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mediamatters.org - 7/28/2009
Media figures single out Dobbs for "fanning" flames of birther theories
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In recent days, as Media Matters for America has noted , CNN host Lou Dobbs has promoted the fringe notion -- labeled a "conspiracy theory" by his own CNN colleagues -- that President Obama has failed to produce a valid birth certificate. Numerous journalists and other media figures have ...
Obama-Haters Becoming Increasingly...Racial In Their Rhetoric
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/28/2009
Obama-Haters Becoming Increasingly...Racial In Their Rhetoric
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — 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 ... (more) Obama-Haters Becoming Increasingly...Racial In Their ...

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dobbsconspiracy.com - 7/28/2009
Dobbs Conspiracy
— 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 ... (more) Dobbs Conspiracy

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mediamatters.org - 7/28/2009
Eric Boehlert: How Lou Dobbs scared Rush Limbaugh off the birther story
— 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, ... (more) Eric Boehlert: How Lou Dobbs scared Rush Limbaugh off ...

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The Hollywood Liberal:  Eric Boehlert: How Lou Dobbs scared Rush Limbaugh off the birther story

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Eric Boehlert: How Lou Dobbs scared Rush Limbaugh off the birther story
The Hollywood Liberal — ... on the birther issue (i.e. The story is “dead” but it’s OK for Dobbs to keep flogging it on national TV). But there was some good news last week, and it came from watching Dobbs’ slow motion train wreck unfold on the airwaves. It came from seeing how eagerly — how convincingly — the birther claims were debunked, not only ...

alicublog — ... NEVER-ENDING STORY. It was strategically necessary for National Review to abjure the birthers. They have been giving their movement and the party to which it is attached some bad publicity, which Democrats had been exploiting. In its current, fragmented state, the conservative movement cannot be said to have leadership, but National Review at least has a historical place in it. Though Rush Limbaugh plays with birtherism and Lou Dobbs stumps for it, the magazine's demurrer allows critics like Alex Koppelman to say that "the ...

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