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Lou Dobbs quit CNN last night. Abruptly. Announced it on the air.
Really? Really.
His convoluted explanation about other opportunities sounded pretty lame to me, although admittedly I didn’t hear it directly from him. I’m guessing he was fired. And it should have happened a long time ago.
Two or three years ago, I was very much in agreement with his opinions on illegal immigration. I’d get wound up, he’d rant for an hour, and I’d feel ever so self-righteous and vindicated. Or maybe he ranted and I got wound up. It’s hard to pinpoint the origins of a mob mentality.
Eventually, though, I got really tired of listening to ol’ Johnny One-Note. I stopped seeing him as a well-informed, law-and-order guy and started seeing him as an angry, curmudgeonly old man who might even be getting a bit senile. You know the type; they keep repeating the same stories over and over, seemingly unaware that they’re doing it and that their audience quit listening long ago. Then there were the “tonsillitis” (read: new teeth) and “they’re shooting at me” debacles.
Buh bye, Lou. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
I gave Glen Beck similar benefit of the doubt when he was at CNN but only for a few seconds. I’m glad the network jettisons the blowhards. Now someone please get Robin Meade to stop falling for the balloon boy crap!
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I don’t know Robin Meade (never watch HLN’s airheads) but Beck makes me gag. Can’t imagine who’d hire Dobbs, unless maybe he got an offer from the Birthers or Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
I used to rather like Lou Dobbs myself, but, yeah, eventually it just ended up being nothing but endlessly bashing on the illegals. There was never anything new.
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I liked him too, for quite a while, but then he seemed to just go kind of nuts. Paranoid, irrational.