Back over the summer, Lou Dobbs inexplicably and quite eagerly hopped onto the brither bandwagon, not just once but again, and again. At one point, CNN’s President issued a directive saying that the network would no longer cover the story, although he rescinded that a few days later. In the end, though, Dobbs’ birther obsession hurt him in the ratings.
Now, it appears that it may have cost him his job:
Dobbs, who will be replaced on the network by veteran Washington political correspondent John King, abruptly announced his resignation on air Wednesday night and offered no clue about what he planned to do next.
But the beginning of the end really came in July, when CNN President Jonathan Klein told Dobbs’ staff in a memo to drop so-called birther stories about conspiratorial doubts that Obama was US-born, sources told The Post.
“It seems this story is dead because anyone who still is not convinced doesn’t really have a legitimate beef,” read Klein’s memo to employees of “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”
Klein’s move incensed Dobbs, who wasn’t shy about telling off his boss.
“They have been talking pretty regularly since then,” a source said. “And it’s been pretty bad.”
Couldn’t happen to a more well-deserving paranoid, anti-immigrant, anti-capitalist, protectionist old crank.
So long Lou, you won’t be missed.
November 14th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Who actually watches CNN?
November 14th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Lou merely asked one question in that public arena.
His home was then fired upon, and now this…. Still,
better off than Quarles Harris, who knew the answer.