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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:02 PM
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Lou Dobbs made a fool out of me, and I'll never forgive him
I should have listened to you guys.

That Coulter interview made me

ANGRY!!!!



so very, very angry. He was hanging onto her every word, with such obvious glee and contempt for the left. What the fuck did we do to him? Besides, I'm sick of his "Where are the Democrats/Democrats are guilty too" bullshit.

I'll never watch that bastard again.

Randi was right.

DU was right.

Lesson learned.
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:03 PM
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1. you can't trust dobbs
he's a repug on the inside.

he seems racist - reason he's against immigration.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:07 PM
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6. he is a racist
and he sickens me with his veneer of rooting for the middle class. What horseshit!

:puke:
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:40 PM
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21. you are so right
pretends to be one of the good guys, but is awful on the inside.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:03 PM
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25. I agree and he will play all sides to get to his Conservative

home base.

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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:05 PM
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2. Hey CatWoman
Shut down the computer and enjoy your evening. Just maintain your voter registration. Warmest Hog Hugs being electronically transmitted your way.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:06 PM
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5. awwwww
thanks, Boss

:hug:
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:09 PM
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13. No! Really!
Shut down your computer right now; wrap yourself around your favorite food or drink and log on tomorrow to fight again another day. We need your for the long haul. Snort, snort!
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:06 PM
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3. It's a painful lesson. He had Randi and Steph Miller on,
but now I know 1 thing: he's a republican.

NEVER TRUST A REPUBLICAN. NEVER. NEVER. NEVER.
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:06 PM
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4. you can start here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1386068

"Help me!"


put your anger to good use

let that slobbering cretin know his propaganda pushing is not appreciated by thinking people
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NotGivingUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:07 PM
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7. I'm with you CatWoman. Lou Dobbs sucks!
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:08 PM
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8. I don't know about the racism charges.. but he sure wasn't questioning
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 07:11 PM by applegrove
her very hard. And he seemed to take glee in having someone "in the hot seat" other than him.

She is absolutely nuts. After running around the country for years saying horrid things about liberals and all - she now claims Liberals are mean-spirited. That is a load of crock. Liberals are angry and fearfull of her & her puppet-master's propaganda.

And as to liberals using the victims to make political points.. um.. T E R R Y S H I A V O!



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gully Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:07 PM
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39. Terry Schiavo and 911 victims to name a few.
I don't "hate" Dobbs and my guess is he was a bit timid after Randi Rhodes left in tears?

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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:08 PM
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9. A "cult of personality" will do that to you every time.
nt
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:18 PM
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17. Kahuna
you're always busting my chops.

However, you are right.
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AlamoDemoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:09 PM
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10. welcome to my world dearest...your among friends......n/t
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:09 PM
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11. lou slobs
Ok CatWoman, enjoy some warm milk and some catnip tonight
Hurl all of your 'hairballs' at a poster of Lou and take a catnap......
This will all be over in November
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:09 PM
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12. Never liked the bastage.
I am not surprised.
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rudy23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 12:12 AM
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44. He's a fargin icehole n/t
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:10 PM
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14. Miss Catwoman -- YOU have been listening to dobbs?!?!?!
well don't do it again miss thing.

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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:11 PM
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15. Let's put that DU ANGER where it needs to be put! Right in Dobb's
fat lap! Keep this thread kicked, until we get a DU author to start a joint letter of protest!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1386122
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TheWebHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:12 PM
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16. yeah, Dobbs is a populist conservative
So there are moments he appeals to the middle class that the millionaire Republican politicians and right-wing commentators normally ignore, but ideologically speaking, he's pretty conservative.
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peace frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:24 PM
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18. So who does that leave us on CNN? No-damn-body
Lou Dobbs was my news show of last resort... I can't stomach ANY of them now.
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AlamoDemoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:43 PM
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22. I like Jack Cafferty...he has been excellent with his commentry
...and I wish he had his own show at CNN
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:23 PM
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31. I stopped listening to Cafferty a long time ago when he was calling Air
America Radio "a bunch of communists."
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:29 AM
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50. Jack Cafferty will break your heart too...
just so you have been told..
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:26 PM
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19. I didn't watch it, but now I'm curious. Will it be rebroadcast?
If so, when?
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Imajika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:32 PM
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20. Dobbs has always been a conservative...
...but he isn't a Bush bootlicker. Dobbs is a bit like Pat Buchanan in that sense.

I don't see anything wrong with watching Dobbs, but I could never understand why so many people seemed to adore the guy so much. When a conservative attacks Bush, it doesn't transform them into an ally to the left. It just means that person is right once in awhile.

We've been through the same thing years ago with the likes of McCain. Just because he attacks Bush once in awhile didn't make him any less conservative. Yet I remember there were actually lots of people here who hoped he'd switch party's and run in 2004 as Democrat.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:44 PM
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23. he can break your heart, just when you're sure he "Gets it" he does a 180
very disappointing i know, unfortunately i think the media is full of Lou Dobbs types.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 07:51 PM
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24. Yep...... The Dobbs has never been nothing more than a
Pompous Self important Republican Pig, IYAM!

Ever since he kicked General Wes Clark off of his show for making political statements against the war back in early 2003.....he was trash in my book.

Oh well, we all learn something new everyday!
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Tigress DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:05 PM
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37. However, he may be useful at times. Busby race fixed. He's the only...
rethug to make any note of it.

I don't care if he interviews Mann Coulter and sticks his head up her ass all the way to her uvula.

If he can get us some attention on a fixed congressional race and give us the MSM air to scream about it and get the votes counted correctly, then we can get the precedent set early to challenge election fraud AS it is happening before it's "yesterday's news" and the thieves are in office.

just my opinion.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:08 PM
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26. Hugs to you my dear Catwoman!
Mr. CB was sucked in by Dobbs in recent months. I've tried to tell him but would he listen to me? Nooooo. I hope he saw that Coulter woman spew hate while Dobbs fawned over her every word. I think he'll have to change his mind about Dobbs now. Dobbs is sneaky bastard. It's easy to get sucked in by him and then, out of no where, a sucker punch to one's liberal gut. Ouch. :(

Hugs to you. :hug: Take a break, have a drink and a ciggie and relax.

PS: Our Ruby's Carter Dean is finally here! He was born this week! :)
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:11 PM
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27. They are master manipulators
They really are. Don't feel bad, they've been doing this for 20 years and know just what buttons to push to throw you off track.
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:14 PM
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28. You've told us, so now tell him.
It comes across clearly in your words that you feel like you have been betrayed and you are very emotional about it. They do read their comments. He may not agree with you, but I bet you touch a nerve.
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madmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:17 PM
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29. "Language, A Key Mechanism of Control"
Newt Gingrich started this propaganda machine in the early 90s and it's been the right wing Bible ever since. You can find his "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" memo here:

http://web.utk.edu/~glenn/GopacMemo.html
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madmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:19 PM
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30. Here is another example from "The Nation":
As you know, one of the key points in the GOPAC tapes is that "language matters." In the video "We are a Majority," Language is listed as a key mechanism of control used by a majority party, along with Agenda, Rules, Attitude and Learning. As the tapes have been used in training sessions across the country and mailed to candidates we have heard a plaintive plea: "I wish I could speak like Newt."

That takes years of practice. But, we believe that you could have a significant impact on your campaign and the way you communicate if we help a little. That is why we have created this list of words and phrases.

source: Gingrich-izing Public Broadcasting

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=24751
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:26 PM
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32. And here I was just starting to like Lou today and now no one else does?
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 08:26 PM by NNN0LHI
:shrug:

I just can't seem to fit into the mainstream.

Don
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dave502d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:32 PM
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33. Lou Dobbs made a fool out of allot of us.
With Lou Dobbs you can like him and hate him.
If i was to bet on one thing about him,that would be
that he votes for the GOP.
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Bretttido Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:36 PM
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34. I used to like the SOB,
then he turned into a racist... the rest has been downhill. His version of "reporting the news" resembles Bill O'Reilly in its blatant opinionated and biassed presentation.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 08:37 PM
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35. Damn I missed it - any video capture.
that sucks.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:51 PM
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43. Okay - I read the transcript
what a jerk.
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jbnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 12:21 AM
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45. Here are transcripts
from the show. Interview with Coulter is near bottom of the page

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/08/ldt.01.html
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 12:54 AM
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47. LOL. I like the way the transcriptionist
didn't capitalize or italicize "Slander" when Coulter was referring to the title of her book. It certainly makes the comment a lot more truthful the way it was transcribed:

"COULTER: I would like to say I was that clever at marketing, but no, I mean, I've always talked this way, I've always written this way and I certainly wrote and talked this way back when nobody was publishing me. If I wanted to be published, if I wanted to market books, it wasn't good to be talking the way I was. Nobody would publish slander. You may remember that.

DOBBS: Right."

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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 09:28 PM
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36. SPLC was on to him and the Minutemen long ago
Let me at-im }( Nobody messes with Catwoman and gets by me. :hi:

*******QUOTE*******

http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=186

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=589

Broken Record
Lou Dobbs' daily 'Broken Borders' CNN segment has focused on immigration for years. But there's one issue Dobbs just won't take on.
By Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok

.... ...In recent months, Dobbs has run countless upbeat reports on the "citizen border patrols" that have sprung up around the country since last April's Minuteman Project, a paramilitary effort to seal the Arizona border.
But there's one thing Lou Dobbs won't do. No matter what others report about the movement, Dobbs has failed to present mounting and persistent evidence of anti-Hispanic racism in anti-immigration groups and citizen border patrols. ....

Many more SPLC links on DOBBS here: http://www.splcenter.org/search/s-query.html?tx0=Lou+Dobbs&op0=%2B&fl0=&ty0=w&col=splcall&ht=0&qp=&qt=&qs=&qc=&pw=100%25&la=en&qm=0&st=1&oq=&rq=0&ql=a&si=0&x=24&y=11

********UNQUOTE*******
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:06 PM
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38. "Lou Dobbs - Your Dad's Chris Matthews"
Do you think CNN will go for it?
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Tigress DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:17 PM
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40. Cat, dear, I understand how you feel. One thought...

Instead of just being mad as hell at him, use this as a lever to push him farther along in his "investigation" of the Busby race in CA which has all the signs of being "fixed"... voting machines taken "home" to be counted away from supervision and against nearly every election law I know of... absentee ballots still not counted and rethug declared the winner. (see thread below)

Lou Dobbs may be vermin and God only knows why anyone lets Mann Coulter flap her jaw on public television at all. Now there is the kind of witch I could see people wanting to invite to a Joan of Arc cookout... but since we are civilized these days, at least she should not be allowed to pollute the public airways.

I can't watch these kind of programs any more. I get so mad I start yelling at the tv and pRes *ush just makes me want to hurl. Some times they have FAUX on in the cafeteria at work and I have to minimize my time there or I am ready to rant rant rant... It's embarrassing. I want to respect my work environment, but the lies just really put me over the edge some days.

I probably am one of those liberals that seem mean spirited because after all the time of lies lies lies, I'm ready to roll with sarcasm at will with people like her. After everything she's said and the way she can't shut up long enough for anyone to have a conversation with her I'm sure she's lucky if she passes liberals on the street and doesn't get pies thrown at her or something worse.






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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:21 PM
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41. the last I heard, Randi liked Dobbs.
Did something change?
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 12:35 AM
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46. She's a semi-regular on his show now.
And truth be told, Lou flirts and falls all over Randi, too. He seems very taken with our Miss Rhodes.

But yes, has something changed?
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 11:27 PM
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42. Get ahead of the game: dont watch that stuff to begin with
then some other fool has a problem.
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:20 AM
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48. I actually prefer to read the transcripts.
I get distracted by all the preening and would rather see the words they actually used.
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:21 AM
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49. Yes. He made me want to throw things.
Not good. Hate him now.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:44 AM
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51. I skipped him last night on purpose!
I absolutely will not give one second of my time to the likes of Ann Coulter. I refuse to spend any time or money for her. (Ironically, even making this post gives her some time LOL!) I'll still check out Dobbs next week, but if I have forewarning I'll skip it.

Frankly, there nothing left that's Left or Center. Nothing. This morning, the promo for MSNBC hosted shows was on and I noted Joe's Scarborough's words, "We're are all activists..." which pretty much sums it up. They play it up as if it's non-partisan; maybe we need a class action suit for false advertising!

IMO, Lou would have much better reception from me on his incessant immigration topic of the season if he tied it directly to the corporations and businesses. Last year, it was a daily count of Corporations shipping jobs overseas to "cheap foreign labor markets." That's been dropped like lava. His failure to repeat the exploitation of immigrants (both illegal and legal) is nothing more than a 'cheap domestic labor policy' which he fails in putting front and center. That's when I tune him out.

Hubby refuses to watch or listen to any of the 'news talk' shows with me. :( As far as Lou, he thinks he's "A smarmy bastard." LOL!!!
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:49 AM
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52. I didn't see it.
But I don't care for Dobbs anyway.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 09:50 AM
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53. Haven't watched that b-word in years
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