Confirmed: Dobbs to Headed to Fox News Business

More than Rumors, and despite denials from Fox, Lou Dobbs is coming to Fox News and specifically Fox News Business. An announcement should be forthcoming this week. The meeting between Fox's Ailes and Dobbs was reported last month. I'm told that it was at that meeting where Dobbs was promised unfettered access to voice his opinion.

Dobbs headed to Fox

Lou Dobbs - the highest rated talking head on CNN is leaving the network after 30 years.

"New York (CNN) -- CNN's Lou Dobbs stepped down from his controversial role as an advocacy anchor at the network at the end of his show Wednesday night after announcing plans to seek a more activist role. "Over the past six months, it has become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us, and some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem-solving as well as to contribute positively to a better understanding of the great issues of our day and to continue to do so in the most honest and direct language possible," Dobbs said during his 7 p.m. broadcast. Dobbs, 64, said he had discussed the issue with CNN President Jonathan Klein, who had agreed to a release from his contract "that will enable me to pursue new opportunities." In a written statement, Klein called Dobbs "a valued founding member of the CNN family."

Leftwingers think that they got Lou fired.

 Fact is that he asked for a release - to head to Fox News. What slot he is filling is still a mystery, but numerous sources are confirming the ink is drying.  The neo-socialist group Presente.org will love that!   He'll now have an even bigger audience to expose their agenda.

Obama could use Fox News instead of Childishly Criticizing It

Pathetic:

"A White House attempt to delegitimize Fox News – which in past times would have drawn howls of censorship from the press corps – has instead been greeted by a collective shrug. That’s true even though the motivations of the White House are clear: Fire up a liberal base disillusioned with Obama by attacking the hated Fox. 

Try to keep a critical news outlet off-balance. Raise doubts about future Fox stories. But most of all, get other journalists to think twice before following the network’s stories in their own coverage. "We're doing what we think is important to make sure news is covered as fairly as possible," a White House official told POLITICO, noting how the recent ACORN scandal story started because Fox covered it “breathlessly for weeks on end.” “And then you had a couple days of breast-beating from The Washington Post and The New York Times about whether or not they were fast enough on the ACORN story,” the official said. 

“And it's like: Wait a second, guys. Let's make sure that we keep perspective on what are the most important stories, and what's being driven by a network that has a perspective. 

Being able to make that point has been important.” To some media observers, it’s almost the definition of a “chilling effect” – a governmental attempt to steer reporters away from negative coverage – but the White House press corps has barely uttered a word of complaint. That could be because of the perception among some journalists that Fox blurs the line between reporting and commentary - making it seem like not the most sympathetic victim. 

 Fox denies its news coverage is slanted, and even White House aides say the network’s top correspondent there, Major Garrett, is a straight shooter. But in its non-news hours, Fox mixes in a steady diet of criticism of President Barack Obama by its prominent conservative commentators Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. It’s a formula that works for Fox, with the highest ratings in cable news."

You would think that team Obama would remember that point.  Americans are tuning into to Fox 3-1 over the other cable outlets which incidentally - such as MSNBC - are nearly 100 percent pro-Obama.   But the fact is that the viewership of Fox creams MSNBC and CNN combined on many time slots.

Now to the news.   The ACORN story was, and is a huge story.   The fact that other networks completely missed it, or more accurately ignored it, is telling.  One, just like we found in the campaign they simply will not report negative on Obama no matter how many facts are thrown their way.  They missed Jeremiah Wright, they missed Bill Ayers, Van Jones and continue to miss the story of ACORN's corruption.

Nevertheless you would think that they would have learned from Presidents of the past that demonizing the media, especially the stronger media like Fox gets them no where.   Just as you get when you fight the Hulk, he only gets stronger.   All the White House did by this kids game of "liar, liar" is drive more viewers to Fox to find out what the fuss is about.

The paranoia of this administration is astounding, if not funny to watch.

Axelrod: Fox isn't Real News

Doof:

"White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the Fox News Channel is "not really a news station" and that much of the programming is "not really news." "I’m not concerned," Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week" when George Stephanopoulos asked about the back-and-forth between the White House and Fox News. "Mr. [Rupert] Murdoch has a talent for making money, and I understand that their programming is geared toward making money. The only argument [White House communications director] Anita [Dunn] was making is that they’re not really a news station if you watch even — it’s not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming. "It’s really not news — it’s pushing a point of view. And the bigger thing is that other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way. We’re going to appear on their shows. We’re going to participate but understanding that they represent a point of view.” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Fox "is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective."

I suppose that makes the Obama 24-Hour Love Channel MSNBC not a "real news organization either". For that matter much of the MSN isn't legit. Frankly this is further proof that the Obama administration is take the Queeg defense for it's incompetence.



 



By the way, Obama's at 45 percent approval rating and on average more people have turned into Fox News than Obama's weekly addresses. Who's your daddy Axelrod.