This puts the report that Dobbs walked away from $9 million in question.
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.
via NY Post.
Did CNN Give Lou Dobbs $8 million To Leave?
Categories: Cable News Ratings
good for Lou!
now thats desperation >_^
Well, I know I couldn’t watch CNN in the evening because of him and others. But mostly because of him, and he’s gotten wackier in recent months.
Sucked for him to be the only conservative voice on a far left news channel anyway. Congrats to Lou for getting out of that dump…
Whatever you did to get rid of him, CNN, thank you.
dj109, Lou Dobbs was hardly conservative. Wacky, yes. Conservative, no. Of course Glenn Beck fans might not know the difference.(conservative AND wacky)
Anyways It seems like CNN’s strategy is trying to reposition itself as a news network, rather than an opinion network in hopes to differentiate itself from FNC and MSNBC. Paying Dobbs to leave helps them do that, as his reputation as an opinion journalist is to entrenched to change.
Oh and dj109, and I’m curious to what makes CNN far left. MSNBC, sure. Left, maybe. Far left? Name one thing said on the network that is far outside of the mainstream. Or is anything more liberal than Ronald Regan constitute a far left opinion?
Anyone who uses Glenn Beck as an avatar should be and would be deeply questioned for believabilty even if they said the sky was blue.
I’m hopeful that CNN will follow through with positioning itself as a “just the facts, ma’am” news channel.
For a while, it was if FOX News was slanted for conservatives, MSNBC was slanted for liberals, and CNN was slanted for the stupid. One afternoon this summer, I had CNN on for a little over an hour. They brought up Jon&Kate’s domestic situation three times.
DJ109 (no relation!!),
Where have you been? Lou Dobbs is “Mr. Independent!”
Lou Dobbs helped bring Acorn to the forefront, along with immigration, and did many Americans justice schooling everyone on Health Care while focusing on other Countries Health Care etc… Whether you like Glenn Beck or not, he too has shown America the behind the seens in Washington, with Vern Jones, Anitta Dunn, ACorn etc. Yes, Glenn is nutty and Lou is opinionated too. But at least there honest about it. I appreciate there candor and I hope Lou appears on another News station who does not have a paid agenda.
If some news source other than The Post verifies this, then I might believe it.
Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck do not deal in honesty. They may take opne sliver of truth and for the uninformed are able to turn it into some major item. They lead sheeple by the nose into thinking they have hit some major motherlode of Washington insider truth.
The people who buy into either of those lunatics are the same people that that joke about buying ocean front property in Kentucky was based on.
These people aren’t honest, just because they tell you what you think is true doesn’t make them honest. It makes them smart enough to know they can make money off of you.
Dave: What makes CNN far left? They ignored repeated Acorn scandals and ignored reporting on a half dozen or more Obama appointees with ties to communist organizations or praise for communist mass murders. The only difference between that and praise for Nazis? Communists killed about seven times as many people as Nazis did. CNN ignored (as far as I could tell) how Laredo and other border cities were facing mass murder at the hands of Mexican drug gangs (though maybe Dobbs mentioned it, but I didn’t watch him). They may have ignored the fact that Phoenix became the #2 “kidnapping capitol” city of the world due to the drug violence, but I stopped watching CNN by then. Turning a blind eye to crime on the border is typical for the left because if you admit there might be a problem, the term “racist” is never far behind, even if you are never worried about race but only about safety.
Is any of that far left enough for you? But CNN made sure to give extensive live coverage to Balloon Boy, while Beck gave time to talk about Obama’s political appointees. Who is really wacky?
Of course they were admitted to extensive coverage of Iraq by Saddam’s aides in the run up to the war, but only if they were willing to cover the news his way. That’s not really to the political left, but more of a matter of pandering to a dictator.
Where do I sign up to NOT work for $8 million?
It sucks now a days that when you put out the truth with no spin you are labled conservative and not just someone with a brain!!! When you are young you are a liberal it shows you have a heart when you get older you become a conservative it shows you have a brain!! This administration has done a very good job at demonizing anyone that questions there authority or plans. Hope Dobbs comes back bigger than ever and cnn belongs on sat. morning cartoons that is about as close to the news as they get !
Where were you conservatives for the last 8 years? Granted Obama hasnt surrendered a bit fo the power that Bushie had but Bushie abused it far more then Obama has so far. See how easy Fox leads you people around? And you claim you garned more brains as you got older? No, you just allow others to lead you into their way of thinking. I enjoy watching people trying to justify their ignorance…it really is funny. Funny but scary at the same time….since you are always lead to fight against your best interests by those who make out best by you doing that.
Seems to me if Glenn was telling lies the red phone that is connected to the White House would have been ringing off the table. He is begging the WH to let him know if he says any thing not true. So far he has not had a call….wonder why.
Yeah, Sam. You think you’d at least stick him on at 2AM or something until his contract runs out. He’d be the “‘Til Death” of CNN. Keep him out of sight but still get some return on all that money.
I have at least one of Dobbs’ books and there was a lot of good in it at that time with some populist economic theory and take on journalism. He then became obsessed with illegal immigration being the #1 problem in America, and it went beyond that. He’d even flip out about people waving an Irish flag on St. Patrick’s Day or Italian flag on Columbus day (really). Now he’s been running material about Obama not being a U.S. citizen, and it’s sad. He was a good populist voice who wrote about the shenanigans on Wall Street well before the banks imploded, but now he’s become obsessed with trivial conspiracy theories and his own self-importance and it’s killed any other good he could have done.