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napi21

(45,806 posts)
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 08:47 PM Feb 2021

Lou Dobbs's Show Is Canceled by Fox Business! (HAA! Another DT liar GONE!

Mr. Dobbs, a loyal supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, is named in a lawsuit by the election technology company Smartmatic against the Fox Corporation and two other Fox anchors.

Fox Business has canceled “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” the weekday show hosted by one of former President Donald J. Trump’s most loyal media supporters that became a frequent clearinghouse for baseless theories of electoral fraud in the weeks after Mr. Trump lost the 2020 presidential race.

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“Lou Dobbs is and was great,” Mr. Trump said in a statement on Friday after the news of Mr. Dobbs’s departure. “Nobody loves America more than Lou. He had a large and loyal following that will be watching closely for his next move, and that following includes me.”

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Mr. Dobbs was named in a lawsuit filed this week by the election technology company Smartmatic against Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation, Fox News, and two other Fox anchors, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro.

The suit, which seeks damages of at least $2.7 billion, cited a false claim, made on a November episode of Mr. Dobbs’s show on Fox Business, that Hugo Chávez, the deceased president of Venezuela, had a hand in the creation of Smartmatic technology, designing it so that the votes it processed could be changed undetected. (Mr. Chávez, who died in 2013, did not have anything to do with Smartmatic.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/business/lou-dobbs-fox.html

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Lou Dobbs's Show Is Canceled by Fox Business! (HAA! Another DT liar GONE! (Original Post) napi21 Feb 2021 OP
He will find a home on Newsmax or OANN Proud liberal 80 Feb 2021 #1
Maybe, they are part of the voting machine lawsuit also still_one Feb 2021 #2
Maybe not. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #8
"Nobody loves America more than Lou..." SledDriver Feb 2021 #3
Oh, those cancel culture conservatives. Midnight Writer Feb 2021 #4
Lou Dobbs completely lost his mind these last few years. sop Feb 2021 #5
Good. People mouthing off w/o thinking that there are consequences to be paid are SWBTATTReg Feb 2021 #6
I;m wondering why it's just him? BlueLucy Feb 2021 #7
Bartiromo and Pirro could very well be next. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #9
Now they can name Hannity and Carlson. Get rid of them too. blueinredohio Feb 2021 #10
Yes, I like the cut of your jib! Buckeye_Democrat Feb 2021 #12
K&R UTUSN Feb 2021 #11

sop

(10,153 posts)
5. Lou Dobbs completely lost his mind these last few years.
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 09:06 PM
Feb 2021

He went a bit crazy after leaving CNN, but now he’s gone totally fucking nuts.

SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)
6. Good. People mouthing off w/o thinking that there are consequences to be paid are
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 09:22 PM
Feb 2021

finding out otherwise.

TwilightZone

(25,457 posts)
9. Bartiromo and Pirro could very well be next.
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 09:38 PM
Feb 2021

Of the three named in the lawsuit, he's probably the biggest profile.

He's also on Fox Business as opposed to News, so that might be another reason for the quick trigger. They try to pretend that they're slightly more legitimate.

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