crooksandliars.com - 7/28/2009
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DOWNLOADS: (4) PLAYS: (96) Howard Kurtz this weekend was only the latest media critic to pile on Lou Dobbs for his promotion of the Birthers' conspiracy theories on CNN. Like nearly everyone else, Kurtz dismissed the coverage of the story as "ludicrous," and his guests pointed out how profoundly ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/28/2009
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An interesting pattern has emerged in the last
few weeks, as President Obama's ratings have started to...
come down to Earth: You can really see a type of Obama-hatred out there that really does cross over into a purely racial territory. This has ...
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Obama-Haters Becoming Increasingly...Racial In Their ...
dobbsconspiracy.com - 7/28/2009
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dobbsconspiracy.com —
Here is a new video highlighting the people
Lou Dobbs is mainstreaming by promoting birther conspiracies on...
CNN. If you haven't signed the petition yet, add your voice to the growing call for action. Thanks to your support, we have already collected ...
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Dobbs Conspiracy
mediamatters.org - 7/28/2009
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mediamatters.org —
I can think of three (inadvertent) positives that
came out of Lou Dobbs' ill-advised embrace of the...
birther movement: 1) The CNN host has permanently tarnished his reputation 2) The birther movement is officially kaput (like, ...
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Eric Boehlert: How Lou Dobbs scared Rush Limbaugh off ...
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Not Even One Single Republican House Member-- Not Even Nutcase John Campbell-- Backed Lou Dobbs' Psychotic Insistence That Obama Wasn't Born In The US
DownWithTyranny! —
... to avoid voting: John Bayard Taylor Campbell III, a lunatic fringe wingnut from Thousand Oaks (quite far from his Orange County district). Campbell was one of the sponsors of the "Birthright Citizenship Act," which would require presidential candidates to disclose birth certificates. He avoided voting on the Hawaiian legislation at 6:56PM but managed to vote for the Waco Mammoth National Monument Establishment Act at 7:03PM. It must have been difficult for these Republicans to leave CNN's in house racist Lou Dobbs out to dry. ...
Birthers-a-Go-Go
Shakesville —
... a point of order that a quorum is not present. [...] REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D-MD): Further proceedings on this motion will be postponed.H. Res. 593, a resolution "recognizing and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the entry of Hawaii into the Union as the 50th State," contains this provision: “Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii."Video here. Related Reading: Greg Sargent, Dave Neiwert. Action Item: Dobbs Conspiracy (a Media Matters ...
Lou Dobbs and the Birthers: Mainstreaming fringe ideas for ratings eventually will catch up with you
Orcinus —
... of Homeland Security for its warnings about right-wing extremists. That Dobbs has been permitted to operate in this fashion without facing the consequences among his fellow journalists has been one of the real ongoing media scandals that no one in the media wants to write about. So now it's out in the open -- and about time. MM has put together a page where you can chime in on CNN's Lou Dobbs problem. Go make yourself heard. Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars. ...
SPLC report: The "Second Wave" of militia activity is now upon us
Crooks and Liars —
... and especially CNN's Lou Dobbs. Hopefully, this report will get everyone to take a long hard look at the rest of the story here.
SPLC report: The "Second Wave" of militia activity is now upon us
Orcinus —
... -- something that has a powerful permission-giving effect for the most unstable and extreme of this particular lot. Glenn Beck -- who has promoted not just FEMA concentration camp theories, but also far-right "constitutionalist" theories on states rights and secessionist movements, just to name a few -- is easily the worst of the lot in this regard. But he's hardly alone. Other right-wing talkers -- including Sean Hannity and especially CNN's Lou Dobbs. Hopefully, this report will get everyone to take a long hard look at the ...
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huffingtonpost.com 7/24/2009 — The Lou Dobbs "Birthers" saga may be coming to a close. This morning, the President of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a major civil rights group, wrote a letter calling on CNN President Jon Klein to remove CNN host Lou Dobbs from the air. The ...
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