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Bill O'Reilly scores first interview with 'tin pot dictator' Lou Dobbs

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Kelly Fincham

Published Friday, November 13, 2009, 2:22 PM
Updated Friday, November 13, 2009, 3:01 PM

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Fox hunt: Lou Dobbs set to appear on Bill O'Reilly's show
Fox hunt: Lou Dobbs set to appear on Bill O'Reilly's show

Fox star Bill O'Reilly has scored the first interview with former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs.

Dobbs will make what is expected to be the first of many appearances on Fox Monday night as a guest on O'Reilly's show.

Dobbs sensationally quit CNN Wednesday amid claims he is poised to move to the Fox Business Network.

Fox would clearly be a more natural fit for Dobbs whose right-wing positions on just about everything went against CNN's efforts to carve out a media space in the middle.

However, Dobbs will be going up against O'Reilly if he wants to retain his mantle of "champion of the middle class."

Mind you, while both Dobbs and O'Reilly's stratospheric salaries put them way above the concerns of the man in the street, Dobbs took that manufactured outrage one step further in 2004 when he advised well-heeled subscribers to his $398 newsletter to invest in the same companies he was lamabasting nightly for outsourcing.

That's our Lou - bitterly opposed to outsourcing in public and backing it in private.

The man's a mess of contradictions; little wonder Niall O'Dowd recommended he see a shrink.

During his era on CNN, Dobbs claimed to be defending free speech but the only thing he defended was his ability to launch vicious attacks on immigrants and minorities.

He refused to allow dissent within his own team and a 2006 report on Dobbs in the Nation revealed that Dobbs was reviled as a "tin pot dictator" by staffers on his show.

Unsurprisingly, none of the staffers wanted to go on the record for fear of reprisal from Dobbs.

"He approaches stories with a partisan ax to grind," a former employee told the Nation. "He runs the place as a tin-horn dictator. He's assembled correspondents who feel beholden to him."

"They are given the line on the story and told how to assemble it in his partisan manner before they're sent out to do the story."

He'll go a long way at Fox.

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Posted by beachline on Nov 14, 2009, 12:47 PM EST
I think there is more to this than meets the eye. Lou Dobbs is one of the founding fathers of CNN. I used to watch his evening show but lately he seems to be raving about subjects instead of presenting both sides , and he interrupts his co-workers when they are trying to present the stories. He also is unable to form clear and concise thoughts, stuttering , and going off on tangents instead of the subject matter being discussed. Early signs of dementia ,perhaps ????? It will be interesting to see how he performs on FOX. O' Reilly is an egotistical bully and if he sees a chance to bully Dobbs he will take it.
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Posted by plasticpaddy on Nov 14, 2009, 12:03 PM EST
They are a news station for gods sajke why are you advocating them displaying any opinion. They may if they please have opinion pieces, but they are supposed to be a news broadcaster. American news is a joke, all spin no news.
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Posted by onetimeonly on Nov 14, 2009, 09:33 AM EST
During the Bush era Dobbs pounded the Bush Administration nightly. But now that he questions the Obama administation this is not fair? CNN used to be my favorite news station but in the past few years they have become totally left-leaning with no room for other opinions. I guess for 30 years CNN was wrong to have Lou Dobbs? Or could it be now CNN is no longer the fair and balanced station? Are you fair enough to print my opinion?
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Posted by plasticpaddy on Nov 13, 2009, 03:58 PM EST
A long way at misleading a bunch of sheep.






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