Lou Dobbs steps down - Finally -
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Didn't always agree with the man, but will miss him on CNN and have no intention of ever watching him on Fox[where he is rumoured to be going].
I appreciated Lou Dobbs' agency in taking on Free Trade, an utter failure that is decimating and impoverishing Western Economies, and turning developing economies into sweat shops. He was one of the few reliable sources on the impending derivatives crisis, prior to its implosion in 2008.
But that all started taking a secondary importance we he got onto illegal immigration, and trivial causes like Barak Obama's place of birth. He was an economic nationalist, and most main stream media outlets are completely subservient to the Free Trade and Free Market agendas of Economic Liberalism. To some extent i'm surprised he lasted so long. I just don't think he packaged it well, opening himself to charges of ethnic bias and a purveyor of conspiracy theories.
Unfortunately that leaves the field to the radical neoconservatives, and their agenda which is leaving the world economy in tatters.
But that all started taking a secondary importance we he got onto illegal immigration, and trivial causes like Barak Obama's place of birth. He was an economic nationalist, and most main stream media outlets are completely subservient to the Free Trade and Free Market agendas of Economic Liberalism. To some extent i'm surprised he lasted so long. I just don't think he packaged it well, opening himself to charges of ethnic bias and a purveyor of conspiracy theories.
Unfortunately that leaves the field to the radical neoconservatives, and their agenda which is leaving the world economy in tatters.
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In the late 90's, when Dobbs hosted CNN's Moneyline, he was the eternal optimist about everything economic. It wasn't until the tech bubble crashed when his tune changed and he left Moneyline for fulltime political armchair quarterbacking.
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To me, he was about the only normal one on CNN. He was factual and open minded, something I don't see with any one else that works there. Maybe he has too many morals and was just embarrased to work for such an unfactual news organization. If he does go to Fox, I'll have to eat my words, but I bet he does not.
Nobody saw the tech bubble coming, Kreskin, it wasn’t just Lou Dobbs. When NASDAQ was at 5500, experts were confidently talking of it going to 6000. In the event, it plunged to 1100.
I remember Nortel was at 120$ (remember Nortel?), experts were confidently predicting it to go to 200$. So I wouldn’t hold the inability to see the coming of tech bubble against Lou Dobbs.
I've watched Larry about as much as I've watched Lou and I certainly saw nothing to criticise, I'd put him on par with Lou, says it like it is.
Larry King is pretty much a talk show host, where as Lou Dobbs pretended to be a journalist, presenting opinion as fact. I can appreciate his respect for the border guards who shot those drug smugglers, and even his frustration with the US government's inability to deal with their illegal immigration problems, but his willingness and even habbit of promoting US protectionism lost my support for him.
Lou could be a little that way alright, supporting costlier products produced domestically over products produced in third world counties at 1/3 the cost. He wasn't quite with the real world, but to offset that he was loyal to his own people.
Actually lots of analysts were predicting the tech bubble.
most people and pundits however wern't paying attention.
JLMHe reminded me of those Journalist that toe the right wing or left wing party line - He was on many occasion extreme - Probably believed that the 911 terrorists came across the Canadian Border- He was a bit of a blow hard that repeatedly cut off guests that he invited whenever they tried to present an opposing position - often used his so called fact that were more fiction on more than one occasion. Knowing you watched him you would also be aware of that.
Larry King doesn’t have to do a whole lot, Goober, except to ask leading and open ended questions, to draw out the interviewee. And he is very good at that.
SJPWatched Larry during the re-election of Bush the Lesser - In the Situation Room - he was totally lost - did not have a freaking clue - I prefer some reporters from the CBC - No not Carol Off - She lied in her book about General Lew Mackenzie and has not retracted it as of yet. So she is crapola to me.
If he didn't know the future then what makes him think he knows it now?
I saw him a couple of months ago talking about Canada's socialized doctors. He questioned how anyone would trust a doctor paid a salary. He completely mischaracterized how it works.
That's probably what he does with everything he reports. He thinks his half researched opinions are facts and he presents them as such.
