CNN Tells Lou Dobbs to Knock It Off
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 2:48 pm
TVNewser has the email network president Jon Klein sent to producers:
I asked the political researchers to dig into the question “why couldn’t Obama produce the ORIGINAL birth certificate?”
This is what they forwarded. It seems to definitively answer the question. Since the show’s mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite. And then it seems this story is dead – because anyone who still is not convinced doesn’t really have a legitimate beef.
Like the McCain campaign, most major political media looked into this, and other rumors (like the Michelle Obama “whitey” tape) when the stories broke.
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25 Comments
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
Awww, you mean a grown-up finally paid attention to what Lou had been telling his more easily-impressionable viewers? You mean the entire CNN network isn't willing to follow Lou Dobbs down the sewer as he tries to figure out why he pissed his career down it?
But wait, this doesn't mean that OTHER people can't keep raving about nutjob racist conspiracy theories, right? Just Lou Dobbs.
Ok got it, thanks.
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
Thank God cooler heads are prevailing here! I guess that's why they pay the “Suits” the big bucks. But I learned a lot from this incident. Lou Dobbs has been losing my interest for over a year now, although I used to respect him and his show immensely. Now I don't even wait until the Blitzer show is over before switching the channel. I'll still watch CNN because I like all the other hosts and commentary teams, but Dobbs won't get a glance from me.
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 8:05 pm
It is about time CNN paid attention to what is going on with Lou Dobbs. I have long since changed channels and no longer watch CNN, (not even Anderson Cooper) because of the “Lou Dobbs” mentality taking over CNN.
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
“The world is round not flat.” –MikeB
What evidence do you have to prove that the world is round not flat?
I'm talking legit evidence. Dont tell me about any of the obvious fakes that have been discussed and shredded by my online newsletter already.
It seems like such a simple request. Just back up what your saying, dude. ANY map that has a certificate (not certification) of authenticity should be able to prove your point, and then this whole thing will be laid to rest.
If you dont want to admit your wrong just say it libtard. Just say your wrong and this whole thing goes away.
_______________________________
jimpa:
Evidence :
Most Americans believe the world isn't flat. Just a small group of people believe that the earth is flat.
Astronauts and cosmonauts has seen the earth and state that the world isn't flat.
We have satellites orbiting the planet and their data says the world isn't flat.
Go to any main stream news source and it will state the world isn't flat.
Sailors at some point would fall off the flat surface.
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stephenperry:
Lies. Damnable lies.
1 – Link, please. Not to one of your commie libtard sites. Just a small group of people freed the U.S. mainland from British tyranny and lazy shiftless Native American Indians, pal. Dont tread on me.
2 – The moon landing was faked. Prove that it wasn't. Without using faked proof. I don't trust cosmonauts, they're commie fascist socialist marxist leftist rightist upist downists.
3 – You don't effing know what our satellites say unless you can read encrypted spy satellite code, libtard. We don't trust dumbocrats with national security.
4 – Main stream media is a libtard sewer.
5 – They'd have to go off the EDGE, Obamaphile. Who's dumb enough to sail off the edge? Sailors, like my grandfather and greatgrandfather who both served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan AND Gettysburg, know how to steer a ship. Unlike you, libtard.
Jesus H. Christ. DO ANY OF YOU LIBTARDS HAVE A BRAIN IN YOUR COMMIE LEFTIST HEADS?
I have no idea how Florida Christian doesn't just giggle himself right off his computer chair every day.
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 8:53 pm
LOU:
My question is that since you are a Liberterian, and the Bush & Obama gangs are mostly Fascists why can you not report the actual factual unemployment reports.
Senior Economists report that those reports you, and all of CNN, and all news TV media report are half truths. Those numbers represent only the 45-50% of the people who actually collect compensation for being laid off their jobs.The other 50-55% are the people who are losing their houses, their cars, their families, and are becoming more homeless, and a part of the Tent City settlements that we see on other channels.
Just because the government lies about everything why does the news media have to follow same program?
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 9:11 pm
Maybe TWI could get Klein to comment on the fact that, in her attempt to “debunk” this issue, CNN's Kitty Pilgrim outrageously lied. She said of HI's governor: “on record, she says Obama was indeed born in her state”.
But, that never happened.
Dave Weigel: get on the phone and ask CNN to broadcast a correction. Let's see you do some real reporting for once.
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 10:12 pm
Obama knew about the planned attack on Pearl Harbor weeks before 12/07/41 but he refused to tell President Roosevelt about it.
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
Obama has ordered the U.S. Chemtrail fleet to double it's spray operations by 2010.
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 10:17 pm
Obama has a car that has a “special” carburetor gets 100 miles per gallon of gas.
Air force one runs on water.
Obama plans to create the “North American Union in 2011. All our dollars will be converted to “Ameros” at a rate that will make the worth the same as the old Mexican Peso.
Obama is really Elvis in blackface.
Barack Sr. was the shooter on the grassy knoll.
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 10:19 pm
Kudos to CNN. Unfortunately, I highly doubt this, or any other media coverage, will put the issue to rest for those who, in their delusional state, cling to it so fiercely.
If one looks at what is truly fueling this conspiracy theory– as one group of concerned citizens at the politijab DOT com forum have been doing for months now–one quickly finds that some of the most dangerous and vile anti-government and racist hate groups are driving the issue and using it to recruit new members.
Many of the birthers are clinging to a vision of the USA that is long past, and maybe never existed. They fear change and diversity, and they cannot accept what is happening before their own eyes. These people are being recruited, slowly, into much more dangerous existing hate groups. They are being encouraged daily to “take up arms” and “join militias” and “take their country back at all costs” and “get that Kenyan usurper and his gorilla wife out of office”. Check any birther chat or blog and these types of comments are rampant. Most of the birthers are likely harmless “armchair warriors”, but such sentiments are dangerous and the racism present in them is absolutely sickening.
Please look further into the roots of this idiocy. That is where the real story exists. No one wants to see another tragedy like the recent events involving Von Brunn, who espoused birther theories on the internet before picking up his gun and shooting an innocent man.
Comment posted July 24, 2009 @ 10:29 pm
This story smells…somebody is lying about no birth certificate in Hawaii since 2001.
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/ha…
Comment posted July 25, 2009 @ 12:32 am
Please find a republican candidate's town hall meeting near you and raise this issue LOUDLY. I suggest then leading a rousing rendition of the Battle Hymn of the Republic when you do not get the answer you want!
Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-x2OxWd4YY
Comment posted July 25, 2009 @ 1:29 am
Dennis: “Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!”
King Arthur: “Bloody peasant!”
Dennis: “Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn't you?”
– Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Comment posted July 25, 2009 @ 2:08 am
Teh crazy, sweeping the nation it is! Like Hula Hoops.
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Comment posted July 26, 2009 @ 8:34 pm
Even World Net Daily has reported that the COLB presented by President Obama is authentic.
Read that again.
Here's the link:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageI…
Here's what you need to read when you get there:
“However, FactChecker.org says it obtained Obama's actual certification of live birth and that the document was indeed real. The site discredited some of the claims of Internet bloggers, such as that the certificate as viewed in a scanned copy released by Obama's campaign lacked a raised seal. FactChecker.org also established that many of the alleged flaws in the document noted by bloggers were caused by the scanning of the document.
A separate WND investigation into Obama's certification of live birth utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic. The investigation also revealed methods used by some of the bloggers to determine the document was fake involved forgeries, in that a few bloggers added text and images to the certificate scan that weren't originally there.”
Wow. Got that? Authentic. Got that? People claiming otherwise added stuff that wasn't there before.
As if that wasn't enough, here's a point about the claim that Obama supposedly lost his citizenship as a boy in Indonesia:
“In short, the suit claims Obama was not born an American citizen; lost any hypothetical American citizenship he had as a child (Editor's note: This point is not supported by U.S. citizenship law); may not now be an American citizen and even if he is, may hold dual citizenships with other countries.”
So how about it, birthers? You ready to call it quits now that even World Net Daily has given up?
Oh, wait, that World Net Daily article was published August 23, 2008, ELEVEN MONTHS ago. That can only mean that 24 ahead dot com and every other loser who cited WND in reliance on this stupid conspiracy was never serious to begin with!
Oh well, I can't say I didn't already know THAT!
Comment posted July 26, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
Try to get your facts straight before you post and make a fool out of yourself.
Posting a link to a right wing blog that quotes Lou Dobbs does not prove that
Dobbs knows what he is talking about.
Comment posted July 30, 2009 @ 10:37 pm
Sadly, some people are stubbornly resistant to reality and facts.
I say Lou Dobbs belongs at Faux “News”.
Comment posted August 1, 2009 @ 6:33 am
What Obama is hiding is that he was born a dual-citizen at best & his Kenyan father was biracial(part Arab which is caucazoid). The age of majority in the U.S. in 1961 was 21yr & his mother had to be at least 19 to grant natural-born status(she was 18). Too bad he gave up any U.S. citizenship when he was adopted by his flakey mother's 2nd husband & became Indonesian Barry Soetoro. Grandma & Grandpa Dunham in Hawaii were eventually saddled with the little reject and made lemonade. Then he apparently attended three colleges in the U.S as a foreign student or do you think he is just hiding poor grades. Don't you wonder who payed for his college? They were not the kind of schools most people can afford.
Comment posted August 4, 2009 @ 9:09 pm
Haha nanny nanny poo poo…. Barack Hussein Obama is the President of the United States!!!
That ain't changing anytime soon….He received the most popular votes of any person running for any public office in U.S. history.
69,500,000
read 'em and weep
Comment posted August 19, 2009 @ 10:00 pm
I Say ENOUGH!!!!
I agree with Tim, there may be no hope for America as only a very few seem to have enough common sense to get a life to all of you 'birthers' out there.
“… if our national political conversation becomes simply a continuation of talk radio by other means, dominated by people who bring guns to political rallies, who believe that the president of the United States is an alien who wants to euthanize the elderly and imprison the overweight, it won't matter which party is in power. The country will be as ungovernable as it is deluded.” (Tim Rutten of the LA Times)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutte…
Comment posted August 20, 2009 @ 4:14 am
Hm. An AR-15 (while fulfilling in its appearance the qualities a “Liberal” hoplophobe without any knowledge of firearms might consider that of an “assault rifle”) is not an assault rifle.
Son, you know what an assault rifle is? An MP-44 is an assault rifle, arguably the first production model. The AK-74 and the AKM? Ditto. The FN-1, the M-14, no. They're “battle rifles capable of fully automatic fire.” The M-16 and M-4? You betcha.
But the AR-15 is only capable of semiautomatic fire, and despite the fact that it looks like an assault rifle and takes the same kind of ammunition as do many assault rifles, it isn't.
Now, that Los Angeles Times article you've cited contains a lot of other factual errors, but the “red flag” goes up the minute you read a j-school clown call something like the AR-15 an “assault rifle” because from that point on, you know that either the writer doesn't know what he's talking about (and hasn't bothered to do even minimal fact-checking) or he's lying.
In either case, forget about relying on anything he's written. Either he's wrong or he's trying deliberately to screw you.
You go ahead an “agree with Tim,” putzie. If he's wrong (or lying), you're screwed.
And you're screwed.
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