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Media Matters Running Ads Attacking Lou Dobbs’ Birther Obsession — On CNN!
Okay, this is an interesting new frontier in political media criticism. Media Matters, which has been attacking CNN for not reining in Lou Dobbs' birther obsession, has now purchased air time to run a TV ad attacking "CNN's Lou Dobbs problem" -- during Dobbs' show!
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Will CNN air anti-Dobbs ad? UPDATE
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... In what Greg Sargent calls an "intriguing new frontier in political media criticism," Media Matters has bought air time during Lou Dobbs' show in order to criticize the host's ...

Friday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... : "When the banks did well, their employees were paid well. When the banks did poorly, their employees were paid well. And when the banks did very poorly, they were bailed out by taxpayers and their employees were still paid well." * Media Matters is going after Lou Dobbs with ads -- to be aired on CNN . * House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) doesn't buy into the Birther conspiracy theory, which he ...

Media Matters has an ad on CNN about Lou Dobbs and his birther obsession. Lou Dobbs doesn't like it.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Dobbs is giving all kinds of free publicity to Media Matters and its ad campaign about his birther obsession, which will be running on CNN. The ads notes "CNN Has a Lou Dobbs Problem." And, CNN does indeed have a Lou Dobbs problem. ...

Mohammed Goes To The Mountain (So To Speak)
Daily Kos — ... Good times -- Media Matters has purchased ad time to go after Lou Dobbs' enabling of the birther brigade. The punchline? The purchase is to have the ad run during Lou Dobbs' show. ...

Midday Open Thread
Daily Kos — ... arrested a suspect in the killing of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl. The remains of Navy Pilot Scott Speicher have been positively identified. Capt. Speicher had been missing since his plane was shot down over Iraq in 1991. John McCain says he is "back and forth" on whether to vote to confirm Judge Sotomayor. Time is running out for tens of thousands of unemployed U.S. workers. Media Matters is planning to run attack ads on CNN, aimed at Lou Dobbs and his obsession with "birthers." Also. ...

Anti-Lou Dobbs Ad May Run Tomorrow During Dobb's Show
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... group Media Matters for America has been on a crusade against CNN's Lou Dobbs for calling on President Obama to release a copy of his birth certificate. (Dobbs says he believes Obama was born in Hawaii but that Obama should release his birth certificate in the name of promised transparency; Media Matters says Dobbs is raising questions about Obama's birth and ginning up suspicions.) Tomorrow, the group will start running an TV ad criticizing Dobbs, and the goal, as Greg Sargent has reported, is to run it during Dobbs's own show, which airs at 7pm Eastern. Media Matters has ...

Media Matters will run ad campaign on CNN condemning Dobbs’ birther sympathies.
Think Progress — ... , telling the Washington Post that Dobbs’ critics are “people with a partisan point of view from one extreme or another.” Now, Media Matters has put together a new 30-second ad — which will air starting Tuesday on Fox News, MSNBC, and even during Dobbs’ show on CNN — calling attention to Dobbs’ affinity for the birthers’ demands. Watch it: ...

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