• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

Adios Lou Dobbs

grunion

Penultimate Amazing
grunion
Joined
Jul 28, 2003
Messages
11,493
In what will certainly be decried by his supporters as the latest manifestation of cancel culture, Lou Dobbs’ Show was dumped by Fox Business News just a day after he was named in a multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuit by Smartmatic Corporation. He had perpetuated the fictional story developed by the former President’s attorneys that Hugo Chavez had built secret back doors that allowed manipulation of their election software.

I think he will have a hard time resurfacing for awhile. Who would touch him?
 
Last edited:
grunion said:
In what will certainly be decried by his supporters as the latest outpost of cancel culture, Lou Dobbs’ Show was dumped by Fox Business News just a day after he was named in a multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuit by Smartmatic Corporation. He had perpetuated the fictional story developed by the former President’s attorneys that Hugo Chavez had built secret back doors that allowed manipulation of their election software.

I think he will have a hard time resurfacing for awhile. Who would touch him?
Click to expand...

OANN perhaps.
 
I never liked Dobbs but he did appear to be a hard but sane conservative. I didn't watch him very much but I could understand why some would.

Then he completely went off the rails for Trump. Why? What influenced him and what pushed him from very conservative to just plain nutball? Did anyone try to intervene? Did Fox tell him to go all in on Trumpism? How did his family handle his conversion?

And so on.... I suspect there might be a fascinating story behind all this, one that delved in depth into the process of a meme taking over a brain and consuming it.
 
SezMe said:
I never liked Dobbs but he did appear to be a hard but sane conservative. I didn't watch him very much but I could understand why some would.

Then he completely went off the rails for Trump. Why? What influenced him and what pushed him from very conservative to just plain nutball? Did anyone try to intervene? Did Fox tell him to go all in on Trumpism? How did his family handle his conversion?

And so on.... I suspect there might be a fascinating story behind all this, one that delved in depth into the process of a meme taking over a brain and consuming it.
Click to expand...
Look him up. It was apparently there for a long time but CNN wouldn't give him free reign when he was there (he did get birtherism on to CNN a long time ago).

ETA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Dobbs#Political_views_and_controversies

Long time evolution, no conversion.
 
Last edited:
SezMe said:
I never liked Dobbs but he did appear to be a hard but sane conservative. I didn't watch him very much but I could understand why some would.

Then he completely went off the rails for Trump. Why? What influenced him and what pushed him from very conservative to just plain nutball? Did anyone try to intervene? Did Fox tell him to go all in on Trumpism? How did his family handle his conversion?

And so on.... I suspect there might be a fascinating story behind all this, one that delved in depth into the process of a meme taking over a brain and consuming it.
Click to expand...

I suspect it's more to do with staying on the air by reading his audience and giving them what they wanted than anything else. He was riding the wave. And now it's coming back to bite him in the ass.
 
Last edited:
Stacyhs said:
I suspect it's more to do with staying on the air by reading his audience and giving them what they wanted than anything else. He was riding the wave.
Click to expand...
Nah. Check the link I just put in to my post. He was dishing it out on CNN when his audience and channel didn't want it.
 
Resume said:
That was Newsmax.
Click to expand...

It was both.
The New York Times said:
Even OANN, which has courted election truthers, seemed to realize that “Absolute Proof” (Mr Lindell’s paid “disinfomercial” claiming election fraud) was volatile content. A mammoth disclaimer before the broadcast emphasized that Mr. Lindell purchased the airtime and that “the statements and claims expressed in this program are presented at this time as opinions only.”

The message is not so much “Don’t try this at home” as “Don’t try us in court.”
Click to expand...
 
RecoveringYuppy said:
Nah. Check the link I just put in to my post. He was dishing it out on CNN when his audience and channel didn't want it.
Click to expand...

Wow...I had no idea he was a birther that long ago on CNN. Learn something new everyday.

ETA: That's what I get for trying to give these guys any benefit of the doubt, I guess.
 
Last edited:
Who is this Lou Dobbs you speak of, your honor?

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.
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
Many in the FOX family still feel tremendous loyalty to Ailes and his way of doing things, and in a way, Trump inherited that loyalty.
 
SezMe said:
I never liked Dobbs but he did appear to be a hard but sane conservative. I didn't watch him very much but I could understand why some would.

Then he completely went off the rails for Trump. Why? What influenced him and what pushed him from very conservative to just plain nutball?. Did anyone try to intervene? Did Fox tell him to go all in on Trumpism? How did his family handle his conversion?

And so on.... I suspect there might be a fascinating story behind all this, one that delved in depth into the process of a meme taking over a brain and consuming it.
Click to expand...
He accidentally fell into a giant vat of Just For Men?
 
SezMe said:
I never liked Dobbs but he did appear to be a hard but sane conservative. I didn't watch him very much but I could understand why some would.

Then he completely went off the rails for Trump. Why? What influenced him and what pushed him from very conservative to just plain nutball? Did anyone try to intervene? Did Fox tell him to go all in on Trumpism? How did his family handle his conversion?

And so on.... I suspect there might be a fascinating story behind all this, one that delved in depth into the process of a meme taking over a brain and consuming it.
Click to expand...
I used to think Dobbs was normal. But I don't recall what he used to be like. I was shocked to see he was off the rails after CNN fired him and Fox hired him.

He's been crazy for a lot longer than his Trump sycophant beginnings.
 
SezMe said:
I never liked Dobbs but he did appear to be a hard but sane conservative. I didn't watch him very much but I could understand why some would.

Then he completely went off the rails for Trump. Why? What influenced him and what pushed him from very conservative to just plain nutball? Did anyone try to intervene? Did Fox tell him to go all in on Trumpism? How did his family handle his conversion?

And so on.... I suspect there might be a fascinating story behind all this, one that delved in depth into the process of a meme taking over a brain and consuming it.
Click to expand...

There are probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of reasons... and every one of then will be a dollar!
 
smartcooky said:
What influenced him and what pushed him from very conservative to just plain nutball?
Click to expand...
There are probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of reasons... and every one of then will be a dollar!
Click to expand...
If Dobbs and Fox were pushing a pro-Trump narrative for money, it seems to have backfired.

Not only are both Dobbs and Fox being hit with a lawsuit, but advertisers weren't exactly eager to buy ad time on his show.

From: LA Times
But his program was a loss leader for Fox Business Network as major advertisers steered clear of it, probably out of fear of consumer boycotts.

(That article also suggests that the network had been thinking of replacing Dobbs for weeks/months, before the legal problems over voting machines happened.)
 
I'd love for Lou Dobbs and Mike Lindell to feature on OAN together for the election ******** so they could get sued to oblivion.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom