Dobbs and guest Jeffrey Lord suggest DropDobbs.com campaign is an effort "to stifle debate"
November 11, 2009 9:13 pm ET
From the November 11 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight:
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The so called conservatives can take an opinion not their own? How about Freedom Fries? Had any lately?
You want to hang your your hat on the 2 gov. wins and claim right is coming back (and ignore history)? Go ahead.
Just shows how clueless and ignorant you are.
In this case, where you hang your hat isn't the House. Too bad.
Keep crowing, but you are incorrect.
It's an attempt to stop nonsense from polluting the airwaves. Dobbs can talk about his political philosophy if he wants to, but when he lies about facts, when he distorts the political positions that others hold, snd when he omits pertinent facts that leave his listeners less well informed than they were before he started talking, our political debate doesn't need that kind of toxic behavior!
Our nation deserves better than what you traitorous, unpatriotic deceitful jerks have been shovelling out for years. Dobbs shouldn't have a national forum where he has credibility he doesn't deserve and influence our nation can't afford to stomach.
Anyone can stand on a street corner and say whatever they want to, but our country needs better stewards of factual information than Lou Dobbs on the airwaves. Dobbs has a couple of choices. He can keep doing what he's been doing (or get worse, and become more partisan and less attached to reality, which it appears he's moving towards), and he can lose the credibility he used to have, or he can simply go away, or he can straighten up his act and regain credibility .
We don't deny him credibility because of his political philosophy. He should be denied influence because of his blatant disregard of honest debate. We want debate from the voices of opposition.
But there should be multiple voices of opposition, not just scripted talking points. There should be relatively honest representations of one's own positions as well as of one's opponents.
And we have to stop with this nonsense you spew above, that we are on a mission to shut down any voices of the opposition. That's just crazy talk and doesn' represent reality. Now, when Republicans controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, YOUR SIDE sure did shut down any input from the opposition! You had tons of disrespect for the minority party. Maybe you figure we'll act as disreputably as your side did. But we won't.
Please curb your tongue, and I will continue to curb mine. Our country was founded on the principals of free speech. You have yours, and I have mine. I would appreciate it, if you woud stop making it your personal mission to silence your objecting party.
As pointofview stated, the right are coming back. They are disgusted with the state of our economy, lack of sending troops into Afghanistan to help our Military that is already there, high unemployment rate, just to name a few. We don't turn our backs on them. Can you say the same from the Liberal party?
DAnn
In other words, 'I can't stand these other opinions being expressed here, so I'm going to complain about liberals not being able to stand other opinions.'
Stifle what! Illegal Immiagration is caused by the crooked corporations who offer illegal immagrants under the table jobs. You take that away the level of illegal immagration drops. Did Dobby talk about that on his show or did he just racially target hispanic people?????
The NY Times said "Months ago the president of CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein, offered a choice to Lou Dobbs, the channel’s most outspoken anchor. Mr. Dobbs could vent his opinions on radio and anchor an objective newscast on television, or he could leave CNN.
For a time, Mr. Dobbs did tone down his TV rhetoric, but on Wednesday he made a more drastic decision: He chose opinion."
His documentary, Latino in America, was roundly derided by any legit media critic. He exaggerated the bullets his wife found at their country home as being fired at his home - it was almost certainly stray bullets from hunters, as it turns out.
As for this claim about stifling debate, who the heck cares. It's individuals expressing their dislike of the statements made by Dobbs, Beck, Hannity, Rush, and the rest of the partisan hacks. FNC makes opinion shows into a business. Their entire lineup is made up of opinion shows. If people want to discourage certain viewpoints, they have every right. I wonder if this guy has ever heard of Holmes and the "marketplace of ideas?" However in this case, I'm sure the right doesn't want people to believe in the free market.
I doubt very much that the callers that are allowed to question or rebut the talk show host are calling to debate. I'm sure all callers are screened and they generally support the radio host.
Some debate??