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Maybe Campbell Brown can talk to Lou Dobbs

July 23, 2009 2:18 pm ET by Karl Frisch

Via TV Newser (emphasis added):

CNN's Campbell Brown sat down late last week with Julie Menin. And right out of the gate, Brown explained what sets CNN apart from its competitors. "CNN is the only one who's still doing journalism," said Brown, anchor of CNN's 8pmET program. "I don't mean that as a criticism of what the other guys are doing, it's just...we're comparing apples and oranges. Fox has made a choice to go in one direction, MSNBC has made a choice to go in the other direction."

Okay, I'll bite, even though the smear against MSNBC is simplistic and misleading.

If all that is true, then what direction has Lou Dobbs gone off in? Furthermore, is crazy actually a "direction"?

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    • Author by magnolialover (July 23, 2009 2:28 pm ET)
         
      Lou would just stick his fingers in his ears, and start yelling, "Lalalalalala! I can't hear you... Lalalalalalalala... I'm not listening!"
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    • Author by wookie (July 23, 2009 2:40 pm ET)
         
      Actually Jon Stewart is the only one still doing journalism.
      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/22/time-magazine-poll-jon-st_n_242933.html

      But at least you guys do fewer stripper stories than Fox.
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    • Author by seeryer (July 23, 2009 2:41 pm ET)
         
      MSNBC put Dan Senor on the payroll and they are going the opposite direction as Fox? Sounds like they are going the same direction as Campbell.
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    • Author by webprogrammer (July 23, 2009 3:31 pm ET)
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      Yeah, it's the same direction as all those WMDs. It always cracked me up to hear Donald Rumsfeld say, "We know right where they are," and then point in four different directions. That's straight out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon. "Which way did they go, George?" They don't even pretend anymore.
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    • Author by mmcsbuzz (July 23, 2009 9:22 pm ET)
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      It is my opinion that the vast majority of the citizens of the United States of American have no idea what the Constitution is nor understand it is the basis for our Republic; that we are a nation of laws and not a democracy, We the People are governed therefrom and not by a majority of the wishes in a democracy.

      That said the issue with Obama is he, and his handlers, usurped the constitution by avoiding one of the basics requirements to be president as setforth in Article II of the Constitution of the United States of America. That Article requires, amongst other things that he be a "Natural Born Citizen of the United States; being a "natural born citizen" of the United States of America is a procreation act of being born of two, not one, United States citizen on United States soil; thereby becoming a "Natural/Native Born Citizen", the other requiements is residents and age. The founding fathers made that very clear in the framing of the constitution, how "Natural Born Citizen" status occurred and did not leave that to legislature to determine that qualification. The Legislatures can determine how alien people can apply and become United States citizens, but cannot by constitutional law determine how one becomes a "Natural/Native Born Citizen".

      It is unfortuneate that the general public believes, because they elected Obama, that Obama is president, gets a pass, and nothing can change that; this is not true, and unfortuneately the Obama supporters will need to deal with that fact soon.

      There is so much complicity in this matter that to go further would just make people more unhappy.

      Let's just say this, two pending cases currently before the courts, one in New Jeresy and the other in California will come before a federal judge; the one in New Jersey on August 8, 2009 and the California case will be scheduled for trial shortly, since Obama defaulted in that case and the judge ordered Obama served through the US Attorneys present at that hearing; basically giving an extention to answer, without motions to dismiss, and as he said that the case will be heard on the merits.

      Let's see the learned constituional scholars response hereto.

      Retired Senior Chief Petty Officer
      United States Navy
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (July 23, 2009 11:47 pm ET)
           
        Well your benificence if you say so.
        Frankly you assumption of guilt on the part of Obama and his handlers is unsupported.
        Your desire for an elected president to be declared iligitimate is duly noted.
        Prove you were an SCPO.
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      • Author by solon (July 24, 2009 12:05 am ET)
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        It is my opinion that many rightwing Americans just arent very bright. First we ARE a democracy by the very definition of the word.

        http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy

        1 a: government by the people ; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
        2: a political unit that has a democratic
        government


        There is NO SUCH REQUIREMENT as having BOTH parents be citizens to be a natural born citizen. That is false. I could link to the 14th amendment that talks about what it takes to be a citizen at birth but that has been done a few dozen times and I dont fell like doing your homework for you. Both of your flat out WRONG statements are easily checked. They are sold to the gullible by the type of rightwing screechmonkeys that do your thinking for you but they are false.

        It doesnt take a constitutional scholar to know these things. They are only opaque to the brainwashed Limborgians who just flat dont know what they are talking about
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      • Author by congero6189599 (July 24, 2009 9:19 am ET)
           
        So retired Navy Guy are you saying that Bobby Jindahl cannot run for the Presidency? Point out the Natural Born citizen requirement in the constitution that proves your point? I'll answer for you...You won't because you can't! Thats why you put in quotation NBC but failed to quote the constitution to back it up. No need for constitution scholars, you were dispatched as easily as an annoying nat is flicked away.
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      • Author by The_Cat (July 24, 2009 10:22 am ET)
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        To mmcsbuzz:

        Here is the first sentence of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution:

        "Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

        Since all citizens born in the United States are citizens, and since President Obama was born in Hawaii (the Republican governor confirmed this fact), he is a citizen and eligible to run for President. I am not a constitutional scholar, sir, but I am able to read. Hopefully you are too.

        As for the constitution itself, where were you when President Bush called it a 'goddamned piece of paper'? He is the one who trampled it underfoot, he is the one who transgressed the principles on which this country was founded.
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    • Author by vwcat (July 23, 2009 10:13 pm ET)
         
      I just love how people keep saying MSNBC is all liberal.
      With Scarborough? Ratagan? All those people that keep popping up in new programs and as guest hosts from CNBC???
      Riiiiiighht
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