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On Twitter, Dobbs continues birth certificate questions, attacks on "left wing media" trying to "silence" him"

July 27, 2009 3:49 pm ET by Media Matters staff

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Previously:

Dobbs: "[L]eft wing-media" attacking me "because I simply called for transparency" on Obama birth certificate issue

Dobbs: "I do believe in a national left-wing media conspiracy in which they work in concert and attack like hell"

Dobbs: "[L]imp-minded, lily-livered lefties ... attacking me" because "I actually had the temerity to inquire as to where the birth certificate was"

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    • Author by shaggles (July 27, 2009 3:54 pm ET)
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      Oh the poor victim. He's only on the air 3-4 hours a day. His free speech is being denied him.
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    • Author by magnolialover (July 27, 2009 3:56 pm ET)
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      Hey Lou, first of all, this again, isn't a freedom of speech thing. How is having a radio show, and a TV show a freedom of speech right? As has been explained a million times, it's not one of our rights. Nobody is trying to silence you.

      What we are trying to do is to get you removed from the air for irresponsible journalism, and reporting. You're of course free to spout your nonsense via the internet, as you are doing here, and nobody is going to stop that.

      Your freedom of speech is only taken away from you when government makes laws abridging that freedom.
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    • Author by harley (July 27, 2009 4:08 pm ET)
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      The reich-wing have yet to answer one simple question: Why exactly does it matter if the doctor and hospital doesn't appear on Obama's legal and certified Certification of Birth?
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    • Author by seeryer (July 27, 2009 4:26 pm ET)
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      I guess everyone that works at CNN as a reporter or producer, including his fill-in Kitty Pilgrim are all part of the left wing media trying to silence him? What about the Amrican Spectator and Anne Coulter, those bastions of left wingery? Why doesn't Lou understand what free speech is? If the "liberals" were calling for you to be incarcerated (which, by the way, may be the best thing that could happen to Lou. J/K Louie) then they would not believe in the right to free speech. Requesting you be fired is not being against your free speech, it is embracing the free market. Someone who advocates an arrest (Bill Bennett) because of something that is said is anti free speech. Is it really that hard to understand?
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    • Author by pros2pros2940 (July 27, 2009 4:28 pm ET)
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      Geez.........I expect to hear that kind of nonsense from Savage or Quinn...but now Dobbs.

      No Lou we want you to STOP LYING.

      Talk all you like but QUIT LYING
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      • Author by bilbo_dies (July 27, 2009 6:32 pm ET)
           
        But; he is not lying. He is just "reporting" the allegations.

        Of course, everyone else has given the birthers their 15 minutes (or was that 15 weeks) and have moved on to more relevant stories. (well, or not as the case may be)
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    • Author by Vincenzo (July 27, 2009 4:29 pm ET)
         
      When a 'journalist' who portrays himself as professional helps support the conspiracy put forward by further escapees from the asylum what are we supposed to think? Respond in a mature fashion to whom Lou? To the ringleaders that started this who have made no secret from their past that they are by and large racist, anti-Semitic, and mental cases? To their groupies who represent a slice of society that matches them in their racial beliefs and can not come to grips that the 8 year vacation from responsible government is over and it is being led by a black man?

      I'm sorry, Lou Dobbs is either taking the opportunist route or this is the beginning of his slide into dementia.
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    • Author by pags2 (July 27, 2009 4:33 pm ET)
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      Dobbs is doing the victim role. Strangely enough, Palin did the same thing about the media. This is Nixonian using the "blame the media" strategy.
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    • Author by arbee1 (July 27, 2009 4:40 pm ET)
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      If you think of all the times you have been required to produce a birth certificate in you lifetime (start of school, obtaining ss card, drivers license, passport, taking of bar exam, etc,etc) I am totally unable to imagine how Dobbs or any sentient being could continue this discussion and pretend intellectual honesty.
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    • Author by peace4all (July 27, 2009 4:50 pm ET)
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      hey lou, the "left wing media" is not trying to silence you. they are just pointing out how stupid you are. if people want to listen to you and to believe you, well, thats up to them. we can't control how stupid people attract other stupid people.
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    • Author by MickD (July 27, 2009 5:04 pm ET)
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      Left wing media is the laziest, most disingenuous term that the right has paraded out. It is a lie and the corporations that employ them are perfect examples of why it is a lie. News programming for profit will never have a progressive point of view completely, unless its ratings were so huge the boardroom wants the money more than the message.
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    • Author by steeve (July 27, 2009 7:02 pm ET)
         
      Ugh, he's so stupid he pulled the free speech card out.

      Free speech is for street corners, dingus. You're on national television.
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (July 27, 2009 8:40 pm ET)
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        Again, the right wing translation;

        Free speech = uncontested free speech

        Any criticism or debunking of their statements is "silencing" them.
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    • Author by night-n-day (July 28, 2009 1:48 am ET)
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      If the media is "liberal" why is something as baseless and fringe as the "birther" nonsense on ALL the 24 hour cable news networks every single day? Can Lou and his non-existent demons answer that?

      Also, I'd love to hear someone explain what it takes to be too far to the right for TV, a medium that welcomes stark-raving, feces-throwing lunatics around the clock from Ann Coulter to Rush Limbaugh to Bill Kristol to Karl Rove. Who on the left can spew any baseless allegation, the crazier the better, the way the rightwing is ENCOURAGED to do by our darling "liberal media"!

      Will we have have ONE TV NETWORK THAT'S LIBERAL???
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