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Tonite on CNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike

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Watch Lou Dobbs for a special on "War Against the Middle Class"

It will be mandatory watching for all ranchers.net posters.

There will be a quiz tomorrow. :lol:
 

mrj

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The only thing surprising, even shocking, about the piece will be if there is a balanced program with opposing viewpoints aired.

Dobbs is disappointingly left wing, but what else is new about that on CNN?

MRJ
 

Econ101

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I agree reader. We need more people who believe in principles over party. I have been so disappointed with this last bunch of republicans in that respect.
 

Mike

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Recent review of Dobbs:

"The CNN commentator’s recent rallying cry for “middle-class Americans” to register independent because, Dobbs says, the Republican and Democratic Parties are both “bought and paid for by corporate America and special interests. And neither party gives a damn about the middle class.”
 

TSR

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Mike said:
Recent review of Dobbs:

"The CNN commentator’s recent rallying cry for “middle-class Americans” to register independent because, Dobbs says, the Republican and Democratic Parties are both “bought and paid for by corporate America and special interests. And neither party gives a damn about the middle class.”

Only if you don't care about the middle class would you criticize Dobbs OR if you were a member of another class or corporation wanting to benefit/exploit the middle class in one way or another.
 

Mike

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Biography:


Early life and career
Dobbs was born in Childress, Texas, the son of a co-owner of a propane business and a bookkeeper. At age 12, his father's propane business failed and the family moved to Rupert, Idaho.[1] He attended Minico High School in Rupert, serving as student body president in 1963.[citation needed] He earned a degree in economics from Harvard University, graduating in 1967.

After graduating, Dobbs worked for federal anti-poverty programs in Boston and Washington DC and as a cash-managment specialist for Union Bank in Los Angeles. He married a high school sweetheart in 1969 and in 1970 his first son was born. Restless, Dobbs moved to Yuma, Arizona and got a job as a police and fire reporter for a KBLU-AM. By mid decade, he was a television anchor and reporter in Phoenix and in Seattle at KING-TV. In 1979, he was contacted by a recruiter for Ted Turner, who was in the process of forming CNN.[1]

CNN
Dobbs joined CNN when it launched in 1980, serving as its chief economics correspondent and as host of the business news program CBS News Sunday Morning on CBS. Dobbs also served as a corporate executive for CNN, as its executive vice president and as a member of CNN News Chief Iran Correspondent’s executive committee. He also founded CNNfn (CNN financial news), serving as its president and anchoring the program, Business Unusual, which examined business creativity and leadership.


Departure and founding of Space.com
Dobbs repeatedly clashed with Rick Kaplan, who became US president of CNN in 1997. Dobbs thought Kaplan was "clearly partisan" and "was pushing Clinton stories", while Kaplan thought Dobbs was "a very difficult person to deal with".[1]

In May 1999, CNN was covering a speech by President Clinton in Littleton, Colorado following the Columbine High School massacre. Dobbs ordered the producer to cut away from the speech and return to broadcast Moneyline, feeling it was a staged event and not newsworthy. Dobbs was countermanded by Kaplan, who ordered CNN to return to the speech. Kaplan later said "Tell me what journalistic reason there was not to cover the President at Columbine soon after the shootings? Everyone else was doing it." Dobbs announced on the air that "CNN President Rick Kaplan wants us to return to Littleton". A few days later, Dobbs announced that he was leaving the network to start Space.com, a website devoted to astronomical news.[1]


[edit] Return to CNN
Kaplan left CNN in August 2000 and Dobbs returned the following year at the behest of his friend and CNN founder Ted Turner, becoming host and managing editor of the new and initially more general news program Lou Dobbs Reporting, which later became CNN News Sunday Morning. Dobbs also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, The Lou Dobbs Financial Report, and he is a regular columnist in Money magazine, U.S. News & World Report and the New York Daily News.[1]


[edit] Political positions
In the 2000s, Dobbs has used CNN programs and columns to express his strong personal views on several subjects. In general, his political opinions currently tend towards Producerism, and he has become particularly noted for two positions: Concerning international trade, he leans toward protectionism and is particularly wary of outsourcing and offshoring in light of the increasing US trade deficit, particularly with China]]. On November 15, 2006, Dobbs declared himself a populist. [1][2]


[edit] Illegal immigration and border security
Dobbs is strongly opposed to illegal immigration, amnesty for illegal aliens, abuses of the H-1B visa program[3] and guest worker programs.[4] He supports stringent enforcement at U.S. borders, whether by federal or state action, or by private groups like the controversial Minuteman Project. Dobbs often has stated the United States is becoming balkanized and that many immigrants and/or illegal aliens are not assimilating. He has been critical of their demonstrations of ethnic or national pride, stating, "I don't think that we should have any flag flying in this country except the flag of the United States", and "I don't think there should be a St. Patrick's Day. I don't care who you are. I think we ought to be celebrating what is common about this country, what we enjoy as similarities as people." He has been accused of inciting xenophobia by some such as Libertarian journalist James K. Glassman of the American Enterprise Institute[5]. Others have accused him of anti-Hispanic racism, a charge he had steadfastly denied. [6] Dobbs opposes the Roman Catholic Church meeting with members of its own community on immigration issues. On November 18, 2006, he asked: "Who does the Catholic Church think it is?" after the church decided to meet with illegal immigrants.

Lou Dobbs Tonight frequently features related issues under the ongoing billboards "Exporting America" and "Broken Borders". The newscast often couples references to illegal aliens with the word "invasion". Dobbs simply dismisses this concern for language as excessive or misguided "political correctness" in the segment billboarded "P.C. Nation".

In his "Broken Borders" segments Dobbs focuses primarily on the southern border with Mexico and drugs and illegal aliens that cross it. Critics claim this is unfair because the 5000-mile border between Canada and the United States is longer and also permeable. On the other hand, proponents note the vast majority of illegal aliens and drugs pass into the United States via the Mexican border and that he has in fact had some segments dealing with the lack of security along the US-Canada border. As of the end of May 2006; some 829,109 illegal immigrants had been apprehended crossing from Mexico into the U.S.A. this year. Illegal Immigrants apprehended crossing from Canada to the U.S.A. are a tiny fraction of that amount – 4,066. [7][8] Dobbs apparently also has lauded the Canadian government for cooperation in securing the border with their American counterparts.


[edit] Other views
Dobbs has described himself as a "lifelong Republican" [9], but has stated that he has switched to being an unaffiliated Independent as he no longer openly supports the Republican party[10]. He often described the administration of George W. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress as "disgraceful." At the same time he has argued voters have very little choice under the US two party system as both parties are controlled by big business and corporate interests making them almost one and the same and thus do not offer real debate or policy alternatives to ordinary Americans.

Dobbs' stance on trade has earned plaudits from some trade union activists on the traditional political left, while his stance on immigration tends to appeal to the right.[1] In an interview with Larry King, Dobbs revealed that he is now "an unaffiliated Independent" due to dissatisfaction with both the Republican and Democratic parties. Dobbs was a strong supporter of John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election[citation needed], though his support was based on a dislike for the Bush administration rather than support for Kerry's platform, which he described as largely "more of the same."

In June, 2006, as the U.S. Senate debated the Federal Marriage Amendment, Dobbs was highly critical of the action. He asserted that traditional marriage was threatened more by financial crises perpetuated by Bush administration economic policy than by gay marriage. [11]

In July 2006, Dobbs criticized U.S. foreign policy as being disproportionately supportive of Israel, pointing out the U.S.'s rapid recognition of Israel in 1948, foreign aid to Israel, and other policy choices in the past and present. [12] He likewise opposed the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Lou Dobbs holds strong views against what he calls the North American Union. He also advocates new investigations into the governments response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, speculating that it would discover "perhaps, deception" on the part of the U.S. Government.

Lou Dobbs is the author of War on the Middle Class, which describes what he sees as failure of the two party system, and claims that both sides are harming the Middle Class. In it, he comes out strongly against the Bush tax cuts, which he argues favor the wealthy, and argues for raising the U.S. minimum wage from $5.15 an hour.


Awards
Dobbs has won numerous major awards for his television journalism, most notably a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award, and a Cable Ace award. He received the George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage of the 1987 stock market crash. He also has received the Luminary Award of the Business Journalism Review in 1990, the Horatio Alger Association Award for Distinguished Americans in 1999 and the National Space Club Media Award in 2000. The Wall Street Journal has named Dobbs "TV's Premier Business News Anchorman". In 2004, Dobbs was awarded the Eugene Katz Award For Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration [13] by the Center For Immigration Studies and in 2005 received the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's Statesmanship Award [14]. Dobbs was named "Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day Committee in 1993.


Associations
Dobbs serves or has served on the boards of the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation, the Horatio Alger Association, the National Space Foundation and the Imaginova Corporation, formerly known as Space.com, in which he owns a minority stake, as he does in Integrity Bank. He is a member of the Planetary Society, the Overseas Press Club and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
 
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Anonymous

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MRJ said:
Dobbs is disappointingly left wing,
MRJ

Maxine- Mike and the boys as you call them :lol: , have presented their evidence-- now show us yours that support your statement...

Or did someone just tell you this at a NCBA convention? Or maybe a bankers convention? :???:
 
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Anonymous

Guest
Sandhusker said:
Econ101 said:
Someone from her tribe.

Yeah, don't be bad-mouthing bankers!

You are right- I should have more qualified that and said bank owners convention instead...All the bankers I know have a pretty good feel for whats really going on in the world and are good R-CALF members......
 
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Anonymous

Guest
The bankers I deal with can see right through R-CULT's anti corporate conspiracy theories. They wouldn't give you two cents for R-CULT either.


~SH~
 
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Anonymous

Guest
Main theme of the whole show was how the US corporations and CEO's have lost all morals and ethics and forgot about America or Americans in their pursuit of supposed global wealth..-- and how many jobs our US industry has sold out to the third world countries- exchanging $15 hour jobs for $.42 an hour jobs for corporate profit...

I see where every one of the guests brought up how important small business's are and how they are the backbone of the nation- and at this time are being sold out by the government while many are being driven out of business by the large globalist corporations...

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan
40th president of US (1911 - 2004)

One topic they touched on, which I'm thoroughly convinced that our government has to deal with, is the rising cost of health care and health insurance-- which they said is no longer affordable to much of the middle class Americans......
 
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