# Lou Dobbs Resigning from CNN? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245 "2009-11-12T00:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/1 "2009-11-12T00:45:15Z")
Have any other Dopers heard anything of this yet? ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/2 "2009-11-12T00:57:24Z")
Yep, the old gasbag is leaving immediately, but I don’t think it’s the last we’ll hear of him. > **[REFILE-UPDATE 3-Lou Dobbs leaving CNN, does not reveal plans](https://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1138487820091112)** > > \* Says wants platform to speak honestly and directly (Adds Obama 'birther' controversy, Latino group comment) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/3 "2009-11-12T01:04:13Z")
Has he announced his contract at Fox News yet? ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/4 "2009-11-12T01:12:19Z")
Lou Dobbs used to be one of our local news anchors (here in western Washington state) before going to CNN. (I think he was on KING-TV.) Anyhoo…is he heading our way again? (Nope, I hope!) ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/5 "2009-11-12T01:13:16Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Has he announced his contract at Fox News yet? Wait, so are you suggesting he isn’t signing up at Univision? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/6 "2009-11-12T01:15:33Z")
> [@Driver8](#): > > Wait, so are you suggesting he isn’t signing up at Univision? Probably not Telemundo either. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/7 "2009-11-12T01:21:08Z")
So he’s been holding back all this time? …And yes, he’s definitely going to Fox. Just imagine an hour of Dobbs leading into Hannity and Glenn Beck! It’ll be better than electroshock! ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/8 "2009-11-12T01:23:25Z")
He’s probably tired of dwelling in the ratings basement that is CNN. People actually _watch_ Fox! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/9 "2009-11-12T01:31:10Z")
I heard they found a Mexican that would do his CNN show for a quarter of the salary. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/10 "2009-11-12T01:33:12Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I heard they found a Mexican that would do his CNN show for a quarter of the salary. Dammit! Scooped! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/11 "2009-11-12T02:53:09Z")
He’s elected to be a stay at home commenter for a while so he can spend more time with his imaginary fans, then he’s going to go on a safari to find Obama’s birth certificate. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/12 "2009-11-12T02:57:12Z")
Off subject, but is it true that Dobbs was one of the founders of [Space.com](http://Space.com)? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/13 "2009-11-12T03:08:41Z")
From the official [Drop Dobbs site- the video](http://www.dropdobbs.com/)and their opinion. Apparently “certain leaders” are trying to get him to take a more major platform and that the last six months show we’re moving on a new path and the voices in his Vitalis bottle say only he can help and blab blah. It’ll be interesting to hear Olbermann spin it. (Nightmare time: what if as a result Nancy Grace gets a 3 hour show.) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/14 "2009-11-12T03:38:35Z")
Lou Dobbs is not as bad as Nancy Grace and the woman with the mullet. Not that he’s good, mind you, but until they get rid of the other two I still won’t watch CNN. I miss back when it used to be a new channel. Oh, and can we get rid of the animated corpse that is Larry King while we’re at it? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/15 "2009-11-12T04:45:04Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I miss back when it used to be a new channel. Oh, and can we get rid of the animated corpse that is Larry King while we’re at it? That’s just flat out slander: there is not one single thing about Larry King that’s animated. But to answer the question I think his contract runs through 2112. (He’s in the Guinness Book of World Records now for the most children fathered by a dead guy; he replaced previous holder Anthony Quinn.) ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/16 "2009-11-12T04:49:52Z")
If they ran six months of reruns would anyone notice? Tonight on Lou Dobbs: [current government policy] is pro-illegal immigration, anti-middle class, taking jobs from hard working Americans and making our roads less safe. rinse lather repeat ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/17 "2009-11-12T04:58:05Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > If they ran six months of reruns would anyone notice? > > Tonight on Lou Dobbs: [current government policy] is pro-illegal immigration, anti-middle class, taking jobs from hard working Americans and making our roads less safe. > > rinse > lather > repeat I guess now we’ll never get to learn how the Fort Hood murders are the fault of illegal immigrants from Mexico. (Craziest thing for those who don’t know: Mrs. Dobbs [a pistol packin’ mama- arrested in an airport for trying to take a .38 on the plane a few years back] is _Mexican_!) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/18 "2009-11-12T05:17:59Z")
Dobbs seems to be taking it very well- [he’s actually singing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNhDTPl4TyI) about it with Dennis Quaid (the less crazy Quaid brother it seems). ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/19 "2009-11-12T08:27:28Z")
[Breaking news from _The Onion_!](http://www.theonion.com/content/news/breaking_u_s_deports_lou_dobbs) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245/20 "2009-11-12T14:04:14Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > (Nightmare time: what if as a result Nancy Grace gets a 3 hour show.) Good gad, man, don’t give them any ideas! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lou-dobbs-resigning-from-cnn/517245.md?page=2)