Lou Dobbs's Show Is Canceled by Fox Business
Source: New York Times
Fox Business has canceled Lou Dobbs Tonight, the weekday show hosted by one of former President Donald J. Trumps 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, according to a person familiar with the decision.
Mr. Dobbs, 75, who rose to fame as a CNN anchor, began hosting his Fox program in 2011 and gained an influential fan: Mr. Trump, who shared his hard-line views against immigration and later came to view Mr. Dobbss program as required viewing, even patching in the television host during policy discussions with his White House staff.
Mr. Dobbs was named in a lawsuit filed this week by the election technology company Smartmatic against Rupert Murdochs Fox Corporation, the Fox News channel, and two other Fox anchors, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro.
The suit cited a false claim, made on a November episode of Mr. Dobbss 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.)
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To quote OUR President - THIS IS A BIG FUCKING DEAL!
walkingman
(7,512 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,322 posts)I remember when Dobbs was on CNN and he played it pretty straight-laced but began to eventually deteriorate until he finally left. I saw his last show there including his parting monologue. And I also remember Maria Bartiromo when she was on CNBC for years.
It's truly bizarre the transformation they both made to get into a franchise that was, by design (in terms of businesses and hotels, etc., locking their "public-facing" television sets to the Faux Snooze channels), the "highest rated" cable channels.
I had never originally associated them with loons like Hannity and Carlson but they morphed into them anyway.
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)About illegals. Then it came out his daughter had them working on her horse ranch.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)as Dobb's wife of almost forty years is Mexican-American.
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)Can be just as nativist as other Americans. I know Mexican-Americans whose families have been in what has become the United States since the 1600s. They dont have any relatives in Mexico. They never entered The United States. The part of Mexico they lived in became part of the United States.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)I've known people who were naturalized citizens who looked down on recent immigrants and other minorities. Perhaps they didn't like being reminded of their roots. Most were not like that, but there's always a few.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)and proceeded to shit their brains out.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)NBachers
(17,007 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)sheshe2
(83,355 posts)Love the massive hair dye you use. Makes you look all of your 75 years.
Book the lying asshole. LOCK HIM UP!
Vogon_Glory
(9,086 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,678 posts)because it was about a month after SAAB closed up shop. Then he was back again.
All those talking heads gonna steep in their own anger ... coronary, stroke risks
thucythucy
(7,986 posts)This is an attempt to distance Fox from the lies told on the network, but it won't work.
The lies were spread under the Fox banner, by its outlets, for months after the election.
The Murdoch family and Fox board and stock holders won't squirm their way out of this so easily.
At some point the cost of telling these lies is going to drag the whole enterprise down.
And it won't come a moment too soon.
BumRushDaShow
(127,322 posts)This is going to be part of what will surely be a settlement deal I expect they are working on for the Smartmatic $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit.
And I wouldn't be surprised if Dominion gears up to throw one at them shortly since they already have a $1.3 billion one against the Kraken loon and sent cease and desist letters with threats to Faux & Hannity to expect suits as well.
NBachers
(17,007 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)By keeping them on the payroll it shows some negligence on the part of the corporation. That would leave them open to law suit as well. As it is, it appears they're doing something about it.
I see Sean Hannity came out yesterday denouncing a lot of the conspiracy theories espoused by his media comrades. It's obvious Fox is trying to protect it's number one brand. For now.
Beacool
(30,244 posts)Wuuuuaaaahhhaaahhhaaa!!!!
bullimiami
(13,043 posts)riversedge
(69,727 posts)I do not know the truth of this post but sure tickles me anyway
BOOM! Lou Dobbs: 1st victim of the multi billion$ lawsuit against FOX. Fox stock equity is only some $10billion. The suit is over 20% of that. I doubt they can survive if the suit is not dismissed. IRONY: Trump wants to force media outlets to be more vulnerable to libel suits.
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mitch96
(13,821 posts)Hate to be ignorant, but can you tell me what this means?
srose58089
(214 posts)Every mass shooting has the republicans expressing their thoughts and prayers to the victims families. Of course there is no action on sensible gun laws just thoughts and prayers. I have no idea who came up with the tater tots and pears analogy but I like it.
EndlessWire
(6,377 posts)Demobrat
(8,917 posts)send thoughts and prayers to people going through hard times as if they actually help.
EndlessWire
(6,377 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)since you cannot snack on thoughts and prayers.
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)They really should just consider cleaning house and starting over. Here's a novel idea, how about broadcasting real true news 24 hours a day.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)Nocturnowl
(74 posts)He'll feel left out and cwy!
EndlessWire
(6,377 posts)Chiefs 38, Bucs 31
Jon King
(1,910 posts)He kept spiraling lower and lower with each passing show.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)I remember him from his CNN days and he seemed quite sane back then. Truly, everything Trump touches DOES die.
riversedge
(69,727 posts)I never did like him --good riddence
I did see a clip every now and then and it was horrible-always ragging on and cutting down immigrants.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Dobbs "remains under contract at Fox News but he will in all likelihood not appear on the company's networks again."
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PatSeg
(46,804 posts)Time to start cutting their losses. Oh well, all these idiots have enough money, they can afford to retire.....unless of course, they get sued personally that is.
riversedge
(69,727 posts)the beginning!
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)He didn't have to go to work for Fox and it's not like he didn't known what kind of a network it is. Same with Maria Bartiromo, who was a reputable financial journalist before she signed on with Fox. Now she is just a joke, no one will ever take her seriously again. Fox is one of those career lines you can't cross. You can never go back to the real world again.
Larissa
(786 posts)He's done. Who'll pay for his lawyer? Is Rudy available? There might be more up-flushes on the horizon. More lying careers dashed on the rocks like a Pinocchio nightmare; waking up with feet burned to cinders.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)I think there could be a lot of nervous people over at Fox these days.
riversedge
(69,727 posts)THIS REALLY IS BIG NEWS. FOX MUST BE IN REAL TROUBLE.
Fox Business suddenly cancels 'Lou Dobbs Tonight,' its highest-rated show
Lou Dobbs, by far the highest-rated host on the Fox Business Network, has just been canned by the network.
cnn.com
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mdbl
(4,972 posts)the rest of em must REALLY suk!
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,924 posts)He's still on contract though so I guess he'll still get a paycheck from Fox.
torius
(1,652 posts)over these many slanderous claims? These "hosts" (more like parasites) must not have any oversight. The usual RW chaos and incompetence.
BumRushDaShow
(127,322 posts)https://www.thewrap.com/rudy-giuliani-fumes-on-air-about-insulting-disclaimer-added-to-his-radio-show/
The radio stations have been doing the "disclaimers" thing (disassociation) for a LONG LONG time!
Ghoul is on from 3pm - 4pm ET - https://wabcradio.com/show/rudy-giuliani/
I've listened to WABC on and off for 40-some years. I think that years ago, that slot was part of the drive-time 3 - 6 pm that Bob Grant used to have before he went to WOR (and then returned back to WABC before going bye bye for good), with fill-ins at the time being done by Hannity and Mike Gallagher (Gallagher is apparently still there).
spooky3
(34,303 posts)(after a very unpleasant fall from grace, trial, and other stresses) versus taking a nice retirement, especially when they obviously have the $ to do it. Don't they have lives or interests that would be more enjoyable to pursue than spewing lies on Fox or other networks?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)PSPS
(13,516 posts)That was over 35 years ago and I don't know how he parlayed that into a gig as a right-wing crank.
BumRushDaShow
(127,322 posts)he at least appeared "sane". E.g., this clip from 1986 -
Over time, he began to expand his commentaries away from business to the point where he eventually started getting into the "illegal immigration" issue, and then his xenophobia went off the charts.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,848 posts)It irreparably damaged his brain, apparently. Lol.
BumRushDaShow
(127,322 posts)preempted all of their programming literally the rest of that week (including CNN and his show)?
TomSlick
(11,035 posts)Fox is hoping that by sacrificing Dobbs, it may be able to save others.
George II
(67,782 posts)...."radical left" practices cancel culture.
dobleremolque
(479 posts)"Is it still cancel culture when free market capitalism breaks off an Invisible Hand in your ass?"
Initech
(99,915 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Larissa
(786 posts)Here's your hat, Lou. What's your hurry? It bears repeating: "Everything Trump touches dies."
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,848 posts)He FINALLY became too much of a liability for them.
Since he's a full blown Trump cultist now, they probably couldn't even get him to agree to stop saying crazy stuff.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Cancel the entire Fox enterprise as well as ALL other right wing propaganda outlets, then we can talk.
Nitram
(22,671 posts)Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro, along with the pro-Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell who have both made frequent appearances on Fox.
Roy Rolling
(6,856 posts)Where will I get my business propaganda now?
SleeplessinSoCal
(8,998 posts)They should just keep heading south together.
BumRushDaShow
(127,322 posts)Probably to help launch a new network to compete with OANN and NewsMax!
moniss
(3,949 posts)will be hell to pay for the Scotch bottle tonight.
Ellipsis
(9,123 posts)This ass fuck needed to go years ago.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)I hope this lawsuit eviscerates each and every one of them.
summer_in_TX
(2,685 posts)Lou Dobbs was arguably Fox's most consistent fear-monger about immigrants, fanning fears of invasion and disease.
Good riddance!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)If they think they are going to compete with QAnon, with conspiracy theories, and accusations, they better get ready for a lot of future lawsuits.