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after spending months pushing conspiracy theories about voter fraud, Lou Dobbs is reportedly out of a job.

"Fox News has canceled 'Lou Dobbs Tonight,' the program hosted by television's staunchest supporter of Donald Trump and of his assertions of voter fraud in the 2020 election, The Times has learned. Dobbs' program, which airs twice nightly at 5 and 7 p.m. Eastern on the Fox Business Network, will have its final airing Friday, according to a Fox News representative who confirmed the cancellation," the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

"Dobbs, 75, remains under contract at Fox News but he will in all likelihood not appear on the company's networks again. In addition to his Fox Business Network program, he occasionally turned up on the Fox News Channel as a commentator," the LA Times reported. "The cancellation comes a day after voting software company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox News and three of its hosts — Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro. The company claims the hosts perpetuated lies and disinformation about Smartmatic's role in the election, damaging its business and reputation."

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Lou Dobbs, conservative pundit and longtime cable TV host for Fox Business and CNN, dies at 78

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NEW YORK (AP) — Lou Dobbs, the conservative political pundit and veteran cable TV host who was a founding anchor for CNN and later was a nightly presence on Fox Business Network for more than a decade, has died. He was 78.

His death was announced Thursday in a post on his official X account, which called him a “fighter till the very end – fighting for what mattered to him the most, God, his family and the country.” No cause of death was given.

“Lou’s legacy will forever live on as a patriot and a great American. We ask for your prayers for Lou’s wonderful wife Debi, children and grandchildren,” the post said.

He hosted “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on Fox Business from 2011 to 2021, following two separate stints at CNN.

Fox News Media said in a statement that the network was saddened by Dobbs’ passing.

“An incredible business mind with a gift for broadcasting, Lou helped pioneer cable news into a successful and influential industry,” the statement said. “We are immensely grateful for his many contributions and send our heartfelt condolences to his family.”

Dobbs was an early and vocal supporter of Donald Trump during his candidacy for the White House and throughout his presidency. After his death was announced Thursday, Trump wrote on his media platform Truth Social that Dobbs was a friend and a “truly incredible Journalist, Reporter, and Talent.”

“He understood the World, and what was ‘happening,’ better than others. Lou was unique in so many ways, and loved our Country. Our warmest condolences to his wonderful wife, Debi, and family. He will be greatly missed!" Trump wrote on the platform.

Dobbs was named in a lawsuit against Fox News by Dominion Voting systems over lies told on the network about the 2020 presidential election. A mediator in 2023 pushed the two sides toward a $787 million settlement, averting a trial. A mountain of evidence — some damning, some merely embarrassing — showed many Fox executives and on-air talent didn’t believe allegations aired mostly on shows hosted by Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro. At the time, they feared angering Trump fans in the audience with the truth.

Dobbs spent more than two decades at CNN, joining at its launch in 1980 and hosting the program “Moneyline.” He left CNN in 2009 to help media mogul Rupert Murdoch launch Fox Business.

“Lou was one of the CNN originals, who helped launch and shape the network. We are saddened to hear about his passing and extend our sincerest condolences to his wife Debi, children and his family," CNN said in a statement.

When he joined Fox, he said he considered himself the underdog. A few years later his show was highly rated and he was a key figure on the right-leaning network.

“We’ll focus on the American people, their standard of living ... the American nation,” he said about his show in 2011. “Those are always my starting points.”

Dobbs’ Fox show was titled “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” the same as the one he left in 2009 after an awkward last few years at CNN. Once the most visible television business journalist with his “Moneyline” show in the 1990s, Dobbs made CNN management uneasy as he grew more opinionated and drew angry protests from Latinos for his emphasis on curbing illegal immigration.

Dobbs dove into the complex public policy and economic issues that drive society.

Dobbs said he always wanted to be straight with his viewers about his own views on issues.

“My audience has always expected me to tell them where I’m coming from, and I don’t see any reason to disappoint them,” he said in 2011.

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By early January 2021, Fox News hosts and executives were ready to move on from then-President Donald Trump and his insistence that the election was stolen.

"it's been 8 weeks and none of them has produced anything tangible or verifiable. and now he wants thousands of his supporters to go to DC without shelter or food to demonstrate," host Lou Dobbs texted a producer on his show on Jan. 3. "I believe the election was stolen — but without evidence we can do nothing significant."

"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights," Tucker Carlson wrote in a Jan. 4 text to an unidentified person. "I truly can't wait."

"I hate him passionately," he continued. "I can't handle much more of this."

The revealing private messages were unsealed Tuesday night, part of a massive cache of evidence in the $1.6 billion Dominion defamation suit against Fox News and the Fox Corp. They paint a remarkably frank picture of how key players at Fox News viewed the stolen election lie that motivated a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Fox News argued the voting systems manufacturer was skewing the evidence.

“Dominion has been caught red handed again using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press," a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement.

Dominion has said the released documents speak for themselves.

Trump and his lawyers "have so discredited their own case, and the rest of us to some extent, that it's infuriating," Carlson continued in his texts. "Absolutely enrages me."

The next day, Jan. 5, Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tapped an email out on his iPhone: Maybe our top talent needs to take a stand.

"It's been suggested our primetime three should independently or together say something like 'the election is over and Joe Biden won. We are all disappointed by it happened. We love America and have to turn the page. We will now be the loyal opposition criticizing every liberal mistake the new administration makes,'" Murdoch wrote to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott.

"Not those words, but a refinement would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election stolen," he added. "And the basis of his 2024 campaign."

Scott forwarded the email to Meade Cooper, the executive vice president of prime-time programming.

"I told Rupert that privately they are all there — we need to be careful about using the shows and pissing off the viewers but they know how to navigate."

Trump's troubles multiplying. His businesses now ruined! Who is going to throw a party at one of his golf clubs or hotels?

Rupert Murdoch in an Email on Jan. 12, 2021

But the top talent at Fox News never did take a stand.

Instead, prime-time hosts talked up the Stop the Steal rally taking place in Washington on Jan. 6.

On the night of Jan. 5, prime-time host Sean Hannity put Eric Trump on the air, who ran through a laundry list of exaggerated or debunked fraud claims he suggested cost his father the election.

"The Republic, its future, our futures, are hanging in the balance," Dobbs said on Jan. 5, teeing up Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton, who argued that the outcome of the election could be changed by state legislatures and Congress on Jan. 6.

And next morning, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitolin an effort to block the certification of the results of the 2020 election. Rioters smashed windows and doors, looted and ransacked offices andengaged in hours of violent clashes. About 140 officers were assaulted that day, andtwo pipe bombswere also planted nearby, but did not detonate.

The privatetexts and emails included in Dominion's evidence offer a remarkable snapshot of the frustration and discontent at Fox News hours and days after the attack — messages that were far different from what they were putting on air.

"he isn't saying what's actually going on. just beating around the bush," Carlson producer Alex Pfeiffer complained in a text exchange with Carlson senior executive producer Justin Wells and an unnamed individual, dissecting Carlson's show on Jan. 6. "why do people think it was stolen? didn't happen immacutately. trump told them thats what happened."

Inside the Fox companies, the shift was urgent, sometimes frenzied.

"Fox News very busy pivoting. ... We want to make Trump a non person," Murdoch wrote in one email on Jan. 8.

Fox News "is pivoting as fast as possible. We have to lead our viewers which is not as easy as it might seem," he wrote in another days later.

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The day after Biden's inauguration, Murdoch was facing heat from Republican senators.

That morning, he met with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and other GOP senators who were opposed to impeaching Trump.

“Still getting mud thrown at us!” Murdoch wrote. “Maybe Sean and Laura went too far,” he continued, referring to Hannity and Laura Ingraham.

He asked Scott whether it was “unarguable that high profile Fox voices fed the story that the election was stolen and that January 6th an important chance to have the result overturned.”

Scott punted the request to a group of executives, noting “please send specifics.”

Six hours later, Irena Briganti, the Fox News executive in charge of communications, responded with more than 15 pages of transcripts of examples.

In a Jan. 12 email exchange with former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Murdoch said "everything changed" on the day of the riot.

"Trump's troubles multiplying. His businesses now ruined! Who is going to throw a party at one of his golf clubs or hotels?"

He went on: "Could he still resign and get Pence to pardon, then just disappear? Would Mike Pence agree?"

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Louis Carl Dobbs (September 24, 1945 – July 18, 2024) was an American conservative^[1] political commentator, author, and television host who presented Moneyline (later Lou Dobbs Tonight) from 1980 to 2009 and 2011 to 2021. From 2021 until his death, he hosted The Great America Show on iHeartRadio and loudobbs.com.^[2]

Dobbs started working with CNN at its inception in 1980, serving as a reporter and network vice president. On the air, he served as host and managing editor of the network's business program, Moneyline, which premiered in 1980. The show was renamed Lou Dobbs Tonight in 2003. Dobbs resigned from CNN in 1999 but rejoined the network in 2001. He resigned once again in November 2009. He was the former talk radio host of Lou Dobbs Radio. From 2011, he hosted Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network until the network cancelled it in February 2021.^[3][4]

Dobbs was an early promoter of birtherism, the unfounded accusation that former U.S. President Barack Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen. He was known for anti-illegal immigration views,^[5][6][7] as well as for opposition to NAFTA and other trade deals.

A staunch supporter of Donald Trump, he infused his show with pro-Trump coverage.^{[8][9][10][11}] He was one of three Fox Corporation program hosts named in a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit by Smartmatic relating to conspiracy theories used in attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.^{[12][13][14][15}] Dobbs was among the hosts named in the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network defamation lawsuit for broadcasting false statements about the plaintiff company's voting machines that Fox News settled for $787.5 million and required Fox News to acknowledge that the broadcast statements were false.^[16][17][18]...

Other appearances

Since 2009, Dobbs had made regular appearances to discuss issues on other news network programs including CNBC's The Kudlow Report and Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor. On October 5, 2010, Dobbs made a guest appearance on an episode of The Good Wife, entitled "Double Jeopardy",^[42] in which he plays a client in search of a new law firm to represent his legal interests.^[43]

Political views

Dobbs was known for his anti-immigration views,^[5][6] warnings about Islamist terrorism, and his opposition to outsourcing.^[44] He was also known for his pro-Trump coverage.^[9][45][46]

China

In December 2018, Dobbs suggested that the United States should start a war with China because of hacking by Chinese state actors. He compared hacking by the People's Liberation Army of China to the attack by the Japanese military on Pearl Harbor in 1941.^[47]

Birtherism

In 2009, Dobbs promoted the false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.^[9][48][49] His repeated promotion of discredited "birther" conspiracies^[50] even though CNN itself considered it a "discredited rumor",^[51][52] revived a topic that had largely disappeared from the media spotlight after the 2008 presidential campaign.^[53] The Southern Poverty Law Center denounced Dobbs' on-air statements as "racist" and "defamatory"^[54][55] and Media Matters ran ads critical of Dobbs and of CNN/^[56] Jon Stewart mocked Dobbs on the satirical Comedy Central television series The Daily Show.^[57] The Associated Press said that Dobbs had "become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network's 'no bias' brand".^[58]

Environment

Dobbs claimed that the scientific consensus on climate change was a hoax.^[59] Dobbs had asserted that scientists warned of global cooling in the 1970s, though that was a distinctly minority view.^{[60][61][62][63}] He likened Obama administration's EPA to the Soviet bureacracy.^[64]

Immigration

Dobbs supported limiting mass immigration.^[7][65][5] Dobbs was strongly opposed to both illegal immigration and foreign worker programs as the H-1B visa program and guest-worker programs. In a 2006 article, Dobbs expressed frustration at failed legislation to build a southern "border fence to stop the flow of illegal aliens and drugs across our borders." He argued that the "true victims of corporate America's lust for cheap labor" were "American working men and women, taxpayers all."^[66] During efforts to implement comprehensive immigration reform during the Bush administration in 2007, Dobbs devoted more than a quarter of all of his airtime during a three-month period to the subject of immigration, and covered it negatively.^[5]

Dobbs's show made factually incorrect claims, such as the one that illegal immigrants were responsible for bringing 7,000 new cases of leprosy to the United States in a three-year period, where the actual timeframe was over the last thirty years.^[67][9] In addressing the leprosy issue, Dobbs in May 2007 compared his critics on the left and right to "commies" and "fascists, respectively."^[68] Dobbs also falsely claimed that "illegal aliens" were a third of the federal prison population in the United States.^[69][70]

Dobbs criticized local officials for their approach to border security. In October 2007 he labeled then-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer an "idiot" for advocating the issuance of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.^[71] Hillary Clinton labeled Dobbs's illegal immigration segments as having "all that hot air."^[72]

In a November 2009 interview with Telemundo, Dobbs said that the U.S. needed a "rational, effective humane policy" for immigration that included enhanced border security and also "the ability to legalize illegal immigrants on certain conditions."^[73][74]

In October 2010, The Nation published the results of a yearlong investigation detailing undocumented workers who had worked on Dobbs's personal properties. The labor involved upkeep of Dobbs's multimillion-dollar estates in New Jersey and Florida, including the horses belonging to his daughter, Hillary, a champion show jumper. The article featured interviews with five immigrants who had worked without papers on Dobbs's properties.^[75] Dobbs denied ever employing illegal labor and called the allegations "a political assault."^[76]

In November 2018, Dobbs falsely claimed that "many" undocumented immigrants voted in the 2018 mid-term elections and that they had an "immense impact."^[77][78]

Dobbs's critics, including columnist James K. Glassman, author of Dow 36,000 and member of the American Enterprise Institute think tank, accused him of inciting xenophobia.^[79] Others accused him of Hispanophobia, a charge he denied^[80] and one which he said offends him deeply, as his wife Debi Segura is a Mexican American.^[81]

After President Donald Trump stated in March 2019 that he supported legal immigration "in the largest numbers ever," Dobbs lamented that Trump was advancing "the interests of the global elite ahead of our citizens," adding, "the White House has simply lost its way."^[82][83]

Support for Trump

Dobbs's fawning coverage of the Trump presidency was described as sycophantic. Fox News president Jay Wallace said in a September 2020 private message to a colleague that "the North Koreans do a more nuanced show" than Dobbs.^{[84][85][9][86][87}] Dobbs opened a November 2017 interview with Trump with "You have accomplished so much", and later said to Trump that he was "one of the most loved and respected" presidents "in history".^[85] The New York Times described the interview as a love-fest and "courtier-like session", as Dobbs "didn't so much ask questions as open his mouth and let rose petals fall out".^[88] During Trump's presidency, Dobbs was described as a "close informal adviser to President Donald Trump".^[89] Trump repeatedly called Dobbs to get his views on various policy issues.^[9]

:{Dobbs promoted "Deep State" conspiracy theories. In January 2018, he called for a "war" on what he called the "deep state" of FBI and the Department of Justice,^[90] whom he claimed were clandestinely working to bring down the Trump presidency.^[90] In June 2018, Dobbs promoted a conspiracy which originated on Reddit and the far-right conspiracy website Gateway Pundit that "the FBI may have initiated a number of spies" into Trump's 2016 campaign.^[91] :{ }:

In July 2018, Dobbs defended the Trump administration's decision to ban a CNN reporter from a press event. Multiple Fox colleagues, including Fox News President Jay Wallace, had shown solidarity with CNN and called on the White House to rescind the ban.^[95] His defense led to charges of hypocrisy: in 2012, when a Daily Caller reporter was criticized by the White House for shouting out a question during an address by Obama, Dobbs defended the reporter, saying "What is rude is a president not speaking to the American people and taking the questions of the White House press".^[96] CNN's Jake Tapper suggested that Dobbs was hypocritical.^[96][97]

In August 2018, Dobbs ran a segment pushing unsubstantiated claims that Google was biased against Trump and that Google was promoting anti-Trump stories.^[98][99] Following Dobbs's segment, Trump tweeted that Google was suppressing conservatives and tasked economic adviser Larry Kudlow to look into regulating Google.^[98]

In September 2018, after Trump inaccurately claimed that the official death count from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was fabricated by Democrats, Dobbs defended Trump's assertion.^[100] Dobbs claimed that "the numbers were inflated" and that the organizations behind the numbers "threw out science, statistics, and evidence to discredit the Trump administration".^[100]

In October 2018, when CNN and prominent Democrats were targeted with mail bomb, Dobbs described the bomb attempts as "fake news" and baselessly claimed that the mail bombs were sent by Democrats who sought to increase their support in the upcoming mid-term elections.^[89][101] The pipe bombs were in fact mailed by a fanatical Trump supporter.^[102][103] Several Fox News employees expressed dismay over Dobbs's rhetoric, with one employee telling CNN, "It's people like Dobbs who really ruin it for all the hard working journalists at Fox".^[104]

When the Trump administration rescinded CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass, Dobbs supported the administration. At the same time, numerous media organizations, including Fox News, spoke out against the Trump administration's decision. When U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, temporarily restored Acosta's press pass, Dobbs described the ruling as "absurd".^[105] When the Trump administration complied with the ruling, Dobbs called on the administration to ignore the ruling and tell the "district court judge to go to hell".^[106][107]

In January 2019, Dobbs described Mitt Romney as a "traitor" and "treasonous" after he wrote an op-ed published in The Washington Post criticizing Trump's character.^[108] In July 2019, Dobbs referred to U.S. military generals who raised concerns about Trump's decision to put on a July 4 military show in Washington D.C. as "snowflake generals".^[109][110]

During the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, The New York Times reported that former Trump national security advisor and 11-year paid contributor to Fox News John Bolton had written in his forthcoming book that Trump had told him that he wanted to continue withholding aid to Ukraine until the country investigated Democrats and the Bidens. On his show the following day, Dobbs asserted that Bolton had been "reduced to a tool for the radical Dems and the deep state with his allegation".^[111][112]

The day senior Justice Department officials intervened in the case of longtime Trump associate Roger Stone with a recommendation of a lighter sentence than had been recommended by DOJ prosecutors the prior day, Dobbs stated on his program that attorney general Bill Barr was "doing the Lord's work" by intervening.^[113] The intervention raised questions about the political neutrality of the DOJ.^[114] The next day, Barr stated in a televised interview that Trump's comments about ongoing DOJ investigations "make it impossible to do my job", causing Dobbs to state on his program, "I guess I am so disappointed in Bill Barr, I have to say this – it's a damn shame when he doesn't get what this president has gone through, and what the American people have gone through, and what his charge is as attorney general."^[115] The following day, after the Justice Department stated it would not prosecute former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of Trump's ire, Dobbs stated on his program, "I have serious, serious questions tonight about the integrity of the Justice Department under Attorney General Barr."^[116]

As Trump, his surrogates and supporters made baseless claims of voting fraud in the aftermath of his 2020 election defeat, Dobbs chastised Republicans for not helping the president to claim "what is rightfully his".^{[117][118][119][120}] He said that Republicans who voted to certify Joe Biden's Electoral College win were "criminal".^[121] After Attorney General Bill Barr said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the election, Dobbs said that Barr was "compromised" and had become part of the "deep state".^[122]

In December 2020, Dobbs aired a segment on his show debunking the very same conspiracy theories that had been amplified on his show; this was in response to a legal threat by the voting technology company Smartmatic which had been the subject of some of the conspiracy theorizing.^[123][124] Speaking to Republican consultant Ed Rollins during his January 4, 2021, broadcast, Dobbs said:

We're eight weeks from the election, and we still don't have verifiable, tangible support for the crimes that everyone knows were committed—that is, defrauding other citizens who voted with fraudulent votes. We know that's the case in Nevada, we know it's the case in Pennsylvania and a number of other states, but we have had a devil of a time finding actual proof. Why?^[125]

Following the storming of the United States Capitol by Trump supporters in January 2021, Dobbs was among those who advanced the conspiracy theory that people associated with antifa were responsible for the attack.^{[126][127][128}]

George Soros conspiracy theories

Dobbs was a proponent of numerous conspiracy theories about the Jewish-American philanthropist and businessman George Soros. Dobbs referred to him as an "evil SOB" and insidious.^[129]

Dobbs's Fox Business Channel shows stirred controversy in October 2018 when a guest on Dobbs's show used what many described as an anti-Semitic trope to suggest that the State Department was "Soros-occupied" territory echoing the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory of a "Zionist-occupied government".^[129][130] The remarks came days after bombing attempts on Soros and leading Democrats, and the remarks were replayed on Fox Business hours after an anti-Semitic gunman at a Pittsburgh synagogue killed 11 people.^[131]

After widespread condemnation, Fox stated that the guest, Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch, would no longer be booked and that the program episode would be withdrawn from the Fox News archives.^[132][129] In the midst of the Trump–Ukraine scandal in November 2019, attorney Joseph diGenova made similar comments on Dobbs's program, falsely claiming that "George Soros controls a very large part of the career foreign service of the United States State Department. He also controls the activities of FBI agents overseas who work for NGOs – work with NGOs. That was very evident in Ukraine."^[133] Dobbs did not dispute diGenova's claim.^[134]

Other views

Dobbs opposed gun control and, though he was a fiscal conservative, supported some government regulations, as revealed in a 60 Minutes interview.^[135] He was critical of trade policies that he said encourage "sending jobs overseas".^[136]

Dobbs's stance on trade earned plaudits from some trade union activists on the traditional political left, while his stance on immigration tended to appeal to the right.^[20]

Dobbs was the author of War on the Middle Class, in which he claimed both Democrats and Republicans are harming the middle class. In it, he came out strongly against the Bush tax cuts, which he argued favor the wealthy, and argued for raising the U.S. minimum wage from what was then $5.15 an hour.^[137]

In March 2009, Dobbs said he thought there should not be a St. Patrick's Day.^[138]

Reception

Journalist Amy Goodman criticized Dobbs's journalistic ethics, accusing him of making flagrant errors in his reporting and assailing his staff's association with what she describes as disreputable sources.^[139]

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/election-fraud-2649563720

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Fox News airs point-by-point fact check of wild election fraud claims during 3 of network's most pro-Trump shows

President Donald Trump being interviewed by Fox News personality Maria Bartiromo, composite image.]

Elizabeth Preza December 20, 2020

Fox News this weekend is airing a stunning point-by-point fact check to claims made on programs hosted by the network's most pro-Trump voices after voting technology company Smartmatic send a 20-page legal letter demanding "a full and complete retraction of all false and defamatory statements and reports."

The segment, which features an interview with Palo Open Source Election Technology Institute voting technology expert Eddie Perez, aired on Lou Dobb's Friday show and Jeanine Pirro's Saturday show. Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo will also show the segment.

In its Dec. 10 letter to Fox News Media, Smartmatic charged the company and its hosts with waging "a concerted disinformation campaign against Smartmatic. Fox News told its millions of viewers and readers that Smartmatic was founded by [the late Venezuelan President] Hugo Chávez, that its software was designed to fix elections, and that Smartmatic conspired with others to defraud the American people and fix the 2020 U.S. election by changing, inflating, and deleting votes." The company also demanded the company "match the attention and audience targeted with the original defamatory publications."

As the Washington Post reports:

"During Friday night's fact-checking segment, the questioner asked Perez: 'Have you seen any evidence of Smartmatic sending U.S. votes to be tabulated in foreign countries?'

This appeared to be a reference to Giuliani's Nov. 12 claim on the show that with Smartmatic software, 'the votes actually go to Barcelona, Spain.' Perez responded, 'No, I'm not aware of any evidence that Smartmatic is sending U.S. votes to be tabulated in foreign countries.'"

Speaking with CNN, Perez said that while he was unaware of the nature of the interview when he spoke to Fox News about Smartmatic, it's important to clear up any confusion the network's viewers have about voting integrity in the United States.

"I felt it was important to talk to Fox News," Perez said. "Of anything potentially more important to be speaking the facts to their audience because there are a lot of consumers of Fox News that have doubts about the election."

Watch the video below:

in stunning segment, Lou Dobbshas come to Jesus moment and fact checks all the wild election conspiracy theories he’s been peddling on air. One-by-one he debunks them. Don’t expect Trump to retweet this clip. Note: Dobbs was threatened with legal action by the voting companies. twt]

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Dobbs: This week was Donald Trump’s “finest week since he was inaugurated”

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former senior Trump administration official Miles Taylor said that President Donald Trump would regularly berate staffers for not following the advice of Fox News host Lou Dobbs.

“This is really disheartening but there was a period of time where, at first jokingly, we would say that Fox late night host Lou Dobbs was the sort of shadow chief of staff of the Trump administration,” Miles told CNN host Anderson Cooper on Friday.

“Why did we say that? Because the president would call us and he would say, and pardon my language, why the hell didn’t you watch Lou Dobb last night? You need to listen to Lou. What Lou says is what I want to do,” he explained.

“So if Lou Dobbs peddled a conspiracy theory on late night television or made an erroneous claim about what should be done at the border or with some law enforcement operation, the president wanted us to be tuning in every night,” Miles said.

"My response to that was I don’t have any time to watch Lou Dobbs in the evening. You have us running a 250,000-person department and we’re trying to guard against some of the most severe threats to the country. We can can’t be watching Lou Dobbs and taking our orders from him, but this happened on a regular basis.”

Miles, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, recently endorsed Biden for president.

see maIN WACKO of ms13 (cover for dhs portland) art end dobbs refs : marxist lives matter?

ActBlue is payment processor used by many progressive organizations (including Black Lives Matter) and candidates to list their causes and receive donations. It is not a fundraising operation. WinRed is its counterpart, a Republican-aligned payment processor and campaign listing.

However, Fox “news side” and opinion side have continued to help spread a debunked conspiracy theory about the Black Lives Movement and the fundraising platform ActBlue, falsely accusing BLM of serving as a fundraising front for the Democratic Party.

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Trump adviser claims he got ‘quite a bit’ of info on Joe Biden from China after the president asked for it

Written by Igor Derysh / Salon October 10, 2019

The Chinese government reportedly offered documents about the business activities of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son to an adviser to President Trump, just days after Trump publicly called on Chinese officials to investigate Hunter Biden’s dealings in that country.

According to Michael Pillsbury, an informal Trump adviser whom the president has called “the leading authority on China,” Chinese officials gave him information about Hunter Biden’s business activities when Pillsbury visited Beijing last week.

“I got a quite a bit of background on Hunter Biden from the Chinese,” Pillsbury told the Financial Times.

Pillsbury’s revelation came after he told Fox Business on Wednesday that he had raised the Biden issue while in Beijing.

Despite his comment to the Financial Times, Pillsbury later denied making the statement to C-SPAN (despite clear evidence he did)and told McClatchy that all of the information the Chinese gave him was based on newspaper articles. There has been no public evidence that Hunter or Joe Biden did anything illegal either in China or Ukraine.

“I have never had any conversation with President Trump about this at any time,” Pillsbury told McClatchy. “The information the Chinese gave me is just from the newspaper stories — nothing new.”

This comes after the FBI expanded its task force on election interference to focus on activities by China and Iran, as well as Russia. A law enforcement official told McClatchy that the Chinese hope to influence U.S. politics during the election “to promote their interests and policy preferences on various issues.”

Pillsbury is a longtime fringe China hawk who rose to influence after Trump took office. He previously worked at the Pentagon under the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, and has been “dismissed by critics as a mix of conspiratorial and self-promoting,” Politico reported last year.

Pillsbury’s contact with Beijing came as Trump publicly urged China to investigate the Bidens.

“China should start an investigation into the Bidens, because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine,” Trump told reporters last week, even though his insinuations about the Bidens and Ukraine have been debunked. His comment came after he discussed upcoming trade talks with China, saying that “if they don’t do what we want, we have tremendous power.”

Republicans have tried to downplay Trump’s public encouragement of a foreign power to interfere in the U.S. election, claiming that he was only kidding.

“I don’t think that’s a real request. I think he did it to gig you guys [reporters],” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said last week. “I think he did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. He plays it like a violin and everybody falls right in, that’s not a real request.”

Republicans made similar claims during the 2016 campaign, after Trump called for Russia to “find the 30,000 emails that are missing” from Hillary Clinton’s server. Despite claims that he was just kidding, former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed that hackers affiliated with the Russian military targeted Clinton’s personal office for the first time within hours of Trump’s comments.

After reaching out to Republican leaders, the Associated Press reported that all of them were either “silent or supportive” of Trump’s call for China to interfere in the election.

“I don’t think there’s anything improper about doing that,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told the outlet.

The only dissent came from the usual voices. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, called the move “wrong and appalling” while Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said any investigation into the Bidens should be by American courts, “not communist tyrants running torture camps.”

Trump has repeatedly raised his conspiracy theory that the Bidens did something illegal in China. Trump has claimed that Hunter Biden “got 1.5 Billion Dollars” from China. There is no evidence that Hunter Biden did anything illegal or that he made anywhere near that amount of money.

Trump is apparently referring to a joint investment fund that Hunter Biden’s company, Rosemont Seneca, entered into with a Chinese state-run bank, ABC News reported. That fund sought to raise $1.5 billion, but actually has just $4.2 million in capital, Hunter Biden’s attorney told the network, of which Hunter Biden holds a 10 percent stake. The attorney added that the deal with the Chinese bank happened months earlier than Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have alleged.

Pillsbury’s efforts in Beijing, like Giuliani’s efforts in Ukraine, suggest that the president is quite serious about pursuing these conspiracy theories.

Speaking with Pillsbury on Wednesday, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, himself a friend and adviser to Trump, said that the real scandal in Washington was not Trump’s pressure on foreign countries to interfere in the election but “the relationship between the Democratic Party and its collusion with China.”

“I tried to bring the topic up in Beijing,” Pillsbury replied. “Just tell me what happened with Hunter Biden. I have never seen them get so secretive in my life. They would discuss ICBM warheads rather than talk about what Hunter Biden was doing in China with Vice President Biden. That is a big area now where the Chinese know they don’t want any American probe into what happened with Hunter Biden.”

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Lou Dobbs had quite the week of shameless propaganda. On Thursday, he attacked the media for not reporting on how much fun people are having around Trump: "At every level, on every floor, this White House is energized. There's sunshine beaming throughout the place, and on almost every face."
But that wasn't all. On Friday night, Dobbs closed his broadcast by thanking Trump for making weekends possible: "Have a great weekend. The president makes such a thing possible for us all."

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Fox host Lou Dobbs attacks George Soros using infamous Nazi-era imagery Daily Kos

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By the time that Trump tweeted and then told journalists at the White House that Alabama would be hit hard by Hurricane Dorian, it was obvious that he was wrong. Instead of admitting that he was referring to well-out-of-date forecasts, Trump has spent a week insisting he was correct (including changing a map with a marker) and attacking media outlets who point out he was lying. Fox propagandists were the rare allies who leapt to his defense.

Sean Hannity had a full meltdown in defense of Trump, complaining of "psychotic jackasses in the media mob." When his guest - a prominent climate change denier - even said that Trump was wrong, Hannity began speaking over him and said that they were out of time.

Lou Dobbs seemed giddy about Trump continuing to keep pushing the lie, saying of the media: "You mess with the bull, you get the horn.” avoided filming violence from right-wing protesters. Geraldo Rivera said that Trump was "unfairly mugged by the media." Fox News host Howard Kurtz attackedthe media for covering Trump's repeated lies about a natural disaster.

At one point this week, Trump even called Fox News' John Roberts into the Oval Office to talk with him about his statements.

This all raises the question of why Trump was relying on days-old information about a natural disaster. And aside from golfing, Trump spent a significant amount of time in the days that Dorian's trajectory turned away from Alabama livetweeting Fox News.

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sinister pro-Trump propaganda of Lou Dobbs

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Thursday, deceptively edited videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) meant to cast doubt on her competency made the rounds on social media and right-wing websites. Later, Fox put its weight behind the narrative, and the network’s most prominent viewer, President Donald Trump, tweeted out a Fox clip about it.

The smears seem like an obvious attempt to discredit Pelosi after she questioned Trump's fitness for office during a May 23 press conference, saying she wished “his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country.” A day earlier, Pelosi had made the true statement that Trump was engaged in a cover-up. As CNN’s Brian Stelter pointed out in the May 24 edition of his Reliable Sourcesnewsletter, “What's going on here is pretty obvious. Pelosi is questioning President Trump's competency -- saying she's concerned about the president's well-being, suggesting an ‘intervention’ is needed -- so Trump's allies are saying the exact same things about her.” MIRROR

There are actually two videos circulating in the pro-Trump media sphere. One spliced together clips of Pelosi’s comments on Thursday to make it seem like she stammered throughout the press conference. The other significantly slowed remarks Pelosi made during an appearance at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on May 22 to make her look inebriated. (Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani tweeted and later deleted that manipulated video.)

Conspiracy theory website Infowars pushed the narrative with the headline “Watch Nancy Pelosi Stutter Slur And Suffer Memory Lapses in Press Conference.” Then FoxBusiness’ Lou Dobbs Tonightadopted a similar frame in an on-screen chyron and aired the deceptively spliced clip of the May 23 press conference. Trump then tweeted the Fox segment out to his 60.5 million followers.

[vid?]OnFox’s Fox & Friends this morning, guests Diamond and Silk falsely accused Pelosi of inebriation, possibly referring to the doctored footage of her appearance at CAP. Co-host Steve Doocy claimed in a later segment that he was unfamiliar with the doctored video but issued a correction for Diamond and Silk’s accusation by citing the Post. However, the two Fox Nation hosts refused to back down:

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Copies of the videos continue to spread on social media platforms like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter, garnering thousands of interactions. Though these videos are deceptive, the tech giants seem unable to halt their spread -- and in some cases, they may even be making money from views,as at least one video pushing the smear on YouTube featured an ad.

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Before perpetrating what’s believed to have been the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history, the Tree of Life synagogue shooter posted online,blaming Jewish people in the U.S. “for bringing in an invasion of nonwhite immigrants.” He was specifically referring to the caravans of migrants from Central America that conservative media have focused on as an existential threat to the United States.

The link between conservative media rhetoric and the shooter's words was readily apparent at the time. But instead of course correcting following the massacre, Fox is instead still pushing the conspiracy theory to this day.

Sean Hannity hosted conspiracy theory-monger Glenn Beck, who said the migrant caravans were “directly” funded by “George Sorosand others” (Soros is Jewish). Beck further claimed that "American communists in Chicago" are orchestrating the caravans with money from Soros.

The New Republic's Jeet Heer noted thatBeck's words were "a straight up articulation of the theory of Judeo–Bolshevism, the ideological pillar of Nazi anti-Semitism." Many others noticed that Beck's words were indistinguishable from those of the Tree of Life shooter.

(While shocking, this was entirely foreseeable for Fox News: Beck made his name at the network in part through anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros.)

It was not just on Hannity, either. On the same night,Lou Dobbs blamed "left-wing money" and "the United Nations" for migrants headed to the border. This is a clear dog whistle for Dobbs' audience, as the Fox Business host, his guests, and others on the network have repeatedly pushed the same conspiracy theory. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, a Dobbs guest was bannedfrom the network after a previously aired show reran in which the guest complained about the "Soros-occupied State Department." Fox has taken no action regarding Beck or Dobbs this week.

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Tucker Carlson warns women being paid more than men will destroy society.

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is by now well-known for his on-air appeals to white nationalism. Last month, his remarks that immigrants make America “poorer and dirtier” have caused him to lose a raft of advertisers in recent weeks. But he also has a serious problem with women — and according to his broadcast on Wednesday, rising pay for women will lead to “men in decline.”

Carlson claimed that because “male-dominated” industries like manufacturing are in decline in some parts of the country, but schools, hospitals, and other places that employ large numbers of women are in as high demand as ever, “in many areas, women suddenly made more than men … Study after study shows that when men make less than women, women generally no longer want to marry them.”

“Over big populations this causes a drop in marriage, a spike in out-of-wedlock births and all the familiar disasters that inevitably follow. More drug and alcohol abuse, higher incarceration rates, fewer families formed in the next generation,” Carlson warned.

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Tucker Carlson says women making more money than men leads to “more drug and alcohol abuse, higher incarceration rates, fewer families formed for the next generation” pic.twitter.com/gpAKgy0snV

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) January 3, 2019

Naturally, Carlson doesn’t provide any sourcing for these claims. Nor does he seem to have noticed that women in fact earn less than men on average, not more.

Lou Dobbs calls Mitt Romney “treasonous” for his op-ed mildly criticizing Trump.

Carlson was not the only right-wing anchor eager to share his opinion this week. Also in the spotlight was Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs, a psychotically pro-Trump anchor whoover the Washington Post op-ed by incoming Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), rebuking Trump’s failure of leadership and moral character.

“We have Romney,” said Dobbs, “who is basically saying to all of the great Americans in Utah, ‘Go to hell, please! You were a bunch of suckers! And I accepted the Trump endorsement. And now I’m telling Trump what I really think of him.’ What an ignorant — his character?! He’s talking about character?! He’s a traitor, he is treasonous, and betrayed the people of Utah!”

Contrary to Dobbs’ assertion, it is not “treasonous” for a member of a co-equal branch of government to criticize the presidency. And in reality, 64 percent of Utah voters wantRomney to stand up to Trump in office. The good news for Dobbs, though, is that Romney is unlikely to follow through on his anti-Trump posturing beyond empty words. He noted in his op-ed that he supports Trump’s policy agenda, and clarified he intends to vote for Trump’s border wall.

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On Fox Business, Lou Dobbs defends Infowars and Alex Jones

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president gets his information from Fox, makes his decisions and tweets accordingly, repeating network talking points minutes after he has heard them, no matter how goofy. In turn, the personalities of Fox have become presidential advisers; former judge and Fox host Jeanine Pirro and attorney, conspiracy theorist and Fox regular Joe diGenova, who was on Trump’s legal team for about a week before conflicts of interest forced him out, remain on the president’s speed dial.

What’s more, Trump “cherishes” Lou Dobbs over at Fox Business, according to The Daily Beast, places him on speakerphone for meetings in the Oval Office and makes sure “he is involved in some of the administration’s more sensitive discussions.” And an insider tells The Washington Post that Fox superstar Sean Hannity is so omnipresent at the White House, “he basically has a desk in the place.”

Conversely, the president and his minions repeatedly go on Fox programs to bluster and dissemble. In the last week and a half, Trump himself has phoned into his favorite show “Fox and Friends” for a thirty-minute, Grandpa Simpsons-style rant – and threatens to do it again soon. And former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, the latest addition to Trump’s squad of nerve-wracked legal eagles, has appeared on Fox almost as much as those commercials for catheters.

Ostensibly, Giuliani’s mission has been to defend his boss against the Stormy Daniels and Russia scandals, and whatever else may soon rear its head when it comes to Michael Cohen, money laundering and other alleged high crimes and misdemeanors. Yet his comments don’t seem to be helping the president’s cause; quite the contrary. This headline from The Onion says it all, “Mueller Poses As Fox News Host To Coax Rudy Giuliani Into Giving Him Testimony On Trump.”

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All-White Fox Business Panel Agrees: Obama Administration Trying To Make America Look Racist

Blog ››› April 22, 2014 10:58 AM EDT ››› THOMAS BISHOP

Fox Business panel Fox Business host Lou Dobbs and an all-white panel used proposed changes to federal sentencing guidelines to accuse President Obama of trying to "accentuate the idea that America is a racist society."

The panelists were discussing new rules proposed by Attorney General Eric Holder that would allow more non-violent offenders convicted of drug laws -- which disproportionately sent black offenders to prison for long sentences -- eligible for presidential clemency. The panel suggested that the administration's acknowledgement of racial disparities proved the "race industry's" success in making the country look racist.

In 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to reduce the federal mandatory minimum sentencing disparities between those convicted of powdered cocaine possession versus crack cocaine possession. As the Washington Post noted, prior to the law's passage, "those arrested for crack offenses -- mostly young, African American men--faced far harsher penalties than the white and Hispanic suspects most often caught with powder cocaine." In 2013, President Obama commuted sentences for eight individuals who were convicted of non-violent crack cocaine offenses under the old sentencing guidelines.

On April 21, Holder announced that Obama "wants to consider additional clemency applications, to restore a degree of justice, fairness, and proportionality for deserving individuals who do not pose a threat to public safety." The new effort would focus on prisoners serving longer sentences than they would if they were arrested under current law.

Dobbs' panel of experts on the whether Obama and Holder were accentuating racial tensions included National Review columnist John Fund and City Journal contributing editor Heather Mac Donald, a roundtable with a history of racially-charged remarks.In March, Mac Donald dismissed research finding black students were more harshly punished than their white counterparts by claiming it "common sense that black students are more likely to be disruptive" than whites. Earlier this month, Mac Donald doubled down on her remarks, explaining that disproportionate school suspensions for black students stemmed from their "lack of self-discipline." Dobbs himself has accused Obama of "fomenting unrest" to incite racism and accused the Department of Justice of doing the same in the George Zimmerman case.

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/02/23/is_the_lorax_propaganda_lou_dobbs_thinks_so_and_so_did_dr_seuss.html

Hollywood is once again trying to indoctrinate our children.” So intones Lou Dobbs in the clip below from his show on the Fox Business Network, flagged by the Observer and other publications. Possibly alluding to the roundly mocked discussion of the Muppets back in December—which prompted Kermit and, especially, Miss Piggy to punch back at Fox News last month—Dobbs then lumps The Secret World of Arietty and The Lorax together as two new films that are “plainly demonizing the so-called 1 percent and espousing the virtue of green energy policies, come what may.”

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David Haglund is the literary editor of NewYorker.com.

Dobbs’s attempt to smear The Secret World of Arietty with this brush seems frankly bizarre. The movie, produced in 2010 (well before Occupy Wall Street began) by Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, based in Japan, adapts a British series of books for children, first published in the 1950s, called The Borrowers. In my faint memory, these books—about a family of miniature people who borrow what they need from “human beans”—owe more to the tradition of fairy literature than to socialist ideology. They were written by Mary Norton; according to the Guardian, “Dobbs’s attack appears to mark the first occasion upon which her stories ... have been read allegorically as a socialist polemic espousing redistribution of wealth.”

The Lorax, on the other hand, has a more complicated political history. Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, wrote the book explicitly as a warning about excessive industrialization. This sparked controversy; as Daniel Horgan wrote in USA Today a few years ago, the book “was banned in a California school district,” and “several timber industry groups underwrote a book called The Truax with a pro-tree-cutting hero.” Truax is a logger, and his antagonist in the book (which you can read online) is Guardbark, an ugly woodland monster and rabid, unreasonable environmentalist.

The Lorax himself can be read as an unreasonable environmentalist: Emma Marris, writing on the book’s 40th anniversary in Nature last year, called the Lorax a “parody of a misanthropic ecologist” and praised Seuss for conveying “the limits of gloom and doom” when it comes to preaching the environmentalist cause. Like Dobbs, Marris expressed uncertainty that it was a good book for children—though for very different reasons.

Dr. Seuss’s book, unlike The Truax, was not underwritten by anyone; his book has a strong political message, but it was his own. With Hollywood’s version, though, things aren’t quite that simple. The movie is “an integral part of a public service campaign with the Forest Service and the Ad Council,” according to the blog of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (The Forest Service is a part of that department; the Ad Council is a nonprofit.) “The two agencies have worked together since 2009,” the blog says, “on a public service campaign designed to inspire children and their families to unplug and reconnect with nature.”

So wondering about the connection between the government and The Lorax is not an entirely ridiculous thing to do—though Dobbs, of course, makes it look like one. (What this story really needs is Glenn Beck—he could have a field day on that chalkboard of his. Recall that Dr. Seuss once told an interviewer that he was “subversive as hell,” and that The Cat in the Hat was “revolutionary in that it goes as far as Kerensky, and then stops. It doesn’t go quite as far as Lenin.”)

It’s fun to tease Fox News for being so crude in its HUAC-style crusading against such milquetoast fare as The Lorax. But stories for children typically do have messages, and those messages are frequently political. They may even be described as partisan, in so far as today’s Republican Party has staked out positions—such as a general hostility to environmentalism—at odds with those held by many authors of children’s literature. And there’s nothing wrong with this: I’m glad that such authors are teaching kids about the importance of conservationism (once upon a time, a Republican cause, of course), and I’m perfectly happy to see Hollywood bringing those lessons to the big screen. I’m even happy to see a department of the U.S. government seize on the chance to drive such a lesson home and encourage parents to take their kids to the national parks, which are beautiful and which we should, as a nation, invest in.

But as silly and ham-handed as Lou Dobbs may look pointing (some of) this out, that is, in fact, what’s happening here.

When Seuss compared The Cat in the Hat to Kerensky-style leftism, he may have been exaggerating. But when he called The Lorax “propaganda,” he wasn’t wrong. Seuss had once been a political cartoonist, drawing pro-U.S. (and anti-Japanese) editorial cartoons during W.W. II. The man knew how to get a political message across with his drawings. And sometimes, that was precisely his intention.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/fox-business-host-lou-dobbs-tweets-phone-number-and-address-donald-trump-sexual

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Fox News Radio host Lou Dobbs spoke with founder Stewart Rhodes on his radio show in 2009 and criticized the Southern Poverty Law Center for "perpetuating the same kind of intolerance it claims to condemn."^[43] On Hardball with Chris Matthews, Matthews questioned Rhodes about his "vigilante group" and on his "strange view of the world."^[43]

Fox's Lou Dobbs Flips Out Over Nonexistent Global Warming Fiats

Blog ››› December 3, 2012 4:04 PM EST ››› SHAUNA THEE

Fox News' Lou Dobbs is accusing President Obama of "trying to subvert the national sovereignty," "circumvent[t] our constitution," and impose "unprecedented ... rule by fiat" by participating in UN climate change negotiations, even though the latest round of talks is expected to accomplish little.

The UN climate change summit in Doha, Qatar is not expected to produce any new commitment to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, and if it does, any treaty would need to be ratified by a supermajority in the Senate. Yet Dobbs claimed Obama is trying to "rule by fiat" by supporting action on climate change, even as anchor Megyn Kelly pointed out that Americans support doing more:

But far from "trying to subvert the national sovereignty," Obama was recently praised by the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board for "veto[ing]" an attempt by Europe to levy a carbon tax on U.S. airlines in one of his first moves after re-election.

As for the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which Kelly briefly raised, a recent court ruling determined that these gases are "indisputably an 'air pollutant'" and thus must be regulated under the Clean Air Act if they "may be reasonably anticipated to endanger public health or welfare." Fox's nightly news show ignored the ruling, which built upon a 2007 Supreme Court decision. These rulings don't comport with Dobbs' narrative that the regulations "circumven[t] our constitution."

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Lou Dobbs Breaks His Promise To "Debunk Climate Change"

Blog ››› August 4, 2011 5:56 PM EDT ››› JILL FITZSIMMONS & JOCELYN FONG

Promoting an interview with scientist and climate skepticRoy Spencer, Fox Business' Lou Dobbs claimed last week that Spencer's "new findings throw the entire global warming theory into question." Not to be misunderstood, Dobbs slowed down and repeated the claim: "I said new facts throw the entire global warming theory into question."

Dobbs teased the interview again at the end of his August 2 show, stating: "Debunking climate change -- new evidence from NASA. The whole thing. Well tune in, Al Gore, tomorrow."

But on August 3, Dobbs changed his tune. His interview with Spencer did not address whether global warming is happening or whether humans are contributing to it, but what the "effects" will be. In fact, at the end of the interview, Dobbs concluded: "[T]here's no question about climate change. What there is an issue about is the effect of it primarily, and really not much of a discussion about cause either."

That doesn't mean, however, that the claims made by Dobbs (and Spencer) during the show were actually supported by Spencer's study. Nor did Dobbs bother to mention that many climate scientists have criticized Spencer's methodology and disputed the study's conclusions.

Dobbs wasn't the only media figure quick to grossly exaggerate Spencer's findings. As we detailed, conservative media outlets ran sensational headlines this week, falsely claiming that Spencer's study refutes the notion that climate change is a problem. Today Rush Limbaughclaimed the paper showed that "the whole thing has been" a "hoax."

Even Spencer, who makes known his conservative political views, said media outlets "are overstating what the research found," according to the Associated Press. On his website, Spencer conceded that he "did not actually 'prove'" that "the models produce too much warming in the long term." However, Spencer himself overstated the findings during his television appearance.

Dobbs claimed Spencer's research shows "the future effects of warming could be far less than what most computer models to this point have predicted." And Spencer said that contrary to IPCC model projections of 3 degrees C of warming, "We're finding from the real satellite data of how the real climate system operates that it might be more like 1 degree C of warming, and maybe even less." But these statements are not supported by the study, which only looked at the past 10 years and cannot speak to long-term warming projections.

Asked about Spencer's performance on Fox Business, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel said:

I cannot see how Spencer's statements to Fox are supported by his data. I must say I am disconcerted to hear him spinning his own work.

Similarly,Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology, a frequent critic of the IPCC, wrote that Spencer and his co-author were "concluding too much from their analysis about feedback, sensitivity, and the performance of models," adding:

It needs to be understood that given the short period of their data set, Spencer and Braswell are looking only at fast feedback processes associated with clouds (not the longer feedbacks associated with oceans and ice sheets). How to translate all of this into a conclusion that climate models are producing incorrect sensitivity to greenhouse warming is not at all clear.

UPDATE:

Roy Spencer returned to Fox Business on the August 6 edition of The Tom Sullivan Show. And once again, the interview was not as advertised.Teasing the segment, host Tom Sullivan said he would reveal "important scientific data about global warming that will hopefully stop the argument about greenhouse gases." In a second tease, Sullivan stated, "Has a recent NASA study finally put an end to climate change hysteria? Global warming alarmists may have to accept a new inconvenient truth." Sullivan also aired the following graphic stating, "Global Warming a Hoax?"

Global Warming a Hoax?

In a third tease, the on-screen text stated, "No global warming?"

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No Global Warming?

But during the interview, Spencer told Sullivan that his study "doesn't mean there is no such thing as manmade global warming. It might be just that it's been overblown." Spencer later added that it would not be accurate to say his study "refutes the arguments or the projections that have been made about global warming in our world," and acknowledged that the conclusions he drew from ten years of satellite data may not apply to long-term global warming.

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Lou Dobbs Calls Human-Caused Global Warming A "Largely Democratic Belief"

Video››› September 7, 2011

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:{Lou Dobbs:(style="font-weight:bold"):}: on Overpopulation and :{Climate Change:(style="font-weight:bold"):}:

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:{Lou Dobbs:(style="font-weight:bold"):}:: 100 Reasons :{Climate Change:(style="font-weight:bold"):}: is Natural

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Dec 18, 2009 - :{CLIMATE CHANGE:(style="font-weight:bold"):}: IS NATURAL: 100 REASONS WHY HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, **...**

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2. Lou Dobbs: Eric Holder is a radical racist. DOJ organized and paid for protests.

Since we revisited Texas, let’s revisit Florida and Trayvon Martin as well, just for the sheer perversity of the reactions to the case. On Monday, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs promoted the conspiracy theory that the Department of Justice organized the protests over the killing of Trayvon Martin. Why is that? Well, because Attorney General Eric Holder is a radical racist. Just like his boss.

Yes, this cabal of black men at the pinnacle of American power used “thousands” of taxpayer dollars to train people to go out and pretend to be mad back when Martin was shot. And they are doing it again, because black people have to be paid to be mad about having their innocent young men gunned down. They are paying people like Al Sharpton to “raise racial tensions” nationwide. You see the DOJ, as “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy says, is letting the New Black Panthers call the shots.

And just to continue the thread, after President Obama’s moving comment later in the week that he would have looked much like Trayvon Martin at 17, came a tweet [3] from one exceedingly clever Pajamas Media blogger @bob_owens: “Barack Obama and Eric Holder just want to run a Klan with a tan. You got a problem with that?"

Post-racial society indeed.

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Louis Carl "Lou" Dobbs^[1] (born September 24, 1945) is an American television personality, author, and radio host on theFox Business Network. He anchored CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight until November 2009, when he announced on the air that he would leave the network.^[2][3]

Dobbs was born in Texas and lived there and in Idaho during his childhood. After graduating from Harvard University, he worked in government and banking before becoming a news reporter for several local media outlets. He had worked withCNN since its founding in 1980, serving as a reporter and vice president. He was the host and managing editor for CNN'sMoneyline, which premiered in 1980 and was renamed Lou Dobbs Tonight in 2003. Dobbs resigned from CNN in 1999, rejoined in 2000, and resigned again in November 2009, when he joined Fox News. He also hosts a syndicated radio show, Lou Dobbs Radio and has written several books since 2001.

Dobbs describes himself as an "independent populist" and is known for his opposition to NAFTA and support for immigration enforcement. For his reporting, he has won Emmy, Peabody, and Cable ACE awards.

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Born in Childress County, Texas, Dobbs is the son of Frank Dobbs, a co-owner of a propane business, and Lydia Mae (née Hensley), a bookkeeper.^[1] When Dobbs was 12, his father's propane business failed and the family moved to Rupert, Idaho.^[4] He attended Minico High School in Minidoka County, where he played tackle on the football team, played the sousaphone in the band, and served as student body president.^[5] Although accepted at the University of Idaho and Idaho State University, he was persuaded by the staff at Minico High to apply to Harvard University, where he was accepted and later graduated from with a Bachelor of Arts degree ineconomics in 1967.^[5]

After graduating, Dobbs worked for federal anti-poverty programs in Boston and Washington, D.C., then returned to Idaho. He briefly attended law school at the UI College of Law in Moscow, then worked as a cash-management specialist for Union Bank of California in Los Angeles. He married his high school sweetheart in 1969, and in 1970 their first son was born. Dobbs moved to Yuma, Arizona, and got a job as a police and fire reporter for KBLU. By the mid-1970s he was a television anchorand reporter in Phoenix, and he later joined Seattle's KING-TV. In 1979, he was contacted by a recruiter for Ted Turner, who was in the process of forming CNN.^[4]Dobbs divorced his first wife in 1981 and is now married to Debi Lee Segura, a former CNN sports anchor. The couple has had four children together.^[6] Dobbs resides on a 300-acre (1.2 km²⁾^horse farm in Wantage Township, New Jersey.^[6]

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Dobbs joined CNN when it launched in 1980, serving as its chief economics correspondent and as host of the business news program Moneyline on CNN. Dobbs also served as a corporate executive for CNN, as its executive vice president and as a member of CNN's executive committee. He founded CNN fn (CNN financial news), serving as its president and anchoring the program Business Unusual, which examined business creativity and leadership.^[7]

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Dobbs repeatedly clashed with Rick Kaplan, who became president of CNN in 1997. Dobbs said Kaplan, noted friend of then president Bill Clinton, was "clearly partisan" and "was pushing Clinton stories", while Kaplan said Dobbs was "a very difficult person to work with".^[4]

On April 20, 1999, CNN was covering Clinton's speech in Littleton, Colorado, following the Columbine High School massacre. Dobbs ordered the producer to cut away from the speech and return to broadcast Moneyline.^[4] Dobbs was countermanded by Kaplan, who ordered CNN to return to the speech. Kaplan later said, "Tell me what journalistic reason there was not to cover the president at Columbine soon after the shootings? Everyone else was doing it". Dobbs announced on the air that "CNN President Rick Kaplan wants us to return to Littleton". A few days later, Dobbs announced that he was leaving the network to start Space.com, a website devoted to astronautical news.^[4] Dobbs was subsequently replaced as host of Moneyline by Willow Bay and Stuart Varney.^[8]

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Kaplan left CNN in August 2000, and Dobbs returned the following year, at the behest of his friend and CNN founder Ted Turner, becoming host and managing editor of the new and initially more general news program Lou Dobbs Reporting, which later became CNN News Sunday Morning. He also regained the helm of the newly renamed Lou Dobbs Moneyline (which became Lou Dobbs Tonight in June 2003).^[9]

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On the November 11, 2009 edition of his nightly broadcast Lou Dobbs Tonight, Dobbs announced his immediate departure from CNN, ending a nearly thirty-year career at the network, citing plans to "pursue new opportunities".^[2][3] CNN President Jon Klein said that Dobbs' departure was not a result of organized opposition to Dobbs' viewpoints.^[10][11]

In July 2009, controversy around Dobbs began when he was the only mainstream news anchor to give airtime to the birther conspiracy theory.^[12] Several liberal advocacy groups, including Media Matters, and the Southern Poverty Law Center criticized Dobbs for his reporting. The controversy eventually caused CNN PresidentJon Klein to rein Dobbs in via an internal memorandum.^[13] In September, advocates challenged Dobbs for appearing at a FAIR conference (Federation for American Immigration Reform), a leading anti-illegal immigration group. Multiple campaigns were launched, including "Drop Dobbs" (NDN, Media Matters), and "Basta Dobbs" (Presente.org).^[14]

The campaigns also attacked CNN for alleged hypocrisy towards Latinos, citing CNN's Latino in America special as incompatible with their continued support of Dobbs. The campaigns generated considerable anti-Dobbs press,^[15] and are credited by some^[who?] as pushing Dobbs out.

Dobbs was reportedly paid $8 million in severance pay when he left CNN prior to his contract being due for renewal.^[16]

After Dobbs left CNN in 2009, he gave an interview where he did not rule out the possibility of running for President of the United States in 2012, saying the final decision would rest with his wife.^[17][18] Former Senator Dean Barkley said he thought Dobbs should run for president.^[19]

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From 2009 to 2012, Dobbs hosted Lou Dobbs Radio on United Stations Radio Networks. The three hour daily show had affiliates in several major markets, including itsflagship station (WOR) in New York City, Washington D.C. (WHFS), Miami (WZAB-AM) and the San Francisco Bay Area (KDOW), as well as stations such as WGNY-AM in Newburgh, New York. The show was guest-centered and featured political discussion and listener calls. It aired from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern, directly competing withThe Sean Hannity Show, The Tom Sullivan Show and The Dave Ramsey Show. Dobbs also hosts the financially themed Lou Dobbs Minute on the same network.

In June 2008, Dobbs reached an agreement with Business Talk Radio Network to carry a rebroadcast of the show from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern, displacing Bruce Williams. Dobbs' show was also carried live on CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks.

Dobbs was among the hosts who tried out for the position vacated by the cancellation of Imus in the Morning on WFAN, a position that was eventually filled by Boomer and Carton in the Morning. Dobbs mentioned on his radio show that he is currently seeking a position in the US Department of Treasury during the economic crisis. He stated that he believed he could "do more good than the clowns currently in position."

Dobbs also is a regular columnist in Money magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the New York Daily News.^[4]

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On November 10, 2010, Fox Business Network announced that Dobbs would host a show on the channel.^[20] The network announced on March 3, 2011 the start date, show title, and time slot of Dobbs' new show. The show is titled Lou Dobbs Tonight and began on March 14, 2011, airing at 7 PM Eastern. That is the same title and time slot that Dobbs' old CNN show had.^[21]

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Since 2009, Dobbs has made regular appearances to discuss issues on other news network programs including CNBC's The Kudlow Report and Fox News Channel'sThe O'Reilly Factor. On October 5, 2010, Dobbs made a guest appearance on an episode of The Good Wife, entitled "Double Jeopardy",^[22] in which he plays himself as a client in search of a new law firm to represent his legal interests.

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In his early career Dobbs was known as a fiscal conservative. He is a critic of the "excesses of capitalism", which he identifies as globalization, offshore outsourcing,runaway film production (the outsourcing of Hollywood jobs),^[23][24] illegal immigration, free trade deals, corporate/big business influence in government and the Bush administration's tax cuts. He describes himself as an advocate of economic populism, warning that outsourcing and the U.S. trade and budget deficits threaten theAmerican middle class. Dobbs tends to oppose long-run trade deficits and outsourcing for the sake of labor arbitrage to obtain cheap labor.

In the 2000s, Dobbs has used CNN programs and columns to express his personal views on several subjects. He has become particularly noted for two positions: Dobbs is a critic of American immigration policy and expanded international trade. He is particularly wary of outsourcing and off-shoring, especially with China.^[25] He was a known political figure in New Jersey, with a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll finding that he had a 70% name recognition among New Jersey voters in January 2010. Among these voters, 22% had a favorable view of Dobbs while 22% had an unfavorable view.^[26]

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Dobbs has been strongly opposed to both illegal immigration and such labor-outsourcing and foreign worker programs as the H-1B visa program and guest-workerprograms.^[27][28] He has been a critic of the Mexican government's poverty programs, and of church leaders in Mexico for not criticizing the Mexican government's policies on border security and illegal immigration.

Lou Dobbs Tonight frequently featured themes of "Exporting America", "Broken Borders", and "War on the Middle Class". The newscast often described illegal immigration as an "invasion". Dobbs dismissed concerns about his rhetoric as "political correctness" in the segment billboarded "P.C. Nation".

In his "Broken Borders" segments, Dobbs focused primarily on the southern border with Mexico and the drugs and the people who cross it. Dobbs has lauded theCanadian government for cooperation in securing the border with their American counterparts.

In an interview with Lesley Stahl, Dobbs spoke about his meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, saying they implied that he was anti-Hispanic by asking him, "if [he had] ever eaten a taco before, for God's sake".^[29] Representative Joe Baca, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, later wrote to CBS insisting that the group did not meet with Dobbs to discuss whether he'd eaten Hispanic food, "but to respectfully recommend that he cease the negative portrayal of Hispanics...and treat the issue of immigration in a responsible manner".^[30]

Some of the factual reporting on the show has been criticized, including the claim that illegal aliens were responsible for bringing 7,000 new cases of leprosy to the United States in a three-year period, where the actual timeframe was over the last thirty years.^[31]

Dobbs has criticized local officials for their approach to border security. In October 2007 he labeled then New York Governor Eliot Spitzer an "idiot" for advocating the issuance of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.^[32] Hillary Clinton labeled Dobbs' illegal immigration segments as having "all that hot air."^[33][34]

At about 10:30 a.m. on October 5, 2009, a bullet struck Dobbs' home as Dobbs and his wife stood outside it.^[35] The bullet struck the vinyl siding of their attic without penetrating the vinyl and fell to the ground.^[36] Dobbs attributed the incident to his stance against amnesty for illegal immigrants.^[37] The New Jersey State Policetroopers' account of the incident attributed to a stray bullet from a hunter in the vicinity.^[36]

In December 2009, Dobbs stated in an interview with Telemundo that he now supports a plan to legalize illegal aliens.^[38]

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Lou Dobbs was a registered Republican. Though he made a donation of $1,000 to the Bush-Cheney campaign in January 2001,^[39] he often has described the Bush administration and the then Republican-controlled Congress as "disgraceful." He has also argued that both parties are controlled by corporate interests. Dobbs faulted Bush's 2004 presidential election opponent, Democrat John Kerry, for first criticizing outsourcing and then backing off.^[40]

Lou Dobbs is pro-choice, opposes gun control and, though he is a fiscal conservative, supports some government regulations, as revealed in a 60 Minutes interview.^[41]He has been critical of trade policies that he says encourage "sending jobs overseas".^[42]

Dobbs' stance on trade has earned plaudits from some trade union activists on the traditional political left, while his stance on immigration tends to appeal to the right.^[4]In an interview with Larry King, Dobbs revealed that he is now "an unaffiliated independent" owing to dissatisfaction with both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Dobbs has been consistently supportive of LGBT rights in the United States. In June 2006, as the U.S. Senate debated the Federal Marriage Amendment, Dobbs was critical of the action. He asserted that marriage was threatened more by financial crises perpetuated by Bush administration economic policy than by same-sex marriage.^[43]

Dobbs is the author of War on the Middle Class, in which he claims that both Democrats and Republicans are harming the middle class. In it, he comes out strongly against the Bush tax cuts, which he argues favor the wealthy, and argued for raising the U.S. minimum wage from what was then $5.15 an hour.^[44]

Dobbs criticized the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 begun by President George W. Bush and later continued by President Barack Obama. He called it originally a "Wall Street bailout", a term which became common. Dobbs described the program as the way for U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to help corporate interests instead of helping average Americans. He expresses many of his views in the documentary Generation Zero.

Controversies

Dobbs' critics, including columnist James K. Glassman, author of Dow 36,000 and member of the American Enterprise Institute think tank, have accused him of incitingxenophobia.^[45] Others have accused him of Hispanophobia, a charge he denies^[46] and one which he has said offends him deeply, as his wife Debi Segura is aMexican-American.^[47]

Dobbs has also been criticized for his journalistic ethics by liberal news journalist Amy Goodman. She accused him of flagrant errors in his reporting and his staff's association with disreputable sources, complaining that "he has a special responsibility to rely on facts and to correct misstatements of fact."^[48] According to her, he entered the undocumented immigration debate "invoking populist rhetoric and championing the cause of the middle class", a stance opposed by her Democracy Now!co-host Juan Gonzalez.^[48]

A CNN report, filed by Christine Romans for Dobbs' April 14, 2005 program, reported on the carrying of diseases across the border by illegal immigrants. Romans' report cited an article in the spring 2005 issue of the non-indexed Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, written by Madeleine Cosman, which made the statement that 7,000 cases of leprosy had emerged in the United States within the previous three years (2002–2005), an increase attributed mostly to an influx of immigrants into the country.^[49][50][51] Critics of the program argued that, in fact, the actual number of leprosy cases had reached 7,000 in the registry over 30 years, not the previous three years, with 137 cases reported in 2006.^[52][53] In addressing the leprosy issue, Dobbs in May 2007 compared his critics from the left and right political spectrums to "commies" and "fascists."^[54] On December 4, 2007, Dobbs rejected Cosman's claims as unsubstantiated, calling her "a wackjob".^[55]

On the May 23, 2006 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, Dobbs' program displayed a map of Aztlán sourced to the controversial Council of Conservative Citizens. CNN spokeswoman Christa Robinson apologized for the graphic's use, saying: "A freelance field producer in Los Angeles searched the web for Aztlan maps and grabbed the Council of Conservative Citizens map without knowing the nature of the organization. The graphic was a late inclusion in the script and, regrettably, was missed in thevetting process."^[56]

In March 2009, Dobbs said he thought that there shouldn't be a St. Patricks Day^[57]

In mid-2009, Dobbs was criticized by some in the media for invoking "conspiracy theories" by questioning the constitutionality of Barack Obama's presidency due to his supposedly ambiguous citizenship.^[58] His willingness to raise the "birther" issue repeatedly^[59] even though CNN itself considered it a "discredited rumor",^[60] led theWashington Post's TV critic to remark that this "explains their upcoming documentary: 'The World: Flat. We Report – You Decide.'"^[61] The issue had come up in 2008 during the Presidential campaign, and had largely disappeared from the media spotlight until Dobbs picked up the issue again.^[62] His statements in support of these investigations were dubbed "racist" and "defamatory" by the Southern Poverty Law Center.^[63][64] The controversy led to Media Matters airing ads critical of Dobbs and of CNN,^[65] and to Jon Stewart mocking Dobbs on the satirical Comedy Central television series The Daily Show.^[66] The New York Times said that Dobbs had "become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network's 'no bias' brand."^[67] As a result, he became a frequent target of MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann's Worst person in the World.^[68]

Shortly afterwards, Dobbs announced that he would broadcast two episodes of Lou Dobbs Tonight from the "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" conference in Washington, D.C., organized by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-illegal immigration advocacy group. Media Matters also criticized this move, citing FAIR founder John Tanton's history of making racist remarks and supporting white supremacist organizations. Media Matters president, Eric Burns, issued an open letter to CNN vice president Jonathan Klein, asking that the network take action against Dobbs. "Mr. Dobbs represents an ongoing threat to CNN's credibility as a serious news organization, in no small part because of his polemical coverage of immigration issues and his continued use of his CNN show to lend prominence to groups such as FAIR", wrote Burns. "The attention and legitimacy he gave to the 'birther' movement—and CNN's condoning of his actions—did real damage to that credibility. His participation in the upcoming FAIR rally would do further, serious damage. We urge you to finally acknowledge that Mr. Dobbs' actions in this and other contexts are inconsistent with the reputation that CNN strives to maintain."^[69]

In October 2010, The Nation published the results of a yearlong investigation detailing undocumented workers who had worked on Dobbs' personal properties. The labor involved upkeep of Dobbs' multimillion-dollar estates in New Jersey and Florida, including the horses belonging to his daughter, Hillary, a champion show jumper. The article featured interviews with five immigrants who had worked without papers on Dobbs' properties. Dobbs and his daughter had declined to comment to The Nation as part of the story.^[70] Speaking to the Associated Press, Dobbs referred to the article as "a political assault," claiming it's a lie that he hired illegal immigrants. He said: "I have never, do not now, and never will."^[71]

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Dobbs has won numerous major awards for his television journalism, most notably a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award and a Cable Ace Award. He received theGeorge Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. He also has received the Luminary Award of the Business Journalism Review in 1990, the Horatio Alger Association Award for Distinguished Americans in 1999 and the National Space Club Media Award in 2000. The Wall Street Journal has named Dobbs "TV's Premier Business News Anchorman". In 2004, Dobbs was awarded the Eugene Katz Award For Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration by the Center for Immigration Studies^[72] and in 2005 he received the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's Statesmanship Award.^[73] Dobbs was named "Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day Committee in 1993.^[74]

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Lou Dobbs, with James O. Born, Border War, Forge, (2014). ISBN 9780765327710.
Lou Dobbs, Independents Day: Awakening The American Spirit, Viking, (2007). ISBN 978-0-670-01836-9.
Lou Dobbs, Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas, Warner Books, (2004). ISBN 0-446-57744-8.
Lou Dobbs, Space: The Next Business Frontier with HP Newquist, Pocket Books, (2001). ISBN 0-7434-2389-5
Lou Dobbs, War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back, Viking, (2006). ISBN 0-670-03792-3.
Ron Hira and Anil Hira, with foreword by Lou Dobbs, Outsourcing America: What's behind Our National Crisis and how we can reclaim American Jobs. (AMACOM), American Management Association, (May 2005). ISBN 0-8144-0868-0.
Lou Dobbs, "Upheaval", Threshold Editions, (2014) ISBN 978-1-4767-2885-8

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41/This is the quantum dot tattoo, research for which Bill Gates funded. It's scannable via the artificial enzyme Luciferase, via a bioluminescent "mark." The tattoo-vaccine-chip is to contain not only your medical/COVID vaccine history, but proposed digitized govt currencies.

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Does this include, busting the criminals in our congress too? Like IIhon Omar who put a video out about dismantling our economic system.

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Portland downtown, where riots happening, is largely commercial property. Few residences affected. COVID closures have made downtown largely shuttered. So riots aren’t affecting many people. Citizens know to stay away, especially at night.

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