liberal media watchdog organization has found a way to highlight what it sees as reckless behavior by Dobbs.

Why is that reckless?

Just release the birth certificate, and shut everyone up. And this is coming from a person who believes he was born in Hawaii.

My only suspicion is that Frank Marshall Davis is his real father.

[PhilDragoo]

Dobbs has become a real problem for CNN The Socialist Joker.

[goodnesswins]

I’m a Birther.....I had to show a long form BC for my passport.....I’ll show Obama my BC if he’ll show me his!!!

[pissant]

They know it. The idiot is purposely using Media MAtters/F**kCheck talking points.

[olezip]

Dobbs has become a real problem for CNN, and a liberal media watchdog organization has found a way to highlight what it sees as reckless behavior by Dobbs.

The real problem is not Dobbs, but the apparent lack of truthfulness and forthrightness by President Obama on the circumstances of his birth, his college records, and his sources of funding.

Of course, the weak minded and weak kneed MSM will not connect the dots, or address the issues highlighted by Dobbs. Instead they resort to the usual Marxist playbook -- attack the messenger with ad hominem attacks, while insisting that the issue is not the issue.

[Always Right]

While CNN generally has lower prime-time ratings than its angry, opinionated competitors on the right and the left, it does have credibility and a kind of journalistic highground by "playing it down the middle."

Playing it down the middle???? LOL, right. Trashing Palin and worshiping Obama is down the middle.

[Repeal 16-17]

Dobbs has been found guilty of Heresy. The followers of the Liberal Messiah will now destroy him. Dobbs better find new employment, because his days at CNN are numbered. He’s probably better off.

[taxtruth]

Lou should move over to fox and send BOR to CNN.

[AmericanVictory]

“down the middle?” LOL

[InterceptPoint]

Credibility is the real issue here, and loss of it is the great danger for CNN.

LOL!! Someone should point out to the writer that you cannot lose what you no longer possess.

[Carley]

CNN’s Rafferty is playing it down the middle.....of the sewer.

[PhilDragoo]

The view has been widely and thoroughly discounted -- most notably by Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate.

More people saw the Roswell saucer and five space aliens playing poker than have seen Obama's birth certificate.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"The view has been widely and thoroughly discounted -- most notably by Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate.">"

Funny,,,, I don't recall EVER Seeing an Hawaiian BC. I have seen a COUPLE of forged Hawiian COLBs, but not an actual Hawaiian BC.

[olrtex]

CNN is a despicable joke, and Lou Dobbs is no great shakes of an announcer. Still, I think all of us ought to watch Dobbs just to give him some support on this issue.