CNN to Dobbs: Here's $8 Million, Now Just Go Away
Wow. Look how much CNN wanted him out of there:
CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave, The Post has learned.
"They wanted him out," according to a source.
Dobbs, who a source said had a year and a half to go on his $12 million contract, shocked viewers last Wednesday by announcing he was quitting.
CNN boss Jonathan Klein and Dobbs, 64, had been publicly feuding over the kind of reporting Dobbs was doing on his show -- especially stories about illegal immigration and the anti-Obama "birther" movement, which contends the president was not born in Hawaii and is not an American citizen.
But it was not clear until now that CNN was willing to pay Dobbs so much money to leave.
"What they do is their business," Dobbs said yesterday. "I tried to accommodate them as best I could, but I've said for many years now that neutrality is not part of my being."
Klein long believed Dobbs was at odds with CNN's desire to position itself as an opinion-free, middle-of-the-road alternative to its cable news rivals -- conservative Fox News and liberal MSNBC.
False equivalences.
MSNBC is just as bad as Fox!!@!!!!!one!!@@#!@!
deluded?
CNN's idea of a "middle of the road alternative" is to allow Wolf Blitzer to call my female hometown Mayoral candidate in San Diego a "surfer chick", repeatedly. She lost by a slim margin.
Or how about Larry King constantly telling the world that Israel is "surrounded by enemies"
Or repeated programming on Blacks v. Whites.
MSNBC gets extremely political - absolutely.
But never personal as CNN and Fox aim to do - specifically.
And, they're the first and only network to come back the next day to apologize if they've personally offended anyone or made any 'mistakes' with their facts.
CNN and Fox like their news to get personal.
I've admired MSNBC because they go out of their way and in fact apologize when they offend or make mistakes.
Thy are extremely political, however, and that's OK. I like hearing both sides of a political debate.
If MSNBC is so left-wing, why do I have to listen to former Republican congresscritter Joe Scarbrough and former Republican Presidential candidate Pat "white racist and proud" Buchanan?
Andrea Mitchell - who was obviously all tingly today cause she got to cover the Sarah show at a Michigan mall. This was news? Getting middle-aged women from Grand Rapids, Mi to say they like Sarah is hardly a stretch when you consider that they had showed up to wait in line for hours. But Andrea was almost breathless with how much they liked Sarah. They almost got giggly and brushed each other's hair.
Bullshit. FOX uses lies. MSNBC uses facts
is intended to be a factual statement
The issue is not whether a news story or outlet shows bias - it's whether it's true or not.
Rachel Maddow may be the most openly partisan personality outside of the FOX "news" studios. Who cares? Her first question to nearly every guest, no matter which side of an issue they're on is, "I just said X about ________. Did I state the facts?" When she's wrong (which is very rare) she corrects herself, unlike FOX who make excuses.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
Fact based reporting and opinion based upon fact (or lack thereof).
Your nothing but a ranting and raving partisan hack with little basis in reality.
And your crap has no use in America.
By Lou. And rot in hell/
Yep.
Today's Americans think for themselves.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
No sense of proportion!
I would have been willing to go away for half that amount...
[I may just have stuffed cotton for a brain, but even I know this is just wrong...]
why not just put his show on at 1am, hire inept producers & tech people and tell them to "have fun"?
Our corporate management is corrupt and biased, but not imaginative at all.
Oh, and have all his guests be outspoken progressives.
was run his show once dubbed in Spanish.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I would have continued to pay his salary (not let him out of his job) - but cancelled his show and made him sit quietly at his desk with nothing to do. AND, I would have put a mop and bucket beside his desk and just waited for the boredom to start killing him...
do we have to be bombarded with ads about the Quitter (Palin) all over C & L? Jeebus.
C&L gives up much needed ad revenue or you spend five minutes installing Adblock. Your call Doc.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Peter.
that right wing organizations are not only wasting their ad budget on us, but that they also fund liberal websites like this one.
click the ads and peruse the sites. That costs.
me-oww!
I don't think I can possibly bring myself to click through that cesspool, ugh!
..the same way I want to know where NASCAR is racing.
I tune in for the wrecks!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
on Oprah today.
me-oww!
So free speech is not for EVERYONE?
and you are on a private site, which doesn't have to allow any kind of speech at all, like Michelle Malkin's site, or RimJob's FreeRepublic.
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..owned by Rupert (the liberalism stops now) Murdoch?
Couldn't you find a more neutral link?
but was written by a reporter for AP.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
In his announcement he says that "...he won an immediate release from his contract."
He 'won' a release he didn't know was coming.
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?...
The right-winged Post and even the neocon rag WND are spinning when they try to infer they just pulled 8M from their rears to force him from reporting on our illegal President.
In fact WMD said he had 9M left on his contract that was ready to expire next year.
His big mouth cost him one M him 8 mill for the fun based on
I gotta start hating mexicans.
How am I supposed to teach my children that racism is wrong when racism just netted this asshole more money than I'll make in a lifetime?
America has become a really perverted place. Can't wait to find my ticket out.
"Better." It's what we should ask of ourselves and of our leaders.
and competence. When the average CEO gets a golden parachute everytime they run a business into the ground due to their sheer incompetence?
We live in a society which rewards failure at the top levels, but expects the upmost excellence from the poor or else.
..as practiced by Blackwater, Inc. mercenaries in Iraq under several no-bid cost-plus contracts. Oh, and the gang rapes that they also got away with while pulling down wages 10X those of a legitimate soldier. But then, it looks like the reason they were hired to begin with was because Bu$hCo needed guns that were not under the authority of the UCMJ, nor the US Department of Justice.
Just make sure Tim that your children never hear about Erik Prince, Halliburton, KBR, or anyone connected with Dick Cheney or KKKarl Rove. Or the $10 BILLION in palletted cash that was shipped to Iraq and just vanished.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
I don't have any problem with people expressing opinions.
It's all that um.."lying" I find tedious.
Anyway Lou was simply the most obvious CNN offender.
The others "express their opinions" through the questions they choose to ask (or not ask) and the manner in which they choose to cover stories.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
You can't mean Blitzer, he doesn't choose to ask stupid questions because of his politics, he chooses to ask them because he is an astonishingly stupid man.
I saw the Jeopardy meltdown.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
it is just that he gets lost reporting on any story that doesn't have cue cards provided for him by AIPAC (his former employer.)
I know a guy that saw him in the safeway asking a clerk about a box of chicken broth because the broth had a picture on the front that showed it with carrots in it and he didn't want carrots.
... these conservatives manage to make a wad of cash, for no apparent value added.
..then the rest of us!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
that neutrality is not part of my being."
Then go write a blog, or stand on a street corner preaching the words of the voices in your head, ya bloated bastard.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Much like Fox, CNN has an ideological approach. Everything they touch is designed to aim for the halfway point between Republicans and Democrats. Like Fox, they are unapologetic. Unlike Fox, CNN brags about it.
When viewership drops and the irate phone calls rise, advertisers get pissed.
It's a very simple business.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
CNN is a rightwing media outlet with an Israel bias. You can count on one hand the number of times that they ran stories unfavorable to Bush and probably have enough fingers left over for stories favorable to the Obama administration. (I'll never forget Blitzer telling Obama that he got the question about who America's most important ally was wrong.)
Fox "News" on the other hand is blatently the propaganda arm of the Republican party. (It was founded by Roger Ailes, who was the Karl Rove of the Nixon/Regan era.)
there won't be any restrictions on when he can pick up a new gig. If you leave on your own, you can lose face time at the competitor's. When Aaron Brown quit one teevee station in this market to go to another (KING to KIRO, IIRC and a step down IMHO), he was off the air for 3-6 lovely arrogant aaron free months...
Hey! Did CNN pay Zombie King Beck to leave? Hmmmm I wonder.
me-oww!
Excellent question, m_k. I'm sure they did.
btw, Aaron Brown always annoyed me. The ever-present smirk on his face drove me crazy.
Good riddance to all of them!
I want Aaron Brown back on CNN! He was always calm, quietly funny and the little "bling" sound at the end when he gave the Chicago weather word--priceless.
Bring back (Aaron) Brown! Bring back (Aaron) Brown!
Three Dog Owner
an asshole. But I don't get cable news, and even when I did, I never watched. But really. Brown is a dick. No one cried when he left town.
me-oww!
How many lies can Klein and Dobbs tell? When organizations and individuals began to complain about Dobbs, Klein provided cover and supported him while behind the scenes they were at each other's throat. Only when the most recent teevee ratings were released did Klein decide to rid CNN of Dobbs' negative influence. They were both willing to lie to keep Dobbs on the network, until Klein saw that it was affecting their viewer numbers and would most likely affect their money coming in from advertisers. The free market was the final nail in Dobbs' coffin. He was no longer an asset to the network.
That Dobbs left the network is great news. That Dobbs and CNN were both, in a way, "victims" of the free market system is excellent. Klein got to experience first-hand the fact that, in a free market system, businesses that can't survive are forced out of the game.
Just curious.
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
no one hates you to that degree. I'd consider that a good thing if I were you. I don't know if I'd be willing to turn into such an asshole that people would pay me big bucks to go away. Your pride has to have some value.
"Better." It's what we should ask of ourselves and of our leaders.
why is it that assholes get the golden parachutes and I get the golden shower? (That, and my weekly doesn't-cover-my-expenses unenjoyment check.)
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
That's great.
You know,being obnoxious really does pay big dividends in today's culture.Be a colossal asshole,write a book,get rich.
Or just be a pushy mediocrity.Mediocrity sells like hot cakes.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
"Klein long believed Dobbs was at odds with CNN's desire to position itself as an opinion-free, middle-of-the-road alternative to its cable news rivals -- conservative Fox News and liberal MSNBC."
There's so much wrong with this statement. First, MSNBC is not 'liberal'. Secondly, FOX does not present news, but rather is the ideological voice of the far right. Third, CNN is not middle of the road -- it really seeks to be without ideological foundation. It seeks to present the kind of content-free noise that won't offend anyone sitting around at an airport waiting for their flight to be loaded. This is why Lou is 'at odds' with CNN - he does not present the kind of noise CNN wants to present. CNN aspires to be PBS for people who do not want to think.
MSNBC is not liberal? K.O.,Mathews, and Rachel aren't liberal?
Perhaps you've never caught "Morning Joe"? Left? Compared to the crew at Fakes & Friends, maybe, but that's a stretch.
Take KO, Ed, and Rachel off the air and you have Chris Matthews (MSNBC's equivalent of Talk-Over Bill O'Really, imho) and Prison Shows. Take (any three Fakes News personalities) off the air, and you still have 21 hours of right-wing jabber.
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
Just a liberal facade on a clapped out old slapper...
And no KO and Matthews especially Matthews, who loves the smell of Fred Thompson, are not anywhere close to 'Liberal' Asshats have dragged this country so far to the right, a centrist like Olbermann and a righty like Matthews only appear 'liberal' to a wingnut, like you.
me-oww!
There's a double standard here. FOX is exclusively right wing. A network is labeled 'liberal' if there exists a single liberal show on it. On this criterion CNN is liberal because it has Cafferty.
Are you dennis, our rethug wingnut?
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
The liberal media?
You need new material.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
That CNN had to pay him, suggests otherwise.
Dobbs, the American people are not as dumb as you'd like us to be.
Dobbs though his snake oil wagon was going to roll forever.
Words have consequences.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It is nauseating that hate and bigotry are such lucrative traits in our country--and appear to be a 'growth industry' if tea bagging is any indication.
I wouldn't call that "quitting."
Extortion is a better word to define his leave taking.
S
"They wanted him out," according to a source.
Does this make him a hero...like that other quitter?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Wow who says hate doesn't pay? MSNBC is only liberal during their primetime, 3 hours a day, That's all we get is 3 hours. the rest of the day is conservative to moderate. Fox get 24 hours of conservative wingnuttery
Dumping Dobbs will not help CNN.from its Rating Nightmare.
As long as they have Blitzer and Anderson they will continue to
be last.
Blitzer spends way too much of his time on ludicrous or destructive Republican talking points.
Blitzer either talks about Republican talking points to Democrats, or he talks Republican talking points directly to Republicans. He does it all so innocuously that i'm not sure if he's aware that his show is becoming a distortion of the true situation in America today.
But he could change, and i want to thank CNN for dumping Birther Lou Dobbs. thanks CNN!
I guess Blitzer does have to contend with Republicans as long as they are the official opposition. I'll be real happy when republicans are gone, gone, gone and a decent opposition party can be formed.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
CNN is praying that there is still some audience segment that thinks something just must be true if it's displayed on a really expensive looking touch-screen plasma display.
John King = not credible.
John King + "Magic Wall" = credible.
See how that works? Jack and the Beanstalk was less gullible.
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
Birther Dobbs once wanted to take over MSNBC and now he's out on the street where he belongs.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
King is an unapologetic republican advocate who now moves into the "worst on CNN" slot vacated by Dobbs. (Wolfie's on deck.)
had the only watchable show on CNN. He's the only one willing to point out the outrages that go on in the government.
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