Leaving CNN after tonight’s show, which, at the time of this writing, has already happened. Was one of the charter anchors when CNN started in 1980. Rush Limbaugh just marked 25 years of his show in its current style, the first three-and-a-half being at KFBK-AM in Sacramento, the rest nationally. Lou Dobbs has been with CNN for most of almost the last 30 years. That’s a long time to be doing anything, especially in television media.
Now I can finally delete CNN from my satellite box’s favorite channel list. Might I have to add Fox Business to it? I buy the Dobbs to FoxBiz rumors, and he would be a great fit. The only thing FoxBiz has on halfway worth watching for non-Wall Street Junkies is Don Imus, but I’m not a big Imus fan.
UPDATE 11/13: The New York Post has some of the skinny, and from what I read, assuming I’m interpreting it correctly, and assuming it’s the truth, then I’m disappointed in Dobbs.
Evidently, CNN suits wanted Dobbs to put a lid on the birther talk. Not that Dobbs did it at much, but the bosses didn’t want him doing it at all. That’s why Dobbs left, and that being said, if Lou Dobbs is walking away from an hour a night on CNN and $9 million in salary because he gathered up his marbles and went home because of the birther issue, then I have to doubt his maturity at least a little bit. I mean, what’s more important, immigration, or some rumor about a birth certificate? Especially since I happen to think that the person of Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and he’s deliberately hiding his Hawaii birth certificate (or David Axelrod is having him do it) to fuel the birther issue and create a diversion so that the right-wing doesn’t focus on his rotten policies. Even if he weren’t born in HI, and was born in a foreign country, there’s nothing that we can do about it now that wouldn’t wind up being weaseled out of by the Supreme Court (with Obama appointee Sotomayor in the court now, BTW) or wouldn’t piss off moderate Democrats to high heaven. Face it, birthers, you’re either falling for a trick, or you’re chasing after a rainbow. Knock it off. It has already cost us Lou Dobbs. (As an aside, this means that CNN wasn’t bothered by his immigration talk, which is a big poke in the eye to the brown bigots that are gloating today.)
UPDATE 11/16: CNN gave him $8 million on the way out.
There are rumors that he’s thinking politics, but why should he go through all that trouble for a job that doesn’t pay $200,000, so that he can sit in committee meeting after committee meeting, and have every day of his life scheduled to the millisecond? He’s goin’ to FoxBiz — mark me.
