So when does his new fioxnews show start? Because you know they’re salivating over there for some genuine dobbs xenophobia and general craziness.

Going to Fox?  I had the sudden urge to pull out a tape of Song of The South and sing out in an antiquated comic negro voice “Lordy!  De Massah goin’ back to the Plantation!  He be HOME!”

I didn’t.  But I’ll bet Dobbs is thinking it.

Party Time!!

Doesn’t say whether this resignation was voluntary or forced.  I hope the latter, but expect it was the former.  As ice weasel note, he probably got a better offer from Faux Spews.

Hilarious!

Dobbs undoubtedly thinks going to Fox is a GOOD thing.

And it is good news…for John McCain.

Maybe somebody has tape of him shaking hands with a Mexican person. He wants to leave before that scandal breaks.

I’m guessing he’s probably hanging out at Rupert Murdoch’s $50 Million Manhattan penthouse right now with the rest of the hoodless Klanners he’ll likely soon by joining over at Fucked Noise.

Roger Ailes says “Welcome home, Lou!”

“...talked extensively with Jonathan Klein…”  hahaha wow he got fired by the CEO.

If he goes to Faux, I wonder how Glenn “The Crying One” Beck will react, let alone the rest of the “fair-n-balanced” “journalists” who have been given the keys to the asylum?  There are enough prima donnas over there for a whole opera…

If Lou goes to work at Fox Noise, won’t he be working for a furriner? Then again, I suppose Dobbs won’t mind, because Murdoch’s white.

I’m sure that Fox already has Lou’s chair pre-warmed for him.

Lou, doesn’t hold a light to that assclown Olbermann.

Is Nancy Grace next? Or can they just outright fire her maybe?

Lou Dobbs goes to Fox will cause a huge shuffle and probably push O’Reilly off of Fox since he is part of the type of conservative journalism that looks to be in the reality section.  He’s not as diluted as Lou Dobbs and will just be another “moderate” casualty as fox news goes.

“Other opportunities” is pretty vague.  Maybe he’s planning on running for office.

It’s not as crazy as it sounds, really.  The GOP is on a purity bender and having the guy that epitomizes the “brown peoples is scary” mentality front and center might actually help them (with the purification, I mean, not generally).

What the hell happened to him?  Before the immigration thing he was actually worth paying attention to; he accurately reported on the causes of the shrinking middle class and opposed the sorts of capitalistic largesse that caused our gradual economic downturn of the last decade—including illegal immigration, but more than that the outsourcing of jobs and tax cuts.  It’s sad that he became a single-issue nutjob; that was a respectable reputation he flushed down the drain.

Lou Dobbs goes to Fox will cause a huge shuffle and probably push O’Reilly off of Fox since he is part of the type of conservative journalism that looks to be in the reality section.

A guy who spent more than a year referring to a physician as a “baby killer”, only to help fuel the fire that led to that physician being brutally assassinated, is looking to be in the “reality section” of conservative journalism?

Ummmm…. no.

He may not be quite as far gone as Glenn Beck, but O’Reilly is still a monumental wingnut douche, despite his constant claims that he’s an “Independent”.  He was a registered Republican in New York until that fact was exposed in 2003, at which time he switched his voter registration to unaffiliated, obviously in a silly attempt to be able to maintain his ridiculous claim that he’s “Independent”.

Also… I somehow doubt that Rupert Murdoch is prepared to drop the highest-rated personality (and biggest cash cow) from his propaganda channel just yet.  Glenn Beck is rapidly gaining on O’Reilly, but as of the moment, O’Reilly is still the top dog in the Nielsen game at FNC.  Wouldn’t make sense to dump him from a purely business perspective.

If Hannity represents Republicans, and Dobbs and O’Reilly will represent Independents, and Beck represents those Independent from Reality, they’ll really be much closer to Fairness and Balance than they think.  If they get that retched woman Nancy Grace, they could have someone Imbalanced and Unfair, but will she team with Dobbs for the White Fear Hour (“They’re after your daughters and your jobs!”) or with O’Reilly for the Missing White Girl Hour (“The missing girl’s mother was once seen with an older man” mixed with “So I wanted them both, Ms. Helmet Hair.  Spank me with a falafel-scented loofah.”)

I might have to start watching Fox if that happened.

Hopefully CNN will get Stephanie Miller or someone else who is ready for prime time and actually represents people with functioning minds.  They’ll probably go conservative, however.  Michael Reagan: with a name for Fox, a face for radio, and an unstoppable ability to shill for Republicans, coming soon to CNN.

They’ll probably go conservative, however.  Michael Reagan: with a name for Fox, a face for radio, and an unstoppable ability to shill for Republicans, coming soon to CNN.

I’d prefer it if they got his brother.

CNN is a dying brand.  Fox News blew them away years ago, and now MSNBC is starting to trounce them in the primetime ratings.  They can’t figure out what they want to be, and they rely too heavily on a decrepit 900 year old man as their flagship personality.  I think even after he dies, they’ll still haul out Larry King’s embalmed body and put him in front of that old-timey radio microphone to ask celebrities bizarre questions about their eating habits.

I’m guessing he’s going to try and run for office. After he writes a tell-all bestseller.

So who’s going to fill the bigot quotient at CNN now?

Can I do my little happy dance now?

“I think even after he dies, they’ll still haul out Larry King’s embalmed body and put him in front of that old-timey radio microphone to ask celebrities bizarre questions about their eating habits.”

...put a cassette tape in the back of his head, a speaker in his mouth, and I bet his corpse would still be more worth watching than he is in real life.

(I’m completely unable to see why anyone would bother to watch his show…)

So who’s going to fill the bigot quotient at CNN now?

Dunno, but at least they have Wolf Blitzer to fill their Idiotic Right-wing Pseudoeconomists quota.

”...at least they have Wolf Blitzer to fill their Idiotic Right-wing Pseudoeconomists quota.”

Can’t you buy those in blister packs at Walmart?  Like five Idiotic Right-wing Pseudoeconomists for $10?...

Don’t let the door hit you in your ass on the way out, Lou.

John King’s replacing Dobbs with a whole new show.  It’s on CNN as of now.  Check out the CEO’s comment about King’s show…telling.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/12/cnn-announces-host-of-7-p-m-show/

Here’s the quote; it’s too damn good not to post:

“The program will reflect what CNN is all about: straight facts from our anchors and the widest range of opinions from across the political spectrum,” Jonathan Klein, president of CNN/U.S., said in the network’s statement.”

Doesn’t say whether this resignation was voluntary or forced. 

He had two years left on his contract. You do the math.

MikeEss: I didn’t realize there was a dark side to the technology introduced to us with Teddy Ruxpin.

Left_Wing_Fox: Sure; that’s basically what I liked about him.  I didn’t agree with him all the time but he wasn’t a shill; he was an idealist.  I suppose, in a sense, he still is, but not a very good one.

John King’s replacing Dobbs with a whole new show.

Wiki doesn’t have much on him yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_King_(journalist)
Seems he’s the fill in guy and Senior Correspondent for national and Whitehouse stuff.

“...at least they have Wolf Blitzer to fill their Idiotic Right-wing Pseudoeconomists quota.”

Can’t you buy those in blister packs at Walmart?  Like five Idiotic Right-wing Pseudoeconomists for $10?…

Heh. While we’re on the geek jokes, Wolf Blitzer’s name reminds me of the Blood Bowl league I was playing in in college. That was during the (2nd?) edition of the game, with the Lycanthrope team…

Don’t let the door hit you in your ass on the way out

No no no. It’s very important to say it correctly: Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

While I agree hw was one of the few people to point out the tax evasion and outsourcing of major american corporations, I think he always framed it as being bad for America and Americans; rather than bad for _everyone_ except the shareholders and CEOs.

Except that he’d tip those corporations in his subscription-only stock newsletter. Hm.

There’s a psychology paper in waiting for Dobbs’s show. His grandfathered status at CNN meant that he was able to demand (and get) an editorial bubble where he employed his own reporters and producers, all of whom seemed to spend their time saying “you’re right, Lou” while fluffing his paranoia.

From the bits I had the misfortune to catch over the past year, Obama’s election seems to have driven him right over the edge, to the point that it became increasingly embarrassing for CNN to maintain the status quo.

Fox will dump Shepard Smith, the only voice of sanity left in primetime on that entire network, and replace him with Dobbs. Smith will move to CNN where he can be a real journalist.